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Current requests

Lou Dobbs

Involved parties

Case Summary: Disagreement on the neutrality and usefulness of links involving the Lou Dobbs article. Two of the editors refuse to follow the guidelines set forth by Misplaced Pages regarding WP:EL and have shown extreme bias.

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request

A formal and public notice regarding the arbitration was made on the talk page located here Talk:Lou Dobbs diffs available at the following

Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

I've tried disputing NPOV and allowing for other editors to comment. Before any time summarily passes the links in question are readded, the editors in question cite reasons and agreement made between themselves or no one at all. They claim threats have been made but when asked what threats? There is simply no response or the discussion topic is switched. This is all available on the talk page of the article in question. I've had no choice but to refer to the guidelines repeatedly and i'm now here to find some civility.

Statement User:216.254.126.222

I've said all I have regarding this matter on the talk page. To summarize I believe that external links linking to a person should adhere to the guidelines set forth here WP:EL. I also believe that no matter how much one may disagree with a person. Linking to a site that does nothing but lambast the individual without any fact, partiality, neutrality or general deceny should not be tolerated. Misplaced Pages isn't a magazine. Based on the statement below I must update this statement. Concensus has never been agreed upon because the guidelines have not been followed; therefore, we've never been able to come to, or arrive at any general common sense. Furthermore, this is clearly something that is devolving into a revert war. I'd rather a specific guideline be created when dealing with external links to figures in the public and their relation to the articles in question (As WP:EL has guidelines as to what it appropriate and not I don't see the issue). Or at the very least a statement of arbitration on the article in question. So that others who see the links and disagree with them being in the article will have this to refer to in the advent that this request is summarily declined. I'm doing my best to avert future reverts on the article in question while also placating the parties in disagreement.

Statement by User:Will Beback

This is a content issue. The question is whether a couple of critical external links should be included. The consensus of other editors is that the links are legitimate. Reasonable people may differ. This should be resolved through discussion between engaged editors (more are welcome). -Will Beback 08:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement of Wizardry Dragon

This user has been continually reverting the links disputed despite talk page consensus that the links are legitmate and should be included. He has been warned continually of the Three-Revert Rule and of Misplaced Pages editing policies but has persisted. It would seem that he is disrupting Misplaced Pages to prove a point, something I have warned him(/her?) about twice now.

The someone stressful issue is that (s)he would continually cite Misplaced Pages policies while failing to follow them himself, as I've noted above, (s)he seems in breach of both the Three-Revert Rule and of the guideline against disrupting Misplaced Pages to prove a point.

I've tried to be as civil as possible, despite the fact (s)he's tried my patience - if anyone has suggestions as to anything I could do differently or better, I'm open to them. -- Wizardry Dragon 21:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement by User:Avillia

This extends far beyond the simple content issue. The person in question has been threatened twice by administrators for removing the links. Threatened with blocking for vandalism. Over a editing dispute. If nothing else, this needs to be investigated. Also, as to the removal: What happened to WP:Bold?

Statement by User:Postdlf

I watched the talk page discussion for awhile without getting involved (I had previously contributed a good deal of the article's content, though not the links in question), and finally stepped in only to counter an obviously solitary flouting of consensus because one person is upset that he is not getting his way. After the editor kept unilaterally removing the links, I threatened to block him first for vandalism, and I finally did block one of the above IPs for violating the three-revert rule after four separate editors (including myself) had restored the links. Arbitration is inappropriate because the underlying content issue was already discussed and resolved, and this is only an attempt to avoid that resolution because one editor does not like the outcome.

Statement by non-involved user Stifle

This does not appear to have been posted to WP:RFC yet. I recommend trying that first. Stifle (talk) 12:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (0/2/0/0)

Appeal for leniency on behalf of User:Rgulerdem

Involved parties

Case summary: Indefinite blocking of User:Rgulerdem by User:Cyde and User:NSLE (who acted with approval from WP:ANI). User:Johntex is appealing the block at the request of User:Rgulerdem, who is indefinitely blocked with a protected talk page.

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request

Johntex has informed the other 3 parties. , ,

Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

Johntex has posted to WP:ANI asking if there might be room for some leniency in this matter. This did not result in any change to the blocking. Johntex unprotected Rgulerdem's Talk page so that he could detail his positive contributions. This resulted in no change in heart by the blocking admins, and Rgulerdem was accused of continuing to be uncivil. His talk page was reprotected. Given the history between Rgulerdem and the blocking admins, I don't think continued discussion will help. NSLE has posted to Johntex that the next step should be to give the Arbitration Committee a chance to reveiw the situation.

