Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3

Case Opened on 03:03, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Case Closed on 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. (All participants are subject to Arbitration Committee decisions, and the ArbCom will consider each participant's role in the dispute.) Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read, in full. Evidence, no matter who can provide it, is very welcome at /Evidence. Evidence is more useful than comments.

Arbitrators will be working on evidence and suggesting proposed decisions at /Workshop and voting on proposed decisions at /Proposed decision.

Prior cases

 * Requests for arbitration/Instantnood, et al.
 * Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 2

Statement by SchmuckyTheCat
Instantnood has not changed his behavior since the last arbitration case was closed. So far he has racked up 9 page bans in 9 days.

In fact, his behavior has gotten worse. He's chosen not just to continue edit warring behavior, but to purposefully instigate edit wars. Each day he is choosing to go back (in some cases as old as several months) and make the same edits that were reversed the first time.

An important finding of the last case was that Instantnood "is reminded to make useful edit summaries". He isn't. He has continued to make very contentious edits (such as renaming political entities) without anything at all as an edit summary.

I've chosen, mostly, not to engage him. Huaiwei has not and has been equally page banned and admonished by administrators. However, a glance at Instantnood's edit history reveals it would be impossible to use established dispute resolution techniques because of the sheer number of problem edits. (See evidence below, are we supposed to file 17 article RFCs per day?) Huaiwei wouldn't be involved if Instantnood wasn't making the problem edits in the first place.

Evidence: Look at Instantnood's edit history for 20 January 2006. (And go back as many days as you want, it's all the same pattern every single day).

Discarding any talk page discussion are 24 edits to articles, categories, or templates. An astonishing seventeen of them are reverts. 71% reverts? Only one revert has any talk page discussion.

9 edits have no edit summary whatsoever, including reverts. Only a handful of the remainder are useful to anyone not involved in his dispes.

Evidence of re-igniting old disputes:

Statement by Instantnood
(Please limit your statement to 500 words)

Statement by Phroziac
I recently blocked Huaiwei and Instantnood for 24 hours for their ForestFire activity, and asked them to stop. Instantnood said he doesn't think it'll help to reach an eventual resolution. The edit wars he's causing are *incredibly* silly. A quick look at the edit histories of several pages he has edited recently all shows obvious edit warring. This really needs to stop. Perhaps a temporary injunction preventing him from reverting would be helpful. --Phroziac. o ºO (♥♥♥♥ chocolate!) 18:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC) (edited 18:16, 21 January 2006 (UTC))

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (6/0/1/0)

 * Recuse, as past mediator. Dmcdevit·t 05:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm happy for us to accept, but I would like to take the opportunity to point out that sysops are (and have always been) empowered to block people for being useless. James F. (talk) 13:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Like James, I'll accept if necessary. Nevertheless, can't we just extend Instantnood 2 to allow escalating blocks for such behaviour?  Sam Korn (smoddy) 16:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ditto: accept, and let's point out in our decision that this sort of trouble should be handled locally ➥the Epopt 18:54, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Accept. - SimonP 21:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Accept Fred Bauder 15:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Accept mostly to expand scope of previous decisions if required. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 20:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Temporary injunction (none)
=Final decision=

Principles of Instantnood 2
1) The principles at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 2 are adopted by reference.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Finding of fact Instantnood 2
1) The finding of fact at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 2 are adopted by reference.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Continued edit warring by Instantnood
2) has continued to edit war regarding naming issues and has been blocked over 5 times, see Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3/Evidence and Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3/Evidence.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Continued edit warring by Huaiwei
3) has continued to edit war regarding naming issues in and has been blocked over 5 times, see Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3/Evidence.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Remedies
Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.

Restrictions on Instantnood
1) is restricted to proposing only one page move, poll of editors, or policy change relating to Naming conventions (Chinese) per week. Should he violate these restrictions he may be briefly blocked, up to a year in the event of repeat offenses. All blocks are to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Restrictions on Huaiwei
2) is restricted to proposing only one page move, poll of editors, or policy change relating to Naming conventions (Chinese) per week. Should he violate these restrictions he may be briefly blocked, up to a year in the event of repeat offenses. All blocks to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Instantnood placed on Probation
3) is placed on Probation indefinitely. Any administrator, in the exercise of judgement for reasonable cause may ban them from any article or talk page which they disrupt by inappropriate editing. All bans to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Instantnood placed on general probation
4) is placed on general probation indefinitely. Any three administrators may, for good cause, ban him from the site. All bans to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Huaiwei placed on Probation
5) is placed on Probation indefinitely. Any administrator, in the exercise of judgement for reasonable cause may ban them from any article or talk page which they disrupt by inappropriate editing. All bans to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Probation lifted 6 Sept 2007 by ArbCom.

Huaiwei placed on general probation
6) is placed on general probation indefinitely. Any three administrators may, for good cause, ban him from the site. All bans to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Probation lifted 6 Sept 2007 by ArbCom.

