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After considering /Evidence and discussing proposals with other arbitrators, parties and others at /Workshop place proposals which are ready for voting here.
Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or abstain.
- Only items that receive a majority "support" vote will be passed.
- Items that receive a majority "oppose" vote will be formally rejected.
- Items that do not receive a majority "support" or "oppose" vote will be open to possible amendment by any Arbitrator if she/he so chooses. After the amendment process is complete, the item will be voted on one last time.
Conditional votes for or against and abstentions should be explained by the Arbitrator before or after his/her time-stamped signature. For example, an Arbitrator can state that she/he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were passed.
On this case, 0 Arbitrator(s) is/are recused and 1 is/are inactive, so 13 out of 14 arbitrators are available and 7 votes are a majority.
- For all items
Proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on. Non-Arbitrators may comment on the talk page.
Motions and requests by the parties
Place those on /Workshop.
Proposed temporary injunctions
Four net "support" votes needed to pass (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support")
24 hours from the first vote is normally the fastest an injunction will be imposed.
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1) {text of proposed orders}
- Support:
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Proposed final decision
Proposed principles
Edit warring
1) Edit wars or revert wars are considered harmful, because they cause ill-will between users and negatively destabilize articles. Editors are encourage to explore alternate methods of dispute resolution.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Courtesy
2) Users are expected to be reasonably courteous to each other, see Misplaced Pages:Civility and Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Disruption
3) Users may be banned or otherwise restricted for editing in a way that constitutes clear and intentional disruption.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Sockpuppets
4) Abuse of sockpuppet accounts, such as using them to evade blocks, bans, and user accountability–and especially to make personal attacks or reverts, or vandalize–is strictly forbidden. See Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppets.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Writing about yourself
5) Editors should avoid contributing to articles about themselves or subjects in which they are personally involved, as it is difficult to maintain a neutral point of view while doing so. See Misplaced Pages:Autobiography.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Misplaced Pages is not a soapbox
6) Misplaced Pages is not to be used for advocacy or self-promotion. See Misplaced Pages is not a soapbox.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Meatpuppets
7) A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Misplaced Pages solely for that purpose, shall be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Proposed findings of fact
Template
1) {text of proposed finding of fact}
- Support:
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Sockpuppetry
1) Jason Gastrich (talk · contribs) has used several proven and suspected abusive sockpuppets to make AfD votes, lend support in discussions, and make reverts. These include Big_Lover (talk · contribs), Big_Daddy (talk · contribs), Wiggins2 (talk · contribs) and others listed here. Also see Category:Misplaced Pages:Sock puppets of Jason Gastrich and Category:Misplaced Pages:Suspected sockpuppets of Jason Gastrich.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Meatpuppetry
2) Jason Gastrich has used his personal website to invite outside users to support his point of view at AfD, and to insert POV into Christian articles. The website's objectives regarding Misplaced Pages include to "Voice our opinion on the inclusion of Christian entries" and to "Glorify Jesus Christ". He has solicited non-Wikipedians to support and "praise" him on Misplaced Pages .
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Discourtesy
3) Jason Gastrich has frequently engaged in personal attacks against other editors, and been generally uncivil to others. Examples: , , ,
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Disruption of the deletion process
4) Jason Gastrich has made several bad faith nominations to Articles for deletion of biographies of persons he personally disliked, giving logically faulty, incomplete, and even dishonest reasons. More than a dozen such nominations were speedily closed and kept, by the practice that bad faith nominations can be closed early. See the list here: Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Jason_Gastrich#Disrupting_Wikipedia_to_make_a_point
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Self-promotion
5) Jason Gastrich (and his sockpuppets) has repeatedly used Misplaced Pages as a vehicle for promotion of himself and his views. This includes the creation of Jason Gastrich and his ministry Jesus Christ Saves Ministries, and .
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Tendentious editing
6) Jason Gastrich and his many sockpuppets/meatpuppets have engaged in many sustained agressive edit wars in an attempt to rewrite articles to fit their point of view. See, for example, , .
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
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.
Jason Gastrich banned from certain articles
1) Jason Gastrich is indefinitely banned from Louisiana Baptist University and The Skeptic's Annotated Bible.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Jason Gastrich placed on Probation
2) Jason Gastrich is placed on Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban them from any page which he disrupts by inappropriate editing. Jason Gastrich must be notified on his talk page of any bans and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. He may post suggestions on the talk page of any page from which he is banned from editing.
- Support:
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Jason Gastrich placed on personal attack parole
3) Jason Gastrich is placed on standard personal attack parole for one year. If he makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be personal attacks, then he shall be temp-banned for a short time of up to one week. After five such blocks, the maximum block time is increased to one year.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Jason Gastrich placed on revert parole
4) Jason Gastrich shall for one year be limited to one revert per article per week, excepting obvious vandalism. Further, he is required to discuss any content reversions on the article's talk page.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Jason Gastrich limited to one account
5) Jason Gastrich shall edit under that username and no other. Additionally, other accounts or anonymous IPs which due to area of interest, style, manner, or IP corroboration, can be reasonably ascribed to Jason Gastrich, shall be banned. Violation of these remedies under another username or IP shall result in the the penalty being applied to the main account, User:Jason Gastrich, as well.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Proposed enforcement
Enforcement of Probation and paroles
1) Should Jason Gastrich violate any ban imposed under Probation, or his personal attack or revert parole, he may be briefly blocked, up to a week in the event of repeated violations. After 5 blocks, the maximum block shall increase to one year.
- Oppose:
- Abstain:
Discussion by Arbitrators
General
Motion to close
Four net "support" votes needed to close case (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support")
24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close.