Statement by User:Johntex

I believe there is room for leniency in this case:

  1. Upon joining Misplaced Pages, Rgulerdem made good edits and engaged in good discussion. , ,
  2. He got into trouble because about showing the cartoons at Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: . Although he did made mistakes (Eg. 3RR violations), he also engaged in many attempts to help others understand how some people feel hurt by these images.
  3. He started on a proposed policy called Misplaced Pages:Wikiethics. This has not been a popular proposal, and there has been incivility both by Rgulerdem and towards Rgulerdem.
  4. User:NicholasTurnbull gave Rgulerdem what he called a "final warning" but he did not provide specific examples of problem behavior.
  5. Rgulerdem questioned whether Misplaced Pages has a "final warning".
  6. User:NSLE gave a link to a policy that does not mention a final warning., so it did not answer Rgulerdem's question.
  7. User:NSLE protected Rgulerdem’s page with the statement that Rgulerdem was engaging in trolling and incivility on his talk page. I don’t agree these actions were trolling or uncivil.
  8. User:Cyde indefinitely blocked Rgulerdem, without providing any specific cause.
  9. Rgulerdem contacted me by e-mail and asked me to unblock him. I declined to remove the block., but I did unprotect his talk page so that he could speak about his positive contributions.
  10. Rgulerdem provided information about his positive. Unfortunately, he also made complaints about those who have blocked him, although I had specifically asked him to “… not make any remarks which could possibly be construed as personal attacks, or which could possibly be seen as being uncivil..." I do not think anything he said was a personal attack or uncivil, though he was argumentative when I had specifically asked him to stick to the positive.
  11. Rgulerdem then spoke directly to NSLE saying "Please note that, I am not editing here in Wiki based on your mercy. If I were you I would quit this threatening-style talks as it does not work.". At this point, NLSE re-protected the page.

I do believe that Rgulerdem has behaved badly in the past, but he has served his penalties for those actions. I agree he has tested the community's patience and caused many people to spend a lot of time on him.
On the other hand, he has made some positive contributions. He has worked hard and in good faith on a proposed policy that is important to him. He has suffered insults and incivility on the parts of people who oppose his ideas.
Most importantly to me, the "final warning" and "indefinite block" came about without a specific cause. I have no doubt the blocking admins feel Rgulerdem is a time-sink at best and a hazzard at worst. Also, there was little opposition to the block at WP:ANI. However, I wonder if readers at WP:ANI were able to hear both sides of the issue, since the user was blocked and had his page protected at least part of the time. I ask for the block to be reduced to

Statement by User:Aaron Brenneman

This seems just a little bit early for ArbCom. Either the block stands (i.e. no ArbCom involvment) or it gets lifted (no ArbCom until when/if something else goes pear-shaped.) I'd suggest a pseudo-mentorship: He's clearly passionate, if more than a little bit rough around the edges. *snort* 11R violation *snort*
brenneman 05:35, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement by User:Cyde

Rgulerdem's block log speaks for itself. It was hardly just me who felt the ban was justified. I urge the ArbCom not to bother taking this case. In addition, this is my response to the post by Netpari (talk · contribs · count) below:

Rgulerdem was blocked for being persistently disruptive over the span of many months. May I point out that it is ludicrous to (1) compare him to Socrates and (2) suggest that I should be more lenient on him because he is a Muslim. Socrates is a non-sequitur and I practice a strict policy of separation of church and unblock.

--Cyde Weys 02:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement by User:NSLE

Resid has previously been blocked for incivility, disruption, 3RR, WP:OWN and sockpuppetry. I once blocked him 50 hours for sockpuppetry. For some reason, a glitch in the system allowed him to resume editing, and I reblocked him. He then claimed I was biased and had an agenda, claiming I blocked him for no reason, and later claiming that since the glitch unblocked him he should be free to edit.

After his 50-hour block expired, he went back to revert warring at Misplaced Pages talk:Wikiethics. He then accused someone else of vandalism, which violates WP:AGF, and when I reverted his edit, and User:Netscott his next revert, he listed us both, as well as innocent user User:Rory096, at WP:AN/3RR, and I blocked him 15 minutes on disruption of 3RR vio page as there was no 3RR.

