Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia

Case Opened on 00:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Case Closed on 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Case Amended by motion on 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Case amended by motion on 23:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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Statement by Fut.Perf.
The next big nationalism case after Azerbaijan-Armenia, Eastern Europe etc. There are three main disputes between four neighbouring nations here:
 * Between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece about the name "Macedonia". Currently settled in a fragile consensus respected by most of the long-standing contributors here (see WP:MOSMAC), but still some disruptive outbreaks from time to time (as here, here]).
 * Between Macedonians and Bulgarians about the separateness of the two nation. Currently the most violent domain, with almost daily revert wars (e.g., , , ). Occasional severe BLP problems.
 * Between Macedonians and Albanians about mutual minorities. Mostly lame revert wars over the mentioning of Albanian geographical names in Macedonian articles (e.g. and ).

The players in this edit war are a relatively small number of established ringleaders, plus a large and volatile group of short-lived accounts. The balances of edit-warring firepower are such that the four nations involved have established a local pecking order of POV-pushing: Greek tendentious editing can generally get away with murder; Bulgarian tendentious editing will have its way as long as it's not against the Greeks; Albanian editors get their way because Greeks and Bulgarians come to their aid just to annoy the Macedonians; and most Macedonian editors are immobilized to such a degree they can hardly get an edit through without having it reverted immediately - leading to predictable outbreaks of sock attacks and other forms of retaliatory disruption from their side.

We need topic bans for a couple of ringleaders and revert paroles for at least a dozen others, plus administrative carte blanche for dealing with new disruption, à la Armenia-Azerbaijan.

Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by User:Kékrōps
User:Future Perfect at Sunrise's claim that "Greek tendentious editing can generally get away with murder" is baffling, given that the "fragile consensus" he mentions has been struck at the expense of the Greek position, and any dissent is immediately censored. The name Macedonia is used throughout Wikipedia in a way that is highly offensive to Greeks, especially Macedonians; see Macedonia naming dispute for further information. Furthermore, his portrayal of one side as the perennial victims is unhelpful in a complicated dispute of this nature. User:Kékrōps 10:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by Avg
It is true that this is a very sensitive issue to all parties involved. However, being sensitive does not equal being nationalistic. The recent surge in edit warring occurs because tensions are extremely heightened outside Wikipedia. These weeks or even days are a turning point in the Macedonia naming dispute, since UN is drafting a final plan to be accepted by both RoM and Greece before RoM's entry to NATO. Apart from that, I'm disappointed that User:Future Perfect at Sunrise is clearly taking sides in this dispute. Perhaps he's been long enough to these topics to have lost the balance he should have as an administrator? As a Greek I feel insulted by the use of an expression such as "Greeks can get away with murder", especially without any diff supporting it. So I certainly support this is escalated, in order for ArbCom to establish some guidelines for both editors and admins. --Avg 14:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by Francis Tyers
I concur with the point of view of Fut.Perf. In areas such as this, uninvolved admins need more leeway to forcefully arbitrate disputes and get rid of obvious trolls. Part of the problem comes from demographics and wealth, there are more Greeks, and more Bulgarians on the internet than Macedonians. This follows through to Wikipedia. There is a tendency for both Bulgarians and Greeks to "gang up" on Macedonians as Fut. Perf. describes.

Talk pages also generally get filled with nationalist rubbish and personal attacks / comments, one example of the off-topic stuff that goes on in most pages here. Fortunately Fut. Perf. had the good sense to remove this particular lot, but there is so much more.

Topic and article bans would be very welcome for the more disruptive users. Particularly those found engaging in "tag-team" reverting to avoid the 3RR.

I'd like to add that it isn't all users, many Greek, Macedonian and Bulgarian users manage to work on articles together perfectly well (see for example Macedonia (terminology) as suggested by Niko below). I'd like to add that not "practically adopting" the Greek position does not mean the same thing as "practically adopting" the ethnic Macedonian position.

