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This noticeboard is for announcements and statements made by the Arbitration Committee. Only members of the Arbitration Committee or the Committee's Clerks may post on this page, but all editors are encouraged to comment on the talk page.
Motion regarding Darkfrog24
In the past year, Darkfrog24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been subject to a series of Arbitration Enforcement actions under the discretionary sanctions authorized in the Article Titles and Capitalisation case. In January 2016, Darkfrog24 was topic-banned from from articles, discussions, and guidelines, explicitly including the manual of style, related to quotation marks and quotation styles, broadly interpreted, following an AE request. In February this topic ban was broadened to encompass the Manual of Style and related topics following another AE request. Later that month, they were blocked indefinitely "until they either understand the terms of the tban or agree to stop disruptively relitigating it" after a third AE request. They were unblocked to participate in an appeal to ARCA in April 2016, which was declined by the Arbitration Committee. The block was lifted again in November 2016 to permit the present ARCA appeal.
The Committee notes that Darkfrog24 disputes some elements of the original AE filings. We emphasize that imposing an AE sanction requires only that a reviewing admin finds sufficient disruption to warrant action and is not an endorsement of every individual claim that may be made by the filer. After review of the current appeal, we find that there is no evidence in favor of lifting or modifying the topic ban, and the disruptive behavior, in the form of repeated relitigation of the circumstances of the topic ban, has continued. The appeal is declined and the block will be reinstated. They may appeal again in three months (one year from the original indefinite block). They are very strongly advised to focus that appeal on their future editing interests in topics well separated from the subjects of their topic ban, and to appeal the topic ban itself only after establishing a successful record of productive contributions in other areas.
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 33#Motion regarding Darkfrog24
Motion regarding Fæ
Remedy 5: Fæ banned (March 2013) – in which Fae was unblocked with the conditions that he was topic banned from editing BLPs relating to sexuality, broadly construed
as well as topic banned from images relating to sexuality, broadly construed
– is suspended for a period of six months. During the period of suspension, this restriction may be reinstated by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action should Fæ fail to adhere to Wikipedia editing standards in these areas, broadly construed. Appeal of such a reinstatement would follow the normal arbitration enforcement appeals process. After six months from the date this motion is enacted, if the restriction has not been reinstated or any reinstatements have been successfully appealed, the restriction will automatically lapse.
For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 23:48, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 33#Motion regarding Fæ
The ArbCom election results have been posted. 7 Arbs have been elected in total, all on two year terms. You can review the results in full here.
For the Election Commission, Mdann52 (talk) 22:44, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Return of checkuser and oversight permissions to FloNight
FloNight (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who voluntarily resigned her checkuser and oversight permissions in September 2016, is reappointed as a checkuser and oversighter following a request to the committee for the return of both permissions.
- Support
- Callanecc, DeltaQuad, Doug Weller, Drmies, GorillaWarfare, Guerillero, Kelapstick, Kirill Lokshin, Opabinia regalis, Salvio giuliano
- Not voting
- Courcelles, DGG, Keilana
For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Return of checkuser and oversight permissions to FloNight
Arbitration motion regarding Austrian economics
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
Every so often, it becomes reasonable to terminate sanctions that are no longer necessary,
- Remedy 1.1 of the Austrian economics case is rescinded;
- Nothing in this motion provides grounds for appeal of remedies or restrictions imposed while discretionary sanctions for the foregoing case was in force. Such appeals or requests to lift or modify such sanctions may be made under the same terms as any other appeal;
- In the event that disruptive editing resumes in this topic-area, a request to consider reinstating discretionary sanctions in that topic-area may be made on the clarifications and amendments page.
For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 22:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration motion regarding Austrian economics
2017 Arbitration Committee
The committee welcomes the following new and returning arbitrators following their election by the community. Their two-year terms formally begin on 01 January 2017:
- DeltaQuad (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- DGG (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Doug Weller (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Euryalus (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Ks0stm (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Mkdw (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
All of these arbitrators will also receive (or retain, where applicable) the Checkuser and Oversight permissions. We also thank our outgoing colleagues whose terms end on 31 December 2016:
- Courcelles (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Guerillero (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Salvio giuliano (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Departing arbitrators will retain their Checkuser and Oversight rights and will remain subscribed to the Functionaries' mailing list. In addition, departing arbitrators will be eligible to remain active on any pending arbitration cases that were opened before the end of the their term; if this provision becomes relevant this year, a notation will be made on the relevant case page or pages. For the Arbitration Committee, Opabinia regalis (talk) 06:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Motion regarding North8000
North8000 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) was site-banned in 2014 in the Gun Control case. He was topic-banned from the gun control topic area in the same case. Prior to this, he had been topic-banned from the subject of the Tea Party movement in the Tea Party case in 2013, and had agreed to a one-year voluntary restriction from the homophobia article and its talk page in 2012. North8000 is unbanned with the following restrictions:
- His 2014 topic ban from gun control remains in force.
- His 2013 topic ban from the Tea Party movement is broadened to encompass post-1932 American politics, with the scope defined by the American politics discretionary sanctions introduced in the 2015 American politics 2 case.
- His 2012 restriction from homophobia is adopted by the committee as a topic ban.
- He is restricted to one account.
These restrictions are to be enforced under the standard enforcement and appeals and modifications provisions and may be appealed to the committee after six months.
Opabinia regalis (talk) 19:13, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Palestine-Israel articles 3
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
Remedy 2 (General Prohibition) is modified to read as follows:
- All IP editors, accounts with fewer than 500 edits, and accounts with less than 30 days tenure are prohibited from editing any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This prohibition is preferably enforced by the use of extended confirmed protection, but where that is not feasible, it may also be enforced by reverts, page protections, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters.
- The sole exceptions to this prohibition are:
- Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Talk pages where disruption occurs may be managed by any of the above methods. This exception does not apply to other internal project discussions such as AfDs, WikiProjects, noticeboard discussions, etc.
- Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce this remedy on article creations. Deletion of new articles by editors who do not meet the criteria is permitted but not required.
For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 04:26, 26 December 2016 (UTC)