Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-11-29/Arbitration report

Two requests for arbitration committee cases were filed at Arbitration/Requests/Case in November. One was withdrawn and one has been accepted.

Salted unknown article, oversight block
A new request, "Drmies salting", was by  on November 9. The request was about a mainspace article that has never been created and has been salted by an administrator in order to prevent its creation. In place of the actual title, the placeholder "XYZ" was used in the request. The userpage note left for the filing party in conjunction with the salting has been oversighted and The Signpost has no further details on the page's contents.

The case request was as "withdrawn" by a clerk on November 10. The same day, Wumbolo was oversight blocked indefinitely. The Signpost has no further details on the reason for the user block.

Important or imprudent? Pondering portals.
A new request, "Conduct in portal space and portal deletion discussions", was by  on November 18. ToThAc described the issue as follows:


 * As summarized in 's essay on issues surrounding portals, the necessity of portals in general has been heavily debated over the course of several months. In April 2018, The Transhumanist started an RfC on deprecating portals, which was closed with a rough consensus to not delete all portals.

The complainant said that despite the prior RfC, uncivil discussion of individual portal creations and deletions has ensued, and named 20 other involved parties.

The case was accepted and, with arbitrator commenting This has proved to be a long-running and intractable dispute.