Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-28/Arbitration report

The Committee closed one case during the week, and opened one new case. Three cases are currently open.

Henri Coanda (Coanda) (Week 1)
This case was opened this week after allegations of tendentious POV-pushing and a content dispute involving the usage of sources in the Coanda-1910 article. 21 kilobytes was submitted as on-wiki evidence by three users.

Arbitration Enforcement sanction handling (AE sanction handling) (Week 3)
During the week, another 66 kilobytes was submitted as on-wiki evidence while several proposals were submitted in the workshop by arbitrators and others.

Rodhullandemu (Week 4)
See last week’s Signpost coverage.

Monty Hall problem (Week 7)
This case involves allegations of problematic behavior relating to the Monty Hall problem article. Evidence was submitted on-wiki by 17 editors. Drafters Elen of the Roads and SirFozzie submitted several proposed principles in the workshop before submitting a proposed decision for arbitrators to vote on. The case came to a close during the week after a total of 12 arbitrators voted on the proposed decision.


 * What is the effect of the decision and what does it tell us?
 * Article talk pages should not be used by editors for proposing unpublished solutions, forwarding original ideas, redefining terms, or so forth. Although more general discussion may be permissible in some circumstances, it will not be tolerated when it becomes tendentious, overwhelms the page, impedes productive work, or is otherwise disruptive.
 * Users who disrupt the editing of articles by engaging in sustained attacks on other editors may be banned from the affected articles, and in extreme cases, may be banned from the site.
 * Articles should be understandable to the widest possible audience. For most articles, this means understandable to a general audience. Every reasonable attempt should be made to ensure that material is presented in the most widely understandable manner possible.
 * If editors disagree on how to express a problem and/or solution in mathematics articles, citations to reliable published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article and directly support the material as presented must be supplied by the editor(s) who wishes to include the material. Novel derivations, applications or conclusions that cannot be supported by sources are likely to constitute original research within the definition used by the English Wikipedia.
 * is indefinitely topic-banned on subjects related to the Monty Hall problem.
 * Glkanter is banned from editing Wikipedia until 25 March 2012.
 * is topic-banned from the subject of the Monty Hall problem until 25 March 2012.
 * is subject to a 1RR restriction until 25 March 2012 when editing the article.
 * is reminded to follow good practice in respect of conflict of interest, when referencing or inserting his own sources of his own authoring into the article as references, namely to avoid undue weight, use reliable sourcing, and to seek consensus first if editing in a contentious segment of the mainspace.
 * Articles related to the Monty Hall problem are subject to "standard" discretionary sanctions.