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BASC Statistics

During January 2010 the Ban Appeals Subcomittee (BASC) heard 29 appeals, 3 of which were successful. Of the unsuccessful appeals 16 were an appeal of a formal or informal community ban, 6 were an appeal of an ArbCom ban, 1 was an appeal of a AE ban, 1 was an appeal of an autoblock and 2 were handled by the community while the appeal was under consideration. The successful appeals were DollyD, Shamir1 and SirIsaacBrock.

During February 2010, BASC heard 31 appeals, 2 of which were successful. Of the unsuccessful appeals 24 were an appeal of a formal or informal community ban, 2 were an appeal of an ArbCom ban and 3 were an appeal of ArbCom sanctions. The successful appeals were Mjgm84 and WVBluefield.

During March 2010, BASC heard 16 appeals, none of which were successful. Of the unsuccessful appeals 13 were an appeal of a formal or informal community ban, 2 were an appeal of a short block and 1 was an appeal of a block by ArbCom.

For the Arbitration Committee Shell 02:19, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

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Emergency desysop

Tanthalas39 (talk · contribs) is to be desysopped immediately for wheel warring and unblocking himself, in violation of the policy on sysop tools per the emergency procedures. This desysop is temporary until the entire Committee has had the opportunity to examine the matter and Tanthalas39 is given an opportunity to explain his actions.

In support: Coren, Rlevse, Shell Kinney

— Coren , for the Arbitration Committee, 00:59, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

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Follow-up review

(All times are UTC.)

At 00:45 on 4 May 2010, two arbitrators independently notified the rest of the Arbitration Committee that Tanthalas39 (talk · contribs) had unblocked himself at 00:39 following a block of Tanthalas39 that had been carried out at 00:36. After the self-unblock, Tanthalas39 had further proceeded at 00:40 to block the administrator who had blocked him. Since the self-unblock combined with the block of the blocking administrator was a clear case of wheel-warring and misuse of the administrator tools, Level I procedures for expedited temporary desysopping were initiated to prevent further disruptive use of the administrator tools by Tanthalas39.

The required three arbitrators supported the temporary desysopping, as detailed in the procedures, and Tanthalas39 was desysopped at 01:01 with the formal request at the permissions board at Meta made at 01:07. The required announcements and notifications were made, and an earlier question from Tanthalas39 was replied to at 01:10, explaining the options for him to contest the desysopping and make a statement and present evidence.

Following this, the rest of the currently active members of the Arbitration Committee reviewed the situation (as stated in the initial announcement). To date, no communications have been received from Tanthalas39 following the 01:10 4 May 2010 notification. Accordingly, the Committee find that the actions by Tanthalas39 did not constitute acceptable conduct for an administrator, and the temporary desysopping is confirmed.

Tanthalas39 may seek re-instatement of sysop rights by appeal to the Arbitration Committee or by a new request for adminship.

• Support: Carcharoth, Coren, KnightLago, Mailer diablo, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Shell Kinney, SirFozzie
• Not voting: Kirill Lokshin, Rlevse, Roger Davies
• Inactive: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, Hersfold, Steve Smith, Wizardman

For the Arbitration Committee, Carcharoth (talk) 01:52, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty

Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification that:

1) Tenmei (talk · contribs) may edit Misplaced Pages under the guidance of his self-declared mentors (Nihonjoe (talk · contribs), Kraftlos (talk · contribs), Coppertwig (talk · contribs), Leujohn (talk · contribs), Jmh649 (talk · contribs), McDoobAU93 (talk · contribs)). The period of mentorship will last six months from the date on which this motion passes, although it may be extended with the agreement of Tenmei and one or more mentors. Tenmei is strongly encouraged to seek advice and guidance from his mentors regularly. Should they deem it necessary, Tenmei's mentors may return to the Arbitration Committee for clarification of any editing restrictions or questions with respect to the terms of mentorship. Editors who come into conflict with Tenmei are advised to contact the mentor(s) either publicly or via email.

2) Tenmei is reminded of the remedies from Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Tang Dynasty that apply to him. Specifically:

• Tenmei is topic-banned from Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty for a period of six months. He is permitted to comment on the talkpage, so long as he does so in a civil fashion. (The six-month period will commence from the date on which this motion passes.)
• Tenmei is instructed not to interact with or comment with regard to Teeninvestor or Caspian blue on any page of Misplaced Pages, except in the course of legitimate dispute resolution initiated by others.