He has been downright disruptive and I see no reason why the ArbCom shouldaccept this case to lift a block on someone who's obviously not here to contribute cohesively and conducively. NSLE (T+C) at 08:51 UTC (2006-04-21)

This is not Resid's first block, and in the past when we've unblocked him he's just continued to be incivil and disruptive, and I don't forsee that changing. When the block was posted to ANI (link above) many admins and non-admins alike agreed with the block. Resid's complaint to the mailing list received similar responses. NSLE (T+C) at 01:20 UTC (2006-04-22)

Clerk notes

This appears to be a case of a community-imposed indefinite block resulting from extensive discussion . If the block is to be reversed, this can be done by further discussion; there seems to be no suggestion that Misplaced Pages policy is being breached, and the paths of dispute resolution appear to be open and operating to the full. --Tony Sidaway 01:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (0/0/1/0)

Cesar Tort and Ombudsman vs others re Biological psychiatry

Involved parties

Case summary: repeated POV-tagging of Biological psychiatry by Cesar Tort and Ombudsman

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request
Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

Editors Cesar Tort and Ombudsman did not respond to requests for mediation/arbitration.
Request consent for arbitration from Ombudsman (no response):

Request consent for mediation/arbitration from Cesar Tort (no response):

Statement by party 1

Case concerns repeated POV-tagging of Biological psychiatry, apparently motivated by strong anti-psychiatry feelings primarily by two editors: Cesar Tort and Ombudsman

The parties are in two opposing groups: Cesar Tort and Ombudsman vs everybody else.

Cesar Tort and Ombudsman have repeatedly POV-tagged Biological psychiatry, despite repeated entreaties by several editors to stop. They have strong anti-psychiatry feelings and want the article to extensively reflect that viewpoint. However there's already an article on Anti-psychiatry, where most of such content belongs. That has been tactfully pointed out to them multiple times.

There is broad consensus the article in current form is NPOV, well-referenced, and encyclopedic in tone and content. Two editors disagree: Cesar Tort and Ombudsman.

They've been begged to stop POV-tagging the article multiple times. They have not responded to requests for mediation. They feel very strongly about the topic, but apparently don't understand an encyclopedia article is not the forum to express those feelings, or at least restrict them to Anti-psychiatry. Regretably, at this point arbitration seems the only choice. See evidence sub-page: Joema 01:28, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement by party 2

While not deeply involved in the dispute this request addresses, i was asked to comment having worked with Cesar Tort on an extensive re-write of Anti-psychiatry. I concur with Joema's position, whose contribution to biological psychiatry i have praised , and attempted to explain Misplaced Pages's position on pseudoscience and WP:NPOV . I, with others, have also encouraged those who dispute the article's content to contribute their material to a more suitable article . I believe Cesar Tort's position, while misguided, is in good faith and that lack of response to requests for mediation is due to not understanding , rather than wilful disregard for the dispute resolution process. I take no position on Ombudsman's motives, though i believe her/his use of the NPOV tag is also misguided. Rockpocket 06:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement by non-involved party Stifle

This appears to be a content dispute and does not appear to have visited WP:RFC yet. I urge rejection without prejudice. Stifle (talk) 22:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

This behaviour spans multiple articles, such as anti-psychiatry, anti-vaccinationist, psychiatry and numerous others. In fact, an RFC against Ombudsman dealing specifically with external links has already taken place (here). JFW | T@lk 21:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
That RFC doesn't appear to be related to this dispute, though. I'd recommend taking it there first. Stifle (talk) 12:18, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Statement by party 3

I agree with the statements by parties one and two. Joema pretty much summed up the entire dispute. Regarding the above statement by Stifle: there is already a clear majority in support of Joema's edits. If you read the talk page, this is quite clear. I don't think that input is needed from non-involved parties. The issue is not so much about content as it is about improper tagging of the article (with the POV tag). If the issue was about content, Cesar Tort would be the one requesting arbitration, as he is the major opponent of the article's content. The POV tag has been removed numerous times by several different people. Ombudsman has nearly violated the three-revert rule by reverting to the tagged article three times in row in 25 hours (1 hour less and he would have been blocked), despite its having been removed by three different people. To sum it up, the issue is over repeated improper use of a tag, not over content, and therefore it should not be rejected and/or moved to the WP:RFC page. Fuzzform 00:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (0/0/0/0)

Requests for Clarification

Requests for clarification from the Committee on matters related to the Arbitration process.

