Template:Arb declined/doc

This template may be used to inform parties that the Committee has declined to hear a case request they are named in. Template:Arb premature provides more information than this template so may be more helpful in some circumstances.

Note: the template does not include a section header as this would require the clerk to edit the whole talk page and scroll down to the bottom a suggested header is Request for Arbitration declined.

The basic usage of this template is:

If the case request was withdrawn by the filing party rather than declined the following version may be used to change "declined" to "withdrawn and archived":

Both of these parameters must be defined or the template will not work.


 * is the oldid of the permalink to the case request (that is the version before the case was removed from the requests page).
 * is the name of the section header (which should be the case name).

The template allows for a salutation to be prepended to the text of the message using the  parameter. For example:

The template automatically includes your signature, this can be suppressed by including |sig=no as a parameter. That is,