Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-07/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened two cases this week, and closed four cases. One requested case was not accepted, following the desysopping of an involved administrator.

Not accepted

 * ChrisGriswold: A proposed case involving the actions of ChrisGriswold. A checkuser request confirmed that ChrisGriswold had been operating sockpuppet Superburgh, in an editing dispute on Taylor Allderdice High School.  Unrelated to the dispute, ChrisGriswold also operated sockpuppet Truth in Comedy.  Once the allegations were brought to the Arbitration Committee, ChrisGriswold resigned his adminship, and the case was subsequently rejected.

Closed cases

 * Certified.Gangsta-Ideogram: A case involving the actions of Certified.Gangsta and Ideogram, both of whom Durova and others alleged to have been involved in edit-warring on Taiwan-related articles. Ideogram, who had also been accused of improper behaviour on the community noticeboard, denied the allegations. Certified.Gangsta presented evidence, in which he alleged that Ideogram has engaged in canvassing, wikistalking, and orchestrating an anti-Certified.Gangsta campaign. He also denies Durova's allegiations. As a result of the case, both parties were placed on revert parole, and Ideogram was admonished to "fully adhere to all Wikipedia policies".


 * Betacommand: A case involving the actions of Betacommand. Some of Betacommand's blocks were questioned, and his bot-related actions led to his removal from the bot approvals group.  Betacommand noted that he makes numerous username-related blocks, and that most of his blocks were appropriate.  Whether Betacommand used his administrative account for bot-related activity, whether he is unique in doing so, and whether such an action should be allowed or not, were also questioned.  As a result of the case, Betacommand was desysopped.


 * Mudaliar-Venki123: A case involving the actions of Mudaliar and Venki123 on a series of articles. As a result of the case, both parties were banned for one year.


 * Freedom skies: A case involving the actions of Freedom skies.  JFD and others alleged that he has edit warred to push his point of view.  He denied the allegations.  As a result of the case, Freedom Skies was placed on revert parole for one year, and limited to one account.

New cases

 * NYScholar: A case involving the actions of a number of users, including and, in relation to the Lewis Libby article.


 * Hkelkar 2: A case involving the actions of, , and , Rama's Arrow alleges that the others acted as sockpuppets of banned user Hkelkar, and blocked them for six months.  They deny the allegations, and allege that Rama's Arrow acted improperly in blocking them, and in posting private e-mails to WP:AN/I

Evidence phase

 * Piotrus: A case involving administrator and other editors on Eastern Europe related articles. Multiple parties accuse others of edit warring, incivility, unethical behavior and biased editing. (An earlier arbitration case, Piotrus-Ghirla, was dismissed without prejudice  in part due to inactivity of, who was listed a party in the new case.)


 * TingMing: A case involving the actions of .  alleges that he has engaged in "controversial edits", edit warring, incivility, and possibly sockpuppetry.  TinMing denies the allegations, and alleges incivility on the part of Ideogram.


 * Paranormal: A case involving the actions of various users, especially as regards WP:NPOV and WP:ATT, on "articles on paranormal and pseudoscientific topics", such as parapsychology and Electronic voice phenomenon.


 * Transnistria: A case involving the actions of and  on Transnistria-related articles.  MariusM alleges that Mauco (who has not made a statement because he is blocked) has engaged in sockpuppetry, edit warring and other misconduct.


 * Tobias Conradi: A case involving the actions of  who, while acknowledged as a productive contributor, has been called incivil on various occasions.


 * Zeq-Zero0000: A case involving the actions of and .  Zero alleges that Zeq has engaged in POV-pushing, while Zeq alleges that Zero has misused administrative tools in blocking him, the case in particular involving the question of whether probations, article bans, etc. can be enforced by involved admins.


 * E104421-Tajik: A case involving the actions of E104421 and Tajik. The case was opened, but a motion to suspend the case pending a referral to Community enforceable mediation was passed.

Motion to close

 * Falun Gong: A case regarding the conduct of various editors on the Falun Gong article. Olaf Stephanos and Asdfg12345 allege that Samuel Luo has edit-warred in removing pro-Falun Gong material from the article, while Luo, Tomananda and others allege that Stephanos, Asdfg and others have edit-warred (including page blanking) in removing anti-Falun Gong material.  If passed, Falun Gong would be placed on article probation, Mcconn placed on revert parole, and Samual Luo and Tomananda banned from editing the articles or their talk pages.