Revision as of 03:07, 25 September 2006

This is a page for working on Arbitration decisions. It provides for suggestions by Arbitrators and other users and for comment by arbitrators, the parties and others. After the analysis of /Evidence here and development of proposed principles, findings of fact, and remedies, Arbitrators will vote at /Proposed decision.. Anyone who edits should sign all suggestions and comments. Arbitrators will place proposed items they have confidence in on /Proposed decision.

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Courtesy

1) Misplaced Pages users are expected to behave reasonably and calmly in their dealings with other users. Insulting and intimidating other users harms the community by creating a hostile environment. All users are instructed to refrain from this activity. Admins are instructed to use good judgment while enforcing this policy. Personal attacks are not acceptable. See Misplaced Pages:Civility.

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Direct from Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Monicasdude. - brenneman 00:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Disruption

2) Editors may be blocked at the discretion of administrators for disruptive editing. Repeated disruptive behavior may lead to bans or other restrictions. The community has made it abundantly clear, over the course of many discussions that they do not feel it is appropriate to "troll" on Misplaced Pages, or to engage in disruptive behaviour. While there is some dissent over method of enforcement, and over whether individual Wikipedians are or are not engaging in "trolling", there is little or no dissent over this underlying principle.

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From Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Monicasdude and Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Lir. - brenneman 00:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Administrators

3) Misplaced Pages:Administrators of Misplaced Pages are trusted members of the community and are expected to follow Misplaced Pages policies. They have been granted the power to execute certain commands which ordinary users cannot execute. This includes the power to block and unblock other users or IP addresses provided that Misplaced Pages:Blocking policy is followed. Administrators are expected to pursue their duties to the best of their abilities. Occasional mistakes are entirely compatible with this: administrators are not expected to be perfect. Consistently or egregiously poor judgement may result in removal (temporary or otherwise) of admin status.

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From from Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Pedophilia userbox wheel war, principles 1 to 3. - brenneman 00:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Consensus and consistancy

4) As put forward in Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution, Misplaced Pages works by building consensus. This is done through the use of polite discussion, in an attempt to develop a consensus regarding proper application of Misplaced Pages:Policies and guidelines. Those editors charged with determining consensus should do so in a consistant and transparent manner.

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From Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/GRider, my additions embolded. - brenneman 00:20, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Arbcom-l

5) Discussions on the Arbcom-l mailing list are confidential. Confidentiality aids candid discussion of issues and protects confidential information.

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Proposed Fred Bauder 02:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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If only because the Committee must, amongst other things, consider evidence that contains confidential information. --Tony Sidaway 02:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Bureaucrats

6) Bureaucrats are administrators with the additional ability to make other users admins or bureaucrats, based on community decisions. Bureaucrats are expected to determine consensus in difficult cases and be ready to explain their decisions. They are responsible for closing Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship.

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Proposed Fred Bauder 02:47, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Carnildo's promotion

Carnildo's promotion

2.1) The decision to promote on Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Carnildo 3 was well outside the standard practice, and was a suprise to many established editors. While there exist very few true voting venues on Misplaced Pages, promotions with less than 75% support pseudo-votes are unusual, and this is the de-facto benchmark. Some members of the community stated that they choose not to oppose based upon the presumption that the promotion would not occur.

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Simply re-stating the facts, adding the more contentious bits on a little at a time. - brenneman 01:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, since we've already got three version of this I took away my two "vanilla" versions. Can we perhaps work on merging these rather than making lots of versions? - brenneman 02:52, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Carnildo 3

2.2) The successful request for adminship made by Carnildo, Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Carnildo 3 had strong support, including support votes from some of the arbitrators who had dysysopped him. There was also a great deal of opposition including strong opposition from those he had blocked for "hate speech".

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Proposed Fred Bauder 02:36, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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A lot of this opposition seems to have been based on an unresolved grudge held by Giano and supported by people who sympathized with him. I find no evidence that Giano or any other party has ever used the dispute resolution process to attempt to resolve this bad feeling. --Tony Sidaway 02:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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The situation was addressed by the dispute resolution process as part of the broader userbox wheelwar case; presumably the parties in question found the outcome there sufficiently satisfactory that they saw no need for further measures? Kirill Lokshin 03:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Closing of Carnildo's request for adminship

5) Carnildo was nominated for adminship on 18 August 2006 and on 5 September 2006 he was promoted. Six minutes later the bureaucrat who closed the request, User:Taxman, gave a full description of the decision and said that bureaucrats User:Danny, User:Rdsmith4 and he himself had decided, on the belief that Carnildo's desysopping in February "was meant as a temporary measure, a cooling off period" to "reinstate Carnildo's adminship, on a probationary basis, for a period of two months, after which his activities will be reviewed by the arbcom." .

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Accepted Fred Bauder 03:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Just the facts. --Tony Sidaway 02:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Access to Arbcom-l

6) Access to the Arbitration Committee mailing list, Arbcom-l, is restricted to current and former arbitrators and the principals of the Wikimedia Foundation. Arbitration clerks have write, but not read access.

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Proposed Fred Bauder 02:14, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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To refine this, anyone can send email to the moderated list, but clerks' emails to the mailing list are normally unmoderated. Typically clerks use this facility for forwarding confidential evidence that is sometimes submitted via them, asking for arbitrators to clarify decisions, and so on. A clerk does not see any mailing list traffic at all; this has always been the case except where Kelly Martin, a former arbitrator, retained her read access to the mailing list in that capacity while acting as head clerk. --Tony Sidaway 02:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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My understanding was that all editors had write access, is this not the case? - brenneman 02:57, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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Proposed remedies

Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.

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