LaRouche POV on user pages

Could the ArbCom please clarify whether the expression of pro-LaRouche opinions on one's own user page are in violation of its past rulings? There appears to be some activity regarding censorship of these opinions which I find very disturbing and contrary to our whole spirit here. Everyking 11:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

For the record, Everyking is referring (I think) to Cognition's user page when in this form. JoshuaZ 12:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I think that the edits are within what I would consider our intent in the ruling, yes. Cries of "censorship" be damned, we're here to write an encyclopædia.
James F. (talk) 13:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I wasn't interested in the intent of the ruling, but rather in the interpretation of the ruling as it is written. But I guess that's another issue. The main point I want to make is that you are making the assumption that censoring the expression of a political POV on a user page will help write the encyclopedia. Is this accurate? My view, and it seems to be a common one, is that freedom of expression will work to improve the encyclopedia. Also: if it is true that, as you argue, this political POV expressed on a user page is harmful to the encyclopedia, does it follow that any political POV expressed on a user page is harmful to the encyclopedia? Everyking 06:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
I fail to see how the expression of any general opinion in any way helps the project, yes. I suppose that there is a case to be made for internal politics, such as "I think that the English Misplaced Pages should be more deletionist", but even then... Certainly, expressions of personal faith ("I am a Christian"), of politics ("I am a Labour supporter"), or of non-organised belief ("I believe in animal rights") seem to me to be wholly and absolutely without merit.
As to the execution of our orders, the intent governs the interpretation rather closely, given the immediacy of action and comment afforded to us by the wiki, so I would have thought it rather important. :-)
James F. (talk) 11:58, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


James F's opinion is being cited now as if it's the opinion of the whole ArbCom. Could other arbitrators please weigh in on this? Everyking 06:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I also wonder if the ArbCom has read this and is choosing to ignore it, or if they are not aware of the existence of a request on their page. Everyking 05:43, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
The ArbCom is aware of this request. If any Arbitrator has anything they wish to say regarding it, you can be sure they will do so. Kelly Martin (talk) 20:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I saw the question and James' reply here and I thought he handled it rather well. So I didn't chime in. If I had disagreed I would have made it clear. So frankly: of course I've seen it, and no I'm not ignoring it. You got your reply from an arbitrator, and that's what this space is for. Dmcdevit·t 21:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not provides that Misplaced Pages is not a soapbox to be used for advocacy or propaganda. Fred Bauder 22:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Crotalus horridus

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway

The enforcement for Crotalus horridus conflicts with the enforcement provided in the userbox remedy. Presumably the enforcement applies only to Crotalus's probation should that be invoked. Or can admins choose whichever they prefer? (And, if they can, could 5 two-week blocks result in triggering the year-block even though the remedy would not have been invoked since it limits blocks to a week?) -Splash 16:57, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, we (I?) didn't do that too well. The options are to remove the enforcement from Remedy 1 or to specify that the enforcement only applies to Remedies 2 and 3. I support the former. Sam Korn 17:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
<ping>. I guess it's not especially important since Ch appears to be abiding by it, but it's at least untidy to let it lie. -Splash 23:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Motions in prior cases

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DPSingh

Since his arbitration case, DPSingh (talk · contribs) has violated his ruling and been blocked, and then created a whole host of sockpuppets to violate his article ban, and just be generally disruptive and uncivil. See most recent socks at Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_CheckUser#Rajput_case. I recommend a general ban.

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Rajput is modified to include the following remedy:

DPSingh banned

For continued violation of his article ban for edit warring and incivility using sockpuppets, DPSingh is banned from editing Misplaced Pages for one year.

Support:
  1. Dmcdevit·t 08:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
  2. James F. (talk) 13:05, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
  3. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  4. Jayjg 00:57, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
  5. Fred Bauder 12:13, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Oppose:
Abstain:

Xed

Since his second Arbitration case, the personal attack probation against Xed (talk · contribs) imposed in the first case has lapsed, and Xed's behaviour has subsequently deteriorated. This, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Xed 2 is modified to include the following remedy:

Xed placed on indefinite personal attack parole

For continued personal attacks, Xed is placed indefinitely on personal attack parole. If, in the judgement of any sysop, Xed has breached this ruling, he may be briefly blocked should he make personal attacks, for up to a month in the case of repeat offenses.

Support:
  1. James F. (talk) 23:21, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  2. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  3. ➥the Epopt 00:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  4. Dmcdevit·t 00:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  5. Fred Bauder 00:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Oppose:
Abstain:

This has more than the usual four votes for a motion, so I've amended the remedies in the case. --Tony Sidaway 02:43, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

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