Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-18/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened one case over the past two weeks and closed none, leaving two open.

Open cases

 * Chabad Movement (Week 2): An arbitration case opened to examine allegations of biased editing and combat on articles related to the Chabad movement of Judaism. Presently in the evidence/workshop phase.
 * Tothwolf (Week 11): An arbitration case opened to look into the behavior of four editors: Tothwolf, JBSupreme, Miami33139, and Theserialcomma. Presently in the voting phase.

Miscellaneous

 * Two vacant arbitrator seats on the Audit Subcommittee were filled by Kirill Lokshin (who takes a six-month term, vacated by FloNight upon her departing the Committee) and Rlevse (who assumes the remaining tenure of Newyorkbrad's term after he abdicated his spot on the AUSC).
 * Cool3 was emergency-desysopped after CheckUsers confirmed that the user was an incarnation of community-banned Thekohser.
 * The Appeals Subcommittee approved the appeals of users Shamir1 and DollyD.
 * The Arbitration Committee selected four new trainee clerks and promoted three clerks to full status.