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*[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IRC|''IRC'']] '''Decided''' February 9, 2008 - [[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive126#Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FIRC|AN notice]]
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IRC|''IRC'']] '''Decided''' February 9, 2008 - [[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive126#Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FIRC|AN notice]]
**Parties: {{user|Giano II}}, {{user|Tony Sidaway}}, {{admin|David Gerard}}, {{user|Irpen}}, {{user|Betacommand}}, {{admin|Ryulong}}, {{admin|Geogre}}, {{admin|AzaToth}}, {{admin|Doc glasgow}}, {{admin|Bishonen}}, {{admin|Thebainer}}, {{admin|David Fuchs}}, {{admin|Phil Sandifer}}
**Parties: {{user|Giano II}}, {{user|Tony Sidaway}}, {{admin|David Gerard}}, {{user|Irpen}}, {{user|Betacommand}}, {{admin|Ryulong}}, {{admin|Geogre}}, {{admin|AzaToth}}, {{admin|Doc glasgow}}, {{admin|Bishonen}}, {{admin|Thebainer}}, {{admin|David Fuchs}}, {{admin|Phil Sandifer}}
**Giano II is placed on a civility parole for one year; all parties are cautioned to pursue disputes in a civil manner and to cause minimal disruption; editors are asked to avoid edit warring and use civil discussion even when editing non-mainspace pages whose significance and status are in dispute; the Committee gives notice that policy and procedure changes will be addressed separately.
**All parties are cautioned to pursue disputes in a civil manner and to cause minimal disruption; editors are asked to avoid edit warring and use civil discussion even when editing non-mainspace pages whose significance and status are in dispute; the Committee gives notice that policy and procedure changes will be addressed separately.


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2008

May

April

March

  • Episodes and characters 2 Decided March 10, 2008
    • Parties: 14 total (complete list)
    • TTN (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is prohibited for six months from making any edit to an article or project page related to a television episode or character that substantially amounts to a merge, redirect, deletion, or request for any of the preceding, to be interpreted broadly. He is free to contribute on the talk pages or to comment on any AfD, RfD, DRV, or similar discussion initiated by another editor, as appropriate. The parties are instructed to cease engaging in editorial conflict and to work collaboratively to develop a generally accepted and applicable approach to the articles in question.

February

  • Three cases (plus one privately heard case now posted)
  • JoshuaZ (heard privately by AC) Decided February 5, 2008
    • Parties: JoshuaZ (talk · contribs), Gothnic (talk · contribs), Miles Naismith (talk · contribs)
    • In response to a finding by the Arbitration Committee that he engaged in abusive use of multiple user accounts, JoshuaZ voluntarily resigned his administrator tools on February 5, 2008. Per the usual practice that occurs when administrator's voluntarily give up their tools when faced with potential sanctions by the Arbitration Committee, JoshuaZ can not have the tools returned by simply asking for them back. Additionally, JoshuaZ must contact the Arbitration Committee for permission to have a RFA.

January

  • R. fiend Decided January 14, 2008
    • Parties: SirFozzie (talk · contribs), Alison (talk · contribs), R. fiend (talk · contribs)
    • R. fiend, who was voluntarily desysopped while the request for arbitration was pending, must use a new requests for adminship discussion if he seeks administrator status again in the future. An arbitrator will make an appropriate notation in Ed Poor's block log reflecting that the Committee finds R. fiend's block of Ed Poor unjustified.
  • Jim62sch Decided January 9, 2008
    • Parties: Jim62sch (talk · contribs), Videmus Omnia (talk · contribs), Orangemarlin (talk · contribs)
    • Jim62sch is instructed to refrain from making any comments to another user that could reasonably be construed as harassing, threatening, or bullying. Any further harassment, threats, or bullying will result in a block or ban per enforcement provisions of the case.

2007

  • Ninety-one cases, six of which were dismissed without action.

December

November

October

September

  • Five cases
  • Jmfangio-Chrisjnelson Decided September 26, 2007
    • Parties: Seraphimblade (talk · contribs), Jmfangio (talk · contribs), Chrisjnelson (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: Chrisjnelson is limited to one revert per page per week (excepting obvious vandalism), and is required to discuss any content reversions on the page's talk page, for a duration of six months. If he exceeds this limit, fails to discuss a content reversion, or makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, he may be blocked.

