User:Elonka/ArbCom log

Related discussions:
 * Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement
 * This page is where I maintain notes about where I have been, or am currently, acting as an administrator in arbitration enforcement.

Arbitration enforcement generally falls into the following categories:
 * Monitoring articles or editors listed at Discretionary sanctions, General sanctions or Editing restrictions, to keep an eye out for places where disputes are taking place that are not being resolved through the normal means of Dispute resolution.
 * Once it is determined that administrator intervention may be necessary in a particular dispute, an admin may issue informal warnings, either to specific editors, or on article talkpages to remind editors that they are working in a topic area that is within the scope of a particular ArbCom case's discretionary sanctions
 * If informal warnings are not working, administrators are to issue formal notifications about the potential of discretionary sanctions
 * Lastly, administrators may place discretionary sanctions on editors or articles, such as WP:BANs, WP:BLOCKs, or other kinds of restrictions such as revert limitations.

Articles where I have used discretionary sanctions

 * I try to adapt my approach to specific articles or topic areas, since when it comes to discretionary sanctions, it's not one-size-fits-all. Sometimes in the most complex disputes, which involve dozens of editors on a single article, I create a "list of editors" to help provide some structure to the dispute.

Areas where I have used the "list of editors" technique:
 * User:Elonka/Hungarian-Slovakian experiment (May – July 2008)
 * Talk:Muhammad al-Durrah/Archive 9 (June – September 2008)
 * Talk:Quackwatch/Archive 16 (September – October 2008)
 * Talk:Chiropractic/Admin log (September 2008 to January 2009)

Other articles where such a list was not needed, is not being used, or was scrapped after it appeared to be causing more problems than it was intended to solve:
 * Talk:Atropa belladonna/Archive 3 (July 2008)
 * Talk:Psychic (October 2008)
 * Wikipedia talk:FRINGE (December 2008)
 * Talk:Banias (December 2008)
 * Talk:Ma'ale Akrabim massacre (December 2008)
 * Talk:Israeli settlement (December 2008 to February 2009)
 * Talk:List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts (December 2008 to January 2009)
 * Talk:Tree shaping (July 2011 to March 2012)

Notifications issued

 * These are editors to whom I issued formal notifications about potential ArbCom sanctions. Note that not all editors warned were ever actually sanctioned, as most chose to voluntarily moderate their own behavior such that further action was not needed.

Eastern Europe topic area

 * Requests for arbitration/Digwuren (May – June 2008)

Palestine/Israel topic area

 * Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles (June to August 2008)
 * June 15, 2008,
 * July 2, 2008,
 * July 21, 2008,
 * August 25, 2008,

Conspiracy theories topic area

 * Requests for arbitration/September 11 conspiracy theories
 * October 15, 2008,

Pseudoscience topic area

 * Requests for arbitration/Martinphi-ScienceApologist and Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience (September 2008 to January 2009)
 * September 22, 2008
 * QuackGuru notified
 * Ludwigs2 notified
 * October 6, 2008
 * notified
 * January 16, 2009
 * notified

Tree shaping

 * Arbitration/Requests/Case/Tree shaping (July 2011 – )
 * Talk:Tree shaping
 * August 3, 2011: notified of case.
 * October 8, 2011: cautioned about discretionary sanctions. --Elonka 01:14, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * October 8, 2011: cautioned about discretionary sanctions. --Elonka 01:14, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Probation
Editors placed under probation have certain restrictions placed on their editing, such as being limited to 1 revert per article per week.

Troubles (Britain/Ireland) topic area

 * Requests for arbitration/The Troubles (October 2009 to February 2010)
 * November 11, 2009
 * and placed on 90-days probation.
 * November 16, 2009
 * placed on 90-days probation.
 * December 15, 2009
 * blocked for 1 week for violating revert restriction probation at History of Sinn Féin.
 * January 22, 2010
 * blocked for 1 week for violating 1RR probation at Sinn Féin.
 * February 14, 2010
 * Implemented consensus decision at AE, modifying Mooretwin's block and probation.

