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Arbitration motion regarding Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change
Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment that: The Climate change case is supplemented as follows:
The topic ban imposed on William M. Connolley (talk · contribs) in the Climate change case is modified, effective immediately. William M. Connolley is permitted to edit within the topic area of Climate change, but is prohibited from editing relating to any living person associated with this topic, interpreted broadly but reasonably. William M. Connolley is reminded to abide by all applicable Misplaced Pages policies in editing on this topic and that he remains subject either to further action by this Committee or (like all editors in this topic-area) to discretionary sanctions should he fail to do so.
For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 21:29, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Omnibus motion amending past cases
Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Motions:
To simplify enforcement of older sanctions that are, substantively, discretionary sanctions, the committee hereby amends and supersedes the remedies listed below with the following:
- Discretionary Sanctions
- The topic is placed under discretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.
where "The topic" is specified in the list of amended remedies below. Any extant sanctions or warnings made according to the older wording found in those decisions (as applicable) remain unaffected.
- Remedy 1.1 of Palestine-Israel articles (All Arab-Israeli conflict-related articles, broadly interpreted)
- Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 as amended. (Topics related to Armenia-Azerbaijan and related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 1 of Macedonia (topics related to the Balkans, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 1.2 of Climate change (The Climate change topic, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 1 of Abd-WMC (Cold fusion and related articles)
- Remedy 12 of Digwuren (Topics related to Eastern Europe, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 1 of Gibraltar (Gibraltar or other articles concerning the history, people, or political status of Gibraltar)
- Remedy 1 of Homeopathy (Homeopathy and related articles)
- Remedy 4 of Martinphi-ScienceApologist and remedy 12 of Pseudoscience (Articles relating to pseudoscience, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 1 of September 11 conspiracy theories (Articles which relate to the events of September 11, 2001, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 3 of Transcendental Meditation movement (Transcendental meditation or other articles concerning Transcendental meditation and related biographies of living people, broadly interpreted)
- Remedy 13 of Ayn Rand (Ayn Rand or related articles or pages)
- All extant remedies of The Troubles, as amended and clarified (Articles relating to The Troubles, as well as the Ulster banner and British baronets)
For the Arbitration Committee, NW (Talk) 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Appeal to BASC: Mìthrandir
The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeal of:
- Mìthrandir (talk · contribs)
The text of the decision has been posted on the editor's talk page.
For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 19:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Appeal to BASC: ChristiaandeWet
The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeal of:
The text of the decision has been posted on the editor's talk page.
For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 19:26, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee/WMF Liaison
In August 2011, the Arbitration Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation jointly agreed to identify liaisons to enhance communication and co-ordination between the Committee and the Foundation. Below is the internal resolution appointing Newyorkbrad as the Arbitration Committee liaison to the WMF.
In order to foster and enhance collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the English Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee, the committee resolves
- i) That the role of Committee liaison to the Wikimedia Foundation shall be a designated point of contact between the Wikimedia Foundation and the Arbitration Committee;
- ii) That the liaison shall be appointed by an absolute majority of active, non-recused arbitrators, and may be replaced or removed at any time by an absolute majority of active, non-recused arbitrators;
- iii) That the liaison shall not be authorized to make binding decisions on behalf of the Arbitration Committee except as specifically and previously authorized by committee directive.
- Support resolution: Casliber; David Fuchs; Jclemens; John Vandenberg; Mailer diablo; Newyorkbrad; PhilKnight; Risker; Roger Davies; Xeno
- Support i): Cool Hand Luke (did not vote on other sections)
- Oppose resolution: None
- Not voting/inactive: Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry; Coren; Elen of the Roads; Iridescent; Kirill Lokshin; SirFozzie
The committee further resolves that upon the passing of this resolution, Newyorkbrad is appointed as the Arbitration Committee liaison to the Wikimedia Foundation effective 18 August 2011 until December 31, 2012, or such time as the role is reassigned by the committee.
- Support resolution: Jclemens; Casliber; Cool Hand Luke; John Vandenberg; Mailer diablo; PhilKnight; Risker; Roger Davies; Xeno.
- Accept appointment: Newyorkbrad
- Oppose resolution: None
- Not voting/inactive: Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry; Coren; David Fuchs; Elen of the Roads; Iridescent; Kirill Lokshin; SirFozzie.
- Internal resolution passed.
As part of the role of the Liaison, Newyorkbrad and another member of the Committee, Coren, attended at the WMF offices on 4 November 2011 to meet with a number of staff in varying roles in order to discuss multiple issues. A teleconference was also held on the same date with other available arbitrators participating, including Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, Kirill Lokshin, Risker, Roger Davies, and Xeno. Reports of the meetings are now being drafted for discussion amongst the committee as a whole, and the community can anticipate further announcements related to these discussions in the near future.
