Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-04-03/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee closed three cases this week. Additionally, a motion has been made in a previous case.

-Ril-
A case against -Ril- was closed on Tuesday. As a result, -Ril- was banned indefinitely as a sockpuppet of the banned user CheeseDreams. Additionally, CheeseDreams' one-year ban under a previous Arbitration Committee ruling was reset. CheeseDreams was banned in March 2005 for disruption, including the use of sockpuppets. A previous case against -Ril- was closed in October 2005, banning -Ril- for a month and a week.

Tony Sidaway
A case brought against Tony Sidaway was closed on Thursday. As a result, Tony Sidaway was placed on an administrative one revert limit, prohibiting him from reversing any administrative action more than once. Crotalus horridus, meanwhile, was banned from creating or editing userboxes, both in Template and User namespaces, and was placed on general probation. Tony Sidaway had wheel warred on numerous pages, while Crotalus horridus had edit warred and recreated inflammatory userboxes.

IronDuke and Gnetwerker
A case involving IronDuke and Gnetwerker was closed on Thursday. As a result, IronDuke was cautioned about using unsourced material, and Gnetwerker was cautioned regarding discourtesy and original research.

Lightbringer motion
A motion has been made in the case against Lightbringer. In November 2005, Lightbringer was placed on personal attack parole and banned from freemasonry-related articles. However, sockpuppets have continued to edit the article, and through edit patterns and checkuser requests have been identified as Lightbringer. As a result a motion was proposed to formally ban Lightbringer Wikipedia-wide. At press time, the motion had five support votes with no opposition.

Other cases
Two cases were accepted this week, with one involving Aucaman (user page), and the other involving Terryeo (user page). Both are in the evidence phase.

Additional cases involving Marcosantezana (user page), users DarrenRay and 2006BC, FourthAve (user page), Locke Cole (user page), editors on Depleted uranium, ZAROVE (user page), and Agapetos angel (user page) are in the evidence phase.

Cases involving administrators involved in a userbox-related edit war, Lou franklin (user page), and editors on Bible verse articles are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is currently on the table in a case involving Lapsed Pacifist (user page).