Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-04-16/Arbitration report

The Arbitration Committee opened no cases this week, keeping the number of open cases at two.

Rich Farmbrough (Week 2)
This case involves accusations of disruptive editing against Rich Farmbrough. Specifically, concerns have been raised about the editor and his observance of bot policy. Arbitrator Hersfold originally filed the case, which the committee chose to accept last week. Arbitrator Newyorkbrad is drafting a proposed decision, expected in about a month's time.

For the past week, editors on both sides have posted evidence concerning the accusations of disruptive editing. Rich Farmbrough posted a short response to the allegations, promising to go into more detail on the workshop page. Most evidence submissions have concerned potential violations of editing restrictions through the use of bots.

Evidence will be accepted until Wednesday, 18 April.

Race and intelligence review (Week 5)
A review of the Race and intelligence case was opened as a compromise between opening a new case and ruling by motion. The review is intended to be a simplified form of a full case, and has the stated scope of conduct issues that have purportedly arisen since the closure of the 2010 case.

A complete decision was proposed on 16 April by drafter Roger Davies. The proposed principles include clarifications of harassment policies and sockpuppet investigation procedures. After a long series of findings of fact, the proposed decision seeks to admonish one editor involved in disruptive actions and ban two others for no less than one year.

Other requests and committee action

 * The Arbitration Committee has continued voting on a series of proposals to change the limits for evidence submissions in cases. At the time of publication, no motion had passed.