For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 08:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Appeal to BASC: Lee Nysted
The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeal of:
- Lee Nysted (talk · contribs)
The text of the decision has been posted on the editor's talk page.
For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 20:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Iridescent
Iridescent (talk · contribs) has been a member of the Arbitration Committee since January 2011. During this time, their contributions to the Committee have been thoughtful and valued when they have been able to participate but they have had long periods of inactivity both as an arbitrator and editor because of unavoidable off-wiki commitments. They have had only minimal activity as an arbitrator since June 2011 and have not edited Misplaced Pages for more than one month.
The Arbitration Policy provides that the Arbitration Committee may remove one of its members who is unable to "participate conscientiously in the Committee's activities and deliberations." However, the Committee would prefer to implement this provision only as a last resort. Recent attempts have been made to contact Iridescent and inquire as to whether they expect soon to be able to return to regular participation as an arbitrator, or alternatively, if they would tender their resignation from the Committee on account of their present unavailability to serve (thereby creating a vacancy that can be filled by the community at the upcoming Arbitration Committee elections).
Having not had success in contacting Iridescent, the Arbitration Committee has resolved to remove Iridescent from the Committee pursuant to Section 1.3 of the Arbitration Policy, based solely on their apparent unavailability to serve and not for any other cause.
The Committee thanks Iridescent for their past service on the committee and their extensive contributions elsewhere on the project.
- Supporting resolution: Casliber; Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry; Coren; David Fuchs; Elen of the Roads; Jclemens; John Vandenberg; Kirill Lokshin; Newyorkbrad; PhilKnight; Risker; Roger Davies; SirFozzie; Xeno.
- Opposing resolution: Mailer diablo.
- Not voting/inactive: Cool Hand Luke.
For the Arbitration Committee, –xeno 22:30, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change
Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment that: The Climate change case is supplemented as follows:
The editing restriction described in remedy 16.1 ("Scjessey's voluntary editing restriction") of the Climate change decision is terminated, effective on the passage of this motion.
For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 12:53, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Appeal to BASC: WalkerThrough
The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeal of:
The text of the decision has been posted on the editor's talk page.
For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 11:52, 22 November 2011 (UTC) \
- (Note: The user was later re-blocked for violation of these terms))
Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry standing down as an arbitrator
On Wednesday, I was accepted in a full-time job as the Office & Development Manager for Wikimedia UK. This is a permanent role based in London. As there is a potential conflict of interest between the two roles, especially with regard to Arbitration cases and ban appeals that involve UK Chapter members, the Wikimedia UK Board have asked me to step down in order to maintain complete transparency. I agree with their position. It is therefore with great regret that I am announcing my intention to stand down as an arbitrator on 31 December 2011. The Cavalry (Message me) 14:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion closed
An arbitration case regarding all articles related to the subject of Abortion has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
- All articles related to the subject of Abortion:
- shall be semi-protected until November 28, 2014;
- shall not be moved absent a demonstrable community consensus;
- are authorized to be placed on Standard discretionary sanctions;
In addition:
- Editors are reminded to remain neutral while editing;
- Structured discussion is to take place on names of articles currently located at Opposition to the legalization of abortion and Support for the legalization of abortion, with a binding vote taken one month after the opening of the discussion;
- User:Orangemarlin is instructed to contact the Arbitration Committee before returning to edit affected articles;
- User:Michael C Price, User:Anythingyouwant, User:Haymaker, User:Geremia, User:DMSBel are all indefinitely topic-banned; User:Michael C Price and User:Haymaker may appeal their topic bans in one year;
- User:Gandydancer and User:NYyankees51 are reminded to maintain tones appropriate for collaboration in a sensitive topic area.
For the Arbitration Committee,
- Penwhale | 04:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
BASC Statistics: April–October 2011
During the period of April through October 2011, the Ban Appeals Subcommittee received a total of 56 completed appeals (this number includes multiple appeals by single users). Of the appeals, 44 were appeals of community-imposed bans, and 2 were an appeal of an ArbCom/AE ban. An additional 10 were appeals of blocks for spam/{{usernameblock}} violations, or other type of appeal (such as appeals from different language wikis.)
A total of 11 appeals were successful, while 7 were handled by the community. Three appellants did not give enough information to make a determination.
For the Arbitration Committee, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs 19:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion
Resolved by motion at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification that: The Abortion case is supplemented as follows:
Remedy 1 of Abortion is amended to the following:
- Any uninvolved administrator may semi-protect articles relating to Abortion and their corresponding talk pages, at his or her discretion, for a period of up to three years from 7 December 2011. Pages semi-protected under this provision are to be logged.
For the Arbitration Committee, Salvio 12:13, 6 December 2011 (UTC)