Statement by Ireland101
I fully agree with the comments of Fut.Perf. The whole issue with Macedonian related articles has gone too far. As mentioned before the fact that members of the other ethnic groups gang up or "tag-team" against the edits of Macedonian users is quite apparent and troubling. This has gone so far that I have even seen ethnic Macedonian users leave Wikipedia because of this sort of injustice. Although some Greek users may not agree Fut.Perf is correct when stating that Greek users can get away with almost anything. The edits speak for themselves as in almost any conflict the Greek side has won. The several users that push the Bulgarian POV are quite successful mainly due to their organization. It is rare that I see edits from Macedonians that aren't reverted within 10 minutes. Besides the fact that it is proven that many of these users use socks I think some more investigation needs to be done as I suspect multiple users may be using those accounts to achive what they have. And as Fut.Perf also mentioned it is quite disappointing to see these users supporting the Albanians just to annoy the Macedonians. A solution must be found for this. Ireland101 21:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by Li4kata
All people in Macedonia have a origin ethnic and this ethnic must be clearly showed. E.g. many Bulgarian revolutionaries are considered like ethnic Macedonian in Republic Macedonia. One of discussed people is Boris Sarafov. He is regular Bulgarian military officer, born in Region of Macedonia (present-day in Bulgaria). Some notes:

1. Boris Sarafov in your Memoirs he defined himself like ethnic Bulgarian. Boris Sarafov heve never defined like other ethnic.

2. In Republic of Macedonia defined ethnic origin according to born places. E.g. all members of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, born in Region of Macedonia are defined like Macedonians (ethnic) and this members born in North Bulgaria or Adrianople Thrace like Bulgarians. ''Art. 1'' from Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Regulation says, that in organization can member Bulgarians only. For more information see IMRO.

3. Boris Sarafov's brother Krastyo Sarofov is one of most popular and favorite Bulgarian theter actors. In Bulgaria Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts is the only one Theatre and Film Arts institution of higher education for all Bulgaria.

4. In Bulgarian SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library are preserved a lot of IMRO documents and personal correspondence of Boris Sarafov and all Bulgarian national heros from Macedonia, where they many times are defined themself like ethic Bulgarians. I see that for some of Bulgarians national heros there are already for several sources proved them ethnicity. What is need number sources, which put finish of this madness, to be defined some for ethic Macedonian, after he defined himself like Bulgarians! --Li4kata 10:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by Jingiby
I will answer to Future with citations from two persons.

- The first one is from Krste Misirkov, the most prominent figure of the ethnic Macedonian national awakening and as he was proclamed from Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Macedonian #1 of 20th Century. The citatation is from his mostly known work "On the Macedonian Matters" from 1903, were the central  issue was - the existence, or not, of a Macedonian nation distinct from the Bulgarian nation.

"...We spokе Bulgarian language and we believed with Bulgarians is our strong power...The future of Macedonia was in the spiritual union of the Bulgarians in Macedonia... The Macedonian Slavs ware called Bulgarians...The biggest part of the population ware called Bulgarians... All spoke that Macedonians are Bulgarians...".

- The second one is from the former Vice-President and Premier of Republic of Macedonia and now Bulgarian citizen Ljubčo Georgievski.In late summer of 2007 Georgievski published his book "Facing the truth" in Bulgaria. In it he reveals his attitude to Macedonian identity and Bulgarian past in the Republic of Macedonia:

"Why are we ashamed and flee from the truth that whole positive Macedonian revolutionaries traditions comes exactly from Bulgarian Exarchate's part of Macedonian people. We shall not say a new truth if we mention the fact that everyone, Gotse Delchev, Dame Gruev, Giorche Petrov, Pere Toshev - must I list and count all of them - were Bulgarian Exarchate's teachers in Macedonia."

And now we have to change their ethnicity, or what?Jingby 15:51, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by Alex (202.10.89.28)
I agree with Future Perfect. The fact that there is a pecking order disgusts me and this issue needs to be resolved. I am not saying Macedonians are always the victims but on Wikipedia it seems to be the case.

While Greeks take offense at hearing the name Macedonian referring to the ethnic Macedonians, ethnic Macedonians take offense in not being called Macedonians. The Greeks have the identifier "Greek" and some of them use "Macedonian", the Macedonians only have "Macedonian" and that is where the problem lies. But my question is, why did Greece not have a problem with the Socialist Republic of Macedonia? They used the name Macedonia (not Currently Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) yet Greece and Greeks did not care. And from the official codification (not invention) in 1944 of the Macedonian language up until Macedonian independence, there was no protest from the Greek side. It all happened after independence, when the Greek Government stated that Macedonia is Greek and Greeks started claiming that the use of "Macedonian" in connection with the newly independent country was offensive. After a while, what you claim and what you think can become the same. This may have happened with Skopjan and Slavomacedonian on the other side. Problem is, we can't change anything in terms of what is offensive now.

