Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-12-03/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week, and closed six cases.

Closed cases

 * Macedonia: A case involving a dispute between editors from Greece and from the Republic of Macedonia over the use of the name "Macedonia" in Wikipedia. As a result of the case, remedies were implemented permitting editing sanctions to be imposed by any uninvolved administrator, after a warning, against any user who violates Wikipedia policies in editing articles concerning the Balkans region.


 * Asgardian-Tenebrae: A case involving conflict between Asgardian and Tenebrae. As a result of the case, Asgardian's editing was restricted for one year.


 * Privatemusings: A case involving alleged sockpuppetry and BLP violations by Privatemusings.  As a result of the case, Privatemusings was limited to one account, banned for 90 days, and subjected to an editing restriction indefinitely.


 * Durova and Jehochman: A case involving the actions of Durova and Jehochman, and in particular a controversial block by Durova of !! as an allegedly disruptive sockpuppet, based on evidence she refused to reveal on-wiki on the ground that do so could provide puppetmasters with too much information regarding her investigative techniques.  This evidence was provided to some administrators, and was later leaked, with some users, including the Arbitration Committee, arguing that the evidence was insufficient for blocking !!.  Durova resigned her adminship, and, in what appears to be an exceptionally quick resolution of the case, remedies were implemented admonishing Durova to exercise greater care when issuing blocks, admonishing all participants in the discussion of the block of !! to act with proper decorum, and noting that Durova must go through normal channels (a request for adminship) if she wishes to regain adminship.


 * Eyrian: A case involving checkuser-confirmed sockpuppetry by admin Eyrian. As a result of the case, Eyrian was desysopped, and banned until he explains his actions to the committee.


 * Ferrylodge: A case involving a community ban of Ferrylodge on the now-defunct Community sanction noticeboard, but which User:B, in accordance with Community ban, stated that he was willing to overturn. As a result of the case, the ban was disapproved, but Ferrylodge's editing was restricted and he was instructed not to interact with Bishonen or KillerChihuahua.

New case

 * Matthew Hoffman: A case involving a controversial block of MatthewHoffman as a sockpuppet by a vanished user.  Arbitrator UninvitedCompany has proposed a remedy calling for Hoffman's block log to be annotated to show that the blocks were unjustified, as well as another remedy, which has been opposed by arbitrator FloNight, desysopping the vanished user.

Evidence phase

 * Episodes and characters: A case involving alleged misconduct with regard to the notability of episodes and characters from television series.

Voting phase

 * Winter Soldier 2: A case involving alleged misconduct on Winter Soldier-related articles. Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies prohibiting TDC  and Xenophrenic from editing any Winter Soldier-related pages.


 * Anonimu: A case involving alleged revert warring and incivility by Anonimu, who has not yet commented in the case and was community-banned soon after the case was opened.  Some others also allege that Sceptre, who brought the case, has stalked Anonimu.  Kirill Lokshin has proposed remedies permitting discretionary sanctions to be imposed by any uninvolved administrator, and banning Anonimu for one year.