Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases/2005

This is an archive of the results of all cases completed by the Arbitration Committee in 2005. There were a total of 100 cases closed in 2005.


 * More recently-closed cases on top

=2005= 102 cases.

December

 * Ten cases
 * Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone - Decided on 24 December 2005. Ted Wilkes and Wyss are both placed on probation indefinitely; both are banned from making edits related to a person's alleged sexual orientation.
 * Nobs01 and others - Decided on 23 December 2005. The editing ban ruled on Lyndon LaRouche 2 is expanded to include articles Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, and Dennis King. Nobs01 is banned for one year (until 23 December 2006); is placed on indefinite probation, allowing three administrators to place restrictions on his editing, including a general ban. Cognition is banned for one month (until 23 January 2006); placed on indefinite personal attack parole; is banned from Lyndon LaRouche-related articles per the prior arbitration case. Herschelkrustofsky is placed on a one-year probation, allowing three administrators to place restrictions on his editing, including a general ban. Rangerdude is placed on a one-year probation, allowing administrators to ban Rangerdude from any article where the user's editing is considered disruptive.
 * Ultramarine - Decided on 23 December 2005. Ultramarine, Pmanderson, and Robert A. West are instructed to reach a consensus on the article Democratic peace theory. If any of them persist in sterile revert warring, admins may block them for a short period (up to a week) for each revert.
 * FuelWagon v. Ed Poor - Decided on 23 December 2005. FuelWagon is banned for six months (until 23 June 2006); is limited to one revert per article per week; is placed on indefinite general probation, allowing any three administrators to place limitations on his editing. Ed Poor is desysopped.
 * Climate change dispute 2/SEWilco - Decided on 23 December 2005. SEWilco is placed on indefinite probation; is cautioned not to strictly apply Arbitration Committee rulings; is prohibited from converting citation styles, either by bot or manually. The one revert parole placed on William M. Connolley in the prior case is removed
 * Regarding Ted Kennedy - Decided on 20 December 2005. Labgal, FishingGuy99, and 24.147.97.230 are banned for three months (until 20 March 2006). Those users and any users with similar editing patterns are banned from Kennedy family-related articles and talk pages for one year (until 20 December 2006).
 * Rangerdude - Decided on 18 December 2005. Rangerdude is placed on a one-year probation. Rangerdude and Willcmw are both admonished regarding their actions with respect to separate Wikipedians with their own articles. Cberlet and Nskinsella are cautioned to avoid over-involvement in the articles about themselves. Nskinsella is cautioned to avoid personal attacks.
 * Pigsonthewing - Decided on 9 December 2005. Pigsonthewing is banned for one day; is placed indefinite probation; is limited to one revert per article per week, excluding simple vandalism, for a period of one year. Karmafist is prohibited from any administrator activity which relates to Pigsonthewing.
 * Amended by open motion on 25 January 2006. Pigsonthewing is banned for one year (until 25 January 2007).
 * Rex071404 4 - Decided on 6 December 2005. Rex071404 is permanently banned from editing the John Kerry article; If Rex should begin similiar problematic editing at any other article, any admin may prohibit him from editing on that page.
 * Instantnood 2 - Decided on 4 December 2005. Instantnood, Huaiwei, and SchmuckyTheCat are all placed on probation for one year in regard to China-related articles. Instantnood is restricted to proposing only one page move, poll of editors, or policy change relating to Naming conventions (Chinese) per week.