But in other parts of the world (even Melbourne, which has the most Greeks outside Athens), everybody knows what people mean when saying Macedonia. I went to a school where 1/3 of students were Greek and 1/3 were Macedonian - we learned our respective languages in the school, and no Greek (student, teacher or parent) referred to Macedonians as Slavs or Skopjans, but simply Macedonians. If you ask any Greek, regardless of geographical region, where they come from, they will say Greece, not Macedonia, not Thessaly but Greece. The ones that say Macedonia refer to the country, and even Greeks know this. I have even seen nationalist (or maybe just racist) Greeks saying "Macedonians Suck" - and that is a partial resolution (Greeks can hate Macedonians, yet call them by their name).

The Bulgarian users like to edit everything to do with Macedonians - even indisputably non-Bulgarian things like the SR Macedonia/SFR Yugoslavia place of birth thing. That is another problem.

And Future Perfect is not taking sides - many Macedonians find many articles unsatisfactory. Unfortunately, if Bulgarians and Greeks find articles unsatisfactory, they have the power in numbers to change them in the long run. Alex 202.10.89.28 07:47, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by strich3D
I can agree with Future Perfect. Macedonian editors are immobilized because they are in much smaller number than Bulgarian and Greek editors and have worse organisation. For example Bulgairan editors- in fact one account: ForeignerFromTheEast which is controlled by more people and is 24h ON. An answer for Jingiby, quote from foreword from Krste Misirkov's book "On Macedonian matters": " As a succesor of idea for full separation of our concerns from concerns of the other Balkan nations and for fully indpendent national and cultural evolution, I wrote this book on macedonian central dialect which from now will be Macedonian literary language". strich3D

Statement by HxSeek
I praise FuturePerf's righteous actions regarding the state opf this article. He is coorect, as it is very obvious, that there is an heirarchy of collaboration, if you will, between editors of different ethnic affiliations. It seems that our Bulgarian fellows seem to have hijacked the articles. Especially ethnic macedonians article, it is full of Bulgarian history and reads like some kind of nationalist newspaper article trying to convince masses as to how obvious it is that Macedonians are Bulgarians. One might even accuse them of sheer arrogance, placing edits such as "Macedonians are ethnopolitically disoriented Bulgarians". Now, I have always maintained respect for the regular Bulgarian editors, Jingiby, etc, etc. They are certainly knowledgeable and raise good points, but a line is crossed when the intentionally steer the article into their own agenda. Eg [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macedonians_%28ethnic_group%29&oldid=167334772#World_War_I}

As for the Greek position, their focus is on the anything referring to the name and history of macedonia. I have already attempted to outline fallabilities in their whole arguement in the naming dispute article. Initially, the Slav Macedonian perspective section was a mere 2 lines, versus pages of greek perspective. I elaborated. To my surprise, it was not mass reverted, albeit it was certainly watered down to suit a more Greek-acceptable position, whilst the Greek perspective remains 100% pro-Greek and un-diluted.

This issue needs to be resolved. The whole ethnicity and historical debate has many facts which can be interpreted many ways. I am keen on working cooperatively and do not deny other perspectives, but the Greek and Bulgarian editors need to allow a Slav macedonian perspective to be heard without labelling it 'nationalist' or 'pseudoscience', becuase that's just a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Yes, there are some Macedonian editors who exxagerate, etc, but i see mysel to be conservative and factual. Hxseek 22:33, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Statement by Dzole
Im with FutPerf on this, I explained my pov on the Incident Page but I'll repeat some points that I find very important:

the Bulgarian editors listed above (some are missing actually), beside their tendentious behaviour, insist on keeping highly questionable sources:
 * Kroraina.com - personal nationalist website of Vasil Karloukovski, a geophysisist and minerologist whose credentials are irrelevant to history subjects. Used as a source in Krste Misirkov and many other articles.
 * Promacedonia.org - personal website, some materials there are credited to a person nicknamed "Bash Bugarash" (a nationalist nickname, can be translated as "A Great Bulgarian"). Used in Ilinden Uprising and other articles. Reportedly, the links page there contains a trojan virus but Im afraid to check. Its here.
 * personal website of Anton Ivanov Zhelev a self-declared member of VMRO-BND, a nationalist party in Bulgaria. A questionable scanned doc hosted there was used in Kiro Gligorov. Its probably used elesewhere too.
 * Personal Bulgarian blog, used in Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation along several dubious uploaded scans.
 * personal geocities page. Used in National Liberation War of Macedonia.
 * some strange word document hosted at the official website of Macedonian Tribune a newspaper of MPO, a Bulgarian nationalist organization. Used in the same article as above.

