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GoodDay banned

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

In remedy 2 of Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GoodDay, GoodDay (talk · contribs) was warned that "in the event of additional violations of Wikipedia's conduct policies (especially of the nature recorded in this decision as findings of fact), substantial sanctions, up to a ban from the project, may be imposed without further warning by the Arbitration Committee". It is apparent from the submissions in this amendment request that GoodDay has engaged in further violations of Wikipedia's conduct policies. Accordingly, GoodDay is banned from the English Wikipedia for a period of no less than one year. After one year has elapsed, a request may be made for the ban to be lifted. Any such request must address all the circumstances which led to this ban being imposed and demonstrate an understanding of and intention to refrain from similar actions in the future.

For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology closed

An arbitration case regarding sexology has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

1. Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all articles dealing with transgender issues and paraphilia classification (e.g., hebephilia).
2. User:Jokestress and User:James Cantor are banned from interacting with each other, commenting on and/or commenting about each other including their professional lives, works and on-wiki activities. This applies to all namespaces, but excludes dispute resolution that explicitly relates to both parties.
3. User:Jokestress is indefinitely banned from the topic of human sexuality, including biographical articles.

For the Arbitration Committee, Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 12:53, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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Promotions to full clerk (April 2013)

We are pleased to announce that Callanecc, Hahc21, Ks0stm, and X! have been promoted to full Arbitration Committee clerk positions, effective immediately.

We thank the clerk team for their continued assistance to the Committee and its work.

For the Arbitration Committee, Carcharoth (talk) 23:16, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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Audit Subcommittee appointments 2013

Effective 1 May 2013, Guerillero (talk · contribs), MBisanz (talk · contribs), and Richwales (talk · contribs) are appointed as community representatives to the Audit Subcommittee (AUSC). The period of appointment will be 1 May 2013 to 30 June 2014. All three have properly identified to the Wikimedia Foundation.

No alternate member of the subcommittee has been designated for this term, but in the event that one of the appointees resigns from the subcommittee for any reason, we may (depending on how long is left of their term of office) appoint one of the other candidates from this round of appointments to the vacant seat, temporarily reduce the size of the subcommittee (to two arbitrators and two community members), or leave the seat vacant. The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks all of the candidates, as well as the many members of the community who participated in the appointment process for these roles.

The Arbitration Committee also extends its thanks to Avraham (talk · contribs) (Avi), Ponyo (talk · contribs), and MBisanz for agreeing to stay in office past the original length of their term; and to Avi and Ponyo for their service to date.

Support: AGK, Carcharoth, Courcelles, Newyorkbrad, NuclearWarfare, Risker, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, David Fuchs

Not voting: Kirill Lokshin, Roger Davies, SilkTork, Worm That Turned

For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 01:13, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Note to stewards: Appointment to the AUSC includes granting of CheckUser and Oversight permissions to its members, specifically Guerillero (talk · contribs) and Richwales (talk · contribs).

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Audit Subcommittee report of activity for March 2012 through April 2013

The Audit Subcommittee has published its annual summary of activity for the period from March 2012 to April 2013:

From March 2012 through April 2013, the Audit Subcommittee heard thirteen cases:

• In one case, the oversighter voluntarily reversed their suppression and no further action was taken.
• In one case, the complaint related to the use of advanced permissions on another Wikimedia Foundation project, and was outside of the subcommittee's remit.
• In one case, a checkuser inadvertently linked an account with an IP address when there were no grounds to do so. The functionary was cautioned and a reminder of best practice was sent to all checkusers. The log entry linking the account with the IP address had separately been suppressed after a request to the oversight team.
• In one case, no further action was required.
• In one case, a steward had blocked an account after mistakenly selecting the "suppress account" option (which they have access to but are not permitted to use except in an emergency). The action was overturned and no further action was required.
• In two cases, the complaint did not relate to the use of advanced permissions and was therefore dismissed.
• In one case, a functionary was instructed to recuse from using their checkuser tools in certain circumstances (which will not be disclosed in this report), but no deliberate misuse of the checkuser permission was detected and no further recommendation to the Arbitration Committee was made.
• In one case, a use of suppression was overturned and the functionary was warned to take greater care in the future.
• In four cases, a functionary's actions were held to be appropriate and correct and no further action was taken.

Of these thirteen cases, six reviews were requested by another functionary, two reviews were initiated by a member of the subcommittee, and five complaints were received from non-functionary editors.

To read the original copy of this report (and earlier reports), see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee/Reports.

For the Audit Subcommittee, AGK [•] 15:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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BASC statistics: Q1 2013

During the first three months of 2013, the Ban Appeals Subcommittee heard and completed a total of 43 appeals (this number includes multiple appeals by single users). A total of three appeals were granted: Fæ, Int21h, and Russavia. Of the remaining appeals, eleven were either referred to proper venues or were closed as incomplete (the appellants did not respond back to further correspondence or did not provide enough information on which to make a determination.) The median time for processing appeals was 3 days, while the average time was 11 days.

For the Arbitration Committee, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 20:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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Successful block appeal by Cla68

The Arbitration Committee has passed the following motion to accept Cla68's appeal of his indefinite block for outing other contributors:

Cla68's block is lifted, effective at the passage of this motion, with the following restrictions:

1. Cla68 may not post external links to any internet site, except

   • for the purpose of providing a reference to a reliable source when improving an article, or
   • to add an external link to an article to the official website/webpage of the article subject, or
   • for the purpose of discussing whether or not a reference to a reliable source would be a useful addition to an article

2. Under no circumstances may Cla68 add an external link to any blog, mailing list or forum, regardless of its purported reliability or value as a reference for an article.
3. Any violation of the sanctions governing the use of external links, or any further violation of the Harassment policy may result in an immediate indefinite block from editing. All appeals to blocks will be made directly to the Arbitration Committee, and any blocks referencing this motion will be considered arbitration enforcement blocks if applied by an administrator, or Arbitration Committee blocks if applied by an arbitrator.

Support: Risker (proposing), AGK, Newyorkbrad, Carcharoth, David Fuchs, WormThatTurned, and Timotheus Canens

Oppose: Courcelles, SilkTork, and Salvio giuliano

Not voting: Roger Davies

Recuse: NuclearWarfare, Kirill Lokshin

For the Arbitration Committee, AGK [•] 09:41, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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