Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-04-29/Arbitration report

The Sexology case, which was covered in detail in last week's "Arbitration report", closed shortly after publication with no changes. Two cases remain open.

Argentine History
In the case, brought by Lecen, an editor is accused of systematically skewing several articles involving former Argentine president Juan Manuel de Rosas to portray a brutal dictator as a democratic leader, in keeping with the political motives of Argentine "nationalists" or "revisionists".

The evidence stage was scheduled to close 12 April 2013, the workshop stage on 19 April, and a proposed decision was scheduled for 26 April.

Tea Party movement
This case was brought to the Committee by KillerChihuahua, who alleges the discussion over this American political group has degenerated into incivility. Evidence for the case was due by 20 March 2013, the workshop was to close on 27 March, and a proposed decision was scheduled for 3 April.

Other requests and committee action

 * Arbitration clerk promotions: Callanecc, Hahc21, Ks0stm, and X! were promoted to full Arbitration Committee clerk positions, effective immediately.
 * Audit subcommittee appointments:  Guerillero,  MBisanz, and  Richwales were appointed as community representatives to the Audit Subcommittee for one-year terms, from 1 May 2013 to 30 June 2014.
 * Audit subcommittee annual report:  The audit subcommittee has published its annual report for the period ending April 2013.
 * Clarification request: WP:ARBPIA/Jerusalem:  Advice was sought by Sm8900 over a committee-mandated RFC that appeared to have bogged down.
 * Clarification request: Scientology: Prioryman seeks to clarify the scope of discretionary sanctions in Scientology-related articles.
 * Clarification request: TimidGuy ban appeal: A 29 April 2013 request, initiated by MastCell requests the release of voting information for the rejection of Will Beback's ban appeal, or failing that, an explanation of why such information cannot be provided.
 * Clarification request: TimidGuy ban appeal: A 5 April 2013 request, brought by IRWolfie-, seeking to clarify the relationship between privacy and conflict of interest in a situation where employees of a transcendental meditation institute may be editing an article related to that institute, was closed, with the advice that a tension between anonymous editing and conflict of interest (COI) disclosures does exist, that editors should disclose COI on a topic in advance of editing, that editors with specialized knowledge about a topic can be valuable in writing the article, and that administrators at WP:MED may be of assistance in evaluating any civil POV pushing.
 * Clarification request: Discretionary sanctions appeals procedure: A [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment&diff=next&oldid=542754682 request] to clarify the appeal process for discretionary sanctions warnings was filed by Sandstein.