Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-01/Arbitration report

The Committee amended the Ban Appeal Sub Committee procedure, providing that Arbitrators on the Committee shall be replaced monthly, rather than quarterly.

The Arbitration Committee opened no cases and closed one this week, leaving seven open.

Amended by motion

 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Fringe science: Kaldari, Sceptre, and Durova were permitted to act as proxies for ScienceApologist by making edits to the optics article, its talk page, and any process pages directly related to the optics featured article drive.
 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Midnight Syndicate: Remedies of this case were suspended for ninety days, during which editors who were restricted by them are not under a topic ban. The ban may be re-instated by an uninvolved administrator should the editors engage in misconduct on the articles in question. After the ninety days are past, a request to permanently remove the topic bans may be submitted.
 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ayn Rand: The topic ban placed on TallNapoleon is replaced by a zero-revert parole for the remainder of the previous six-month topic ban.
 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria: The wording of the "Area of conflict" ruling in this case was changed from "... the Palestine/Israel dispute ..." to "... the Arab-Israeli conflict ...".

Evidence phase

 * A Man In Black: A case brought to examine the conduct of administrator A Man In Black.
 * ADHD: A case examining the dispute on the ADHD article and the conduct of the editors involved therein.

Voting

 * Obama articles: A case opened to review behavior of editors of articles related to Barack Obama.
 * Tang Dynasty: A case about editing conflicts on Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty.
 * Mattisse: A case—brought when a recent Request for Comment failed to abate concerns regarding her behaviour—examining the conduct of User:Mattisse.
 * Macedonia 2: A case about naming disputes at the Macedonia article, and ChrisO's use of administrator tools in the dispute. Thirty-eight remedies have been proposed, most of which sanction editors involved in the dispute.
 * 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. Over 130 proposals have been presented, including remedies which restrict, ban, topic ban, or admonish certain parties. The case has only recently entered voting, and so none of the proposals presently pass.

Closed

 * Scientology: A case regarding behavioral problems in Scientology-related articles; the case is related to the prior case, COFS. Thirty-one remedies were passed, including the topic bans of twenty-six editors and the site bans of two editors, among other remedies. The Committee also provided that all IP addresses owned by the Church of Scientology are to be blocked as if they were open proxies. The full summary of remedies is available here. (See related story.)