Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Arbitration report

The Committee announced that an Audit Subcommittee has been established, which will investigate complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight privileges on the English Wikipedia. Additionally, the committee has prepared a provisional draft of an updated arbitration policy for initial community review.

The Arbitration Committee opened one case this week, and closed one, leaving eight cases open.

New cases

 * Aitias: A case regarding Aitias's use of his administrator tools.

Evidence phase

 * Tang Dynasty: A case about editing conflicts on Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty.
 * Ryulong: A case regarding Ryulong's use of his administrator tools.
 * Obama articles: A case opened to review behavior of editors of articles related to Barack Obama.
 * West Bank - Judea and Samaria: A dispute about editor behavior in discussions about naming conventions for certain Israel- and Palestine-related locations.
 * Date delinking: A case regarding the behavior of editors in the ongoing dispute relating to policy on linking dates in articles. An injunction has been issued prohibiting large-scale linking or delinking of dates until the case is resolved.

Voting

 * Prem Rawat 2: A case concerning the continued behavioral problems on the pages about Prem Rawat, and related articles. A previous case, Prem Rawat, was closed in May of last year.
 * Scientology: A case regarding behavioral problems in Scientology-related articles; the case is related to the prior case Requests for arbitration/COFS.

Closed

 * MZMcBride: A case brought after administrator MZMcBride deleted numerous "secret pages". This case reviewed administrator conduct by MZMcBride, and did not rule on the appropriateness of the pages themselves. MZMcBride had previously been admonished for his administrator actions in a previous Request for Arbitration. In the final decision, among other things, the Arbitration Committee took note of MZMcBride's decision to resign his adminship before the case closed, and noted that if MZMcBride wishes to regain adminship in the future, he may either submit a new request for adminship or make a request to the committee.