For the Arbitration Committee, AGK 15:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Eastern European mailing list

Per a motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

The current editing restriction affecting Piotrus (talk · contribs) is to be amended to allow Piotrus to raise issues and discuss improvements to articles otherwise under the ban on the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Poland talk page.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 00:36, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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Notice of Resignation

When I originally ran for the arbitration committee at the end of 2008, I ran under one promising a reversal of arbcom's slowness and inactivity. I like to believe that I accomplished this as an arb in 2009. However, looking back at what I have done as an arb in 2010, I see that I have done very little, instead working in other areas of Misplaced Pages. Essentially, I've become the very thing I ran against. As a result, I cannot in good conscience remain an arbitrator, and announce my resignation. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 06:06, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Alastair Haines 2

This arbitration case has been closed. The following remedies have been enacted:

• User:Alastair Haines is banned from editing Misplaced Pages for a period of one year, and thereafter pending further direction of the Arbitration Committee under remedy 2.
• Should Alastair Haines wish to return to editing Misplaced Pages after one year, he shall first communicate with the Arbitration Committee and provide a satisfactory assurance that he will refrain from making any further legal threats against other editors or against the Wikimedia Foundation. Should Alastair Haines, after being permitted to return, again make a legal threat or a statement that may reasonably be construed as a legal threat, he may be blocked for an appropriate period of time by any uninvolved administrator.
• To assist Alastair Haines in disengaging from Misplaced Pages, the case pages relating to this arbitration and all related pages have been courtesy blanked. As appropriate, other pages reflecting controversies to which Alastair Haines was a party may also be courtesy-blanked, particularly where the discussion is no longer relevant to ongoing editing issues. In addition, if Alastair Haines so requests, his username (and hence the username associated with his edits in page histories) may be changed to another appropriate username other than his real name. Editors who have been in conflict with Alastair Haines are strongly urged to make no further reference to him on-wiki following his departure.

For the Arbitration Committee, ---- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 12:01, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Oversight mailing list moving to OTRS

Beginning 15 May 2010, the English Misplaced Pages Oversight mailing list will be migrating to the OTRS mail management system hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The primary purpose of this move is to better track requests as they come in, and to ensure timely and consistent responses. This move comes after the German and French oversight lists moved to OTRS in the past year; both have found that it has assisted them in better responding to requests. Over the next week or so, oversighters who have not used OTRS before will be learning the fine points of that system, but the Oversight team will endeavour to maintain adequate responses to the system. The team has also prepared an introductory manual to assist with the transition, which discusses use of both the OTRS system and the Oversight tools.

The major effect on non-Oversighters will be the change in email address to which requests should be sent. When that change is made, we will widely publish the new email address for everyone's information, and we will encourage regular correspondents, particularly recent change patrollers and new page patrollers, to update their contact lists. The current Oversight-L mailing list will remain accessible for approximately two weeks after the changeover; after that, it will become a closed list where oversighters will discuss complex cases or review best practices.

For the Arbitration Committee and the Oversight team,
Risker (talk) 04:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gibraltar

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following is a summary of the remedies enacted:

• Any uninvolved administrator may, in his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor editing Gibraltar or other articles concerning the history, people, or political status of Gibraltar if, after a warning, that editor repeatedly or seriously violates the behavioral standards or editorial processes of Misplaced Pages in connection with these articles.
• Discretionary sanctions imposed under the provisions of this decision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard (currently the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard) or the Arbitration Committee.
• Gibnews (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing the Gibraltar article and other articles concerning the history, people, and political status of Gibraltar, broadly construed, for one year. Should Gibnews return to editing relating to Gibraltar following this period, he is reminded to edit in accordance with the principles discussed in this decision and will be subject to the discretionary sanctions remedy should he fail to do so.
• Gibnews is strongly warned that nationally or ethnically offensive comments are prohibited on Misplaced Pages and that substantial sanctions, up to a ban from the site, will be imposed without further warning in the event of further violations.
• Justin A Kuntz (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from editing Gibraltar and other articles concerning the history, people, and political status of Gibraltar, broadly construed, for three months. Should Justin A Kuntz return to editing relating to Gibraltar following this period, he is reminded to edit in accordance with the principles discussed in this decision and will be subject to the discretionary sanctions remedy should he fail to do so.
• Ecemaml (talk · contribs) is admonished for having, at times, assumed bad faith and edited tendentiously concerning the history and political status of Gibraltar.
• Editors are reminded that when editing in subject areas of bitter and long-standing real-world conflict, it is all the more important to comply with Misplaced Pages policies such as assuming good faith of all editors including those on the other side of the real-world dispute, writing with a neutral point of view, remaining civil and avoiding personal attacks, utilizing reliable sources for contentious or disputed assertions, and resorting to dispute resolution where necessary.
• Any editor who is closely associated with a particular source or website relating to the subject of Gibraltar or any other article is reminded to avoid editing that could be seen as an actual or apparent attempt to promote that source or website or to give it undue weight over other sources or website in an article's references or links. To avoid even the appearance of impropriety, it may be best in these circumstances to mention the existence of the source or website on the talkpage, and allow the decision whether to include it in the article to made by others.