Procedure for banning in Probation
1) Should a Wikipedia administrator feel it necessary that those placed on Probation in this matter be banned from an article where they are engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article or any other activity which the user considers disruptive they shall place a template at the top of the talk page of the article and notify the blocked user on their talk page. The template may be removed by any one at the end of the ban. See Probation. All bans to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Enforcement by block
2) Should any user edit an article from which they have been banned under the remedies in this decision they may be briefly blocked, up to a week in the event of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks the maximum block shall increase to one year. All blocks to be logged at Requests for arbitration/Instantnood 3.


 * Passed 8 to 0 at 17:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Log of blocks and bans
Here log any block, ban or extension under any remedy in this decision. Minimum information includes name of administrator, date and time, what was done and the basis for doing it.


 * Instantnood:
 * 26 March 2006: Blocked Instantnood for 48 hours, for revert warring. Ashibaka tock 00:57, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 22 April 2006: temporary editing bans on Instantnood by
 * List of bridges two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * Macao, China two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * Hong Kong national football team two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * District Council of Hong Kong two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * Guangzhou two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * Community of Portuguese Language Countries two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * East Asian Tigers two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * I'm lovin' it two weeks, ban ends 14:00 UTC 6 May, 2006
 * 03 May 2006: Tony Sidaway revises temporary bans on Instantnood for the duration of his probation, and adds more articles to the ban list after reported disruption
 * List of bridges * Macao, China * Hong Kong national football team * District Council of Hong Kong * Guangzhou * Community of Portuguese Language Countries * East Asian Tigers * I'm lovin' it * Las Vegas Sands * Share taxi * Estádio Campo Desportivo * Douhua * Singapore * Hong Kong * Pacific Rim Capitals * Special administrative region (People's Republic of China) * List of tunnels
 * 17 May 2006: Tony Sidaway proposes a brief ban from Wikipedia for Instantnood, under his General Probation.
 * 17 May 2006: institutes the ban by blocking Instantnood for two weeks.
 * 19 August 2006: Blocked Instantnood and Huaiwei for edit warring on Country and List of largest buildings in the world. Joelito (talk) 21:22, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 21 October 2006: Joelr31 (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "Instantnood (contribs)" with an expiry time of 1 week (endless edit warring, close to exhausting patience) (added by Thatcher131 02:20, 27 November 2006 (UTC))
 * 8 December 2006: Eagle 101 (Talk | contribs | block) blocked "Instantnood (contribs)" with an expiry time of 24 hours (Per WP:AE), and have put him on a 1-revert per article per day term. Hopefully this will clear out any issues that are outstanding. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 05:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 26 February 2007: Instantnood page-banned under "probation" remedy for disruptive editing from China-geo-stub, China-road-stub and China-struct-stub. Alai 17:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 28 February 2007: Following a complaint at WP:AE documenting extensive edit warring between Instantnood and Huaiwei on various articles, the following remedies are enacted.
 * is banned for one month for persistent edit warring, violating his 1RR parole, and wikistalking of Huaiwei's edits.
 * Instantnood is banned from editing any category page related to China, including but not limited to its history, culture, territories and disputed territories.
 * Instantnood is banned from adding or removing any category related to China from any article related to China. He may be blocked without further warning for up to a week for each violation.
 * is banned for one week for edit warring.
 * Huaiwei is also banned from editing any category page related to China, and from adding or removing any category related to China from any article related to China. Huaiwei may be blocked for up to one week per violation without further warning. Thatcher131 01:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 11 April 2007: Blocked Instantnood for 1 month for using sockpuppets (per RFCU) to evade remedies here. --WinHunter (talk) 22:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 15 April 2007: confirmed by checkuser as a sockpuppet of Instantnood, indef blocked. Thatcher131 05:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Instantnood's block also reset by - 01:36, 15 April 2007 Natalie Erin (Talk | contribs) blocked "Instantnood (contribs)" (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 month (resetting block timer given block-evading sockpuppet User:ShacOne)
 * 16 April 2007: Following continued disruption and sock puppetry from Instantnood, administrators Seraphimblade, Mangojuice, and Aldux agree that an indefinite ban is called for. Instantnood's block extended to indefinite by Aldux to enforce banning. Seraphimblade Talk to me 17:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Huaiwei
 * 19 August 2006: Blocked Instantnood and Huaiwei for edit warring on Country and List of largest buildings in the world. Joelito (talk) 21:22, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 26 February 2007: Huaiwei page-banned under "probation" remedy for disruptive editing China-geo-stub and China-struct-stub. Alai 17:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 28 February 2007: Following a complaint at WP:AE documenting extensive edit warring between Instantnood and Huaiwei on various articles, the following remedies are enacted.
 * is banned for one month for persistent edit warring, violating his 1RR parole, and wikistalking of Huaiwei's edits.
 * Instantnood is banned from editing any category page related to China, including but not limited to its history, culture, territories and disputed territories.
 * Instantnood is banned from adding or removing any category related to China from any article related to China. He may be blocked without further warning for up to a week for each violation.
 * is banned for one week for edit warring.
 * Huaiwei is also banned from editing any category page related to China, and from adding or removing any category related to China from any article related to China. Huaiwei may be blocked for up to one week per violation without further warning. Thatcher131 01:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Huaiwei's editing restrictions lifted by vote of the Arbitration Committee . See talkpage for discussion. Newyorkbrad 19:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)