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Result of Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Jerusalem
After thoroughly reading this RfC and the arguments expressed for and against each draft, we have found a consensus for Draft 7 and have decided that it is within our mandate to insert the geographical information from Draft 14 in place of the ellipses of Draft 7. There was a consensus that it is not compliant with NPOV policy to state in the article “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel”, nor is it compliant to state “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, though not internationally recognized as such”. There was no consensus for any phrasing of Jerusalem’s location in either Israel or Palestine.
We have decided to act under the broad mandate given us by the Arbitration Committee to set the first paragraph of the article in stone to best ameliorate the conflict, rather than instigate further conflict and edit-warring over what should replace the ellipses. Therefore, we have set the first paragraph of Jerusalem as follows:
Jerusalem, located on a plateau in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean and Dead seas, is one of the oldest cities in the world. It is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Israelis and Palestinians both claim Jerusalem as their capital, as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power; however, neither claim is widely recognized internationally.
To reiterate, this decision is binding for 3 years and no one may add information about Jerusalem’s capital status or location in either Israel or Palestine to the lead.
Thank you for your participation.
Respectfully,
Keilana (talk), Pgallert (talk), and RegentsPark (talk)
2013 CheckUser and Oversight appointments & personnel changes
Following the 2013 CU/OS appointments process, the Arbitration Committee is appointing four (4) editors to the CheckUser team and seven (7) editors to the Oversight team (pursuant to the CU/OS appointment procedures).
Once they have satisfactorily identified to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Arbitration Committee hereby:
(a) appoints the following editors as CheckUsers:
- LFaraone (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Materialscientist (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- NativeForeigner (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Reaper Eternal (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
(b) appoints the following editors as Oversighters:
- DoRD (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Elockid (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- GorillaWarfare (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Guerillero (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Julia W (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- Ks0stm (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- LFaraone (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
† This editor is a community member of the Audit Subcommittee, who will retain the specified permission once their subcommittee term ends.
The committee sincerely thanks the other candidates who applied but who on this occasion were unsuccessful and also the community members who participated for their assistance.
The committee also notes inactivity by Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) as a CheckUser and Oversighter, who has not edited since March 2013. Following several attempts to contact Elen, the Committee is removing her access to the CheckUser and Oversight permissions (and access to the checkuser-l and oversight-l mailing lists, CheckUser wiki, and oversight-en OTRS queue) in line with the functionary inactivity procedures.
- Supporting motion: NuclearWarfare, T. Canens, Courcelles, AGK, WormThatTurned, Roger Davies, David Fuchs, Risker, and Kirill Lokshin
- Not voting: Salvio giuliano, Newyorkbrad
- Inactive: Carcharoth
- Abstaining: SilkTork
‡ These arbitrators supported the motion above. Individual Arbitrators may have supported candidates who did not pass, or opposed candidates who did pass.
For the Arbitration Committee, AGK 23:58, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tea Party movement closed
An arbitration case regarding the Tea Party movement has now closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
Pages related to the Tea Party movement, broadly construed, are placed under discretionary sanctions. This sanction supersedes the existing community sanctions.
The current community sanctions are lifted.
Goethean (talk · contribs), North8000 (talk · contribs), Malke 2010 (talk · contribs), Xenophrenic (talk · contribs), Arthur Rubin (talk · contribs), Ubikwit (talk · contribs), Phoenix and Winslow (talk · contribs) are indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to the Tea Party movement, broadly construed. This restriction may be appealed to the Arbitration Committee after no less than six months have passed from the closing of this case.
Collect (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from all pages relating to the Tea Party movement, broadly construed. This topic ban will expire after six months from the date this case is closed on.
Xenophrenic (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, or commenting on, Collect (talk · contribs) anywhere on Misplaced Pages (subject to the ordinary exceptions).
Snowded (talk · contribs) and Phoenix and Winslow (talk · contribs) are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, or commenting on, each other anywhere on Misplaced Pages (subject to the ordinary exceptions).
For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:00, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes closed
An arbitration case regarding behaviour around the use of Infoboxes in several articles has now closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
- Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from adding, or discussing the addition or removal of, infoboxes.
- Nikkimaria (talk · contribs) is admonished to behave with the level of professionalism expected of an administrator.
- Gerda Arendt (talk · contribs) is indefinitely restricted from: adding or deleting infoboxes; restoring an infobox that has been deleted; or making more than two comments in discussing the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article. They may participate in wider policy discussions regarding infoboxes with no restriction, and include infoboxes in new articles which they create.
- Gerda Arendt (talk · contribs) is admonished for treating Misplaced Pages as if it were a battleground and advised to better conduct themselves.
- Smerus (talk · contribs) is reminded to conduct himself in a civil manner.
- All editors are reminded to maintain decorum and civility when engaged in discussions about infoboxes, and to avoid turning discussions about a single article's infobox into a discussion about infoboxes in general.
- The Arbitration Committee recommends that a well-publicized community discussion be held to address whether to adopt a policy or guideline addressing what factors should weigh in favor of or against including an infobox in a given article.
For the Arbitration Committee, — ΛΧΣ 00:26, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Discretionary sanctions review
(This is a repeat of an earlier notice.) Since March 2013, various individual members of the Arbitration Committee have been reviewing the existing Discretionary sanctions process, with a view to (i) simplifying its operation and (ii) updating its procedures to reflect various clarification and amendment requests. An updated draft of the procedure is available for scrutiny and discussion here. AGK 16:49, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Amendment to Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
The ban on interaction between Locke Cole and Netoholic imposed in Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Locke_Cole in 2006 is terminated in light of the time that has passed without further problems.
For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:17, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Mathsci
The Arbitration Committee resolves by motion that
In May 2012 (during the Race and intelligence review), the committee prohibited SightWatcher (talk · contribs) from "participating in any discussion concerning the conduct of editors who have worked in the topic" – and therefore from discussing Mathsci's conduct. In October 2012, The Devil's Advocate (talk · contribs) and Cla68 (talk · contribs) were banned (by an administrator acting under discretionary sanctions) from interacting with Mathsci. In December 2012, Mathsci was prohibited (again under discretionary sanctions) by an arbitration enforcement administrator from requesting enforcement of these interaction bans without prior permission. The Arbitration Committee has decided to change these from one-way to two-way interaction bans. Accordingly, Mathsci (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from:
- Commenting on, or interacting with, The Devil's Advocate (talk · contribs)
- Commenting on, or interacting with, Cla68 (talk · contribs)
- Participating in any discussion concerning the conduct of SightWatcher (talk · contribs).
This motion should be enforced under the enforcement clauses of the Race and intelligence final decision.
For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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