August

  • Zacheus-jkb Decided August 18, 2007
    • Parties: -jkb- (talk · contribs), Zacheus (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: -jkb- and Zacheus are admonished for their behaviour, and directed to refrain from importing outside disputes into the English Wikipedia, disclosing real names or other identifying personal information on-wiki, and from making personal attacks and uncivil remarks.

July

  • Miskin Decided July 27, 2007
    • Parties: Swatjester (talk · contribs), Miskin (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: Miskin is cautioned to gain a consensus on article talk pages before making further edits if his first edits are reverted. Swatjester is advised to take into account the length of time between previous blocks when blocking users, and to treat all editors violating the three-revert rule fairly.
  • Paranormal Decided 27 July 2007
    • Parties: Dradin (talk · contribs), Kazuba (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: Dradin and any other editor who is involved professionally or avocationally in the paranormal is cautioned regarding aggressive editing of articles which relate to the particular subjects they are involved with. Kazuba is cautioned to extend good faith to Dradin if he edits and to avoid including disparaging material about Dean Radin on his user page.
  • CharlotteWebb Decided 18 July 2007
    • Parties: KamrynMatika (talk · contribs), CharlotteWebb (talk · contribs), Jayjg (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: The Arbitration Committee notes that CharlotteWebb remains a user in good standing, and is welcome to return to editing at any time. Jayjg is reminded to to avoid generating drama by making public proclamations of misbehavior before attempting private discussion and resolution of the issue.
  • Hkelkar 2 Decided 11 July 2007
    • Parties: Rama's Arrow (talk · contribs), Bakasuprman (talk · contribs), Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (talk · contribs), Dangerous-Boy (talk · contribs), Dbachmann (talk · contribs), Sbhushan (talk · contribs), DaGizza (talk · contribs), AMbroodEY (talk · contribs), Scheibenzahl (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: The parties to this case are strongly encouraged to enter into mediation arrangements regarding any disputes over article content that may still be outstanding. All parties are reminded in the strongest possible terms that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a forum for conspiracy, personal attacks, nor the continuation of ethnic disputes by other means. "Parties who continue such behaviour, and parties who consider it their moral duty to call out such behaviour, will be hit on the head with sticks until the situation improves." Rama's Arrow is desysopped, but is welcome to apply for reinstatement at RfA at any time. As always, administrators should not use their administrative powers in conflicts or disagreements they are involved in. Administrators who are parties to this case are reminded that they should find an uninvolved admin to determine if blocks or other actions against any other parties to the case are appropriate, and should under no circumstances take such actions themselves. Any party that violates the ban on admin actions imposed in this case will be summarily desysopped once the violation is brought to the attention of the Arbitration Committee.

June

  • Four cases
  • E104421-Tajik Decided on 29 June 2007
    • Parties: E104421 (talk · contribs), Tajik (talk · contribs), AzaToth (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: The current indefinite community ban on Tajik is endorsed; concurrently, Tajik is banned for one year by the Arbitration Committee. AzaToth is reminded that Wikipedia operates by consensus and advised that he may wish to be more responsive to other users' reactions.
  • Koavf Decided on 6 June 2007
    • Parties: Koavf (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: By an open motion made on the main Requests for arbitration page, the indefinite ban on Koavf is replaced by revert parole. He is limited to one content reversion per page per day, and may be reblocked briefly for each violation, extending to indefinite after 3 blocks, depending on the blocking administrator's discretion.
  • Zeq-Zero0000 Decided on 1 June 2007
    • Parties: Zeq (talk · contribs), Zero0000 (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: Zer0000 is advised not to take any further administrator actions against or in relation to Zeq, including but not limited to enforcement actions under their prior arbitration case, and admonished that so long as an editor, including one on probation, is not restricted in their editing of a page or area they are entitled to be accorded good faith and be treated with respect and courtesy when they edit in those areas.

May

April

March

  • Barrett v. Rosenthal decided 27 March 2007
    • Parties: Ilena (talk · contribs), Fyslee (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: Ilena is banned for one year and banned from editing articles and talk pages related to alternative medicine except talk pages related to breast implants. Fyslee is cautioned to edit in accordance with policy.
  • Philwelch Decided 6 March 2007
    • Parties: Philwelch (talk · contribs), others
    • Remedies: Philwelch, who was voluntarily desysopped while the request for arbitration was pending, may not be automatically restored to adminship. If he desires, he may seek adminship again through RFA.