There are several other examples scattered throughout Wikipedia. By allowing the use of such sources, Wikipedia is ruining its own credibility. I vote that Wikipedia's BOTs should be programmed to automaticaly consider such links as spam and to subsequently remove them.

Regarding the behaviour of the Greek editors: a personal Greek user page on Wikipedia that can be considered as contentious and provokative: User:Asteraki. Quote: This user is able to contribute with an Intermediate level of Bulgarian southwestern dialect of FYROM.(end of quote) Refers to the Macedonian language as to Bulgarian language. Also the user had a sub-page which seemed to be a political pamphlet at User:Asteraki/VARDARSKA-(FYROM) (refering to Republic of Macedonia as Vardarska Banovina etc.). See this also. Despite all, the user remains active on Wikipedia.

I tried not to get involved in any edit-warring recently until this problem is solved, but my inactivity is abused by User: Jingiby who continues agenda pushing and adding questionable sources for example to Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo (also see the Talk page).

P.S. A notable problem is the article National Liberation War of Macedonia where the Bulgarian editors have tried to add very contentious statements which are almost near to neo-nazism, such as that the Bulgarian Axis-allied army was greeted as a liberator in Macedonia during the WWII. They supported their statement with a WWII Bulgarian source published in 1941 (МАКЕДОНИЯ 1941, "Възкресението" - С. Нанев, 1941 г.) Dzole (talk) 21:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter (4/0/0/0)

 * Accept. Kirill 18:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Accept. Paul August &#9742; 04:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Accept. We can take a look and help some perhaps, but the most effective way to address these issues is to attract more impartial editors/admins to these article to help mediate content disputes and explain content policies to newbies. Would be helpful for some experienced users to watchlist related categories. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 11:55, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Accept. James F. (talk) 22:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

=Final decision=

Purpose of Wikipedia
1) Wikipedia is a project to create a neutral encyclopedia. Use of the site for other purposes—including, but not limited to, advocacy, propaganda, furtherance of outside conflicts, and political or ideological struggle—is prohibited.


 * Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).

Decorum
3) Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably and calmly in their interactions with other users, to keep their cool when editing, and to avoid acting in a manner that brings the project into disrepute. Unseemly conduct—including, but not limited to, personal attacks, incivility, assumptions of bad faith, trolling, harassment, and gaming the system—is prohibited.  Users should not respond to such behavior in kind; concerns regarding the actions of other users should be brought up in the appropriate forums.


 * Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).

Editorial process
4) Wikipedia works by building consensus through the use of polite discussion. The dispute resolution process is designed to assist consensus-building when normal talk page communication has not worked. Sustained editorial conflict is not an appropriate method of resolving disputes.


 * Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).

Area of conflict
1) The disputes presented in this case, while focusing specifically on issues related to Macedonia, are part of a broader set of conflicts prevalent over the entire range of articles concerning the Balkans; see, for example, the Dalmatia case and the Kosovo case. Many of these conflicts are grounded in matters external to Wikipedia, including long-standing historical, national, and ethnic disputes in the region.  The area of conflict in this case shall therefore be considered to be the entire set of Balkan-related articles, broadly interpreted.


 * Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).

Discretionary sanctions
1) Any uninvolved administrator may, on their own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict if that editor fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, the expected standards of behavior, or the normal editorial process. The sanctions imposed may include blocks of up to one year in length; bans from editing any page or set of pages within the area of conflict; restrictions on reverts; or any other measures which the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.  Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to this decision.


 * Passed 6-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
 * Superseded by an alternate sanction passed 14 to 0, 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Appeal of discretionary sanctions
2.1) Discretionary sanctions imposed under the provisions of this decision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the administrators' noticeboard, or the Committee. Administrators are cautioned not to reverse such sanctions without familiarizing themselves with the full facts of the matter and engaging in extensive discussion and consensus building at the administrators' noticeboard or another suitable on-wiki venue. The Committee will consider appropriate remedies including suspension or revocation of adminship in the event of violations.