November

 * Fourteen cases
 * Silverback - Decided on 28 November 2005. Silverback is placed on personal attack parole for six months (until 28 April 2006); Is limited to one revert per article, per week.
 * Maoririder - Decided on 26 November 2005. Maoririder is placed under a mentorship.
 * Lightbringer - Decided on 23 November 2005. Lightbringer is placed on personal attack parole for six months (until 23 July 2006); is banned indefinitely from editing any article or talk page related to freemasonry, and may be briefly blocked, up to a week, in the case of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks, the maximum length of a block shall increase to one year.
 * Amended: Banned for one year
 * Stevertigo - Decided on 18 November 2005. Stevertigo is desysopped.
 * Polygamy - Decided on 14 November 2005. Researcher99 is banned indefinitely from editing articles which relate to polygamy, and may be briefly blocked, up to a week, in the case of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks, the maximum length of a block shall increase to one year.
 * REX - Decided on 14 November 2005. Matia.gr, Theathenae, and REX are placed on personal attack parole.
 * Louis Epstein - Decided on 12 November 2005. Louis Epstein, editing under any user name, as 12.144.5.2 or any other anonymous IP, may be briefly blocked if he neglects use of conventional punctuation. During 2005 no block shall exceed one day. During 2006 no block shall exceed one week. During 2007 no block shall exceed one month. Thereafter no block shall exceed one year.
 * This decision is not to be enforced so long as Babajobu is fixing Louis Epstein's punctuation habits as per his voluntary offer.
 * Zephram Stark - Decided on 12 November 2005. Zephram Stark is banned for six months; is placed on probation for one year (until 12 November 2006); is banned from Terrorism and all related articles.
 * jguk 2 - Decided on 11 November 2005. Jguk is indefinitely prohibited from changing BCE to BC or CE to AD in any article, for any reason, and may be briefly banned, up to a week in the case of repeated offenses.
 * Extended by Sortan on 25 February 2006 (see above).
 * Regarding The Bogdanov Affair - Decided on 11 November 2005. All user accounts used by participants in the external controversy are indefinitely banned from editing Bogdanov Affair and its talk page. A notice shall also be placed at the top of the article Bogdanov Affair which which briefly explains that the Wikipedia article has, in part, been conflated with the external event, the Bogdanov Affair, due to participation in editing of the article by participants in the event.
 * Everyking 3 - Decided on 11 November 2005. Everyking is prohibited for one year from posting to the administrator's noticeboard and subpages thereof; is prohibited from making comments on non-editorial actions taken by other administrators other than on the administrator's talk page, a Request for comment, or a Request for arbitration; is required to familiarize himself with the particulars of a situation before commenting on it.
 * Amended by Open Motion on 29 December 2005. Everyking shall not interact with, or comment in any way (directly or indirectly) about, Snowspinner, on any page in Wikipedia.
 * Amended by Open Motion on 16:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC). See Requests_for_arbitration/Everyking_3.
 * BigDaddy777 - Decided on 9 November 2005. BigDaddy777 is banned for one year; is banned indefinitely from editing on topics related to American politics. Should BigDaddy777 be released by any administrator from the indefinite block imposed on him the other remedies imposed in this decision shall take effect at that point.
 * DreamGuy - Closed on 7 November 2005 without action.
 * Onefortyone - Decided on 3 November 2005. Onefortyone is placed on probation with respect to the biographies of celebrities. He may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research.

October

 * Nine cases
 * Keetoowah - Decided on 28 October 2005. Keetoowah is placed on personal attack parole. For any violation, he may be banned for up to three days.
 * DotSix - Decided on 28 October 2005. DotSix and all his sockpuppets are banned for one year (until 28 October 2006).
 * Rainbowwarrior1977 - Decided on 27 October 2005. Rainbowwarrior1977 is blocked indefinitely.
 * ArmchairVexillologistDon - Decided on 24 October 2005. ArmchairVexillologistDon is banned for one year (until 24 October 2006)
 * -Ril- - Decided on 22 October 2005. Ril is required to adopt an un-confusing signature; is banned for one month; may be blocked for a short period, up to 3 days, if he speedy-delete tags an article for reasons not listed in the Criteria for Speedy Deletion, or removes comments made by another user (for reasons other than archiving).
 * Superseded by -Ril- 2 on 28 March 2006 (see above).
 * Rktect - Decided on 22 October 2005. Rktect is banned indefinitely from all articles which relate to weights and measures (metrology). He may be briefly banned, up to one week, in the case of repeat offenses.
 * Zen-master - Decided on 15 October 2005. Zen-master is banned for one week for personal attacks; is placed on probation for one year, and during that time may be banned from any article which relates to race and intelligence if in the opinion of any administrator his editing is disruptive.
 * Modified on 14 December 2005. The one year probation is extended, from specific to race and intelligence, to include all articles.
 * Modified on 6 February 2006. Zen-Master is banned for one year.
 * Yuber - Decided on 9 October 2005. Yuber and Guy Montag are placed on article-related probation of any article which relates to Islam or to the Israeli-Paletinian conflict. Guy Montag is is banned for three months from editing articles which concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (until 6 January 2006). Jayjg is reminded to use Wikipedia's dispute resolution procedure instead of edit-warring.
 * Coolcat, Davenbelle and Stereotek - Decided on 5 October 2005. Coolcat is prohibited from mediating until he is officially appointed to the Mediation Committee; prohibited from restructuring the comments of others on the talk page of any article or any user talk page other than his own; is placed under a mentorship for one year. Davenbelle, Stereotek, and Fadix are counseled to let other editors and administrators take the lead in monitoring Cool Cat.

