Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-06-12/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week.

Sam Spade
A case brought against Sam Spade was closed on Thursday. As a result, Sam Spade was placed on indefinite probation, and cautioned to avoid assuming bad faith. Sam Spade, who says he "[edits] controversial topics almost exclusively", was found to have edit-warred on numerous articles, including God, Human, and Socialism. Sam Spade has not edited an article since 17 May.

DarrenRay, 2006BC
A case brought against DarrenRay and 2006BC was closed on Saturday. As a result, DarrenRay, 2006BC and AChan were all banned indefinitely from editing Dean McVeigh, Melbourne University student organisations, University of Melbourne Student Union, and related articles. The dispute centered on the controversial liquidation of the Student Union after the Union fell into debt. The users involved were also involved in the liquidation, and were involved in point of view editing on the articles.

Other cases
A case was accepted this week involving Raphael1 (user page).

Other cases involving a request to unblock Saladin1970 (user page) and editors on Francis Schuckardt are also in the evidence phase.

Cases involving a naming dispute on U.S. highway articles, a request to unblock Blu Aardvark (user page), editors on the article 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities, Deathrocker (user page), Infinity0 (user page), PoolGuy (user page), and editors on Biological psychiatry are in the voting phase.

A motion to close is on the table in the case involving Locke Cole (user page).

A motion to restrict StrangerInParadise to one user account was officially approved, with seven supporting users and no opposition.