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Arbitration​Committee

Any material intended for the Committee's attention should be sent to arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org. It should not be assumed that material sent to this address will remain private.

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• WP:AC
• WP:ARB
• WP:ARBCOM

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

In addition to its role in dispute resolution, the Committee determines which editors have access to CheckUser and Oversight permissions, and considers certain matters where exceptional factors such as privacy preclude a public hearing.

Arbitrators are neither Wikimedia Foundation employees or agents, nor Misplaced Pages executives. They are volunteer users—usually experienced editors and administrators—whom the community of editors at large elects to resolve the most complex or intractable disputes that may arise within the community, and to oversee the few areas where access to non-public information is a prerequisite.

Members

These editors are the elected members of the Arbitration Committee (known as arbitrators). Votes of the committee are taken among the active members. Members are marked active or inactive so that the majority for new votes can be calculated. Members on wikibreak, not participating in arbitration within the past week, or indicating they will be absent are marked inactive.

Members moving back to active may remain inactive on some or all existing business. If you wish to know whether an arbitrator is active on a particular matter, please ask on their talk page (or check the proposed decision talk page, for cases). The list below is used to determine whether each arbitrator is active by default. Arbitrators who go on to participate in a vote will be counted as active for it even if they are listed as inactive below.

The following list is accurate as of 15 December 2024:

Active

1. Aoidh (talk · contribs)
2. Cabayi (talk · contribs)
3. CaptainEek (talk · contribs)
4. Guerillero (talk · contribs)
5. HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs)
6. Moneytrees (talk · contribs)
7. Primefac (talk · contribs)
8. Sdrqaz (talk · contribs)
9. ToBeFree (talk · contribs)
10. Z1720 (talk · contribs)

Inactive

1. Firefly (talk · contribs)
2. L235 (talk · contribs)

Arbitrators-elect (taking office 1 January 2025)

1. Daniel (talk · contribs)
2. Elli (talk · contribs)
3. KrakatoaKatie (talk · contribs)
4. Liz (talk · contribs)
5. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk · contribs)
6. Theleekycauldron (talk · contribs)
7. Worm That Turned (talk · contribs)

The Arbitration Committee does not have a chair, but may designate one arbitrator to coordinate timely performance of tasks. The current coordinating arbitrator is Roger Davies, with Kirill Lokshin as his deputy.

Subcommittees

Audit Subcommittee

• WP:ARBCOM#AUSC

The Audit Subcommittee investigates complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight privileges. It consists of three arbitrators (currently PhilKnight, Risker, and Xeno) and three additional editors elected by the community. Risker is the subcommittee coordinator.

Ban Appeals Subcommittee

• WP:ARBCOM#BASC

The Ban Appeals Subcommittee considers appeals from banned or blocked users, generally when all other avenues of appeal have been exhausted. It consists of three arbitrators (currently Cool Hand Luke, David Fuchs, and PhilKnight). Shell Kinney is the subcommittee coordinator.

All requests or other material intended for the Ban Appeals Subcommittee should be sent to arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org. Please see the ban appeals procedures before contacting the subcommittee.

Internal teams

• WP:ARBCOM#TEAMS

Announced: 4 April 2011

To help ensure that all matters brought before the Arbitration Committee are addressed appropriately, certain arbitrators have volunteered to assume responsibility for various specific functions. A list of these arbitrators and the relevant areas is provided below for information purposes. Please note that, except for the formal subcommittees (WP:AUSC and WP:BASC), these assignments are informal and simply for purposes of internal coordination. Routine day-to-day changes will not necessarily be publicly announced. Coordination assignments are not exclusive and, except for recusals or inactive periods, all arbitrators may participate equally in all aspects of the Committee's work.

Incoming mail team

• Role: Expediting mail handling by providing initial responses; and triage of incoming mail.
• Team members: David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Iridescent, Jclemens, Mailer diablo, Roger Davies

Case management team

• Role: Overseeing requests for arbitration, opened cases, requests for clarification and amendment; monitoring Arbitration Enforcement.
• Team members: Cool Hand Luke, Elen of the Roads, Kirill Lokshin, Newyorkbrad, Roger Davies

Ban Appeals support team

• Role: assisting the Ban Appeals Subcommittee, with administration, statistics and correspondence.
• Team members: David Fuchs, Iridescent, Shell Kinney

Higher permissions team

• Role: coordination in selection of Oversighters, CheckUsers, and community AUSC representatives; working with the Audit Subcommittee; liaising with holders of higher permissions.
• Team members: Casliber, Risker, Xeno

Technical team

• Role: technical issues with the mailing list, the ArbCom private wiki, and related matters.
• Team members: Coren, John Vandenberg, Xeno

Clerks

The Committee's clerk team assists the Committee with procedural tasks, such as opening and closing cases, maintaining arbitration pages, and issuing notifications of decisions. Parties with questions about the arbitration process are encouraged to consult a clerk for assistance.

Contacting the Committee

The arbcom-l mailing list is the primary venue for internal Arbitration Committee discussion on all matters under the Committee's remit. The mailing list address is arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org. It may also be reached through the "Email this user" feature at "User:Arbitration Committee". All current arbitrators are subscribed to this list, as is project founder Jimbo Wales.

Mailing lists

• WP:ARBCOM#LISTS

In addition to the arbcom-l list, the Committee operates several other official mailing lists:

Individual arbitrators

Some individual arbitrators have published their personal email addresses. These should be used sparingly as material intended for the Committee as a whole should instead be sent to arbcom-l at arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org.

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