September

 * Six cases
 * AI - Decided on 29 September 2005. AI is banned from Wikipedia pending final resolution of all legal disputes with Wikipedia.
 * ArmchairVexillologistDon - Closed on 24 September 2005 at the request of the participants.
 * JarlaxleArtemis 2 - Closed on 24 September 2005, following an indefinite block on JarlaxleArtemis for reasons cited on User:Linuxbeak/Admin stuff/JarlaxleArtemis.
 * OldRight - Decided on 14 September 2005. OldRight is placed on Probation for one year (until 14 September 2006).
 * Ed Poor - Closed on 13 September 2005, following Ed Poor's offered to resign as a Wikipedia Bureaucrat.
 * Gabrielsimon - Decided on 4 September 2005. Gabrielsimon is banned from editing Wikipedia for one month (until 4 October 2005), placed on parole such that any three sysops may block him for up to a month if he continues to be disruptive until he has not been so banned for 6 months, and limited to one revert per day per article. In addition he is limited to three reverts in total per 24 hours. He is instructed not to revert war at all and instead engage in dialogue on the talk pages of articles.

August

 * Eight cases
 * Argyrosargyrou - Decided on 21 August 2005. Argyrosargyrou is banned from Wikipedia for six months (until 21 February 2006), required not to use secondary accounts, and banned from all articles relating to Cyprus for six months from the end of the ban (from 22 February 2006 until 21 August 2006, unless the ban is reset).
 * Emico - Decided on 21 August 2005. Onlytofind is placed on personal attack parole for one year, and Emico is placed on personal attack parole for three months and banned from the articles Iglesia ni Cristo, Bereans, Erano Manalo, Felix Manalo, and Eduardo Manalo for one year.
 * Mlorrey - Decided on 15 August 2005. Mlorrey is banned from Wikipedia indefinitely pending resolution of his legal dispute with users Meelar and Firebug. Mlorrey is furthe banned from articles and talk pages which relate to gun control for one year (until 15 August 2006).
 * Alfrem - Decided on 12 August 2005. Alfrem is banned from editing libertarianism or libertarianism-related articles for three months (except for talk pages). If he edits those articles during the ban, he may be block for a period not less than one day and not exceeding two weeks.
 * Skyring (re-opened) - Decided on 12 August 2005. Skyring is banned for one year.
 * Trey Stone and Davenbelle - Decided on 11 August 2005. Trey Stone and Davenbelle are banned for one year from editing articles which concern politics, particularly articles which concern the foreign relations of the United States.
 * Cantus 3 - Decided on 8 August 2005. Cantus is banned from editing Developed country, Template:Europe, and Terri Schiavo; is reminded to used edit summaries; is limited to one revert per article or other page per 30 day period, and may be blocked for a short period of time (up to a week) for a violations; breaking his revert limitation on any page by using sockpuppets or anon editing, he may be banned from that page for up to a month.
 * Plautus satire vs Raul654 (re-opened) - Decided on 2 August 2005. Plautus rebanned for another year

July

 * Four cases
 * Irate (re-opened) - Decided on 25 July 2005. Irate is on one year's personal attack parole.
 * Zivinbudas - Decided on 22 July 2005. Zivinbudas is banned for one year.
 * Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell - Decided on 21 July 2005. Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell are placed under a six-month personal attack parole. Paul Beardsell is banned from editing artificial consciousness indefinitely, and Tkorrovi is banned from editing it for three months.
 * KaintheScion et al. Decided on 2 July 2005. User:Enviroknot is banned for one year; is required to use the account Enviroknot and no other.

June

 * Eight cases
 * Jguk - Decided on 30 June 2005. Jguk, Southerncomfort, and other involved users are warned strongly to abide by WP:DATE, specifically to not change date systems outright to their preferred style unless there is some substantial reason for the change.
 * Njyoder - Decided on 30 June 2005. Njyoder is banned for one year from editing articles related to gender or sexuality; placed under a one-year personal attack parole.
 * Climate change dispute - Decided on 26 June 2005. Cortonin is banned for six months from editing any article relating to climate change. William M. Connolley is hereby prohibited for six months from reverting any article relating to climate change more than once per 24 hour period (vandalism excepted). JonGwynne is banned from Wikipedia for three months; banned for six months from editing any article relating to climate change.
 * Reopened on 27 November 2005 as Climate change dispute 2 (see above)
 * Skyring - Decided on June 2005. Skyring is banned for two months; banned for one year from editing any article (or talk page) which relates to the government or governance of Australia; placed under a one-year personal attack parole; admonished to be more civil and to cease attempts to provoke other contributors. Adam Carr is admonished to avoid discourtesy and personal attacks. Jtdirl is reminded that the best response to attempts to provoke is not to be provoked, and that valid edits should not be blindly reverted.
 * Reopened on 1 August 2005 (see above)
 * Internodeuser - Decided on 19 June 2005. Internodeuser is banned until one year after his most recent legal threat. Further legal threats will reset the ban, and the ban will remain in place during and after any formal action taken.
 * Instantnood, et al. - Closed on 7 June 2005. The dispute ended without need for intervention.
 * Wareware - Closed on 7 June 2005, following the user's departure from Wikipedia.
 * LevelCheck - Decided on 2 June 2005. LevelCheck is blocked indefinitely as a disruptive potential sockpuppet.