For the Arbitration Committee, ---- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 23:21, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

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Resignation

My activity levels of late have been extremely low, due to obligations related to my employment and college studies. I do not see that this is likely to change significantly during the foreseeable future, and if it does, it is likely to last for only a short period. I do not feel as though my inactivity levels are fair to my colleagues on the Committee, and do not wish to burden them any further. Additionally, I need to be able to focus my attentions more on these real-life areas. As a result, I am announcing my resignation as a member of the Arbitration Committee, effective immediately, and will also be requesting on Meta that my access to the Checkuser and Oversight tools be removed. I wish those remaining with the Committee the best of luck as they continue their work. Hersfold 04:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

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CheckUser and Oversight election has now opened

The CheckUser and Oversight election has now opened. Any editor who has made at least 150 mainspace edits prior to the first announcement of the election may vote. The voting will close at one minute past 23:59 UTC on 27 May 2010.

Direct link to the voting pages

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For the Arbitration Committee,
Risker (talk) 05:37, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

BASC Statistics April 2010

During April 2010, the Ban Appeals Subcommittee (BASC) heard 13 appeals none of which were successful. Of the unsuccessful appeals 6 were an appeal of a formal or informal community ban, 1 was an appeal of an ArbCom ban, 2 were an appeal of a AE ban and 4 were appeals of short blocks which were directed to more appropriate block appeal methods. Two of the appeals were closed early due to a community review which rendered the appeal moot.

For the Arbitration Committee Shell 09:48, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

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Motion regarding A Nobody

A Nobody (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from Misplaced Pages. This ban will be lifted and Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/A Nobody opened at such time as A Nobody agrees to participate in that case.

• Support: Cool Hand Luke, Coren, KnightLago, Mailer diablo, Rlevse, Shell Kinney, SirFozzie, Steve Smith
• Oppose: None
• Not voting: Kirill Lokshin, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Roger Davies
• Recuse: Carcharoth

For the Arbitration Committee, Steve Smith (talk) 22:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Russavia-Biophys

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following is a summary of the remedies enacted:

• Russavia (talk · contribs) is prohibited from commenting on or unnecessarily interacting with editors from the EEML case, except in the case of necessary dispute resolution.
• Vlad fedorov (talk · contribs), Ellol (talk · contribs), and YMB29 (talk · contribs) are banned from editing articles about the Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics, and all related articles, broadly construed, for a period of no less than 6 months. At the end of 6 months, they may each apply to have their ban reviewed by the Arbitration Committee.
• Biophys (talk · contribs) is banned from editing articles about the Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics, and all related articles, broadly construed, for a period of no less than 1 year. At the end of 1 year, Biophy may apply to have the ban reviewed by the Arbitration Committee.
• Consecutive to that topic ban, Biophys is restricted to 1 revert per week per article in the topic area for 1 year.
• Russavia and Vlad federov are admonished for posting personal information of other editors.
• Editors wishing to edit in the areas dealt with in this case are advised to edit carefully, to adopt Misplaced Pages's communal approaches (including appropriate conduct, dispute resolution, neutral point of view, no original research and verifiability) in their editing, and to amend behaviors that are deemed to be of concern by administrators. An editor unable or unwilling to do so may wish to restrict their editing to other topics, in order to avoid sanctions.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 22:08, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

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Oversight requests moving to OTRS effective today

I am pleased to advise you that, effective immediately, requests for oversight/suppression will be accepted using the OTRS system. Please bear with us as the Oversight team becomes accustomed to this new method of receiving and replying to requests. We will strive to maintain timely service.

If you have found yourself reporting concerns to the oversight mailing list, please take a moment to add the new email address to your list of contacts: oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org

We look forward to continuing to work with the community in protecting the privacy of editors and others.

