Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jason Gastrich/Proposed decision

all proposed

After considering /Evidence and discussing proposals with other arbitrators, parties and others at /Workshop place proposals which are ready for voting here.

Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or abstain.
 * Only items that receive a majority "support" vote will be passed.
 * Items that receive a majority "oppose" vote will be formally rejected.
 * Items that do not receive a majority "support" or "oppose" vote will be open to possible amendment by any Arbitrator if she/he so chooses. After the amendment process is complete, the item will be voted on one last time.

Conditional votes for or against and abstentions should be explained by the Arbitrator before or after his/her time-stamped signature. For example, an Arbitrator can state that she/he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were passed.

On this case, 0 Arbitrator(s) is/are recused and 1 is/are inactive, so 13 out of 14 arbitrators are available and 7 votes are a majority.

Proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on. Non-Arbitrators may comment on the talk page.
 * For all items:

Motions and requests by the parties
Place those on /Workshop.

Proposed temporary injunctions
Four net "support" votes needed to pass (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support") 24 hours from the first vote is normally the fastest an injunction will be imposed.

Template
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{text of proposed orders}


 * Support:


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

=Proposed final decision=

Edit warring
1) Edit wars or revert wars are considered harmful, because they cause ill-will between users and negatively destabilize articles. Editors are encourage to explore alternate methods of dispute resolution.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Courtesy
2) Users are expected to be reasonably courteous to each other, see Civility and No personal attacks.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Disruption
3) Users may be banned or otherwise restricted for editing in a way that constitutes clear and intentional disruption.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Sockpuppets
4) Abuse of sockpuppet accounts, such as using them to evade blocks, bans, and user accountability–and especially to make personal attacks or reverts, or vandalize–is strictly forbidden. See Sockpuppets.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Writing about yourself
5) Editors should avoid contributing to articles about themselves or subjects in which they are personally involved, as it is difficult to maintain a neutral point of view while doing so. See Autobiography.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Wikipedia is not a soapbox
6) Wikipedia is not to be used for advocacy or self-promotion. See Wikipedia is not a soapbox.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Meatpuppets
7) A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Wikipedia solely for that purpose, shall be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Sockpuppetry
1) has used several proven and suspected abusive sockpuppets to make AfD votes, lend support in discussions, and make reverts. These include, ,  and others listed here. Also see Category:Wikipedia:Sock puppets of Jason Gastrich and Category:Wikipedia:Suspected sockpuppets of Jason Gastrich.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Meatpuppetry
2) Jason Gastrich has used his personal website to invite outside users to support his point of view at AfD, and to insert POV into Christian articles. The website's objectives regarding Wikipedia include to "Voice our opinion on the inclusion of Christian entries" and to "Glorify Jesus Christ". He has solicited non-Wikipedians to support and "praise" him on Wikipedia.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Discourtesy
3) Jason Gastrich has frequently engaged in personal attacks against other editors, and been generally uncivil to others. Examples:, , ,


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Disruption of the deletion process
4) Jason Gastrich has made several bad faith nominations to Articles for deletion of biographies of persons he personally disliked, giving logically faulty, incomplete, and even dishonest reasons. More than a dozen such nominations were speedily closed and kept, by the practice that bad faith nominations can be closed early. See the list here: Requests_for_comment/Jason_Gastrich


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Self-promotion
5) Jason Gastrich (and his sockpuppets) has repeatedly used Wikipedia as a vehicle for promotion of himself and his views. This includes the creation of Jason Gastrich and his ministry Jesus Christ Saves Ministries, and.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Tendentious editing
6) Jason Gastrich and his many sockpuppets/meatpuppets have engaged in many sustained agressive edit wars in an attempt to rewrite articles to fit their point of view. See, for example,,.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Proposed 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.

Jason Gastrich banned from certain articles
1) Jason Gastrich is indefinitely banned from Louisiana Baptist University and The Skeptic's Annotated Bible.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Jason Gastrich placed on Probation
2) Jason Gastrich is placed on Probation for one year. This means that any administrator, in the exercise of their judgement for reasonable cause, documented in a section of this decision, may ban them from any page which he disrupts by inappropriate editing. Jason Gastrich must be notified on his talk page of any bans and a note must also placed on WP:AN/I. He may post suggestions on the talk page of any page from which he is banned from editing.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Jason Gastrich placed on personal attack parole
3) Jason Gastrich is placed on standard personal attack parole for one year. If he makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be personal attacks, then he shall be temp-banned for a short time of up to one week. After five such blocks, the maximum block time is increased to one year.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Jason Gastrich placed on revert parole
4) Jason Gastrich shall for one year be limited to one revert per article per week, excepting obvious vandalism. Further, he is required to discuss any content reversions on the article's talk page.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Jason Gastrich limited to one account
5) Jason Gastrich shall edit under that username and no other. Additionally, other accounts or anonymous IPs which due to area of interest, style, manner, or IP corroboration, can be reasonably ascribed to Jason Gastrich, shall be banned. Violation of these remedies under another username or IP shall result in the the penalty being applied to the main account, User:Jason Gastrich, as well.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Jason Gastrich banned
6) Jason Gastrich is banned from Wikipedia for one year for causing serious disruption.


 * Support:
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:08, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Dmcdevit·t 09:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 15:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

Enforcement of Probation and paroles
1) Should Jason Gastrich violate any ban imposed under Probation, or his personal attack or revert parole, he may be briefly blocked, up to a week in the event of repeated violations. After 5 blocks, the maximum block shall increase to one year.


 * Support:
 * Dmcdevit·t 07:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Charles Matthews 16:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mindspillage (spill yours?) 09:03, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * James F. (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 23:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sam Korn (smoddy) 00:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fred Bauder 14:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose:


 * Abstain:

=Discussion by Arbitrators=

Implementation notes
''Clerks and arbitrators should use this section to clarify their understanding of the final decision--at a minimum, a list of items that have passed. Additionally, a list of which remedies are conditional on others (for instance a ban that should only be implemented if a mentorship should fail), and so on. Arbitrators should not pass the motion until they are satisfied with the implementation notes.''


 * All proposed remedies have passed 8-0
 * The enforcement proposal has passed 8-0

All of these proposals will be included in the final decision.

Last updated: --Tony Sidaway 16:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Vote
Four net "support" votes needed to close case (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support") 24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close.


 * Close. Dmcdevit·t 16:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Close. Sam Korn (smoddy) 16:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Close. Fred Bauder 17:33, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Close. Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 19:30, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Close. James F. (talk) 20:21, 20 March 2006 (UTC)