May

 * One case
 * Netoholic 2 - Decided on 5 May 2005. Netoholic is placed under the mentorship of Raul654, Kim Bruning and Grunt, with a suspended ban from editing the Wikipedia: and Template: namespaces for twelve months to be enacted should Netoholic decide the mentorship is not working.

April

 * Ten cases
 * John Gohde - Decided on 30 April 2005. John Gohde is banned for one year.  Other remedies apply should he return after this time.
 * WHEELER - Closed on 25 April 2005. WHEELER is asked to revise his comment style and ensure that his editing is properly sourced and not originally researched.
 * RJII - Closed on 23 April 2005 without decision. The original dispute appeared to have long been resolved (an article "definitions of capitalism" was created and linked from the opening paragraph of capitalism) and healthy amounts of interaction were occuring between the disputants (see e.g. recent edit history on capitalism and recent discussions at its talk page.)
 * Rex071404 3 - Decided on 23 April 2005. As Rex has banned himself voluntarily for six months, official sanction is given to this ban and he shall remain blocked for those six months.
 * 172 2 - Decided on 22 April 2005. 172 is requested to clarify this issue by stating whether he wishes to continue as an admin of Wikipedia
 * Irate - Decided on 17 April 2005. User:Irate is banned for three months. Decided on 25 July 2005: User:Irate is on one year's personal attack parole.
 * GRider - Decided on 10 April 2005. User:GRider is prohibited from editing any deletion-related page for a period of one year.
 * Baku Ibne, et al. - Decided on 10 April 2005. All sockpuppet accounts of LIGerasimova/Osmanoglou/etc. are to be blocked indefinitely and User:Rovoam is subject to a revert limitation and a personal attack parole.
 * RK 2 - Decided on 7 April 2005. The previous article ban is revoked and replaced with a revert limitation and personal attack parole for one year.
 * Everyking 2 - Decided on 5 April 2005. User:Everyking is prohibited from editing articles relating to Ashlee Simpson for one year, and may apply to have this sanction lifted in two months.
 * Iasson - Decided on 4th April 2005. User:Iasson was banned for one year for having multiple sockpuppet accounts and for vandalism.

March

 * Nine cases
 * Dr Zen - Decided on 27 March 2005. Dr Zen is indefinitely prohibited from removing images from Clitoris.
 * Anthony DiPierro 2 - Decided on 26 March 2005. Anthony is subject to a one revert limitation, prohibited from creating deleted content that fails to pass a vote for undeletion, subject to ad hoc blocks for disruption, and banned from editing the Wikipedia namespace.
 * Noah Peters - Closed without action taken on 20 March 2005. No party to the dispute added evidence after the case was opened.
 * JarlaxleArtemis - Decided on 18 March 2005. JarlaxleArtemis is required to prepare and sign a statement that he has read and understood several Wikipedia policies and is prohibited from editing articles or uploading images until he has done so; if this is done and JarlaxleArtemis continues to demonstrate ignorance of Wikipedia policies, he may be banned for short amounts of time.
 * Robert Blair - Decided on 14 March 2005. Robert Blair is banned for a year from editing articles relating to medicine, circumcision or genitalia.
 * PSYCH - Decided on 12 March 2005. PSYCH is subject to personal attack parole.
 * Xed - Decided on 9 March 2005. Xed is banned for three months and subject to one years' personal attack parole. Slrubenstein is cautioned against making personal attacks.
 * JonGwynne - Decided on 6 March 2005. JonGwynne is subject to personal attack parole for three months and a one revert limitation on articles related to global warming.
 * CheeseDreams 2 - Decided on 3 March 2005. CheeseDreams is banned for 6 months for disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee; 3 months for abuse of Wikipedia processes and procedures; 3 months for abuse of sockpuppet accounts; and 6 months for significant disruption, relating to a dispute with Rienzo. Bans will run consecutively to a maximum of one year. Rienzo is banned for 6 months for significant disruption, relating to a dispute with CheeseDreams.
 * See also Requests for arbitration/-Ril- and Requests for arbitration/-Ril- 2. -Ril- determined to be a sock of CheeseDreams.

