Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-28/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened no cases this week, leaving two open.

Open cases

 * Climate change (Week 3): Special rules of conduct were put in place for this arbitration; all evidence submissions should be made by today. The case resulted from several Arbitration requests on the same topic matter being merged into one case, and a related request for comment on the matter failing to make headway. Currently in the workshop phase.
 * Race and intelligence (Week 4): This case concerns accusations of incivility, disruptive editing, and tag-teaming to control the content on articles related to race and intelligence. A proposed decision was expected last week but arbitrators failed to meet this expectation. A renewed expectation that the proposed decision would be posted by yesterday was also not met. Therefore, the case is still in the evidence/workshop phase.

Other

 * Eastern European mailing list: A request was filed yesterday to lift the remedy that banned Piotrus from the Eastern Europe topic. The filer is arguing that Piotrus edits constructively, while the topic ban is acting as an inefficient burden on WikiProject Poland. However, questions are being raised over the trustworthiness of Piotrus, who over a lengthy period of time, engaged in severe misconduct that disrupted (and was calculated to disrupt) Wikipedia's processes, particularly in relation to the topic.