Discretionary sanctions

 * This section contains data on every discretionary sanction I placed, which went beyond a simple warning to the point of an actual restriction on an editor or article.

Eastern Europe

 * See User:Elonka/Hungarian-Slovakian experiment/Admin notes (April – July 2008)
 * Summary of my efforts: Before my arrival in mid-April 2008, there had been edit-warring on dozens of articles, and dozens of admin board threads, most of which had been ignored because the complaints were too complex.  After the intervention of myself and other administrators such as  and, the topic area was stabilized within a couple months.  Multiple sockpuppets were blocked, a special naming guideline had been discussed, the admin noticeboard threads had trickled off, and all editors were either working together constructively, or had moved on to other projects.

Homeopathy
Requests for arbitration/Homeopathy


 * July 6, 2008: banned from all Homeopathy articles and related talkpages for one week.
 * July 7, 2008: (2013 name) banned from Atropa Belladonna article and talkpage for one week.
 * Summary of my efforts: By simply implementing two brief bans, the rest of the editors on the Atropa Belladonna and Quackwatch articles were able to reach consensus, and the articles were drastically improved.
 * Atropa belladonna article before I arrived,  Article 10 days later: Better quality article, tags gone, and edit wars diminished
 * Quackwatch article before I arrived Article after restrictions:

Palestine/Israel articles
Related discussions:
 * ANIarchive#About General sanctions notifications (June 2008)
 * RfAr#Request for appeal: Palestine-Israel articles (June 2008)
 * Requests for comment/Elonka (August 2008)
 * 0RR (no reverts except for vandalism) restriction on Muhammad al-Durrah article from June 10 – September 30, 2008.
 * Summary of my efforts: Before my arrival, chronic edit-warring, multiple ANI threads, rapidly  scrolling talkpage, extensive incivility. After my participation: Stable article,  no more ANI threads, editors apparently content with compromise and have moved on  to other projects


 * June 15, 2008
 * ChrisO banned from participating at Talk:Muhammad al-Durrah for one week, and banned from editing the article for 30 days
 * banned from editing the lead section of Muhammad al-Durrah for one month.
 * July 1, 2008: banned from editing the Muhammad al-Durrah article and talkpage for one week.
 * July 28, 2008: banned from editing the Muhammad al-Durrah article for one month.
 * December 20, 2008: banned from the Banias article and talkpage for 30 days. On December 21, ban extended to the Ma'ale Akrabim massacre article and talkpage.
 * December 2008: Ban on Samaria-related reverts in the lead of the Israeli settlement article. See Talk:Israeli settlement
 * February 2009: banned from making Samaria-related reverts, or removing reliable citations, for 90 days.

Pseudoscience topic area
Related discussions:
 * ANIarchive#Suspending a moot sanction (July 2008)
 * ANarchive#Chiropractic (September 2008)
 * ANarchive#Block review needed (October 2008)
 * ANarchive#Elonka’s ban of ScienceApologist and Martinphi from WP:FRINGE (November 2008)
 * WP:ANIarchive#Talk:List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts (January 2009)
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Elonka/ArbCom log (January 2009)
 * RfAr#Implementation of the pseudoscience special enforcement (January 2009)
 * Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Motion: re SlimVirgin (January 2009)
 * Summary of my efforts: Minor. I did start a thread at WP:AN to request clarification on whether or not Chiropractic could be administered under the Pseudoscience case (the answer was yes).  And I started the Talk:Chiropractic/Admin log page, where I engaged in discussion with other admins on the best way to proceed. All the actual sanctions though were placed by other administrators such as, who did the lion's share of the work on stabilizing the article, such as by managing the page at Talk:Chiropractic/Mediation.


 * July 11, 2008, ScienceApologist blocked for 12 hours
 * November 4, 2008:
 * banned from editing the WP:FRINGE guideline for 30 days.
 * banned from editing the WP:FRINGE guideline for 30 days.
 * December 1, 2008, ScienceApologist blocked for 48 hours for violating his page ban.