For the Oversight team,
Risker (talk) 04:16, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Results of May 2010 CheckUser and Oversight election

Below are the results of the elections for CheckUser and Oversight permissions conducted in May 2010:

CheckUser results

Note: 393 users participated in this election

Oversight results

Note: 368 users participated in this election

Discussion

In order for candidates to be successful, they must achieve support at a level greater than 70%. Support percentage is calculated as Support votes/(Support + Oppose votes), with neutral votes not affecting the total. This is the first CheckUser/Oversight election to use the SecurePoll process.

The election process has yielded only one successful CheckUser candidate, and no successful Oversight candidates. This outcome is not satisfactory, in that crucial roles within the project cannot be filled. The Arbitration Committee will be examining alternatives to this method of granting CheckUser and Oversight permissions over the coming weeks. Community input would be appreciated.

Motion

Amalthea (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) is granted CheckUser permissions, pending identification in accordance with WMF identification policy.

The Arbitration Committee thanks all of the candidates who stood in this election, as well as all of the editors who applied for candidacy.

Support: Carcharoth, Cool Hand Luke, Coren, Kirill, KnightLago, Mailer Diablo, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Shell Kinney, Sir Fozzie, Steve Smith. (None opposed, recused or abstained.)

For the Arbitration Committee,

Risker (talk) 03:12, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

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Request for Comment

Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following is a summary of the remedies enacted:

• All editors who are party to this case are instructed to read the principles, to review their own past conduct in the light of them, and if necessary to modify their future conduct to ensure full compliance with them.
• Editors are reminded that when editing in controversial subject areas it is all the more important to comply with Misplaced Pages policies. In addition, editors who find it difficult to edit a particular article or topic from a neutral point of view and to adhere to other Misplaced Pages policies are counselled that they may sometimes need or wish to step away temporarily from that article or subject area, and to find other related but less controversial topics in which to edit.
• Any uninvolved administrator may, in his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor editing Transcendental meditation or other articles concerning Transcendental meditation and related biographies of living people, broadly defined, if, after a warning, that editor repeatedly or seriously violates the behavioural standards or editorial processes of Misplaced Pages in connection with these articles.
• Uninvolved administrators are invited to monitor the articles in the area of conflict to enforce compliance by editors with, in particular, the principles outlined in this case. Enforcing administrators are instructed to focus on fresh and clear-cut matters arising after the closure of this case rather than on revisiting historical allegations.
• From time to time, the conduct of editors within the topic may be re-appraised by any member of the Arbitration Committee and, by motion of the Arbitration Committee, further remedies may be summarily applied to specific editors who have failed to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner.
• User:Fladrif is (i) strongly admonished for incivility, personal attacks, and assumptions of bad faith; and (ii) subject to an editing restriction for one year. Should he make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, he may be briefly blocked, up to a week in the event of repeated violations. After three blocks, the maximum block shall increase to one month.
• Should any user subject to a restriction or topic ban in this case violate that restriction or ban, that user may be blocked, initially for up to one month, and then with blocks increasing in duration to a maximum of one year, with the topic ban clock restarting at the end of the block.

For and on behalf of the Arbitration Committee Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 18:39, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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Motion regarding Eastern European mailing list

Per a motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Remedy 10 of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Radeksz topic banned") is rescinded.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:53, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Pseudoscience

Per a motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

The words "such as Time Cube" are struck from principle #15 of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience ("Obvious pseudoscience"). Finding of fact #9 of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience ("Pseudoscience") is amended to read "Misplaced Pages contains articles on pseudoscientific ideas which, while notable, have little or no following in the scientific community, often being so little regarded that there is no serious criticism of them by scientific critics."

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:58, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf

Per a motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Remedy 2 of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tothwolf ("re JBsupreme (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ) is changed to read "JBsupreme (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is subject to an editing restriction for six months. Should JBsupreme make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, JBsupreme may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below." The six months starts from the day this motion passes.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration Motion regarding Eastern European mailing list

Per a motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Remedy 17 of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list ("Biruitorul topic banned") is lifted.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:45, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

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Arbitration motion regarding Speed of light

Following a motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

Amendment 4 to Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Speed of light ("Brews ohare advocacy restrictions") expired with remedy 4.2 of the same case ("Brews ohare topic banned"), as amended by amendment 3 ("Brews ohare").

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:01, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

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