Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee

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Arbitration​Committee

Any private material intended for the Committee's attention should be sent to arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

In addition to its role in dispute resolution, the Committee determines which editors have access to CheckUser and Oversight permissions, and considers certain matters where exceptional factors such as privacy preclude a public hearing.

Arbitrators are neither Wikimedia Foundation employees or agents, nor Wikipedia executives. They are volunteer users—usually experienced editors and administrators—whom the community of editors at large elects to resolve the most complex or intractable disputes that may arise within the community, and to oversee the few areas where access to non-public information is a prerequisite.

Members

See also: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/History § Current and former members

These editors are the elected members of the Arbitration Committee (known as arbitrators). Votes of the committee are taken among the active members. Members are marked active or inactive so that the majority for new votes can be calculated. Members on wikibreak, not participating in arbitration within the past week, or indicating they will be absent are marked inactive.

Members moving back to active may remain inactive on some or all existing business. If you wish to know whether an arbitrator is active on a particular matter, please ask on their talk page (or check the proposed decision talk page, for cases). The list below is used to determine whether each arbitrator is active by default. Arbitrators who go on to participate in a vote will be counted as active for it even if they are listed as inactive below.

The following list is accurate as of 6 October 2024:

Active

1. Aoidh (talk · contribs)
2. Cabayi (talk · contribs)
3. CaptainEek (talk · contribs)
4. Guerillero (talk · contribs)
5. HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs)
6. Moneytrees (talk · contribs)
7. Primefac (talk · contribs)
8. Sdrqaz (talk · contribs)
9. ToBeFree (talk · contribs)
10. Z1720 (talk · contribs)

Inactive

1. Firefly (talk · contribs)
2. L235 (talk · contribs)

Coordination

The Arbitration Committee does not have a chair, but may designate one arbitrator to coordinate timely performance of tasks. The current coordinating arbitrator is Roger Davies, with Kirill Lokshin as his deputy.

Clerks

Further information: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks

The Committee's Clerks assist the Committee in procedural aspects of its work, such as opening and closing case pages, maintaining the arbitration requests page, and issuing notifications of decisions. Parties with procedural questions about the arbitration process are encouraged to consult a Clerk for assistance.

Subcommittees

Audit Subcommittee

Further information: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee

The Audit Subcommittee investigates complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight privileges. It consists of three arbitrators appointed by the Committee (currently Coren, KnightLago, and SirFozzie) and three editors elected by the community (currently Dominic, Jredmond, and MBisanz).

All requests or other material intended for the Audit Subcommittee should be sent to arbcom-audit-enlists.wikimedia.org.

Ban Appeals Subcommittee

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for general advice on procedure.

The Ban Appeals Subcommittee considers ban appeals from banned or long-term blocked users, generally, when all other appeal avenues have been exhausted. It consists of three arbitrators appointed by the Committee (currently Mailer diablo, Shell Kinney and SirFozzie). Arbitrators typically spend three months on the subcommittee with a staggered rotation, one member being replaced each month.

All requests or other material intended for the Ban Appeals Subcommittee should be sent to arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org.

Mailing lists

arbcom-l

The arbcom-l mailing list is the primary venue for internal Arbitration Committee discussion on all matters under the Committee's remit. The mailing list address is arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org. It may also be reached through the "Email this user" feature as "User:Arbitration Committee".

As of October 2010, the subscribers are:

Arbitrators:

Carcharoth, Cool Hand Luke, Coren, FayssalF, Kirill Lokshin, KnightLago, Mailer diablo, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Roger Davies, Shell Kinney, SirFozzie, Steve Smith

Others:

Jimbo Wales (project founder)

arbcom-audit-en

The arbcom-audit-en mailing list is used for internal discussion by the Audit Subcommittee. Please see the subcommittee page for more details.

clerks-l

The clerks-l mailing list is used for co-ordination of clerking by the Committee's clerk team. Please see the clerk page for more details.

functionaries-en

The functionaries-en mailing list is a venue for general discussion among current Arbitration Committee members, former members in good standing, advanced permission operators (CheckUser and/or Oversight), and other editors with official Wikimedia Foundation status. The mailing list address is functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org

The scope is broader than that of arbcom-l; the list is intended to allow more effective collaboration among editors involved with sensitive and privacy-related areas within the community, and the handling of related issues, primarily on English Wikipedia. The list also has a role in supporting the Arbitration Committee, being available to assist with various matters and acting as a forum for discussion, input, and collective memory as needed.

As of October 2010, the subscribers are:

Current arbitrators:

Carcharoth, Cool Hand Luke, Coren, FayssalF, Kirill Lokshin, KnightLago, Mailer diablo, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Roger Davies, Shell Kinney, SirFozzie, Steve Smith

Former arbitrators:

Deskana, Dominic, Fred Bauder, FloNight, FT2, Hersfold, Jdforrester, John Vandenberg, Jpgordon, Mackensen, Mindspillage, Paul August, Stephen Bain, Wizardman, YellowMonkey

Advanced permission (CheckUser and/or Oversight) operators:

Alison (CU/OS), Amalthea (CU), Avraham (CU/OS/steward), Beeblebrox (OS) Brandon (CU), Daniel Case (OS), Dweller (OS), EVula (OS), Frank (CU), Happy-melon (OS), Jredmond (CU/OS/AUSC), J.delanoy (CU/steward), Keegan (OS), Lar (ombudsman, former steward), LessHeard vanU (OS), Luk (CU), MBisanz (CU/OS/AUSC), Mr.Z-man (OS), MuZemike (CU), Nishkid64 (CU/OS), Phantomsteve (OS), Thatcher (CU/OS), Tiptoety (CU), Tnxman307 (CU), Versageek (CU), Aaron Schulz (CU/dev)

Wikimedia Foundation:

Jimbo Wales (project founder), Cary Bass (Volunteer Coordinator/steward), Tim Starling (system administrator), Werdna (system administrator), Philippe Beaudette (Head of Reader Relations)

Contact information

A number of individual arbitrators have published their personal email addresses, which are listed below. These addresses should be used only when contacting a specific arbitrator; material intended for the Committee as a whole should be sent to arbcom-l instead.

• Carcharoth: carcharothwpgmail.com
• Cool Hand Luke: User.CoolHandLukegmail.com
• Coren: marcuberbox.org
• FayssalF: szvestgmail.com
• Kirill Lokshin: kirill.lokshingmail.com

• Mailer diablo: kennethplanetkh.com
• Newyorkbrad: newyorkbradgmail.com
• Roger Davies: roger.davies.wikigmail.com
• Steve Smith: sarcasticidealistgmail.com