February

  • Five cases (one was dismissed)
  • WLU-Mystar Decided 23 February 2007.
    • Parties: Mystar (talk · contribs), WLU (talk · contribs)
    • Result: WLU and Mystar are prohibited from interacting with each other, directly or indirectly, on any Wikipedia page, and may be blocked for up to one week for each violation. For the purpose of this remedy, any edit by either WLU or Mystar to one of the articles over which they had previously been in conflict (including, but not limited to, Terry Goodkind and Lupus Erythematosus) shall be considered an interaction with the other party.
  • Piotrus-Ghirla Dismissed on 1 February 2007 due to inactivity of one of the two parties and ongoing mediation.

January

  • Naming Conventions Decided 19 January 2007
    • Parties: Wknight94 (talk · contribs), Yaksha (talk · contribs), Ned Scott (talk · contribs), Josiah Rowe (talk · contribs), Elonka (talk · contribs)
    • Remedies: It is the responsibility of administrators and other responsible parties to close extended policy discussions, such as this dispute. Closing consists of announcing the decision at the locations of the discussion and briefly explaining the basis for closing it in the way it is being closed; further, to change any policy pages, guidelines or naming conventions to conform with the decision; and finally, to enforce the decision with respect to recalcitrant users who violate the decision, after reminding them and warning them. Izzy Dot's editing privileges are suspended for a period of 14 days. Any user who purposely violates the consensus decision in this matter during the next 180 days may be briefly blocked.