 * Passed 7-0 at 02:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC).
 * Superseded by an alternate sanction passed 14 to 0, 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Standard discretionary sanctions
3) Topics related to the Balkans, broadly interpreted, are placed under discretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.
 * Passed 14 to 0 by motion, 14:32, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Superseded by motion at 23:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Motion: Eastern Europe and Balkans scope (February 2019)

 * Passed 5 to 0 by motion at 23:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Log of notifications
This is an incomplete list of editors who have been notified or warned of discretionary sanctions (by means of the template or otherwise) required for the imposition of discretionary sanctions. No new notifications should be listed here.

2010 notifications

 * warned at by   Sandstein   06:37, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at by  Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 10:01, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at by Stifle (talk) 10:56, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at by Stifle (talk) 18:09, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at by Stifle (talk) 18:09, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at Toddst1 (talk) 16:14, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Courcelles 23:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Courcelles 23:07, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * warned by Selket Talk 16:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at by WGFinley (talk) 16:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at by Selket Talk 22:30, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Courcelles 11:44, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Looie496 (talk) 02:38, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Looie496 (talk) 02:44, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Looie496 (talk) 02:51, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned. T. Canens (talk) 03:03, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Looie496 (talk) 03:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Looie496 (talk) 03:12, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * warned at . Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 23:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * notified here and cautioned about ethnic POV-pushing regarding Serbia and Kosovo. EdJohnston (talk) 05:08, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * warned here. EdJohnston (talk) 22:19, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

2011 notifications

 * warned: . -- Jayron  32  18:53, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
 * warned . Magog the Ogre (talk) 14:23, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The human behind warned . Courcelles 22:36, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * warned Toddst1 (talk) 02:57, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * warned following concerns re neutrality raised at milhist. EyeSerene talk 10:37, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * notified of ARBMAC (edit-warring re Serbian/Croatian nationality on Josif Pančić) EyeSerene talk 10:34, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * banned from all pages relating to the RoM, due to page-move disruption. Moreschi (talk) 13:15, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * notified here due to an edit-warring block concerning Pomaks. EdJohnston (talk) 05:14, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * notified. CIreland (talk) 14:36, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * notified due to an edit-warring block concerning Vasil Bollano. EdJohnston (talk) 23:31, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * warned 5th April 2011 for edit-warring. Fainites barley scribs 12:09, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * notified. Courcelles 04:50, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * notified. Courcelles 04:53, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * notified Courcelles 04:54, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * notified.Fainites barley scribs 15:08, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * is warned for POV editing and violation of the 1RR/week restriction at Kosovo per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 03:50, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * is warned for edit warring and POV-pushing at Giulio Clovio per this notice, after a report at ANI. EdJohnston (talk) 04:14, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * is warned for nationalist edit warring and removal of sources at Giulio Clovio per . Editor has also been blocked 72 hours per a 3RR report. EdJohnston (talk) 23:16, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * issued ARBMAC warning and edit war warning for a slow-motion edit war with already-sanctioned on Duklja.  WhiteWriter also warned about edit warring. Toddst1 (talk) 01:21, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * placed on 1rv/48h limitation on all Yugoslavia-related articles, for revert-warring and tendentious conduct on Yugoslav Front . Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:25, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * placed on notice, in connection with this request for enforcement. AGK  [&bull; ] 15:00, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * was given a 0RR sanction here by HJ Mitchell and was blocked 72h on Jan 30, 2011. For breaking that sanction and using an IP to continue their edits, I've blocked Volk for 1 week. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 19:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * warned for POV pushing at various Macedonia-related articles: – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 07:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * warned for POV-pushing on articles related to Serbia here. EdJohnston (talk) 13:23, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * warned, edit warring on Zeibeks Toddst1 (talk) 16:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * ((User|Cplakidas}} warned, edit warring on Zeibeks Toddst1 (talk) 16:57, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * warned after disruption and edit warring on Bar, Montenegro. Toddst1 (talk) 22:27, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
 * warned, edit warring on Skanderbeg‎. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * warned, edit warring on Skanderbeg‎. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * warned, edit warring on Kaloyan of Bulgaria, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 23:49, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * warned, edit warring on National Liberation War of Macedonia and at Saint Naum, per this edit. EdJohnston (talk) 05:05, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * notified of ARBMAC (procedural warning; no history of disruption) EyeSerene talk 10:23, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * notified of ARBMAC and strongly warned about edit warring on National Liberation War of Macedonia and elsewhere. EyeSerene talk 10:23, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * warned, cross-wiki edit warring regarding this image usage. WhiteWriter speaks 20:42, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * warned - removal of material against consensus on Timeline of Kosovo history. Toddst1 (talk) 19:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * warned by Jd2718 here, for suggesting that the original Macedonia naming convention was tainted by the ethnicity of the editors involved. Warning confirmed by me. EdJohnston (talk) 23:30, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