February

 * Seven cases
 * WikiUser - Decided on 26 February 2005. WikiUser is banned for one year for personal attacks, legal threats and other unreasonable behaviour. On his return he will be subject to bans of up to a week for any further disruptive or unreasonable behaviour.
 * Robert the Bruce - Decided on 18 February 2005. Robert the Bruce is banned for one year, and banned for a further year from sex-related articles. Numerous other editors are warned to improve their editing habits.
 * Lyndon LaRouche 2 - Decided on 15 February 2005. Herschelkrustofsky is restricted to one account, placed on POV parole, banned from making Lyndon LaRouche-related edits for one year, and cautioned against making personal attacks. SlimVirgin is similarly cautioned against making personsal attacks.
 * Gzornenplatz - Decided on 7 February 2005. Gzornenplatz, found to be Wik, is subjected to the hard ban applied to the latter with explicit note of the possibility of appeal.
 * Chuck F - Decided 6 February 2005. user:Chuck F is banned for 2 months and subject to various restrictions when he returns.
 * Charles Darwin-Lincoln dispute - Decided 04 February 2005. User:Adraeus and User:Vfp15 are banned for one month. On his return User:Vfp15 is prohibited from editing the articles Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and their talk pages.  He is also prohibited from reverting any article for three months.
 * Antifinnugor - Decided on 1 February 2005. Antifinnugor is placed on personal attack parole and prohibited from editing Finno-Ugric languages and Uralic languages for a year, with chance of appeal in three months.

January

 * Fifteen cases
 * Rienzo - Decided on 28 January 2005. Rienzo and associated sockpuppets are banned for three months. Personal attack parole applies.
 * Libertas - Decided on 28 January 2005. Libertas and all sockpuppets are banned for one year due to bad behavior. Other remedies apply.
 * 172 - Decided on 25 January 2005. 172 is placed on revert and edit summary parole for one month.
 * Everyking - Decided on 24 January 2005. Everyking is prohibited for one year from reverting articles related to Ashlee Simpson, and may apply in six months to have this restriction removed.
 * Remedy 2.2 revert parole clarified on 26 February 2005. Any article which contains a link to Ashlee Simpson or mentioning Ashlee Simpson, see what links to Ashlee Simpson, is an article "relating to Ashlee Simpson"; therefore falling within the articles covered by the revert limitation, if Everyking is editing with respect to that portion of an article which is concerned with Ashlee Simpson and in the opinion of an administrator reverting the article.
 * 168.209.97.34 - Decided on 22 January 2005. -lothario- (identified as the user editing from this IP address) is banned for three days ending 25 January 2005 and is placed on POV parole.
 * ArmchairVexillologistDon Closed on 19 January 2005 with an open verdict; ArmchairVexillologistDon has ceased contributing to Wikipedia. Subject to reactivation should ArmchairVexillologistDon return.
 * IZAK - Decided on 18 January 2005. IZAK is banned for ten days and placed on personal attack parole for two months.
 * HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg - Decided on 16 January 2005. HistoryBuffEr is blocked for 60 days ending 17 March 2005 and is restricted in editing Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles; personal attack parole also applies. Both parties are prohibited for the period of editing restrictions (one year for HB, none for Jayjg) from removing adequately referenced information from Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles and may not revert changes which are purely structural reorganisation.
 * CheeseDreams - Decided on 12 January 2005. CheeseDreams is banned from editing in general for eight days, and from editing Christianity-related articles for one year. A two revert per twenty-four hour period limitation is also applied.
 * Ciz - Decided on 10 January 2005. Ciz and all other accounts are banned from editing articles related to zoophilia and placed on personal attack parole.
 * Alberuni - Decided on 10 January 2005. Alberuni is banned for a period of one year; personal attack parole is also applied, as well as a requirement to discuss all reverts.
 * User:66.20.28.21 and other accounts - Decided on 6 Jan 2005. 66.20.28.21 and other accounts are not permitted to edit disputed articles without communication, in violation of NPOV policies, or in violation of original research policies.
 * Netoholic - Closed on 2 Jan 2005 with an open verdict as the major involved disputants have since resolved their differences.
 * Gene Poole vs. Samboy - Decided on 1 Jan 2005. No remedies passed. (Gene Poole had recently left.)
 * Snowspinner vs. Lir - Decided on 1 January, 2005. Lir is banned from editing Wikipedia for one year. A standing order is also enacted indefinitely.