Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-08-11/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week, and did not close any cases, leaving four currently open. There is also a motion open on a previous case.

Motion

 * A motion is open in the Privatemusings case, which was originally closed in December 2007. If approved, Remedy 2, which restricted Privatemusings from editing articles related to biographies of living persons, would be removed.  In its place, Privatemusings would be put under the mentorship of Lar, Jayvdb and Durova; this mentorship would be solely regarding the editing of biographies of living persons.  If no issues arise, the mentorship would lapse 90 days after its inception.  At present, five arbitrators support the motion, and none oppose it (the support of eight is necessary to adopt the motion).

New case

 * Alastair Haines: A case involving Alastair Haines and other users.

Evidence phase

 * SlimVirgin-Lar: A case brought by Thatcher, asking the committee to review the use of checkuser by Lar, in the light of comments by SlimVirgin (here, inter alia), alleging that he misused the tool. Evidence is to be submitted privately to the committee by e-mail, and voting will presumably occur privately as well.

Voting phase

 * Geogre-William M. Connolley: A case involving wheel warring between Geogre and William M. Connolley.  William M. Connolley inappropriately extended a block on Giano II, while Geogre inappropriately reversed the block, and reversed page protection on Giano's talk page.  The case is currently in the voting phase; proposed remedies include:
 * Four different versions of a remedy modifying or removing remedy 2.2 in IRC. All versions are supported by four to five arbitrators, and opposed by three to four arbitrators.
 * Currently passing is a remedy prohibiting Geogre and Connolley from taking any administrative action with respect to Giano II. There is also an injunction in effect prohibiting blocks or unblocks of Giano without the consent of a committee member.

Motion to close

 * C68-FM-SV: A case involving disputes between Cla68, FeloniousMonk, SlimVirgin, JzG, and others.  The case, which has seen little-to-no public input from arbitrators, is currently subject to a motion to dismiss, with the support of one arbitrator, and the opposition of one.