2012 notifications

 * warned after report to ANI regarding behavior at Bosnian language. Danger High voltage! 07:55, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * warned for a series of highly inflammatory personal attack postings on matters of Yugoslavian history [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ganderoleg&diff=472680404&oldid=472677798]. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * warned for WP:TE on Giorgio_da_Sebenico. --WGFinley (talk) 17:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Editors of Giorgio_da_Sebenico warned of ARBMAC discretionary sanctions related to article, notice placed on talk page. --WGFinley (talk) 17:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 203.213.94.73 was after   at Talk:Srebrenica massacre and other articles in this topic area. --  At am a  頭  18:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 161.53.243.70 was warned after tendentious comments on Talk:Croation Language. --WGFinley (talk) 08:10, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here due to heated comments at Talk:Thessaloniki and excessive reverting of Thessaloniki as reported at WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 03:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here after being blocked for edit warring on Republic of Ragusa. Salvio  Let's talk about it! 14:51, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * warned while blocked for edit warring at  Template:Politics of Kosovo. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * warned while blocked for edit warring at  Template:Politics of Kosovo. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:01, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * formally warned (uw-balkans2) for edit-warring on House of Petrović-Njegoš.  So Why  21:57, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
 * was warned for edit-warring on the name of Macedonia, contrary to WP:NCMAC. EdJohnston (talk) 14:21, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * warned - personal attack lots of edit filter log hits. Toddst1 (talk) 20:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here for highly partisan edits at Alessandra Kersevan while reverting cleanup efforts by a regular editor. Also reminded that he is under a 1RR/week restriction on all Balkan-related articles. EdJohnston (talk) 04:36, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * was warned/cautioned about the naming convention policy, after attempts to disrupt and start alter the reference of Macedonia to FYROM across several articles, including Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2012, and Republic of Macedonia.  Wesley  ☀  Mouse  14:58, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * was [ warned] after repeatedly replacing text at Decapitation, mentioning beheadings during the Srebrenica massacre, with a general overview of the Srebrenica massacre and an explanation of how this incident was a war crime (but without retaining any mention of beheadings or any of the associated sources). —  Rich wales 22:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * was warned after second revert in a day on 1RR per week subject Republic of Kosovo. -- WhiteWriterspeaks 19:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * was warned/cautioned about the naming convention policy, after altering details on Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.  Wesley  ☀  Mouse  19:48, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * warning issued for breaching 1RR rule on Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - IP address is similar to the one directly above this, and is probably the same user.  Wesley  ☀  Mouse  10:59, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Move-warred on the article Black Drim to Black Drin. User cautioned. ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 21:04, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Formal restrictions implemented here ( talk→  BWilkins   ←track ) 09:27, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * and both warned after a rather nasty bout of edit-warring at Montenegrins. (Navyworth also blocked 24hrs for edit-warring.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * warned by myself. Magog the Ogre (talk) 14:54, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here per an ANI complaint that he had violated 1RR at Republic of Kosovo. EdJohnston (talk) 15:54, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here, after an ANI thread regarding a personal attack he made. Salvio  Let's talk about it! 11:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here, following mass changing of "Republic of Macedonia" at Mil Mi-24. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:58, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * warned for edit warring on List of Presidents of Serbia. Toddst1 (talk) 22:06, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * warned for edit warring about placement of images of churches in Serbian village articles such as Kljajićevo, per a complaint at WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 01:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * warned for his part in the war over church images in Kljajićevo, mentioned in the above entry. This editor was previously notified of the discretionary sanctions under WP:ARBMAC. EdJohnston (talk) 01:15, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * warned after battleground behaviour concerning Bulgaria. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 14:46, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * warned for persistent removal of the Croatian name at Krško Nuclear Power Plant. De728631 (talk) 13:52, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here after a 3RR block for warring about Independent Macedonia (1944). EdJohnston (talk) 14:43, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
 * warned while edit warring on several ARBMAC-related articles. Toddst1 (talk) 17:52, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * had previously been warned over removing other editors' comments from Talk:Kosovo and contentious editing of the article . I have now blocked him for 48 hours for persistent removal of talk page comments, and issued a formal warning about discretionary sanctions. De728631 (talk) 18:21, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * warned. Toddst1 (talk) 23:05, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here of both the WP:ARBAA2 and WP:ARBMAC decisions due to concerns about nationalist motivations for some of his edits regarding Turkey and its neighbors. For more details, see the text of the notice. EdJohnston (talk) 16:49, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * warned after breach of 3RR on Albanians.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:45, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
 * warned] about ARBMAC and blocked (non-arbmac block) after edit warring on Georgian alphabet. Toddst1 (talk) 00:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * warned here due to his revert warring at Albania about percentage of adherents to different religions in that country. EdJohnston (talk) 03:24, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * warned [ here] about ARBMAC after a [ questionable edit] at Balkans regarding the origin of the word "Balkans". —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:40, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

