Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-05-11/Arbitration report

The Committee removed access to the Checkuser and Oversight tools from editors who had not used them in the past year. They also opened a Request for comment on dispute resolution.

The Arbitration Committee opened no cases this week, and closed none, leaving nine cases open.

Evidence phase

 * Abd and JzG: A case brought regarding a dispute between Abd and JzG about the latter's use of administrative tools on Cold fusion.
 * Macedonia 2: A case about naming disputes at the Macedonia article, and ChrisO's use of administrator tools in the dispute.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * Scientology: A case regarding behavioral problems in Scientology-related articles; the case is related to the prior case, COFS.

Motion to close

 * West Bank - Judea and Samaria: A dispute about editor behavior in discussions about naming conventions for certain Israel- and Palestine-related locations. Remedies passing at press time include: placing editing restrictions on eight editors from editing pages in the area of dispute—defined as it was defined in the Palestine-Israel articles case, encompassing the entire set of Arab-Israeli conflict-related articles, broadly interpreted, as well as any edits on the subject of the Palestine/Israel dispute on any other article or talk page, or any other page throughout the project—or any relevant talk page or community discussion; removing from Jayjg his access to the Checkuser and Oversight tools and the related mailing lists; asking the community to gather consensus on naming disputes about the region that is the source of the conflict.
 * Aitias: A case regarding Aitias's use of his administrator tools. Passing remedies include admonishing Aitias and restoring Aitias's administrator tools at the closure of the case, whereupon he will be forbidden from participating at Requests for rollback or its talk page for six months.