Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-03-31/Arbitration report

The Tides of March at ARBCOM
After a fairly tame February, ARBCOM had a lot on its plate this month. Here are the highlights from March.


 * Amendment/clarification requests
 * India-Pakistan: An amendment request related to the topic ban of SheriffIsInTown has been made.
 * Gun control: A clarification request about when/if deletion constitutes acceptable arbitration enforcement under discretionary sanctions has been made.
 * Genetically modified organisms: A clarification request related to the scope of discretionary sanctions has been made.


 * Case requests


 * Portal Issues - Editors have requested ARBCOM to take up a case related to conduct issues involving portals. See our coverage of the portal situation for more background on the topic. As of writing, ARBCOM is leaning decline on whether or not to take the case.

Several other case request were made in March, including one that followed the publication of The Signposts controversial humour article last month (see The Signposts response in this month's issue), but all were declined as premature.


 * Desysops
 * The administrator Bogdangiusca has been temporarily desysopped "as a suspected compromised account".
 * The administrator Necrothesp has been temporarily desysopped "as a suspected compromised account".


 * Motions
 * Eastern Europe / Macedonia (motion): Discretionary sanctions have been extended from "Eastern Europe" to "Eastern Europe or the Balkans".
 * Manning naming dispute / Interactions at GGTF (motion): The language of the Manning naming dispute remedies has been tweaked to be based on GamerGate, rather than the Sexology case, and apply to any gender-related dispute rather than only transgender issues. In particular, sanctions should be logged at the GamerGate case instead of the Sexology one from now on. Additionally, to consolidate all gender-related things, the Interactions at GGTF case has been amended to feature similar language.
 * Palestine-Israel articles (motion): The general 1RR provision has been amended to be generally less confusing. Pages must now be specifically be tagged with ARBPIA 1RR editnotice for the 1RR restrictions to apply.
 * Conduct of Mister Wiki editors (motion): Salvidrim! is no longer prohibited from reviewing AFC drafts.