2013 notifications

 * warned following edit-warring and personal attacks on Miloš Obilić. bobrayner (talk) 03:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * notified here after three reverts at Albania. EdJohnston (talk) 02:10, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * warned following an edit war on United Macedonia. Toddst1 (talk) 13:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * warned following an edit war on several articles related to Bulgaria. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 02:40, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * warned per ANI thread  Sandstein   13:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * warned over disruptive editing and personal insults at Bulgaria. De728631 (talk) 13:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
 * and warned ([], []) regarding a brewing content dispute at Kosovo.  Also posted a [ notice] at Talk:Kosovo.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 03:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * [ warned] after [ removing Kosovo] from a list of territories at Balkans. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:25, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * [ warned] after changing "Macedonia" to "F.Y.R.O.M." at Eastern Orthodox Church. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 00:29, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * warned for various problematic conduct related to Serbia and Kosovo.  Sandstein   21:52, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
 * [ warned] after [ adding] the phrase "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - not to be confused with Greek Macedonia" after a mention of Macedonia at Balkans. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 16:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * warned on 29 March by for persistant adding of unsourced contended text, especially names of Serbs, and for completely failing to communicate. De728631 (talk) 15:53, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * warned for personal attacks.  Sandstein   07:40, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * warned for misstatement of a source and for edit warring; advised. Gatoclass (talk) 09:45, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * warned after I blocked the IP for edit warring at War crimes in the Kosovo War as reported at WP:ANEW. The block was not an ArbCom block as there was no notice of discretionary sanctions on the talk page, nor any warning given to the IP about discretionary sanctions. I have updated the article talk page to include a discretionary sanctions notice.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:30, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * [ warned] for changing Eastern Orthodox Church to refer to the Republic of Macedonia as "Skopje". —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 02:54, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * [ warned] for changing Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest to refer to Macedonia as "FYR Macedonia".  Wesley ♦ Mouse  16:40, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * warned by Future Perfect at Sunrise for edit-warring at Greece. De728631 (talk) 16:37, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * notified [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGiorgosY&diff=572194555&oldid=572159188 here]. EdJohnston (talk) 14:23, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * notified [ here] by after edit-warring at Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 06:17, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * warned here by for edit warring at Macedonian language. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 12:34, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * warned here after edit warring at Boro Primorac. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 05:54, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * notified following a boomerang-style ANI thread. Drmies (talk) 20:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

2014 notifications

 * warned after possible linguistic hijacking operation of Peć. Drmies (talk) 04:20, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * warned after edit warring on Macedonia. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:25, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vetemekenshkodran&diff=prev&oldid=592847876 warned] after a complaint at AN3 about edit warring on football articles about players' nationality. EdJohnston (talk) 20:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * warned following a nationalist dispute and personal attacks. bobrayner (talk) 16:18, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * warned for renaming Ferizaj, amid concerns about a dispute from other wikis spilling onto en.wiki. bobrayner (talk) 04:14, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned after edit warring on Bardhyl Çaushi. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned by User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at Albania. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned by User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at Albania. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned by User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at Albania. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned by User:JamesBWatson after editing warring at Albania. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned after edit warring on multiple articles. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:47, 14 February 2014 (UTC). Blocked the next day as a sockpuppet of Evlekis.
 * , warned for edit-warring, tendentious editing and copyright violation/plagiarism on Prek Cali. . Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * warned, after canvassing for another move of Kosovo. bobrayner (talk) 23:44, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Log of blocks and bans
All sanctions issued pursuant to a discretionary sanctions remedy must be logged at Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions/Log.