Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests

Arbitration​Committee

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Case requests

Request name	Motions	Initiated	Votes
Ongoing problems surrounding Yasuke		16 September 2024	0/0/0

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Open cases

Currently, no arbitration cases are open.

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Recently closed cases (Past cases)

Case name	Closed
Historical elections	13 Sep 2024

Clarification and Amendment requests

Request name	Motions	Case	Posted
Amendment request: Definition of the "area of conflict" Clause 4 (b)	Motion	none	26 July 2024
Amendment request: Palestine-Israel articles (AE referral)	Motion	none	17 August 2024
Clarification request: Conduct in deletion-related editing	none	(orig. case)	8 September 2024

Arbitrator motions

No arbitrator motions are currently open.

Current requests

Appeal of commuity ban of Iantresman

Initiated by Stifle (talk) at 10:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Involved parties

• Stifle (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), filing party
• Iantresman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Confirmation that all parties are aware of the reques

• Notified Iantresman here [1]
• I will soon leave talk page messages for other users who participated in the CSN discussion. They can then drop by here and add themselves if they wish.
• Messages left in the following diffs: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Stifle (talk) 10:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

• Not applicable as the matter is an appeal of a community ban. There was no RFC or other prior dispute resolution before the matter was landed at WP:CSN.

Statement by User:Stifle

At the Community Sanction Noticeboard around nine months ago, User:Iantresman was banned with just over 5 hours' discussion. He has indicated a desire to appeal this ban and I am opening it here on his behalf. I feel that while Iantresman was disruptive at the time, the punishment was excessive and the ban should be reduced to time served, perhaps with probation or an editing supervision. Stifle (talk) 10:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

In response to JoshuaZ and for the avoidance of doubt, I would be inclined to unblock Iantresman to give him a second chance to comply with editing norms. Stifle (talk) 12:54, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Statement by User:Iantresman

As Iantresman is indefinitely blocked he cannot make a statement here. I have asked him to place his statement on his talk page and a clerk or other user should transfer it here when entered.

Statement by User:JoshuaZ

Against what may be my better judgement, I'm writing an off-the-cuff statement here. I may expand this later. For now, I would like to remind the ArbCom that it declined to hear an almost identical appeal from Iantresman a few months ago (albeit before the most recent election). If no one is inclined to unblock then no one wants to unblock and that's more or less the end of the matter. If Ian wants to improve his behavior and convince the community that he can become a productive enough member that his presence would be helpful that something he should have someone take up on ANI or AN and see if he can get a consensus to unblock. However, that doesn't look likely. Ian's request to appeal appears to not include any perception or understanding that he might have been doing anything that earned him his block which does not bode well. JoshuaZ (talk) 12:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Statement by Kwsn-pub

I'm on a library computer right now, but I'm currently looking over the ban discussion. From what I see the primary motivation for the ban was the attacks on ScientistApologist, which seemed to be fueled by revenge from previous attacks by SA. It was stated several times that those attacks drove SA from the project, when in fact it was stated he was already leaving. An interesting item to me is the fact that he was on probation already, and banning him from the areas he was a "problem editor" in could have easily solved the problems from my standpoint. Also, the time from opening of discussion to the block disturbs me, as does the lack of solid evidence. As such, as an admin, I am willing to unblock for arbcom purposes only.

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Clarifications and other requests

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