Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-05/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened one case and closed none, leaving four open.

Open cases

 * Asgardian (Week 7): An arbitration case opened to assess the behavior of Asgardian, including accusations of gaming the system to avoid community-based remedies and attempts at ownership of articles. Currently in the voting phase.
 * Gibraltar (Week 4): An arbitration case opened to address issues of ownership and nationalist warfare on articles related to Gibraltar. Currently in the evidence/workshop phase.
 * Russavia-Biophys (Week 1): An arbitration case accepted in order to expedite a complicated Arbitration enforcement issue concerning Russavia and Biophys. Currently in the evidence/workshop phase.
 * Transcendental Meditation movement (Week 7): An arbitration case opened to deal with circumstances on articles related to the eponymous movement similar to those that had surrounded Scientology pages the year prior. Currently in the evidence/workshop phase.

Other

 * The Committee announced that it was seeking to add oversighters and checkusers in order to reduce the workload on those already holding those tools.
 * For its April Fools' Day joke, the Committee announced a new Arbitration procedure requiring that all users seeking arbitration bring all their requests to the almighty and unwavering eye of the magic eight-ball.