2006

  • One-hundred-and-sixteen cases

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

March

February

  • Twenty-one cases (one of them closed as merge)
  • WebEx and Min Zhu -- Decided on 27 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Larvatus, User:Henryuzi, User:FeloniousMonk, User:FCYTravis and two others.
    • Remedies: Larvatus and HentryUzi are both banned from editing any article any article which relates to WebEx or Min Zhu and his daughter. and are both placed on Probation. The remedies on HenryUzi are to apply to any socks and meatpuppets as may surface. FeloniousMonk is admonished not to use his administrative tools or give warnings in content disputes in which he is involved. FCYTravis is admonished not to use administrative rollback button in content disputes.
  • Tommstein -- Decided on 26 February 2006.
    • Parties:User:Tommstein, User:Central, User:Duffer1 and four others.
    • Remedies: community ban on Tommstein endorsed by the Committee. Central placed on standard personal attack parole for one year and probation for one year. Duffer1 warned regarding incivility and edit warring.
  • Sortan -- Decided on 25 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Jguk and User:Sortan.
    • Remedies: Sortan is warned regarding stalking Jguk. The remedy at jguk 2 is extended: Jguk is banned from editing any page or article which relates to era notation including policy pages.
  • Theodore7 -- Decided on 20 February 2006.
  • RJII v. Firebug -- Decided on 18 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Firebug, User:RJII, and User:Jkelly (third party).
    • Remedies: RJII is placed on personal attack parole, probation, and general probation; is cautioned regarding POV editing. Firebug is counseled not to expect perfection from other editors.
  • KDRGibby -- Decided on 18 February 2006.
  • Rajput -- Decided on 17 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Dbachmann, User:Zora, User:Taaoo, User:Sisodia, User:AMbroodEY, User:Gurkhaboy, User:Shivraj Singh, User:DPSingh, and a number of sockpuppets.
    • Remedies: Shivraj Singh, DPSingh, Gurkhaboy, Ss india, Son of Kurus, Sisodia, 195.162.223.222, Suryabandhu, Kinsman of the Sun, Indologist, shonan, 220.227.238.195, and other related sockpuppets are banned from editing articles relating to Rajput. All editors on Rajput are reminded of basic Wikipedia policies regarding NPOV, verifiability, and citing sources.
      • Amended on 25 April 2006. DPSingh is banned for one year for continuing to violate his ban.
  • Carl Hewitt -- Decided on 17 February 2006.
  • Ruy Lopez - Merged into Appeal of VeryVerily on 12 February 2006.
  • Freestylefrappe - Decided on 12 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:SCZenz and User:Freestylefrappe
    • Remedies: Freestylefrappe desysopped, may reapply at anytime.
      • Amended on 10 September 2006. Freestylefrappe is restricted to one account
  • Reddi 2 - Decided on 11 February 2006.
  • Pedophilia userbox wheel war - Decided on 10 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:El C, User:BorgHunter, User:Paroxysm, User:Carnildo, User:Ashibaka, User:Dschor, User:Karmafist, User:Carbonite, User:SPUI and others.
    • Remedies:
      • EL C's sysop powers (temporarily removed by Jimbo) to be restored at the end of the case;
      • BorgHunter's sysop powers (temporarily removed by Jimbo) to be restored two days after the end of the case;
      • Paroxysm banned for three days after the end of the case;
      • Carnildo desysopped, may reapply two weeks after case closes;
      • Ashibaka to lose sysop powers for two weeks only, after which they are to be restored;
      • Dschor banned for two months and placed on probation, with an option to appeal for lifting of sanctions after two months'
      • Karmafist desysopped, may reapply two weeks after case closes;
      • Dschor and Paroxysm prohibited from creating or editing userboxes (either templatized or hard-coded into a userpage);
      • Carbonite, El C, and BorgHunter are reprimanded for inappropriate use of their administrator tools, and are instructed to exercise more caution in using them in the future;
      • SPUI banned for ten days and placed on probation.
  • EffK - Decided on 7 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:EffK, User:Famekeeper, and User:Robert McClenon.
    • Remedies: EffK is banned from all articles relating to the Catholic Church, and is banned from Wikipedia for one year. If EffK disrupts any article (including its talk page), he may, at the decision of any administrator, be banned from editing that article (and, if applicable, its talk page) for a period of no more than three months.
  • Beckjord - Decided on 7 February 2006.
  • Deeceevoice - Decided on 6 February 2006.
  • Benjamin Gatti - Decided on 6 February 2006.
  • Neuro-linguistic programming - Decided on 6 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:FT2 v. User:HeadleyDown, User:JPLogan, User:DaveRight, User:AliceDeGrey, User:Bookmain, and various suspected sockpuppets.
    • Remedies: Comaze, HeadleyDown, JPLogan, Camridge, DaveRight, and AliceDeGrey are all reminded about adequate sourcing content, NPOV, and to discuss any reversions on article talk pages. The Neuro-linguistic programming article and all related pages are placed on a probation, where any administrator can ban any user from those article. The Neuro-linguistic programming article is also placed under mentorship.
  • Xed 2 - Decided on 4 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Xed and User:Snowspinner.
    • Remedies: Xed is warned regarding personal attacks and citing unreliable sources; and is placed on indefinite personal attack parole. User:Viriditas is commended for his work in dealing with Xed, maintaining a courteous attitude toward the difficult user.
  • Winter Soldier - Decided on 3 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Travb, User:TDC, and an anonymous editor in the IP range 165.247.xxx.xxx.
    • Remedies: TDC and the anonymous 165.247.xxx.xxx editor are banned from editing Winter Soldier Investigation for one year. if either party wishes to appeal the ban, they can do so after three months.
  • Johnski - Decided on 2 February 2006.
    • Parties: User:Davidpdx and others v. User:Johnski and his various suspected sockpuppets
    • Remedies: Dominion of Melchizedek and associated articles shall be semi-protected. However, the article may be unprotected (and reprotected) at the discretion of any admin who deems it safe to do so. If necessary, Johnski or any other suspected sockpuppet of his may be blocked indefinitely.
  • Copperchair - Decided on 1 February 2006.

January

  • Four cases
  • Robert I - Decided on 31 January 2006.
    • Parties: User:CJCurrie, User:HOTR, User:Robert I, and various anonymous IPs.
    • Remedies: Robert I is banned pending the resolution of all legal disputes. If and when this ban is lifted, Robert I is to be placed on probation, placed on a one-year ban from any articles relating to Gregory Lauder-Frost, and is required to use only one account.
  • Gibraltarian - Decided on 30 January 2006.
    • Parties: User:Ecemaml and User:Gibraltarian.
    • Remedies: No action is taken on the indefinite block placed against Gibraltarian in mid-December 2005, but it is recommended that no one unblock him unless he promises to comply with this decision. If and when this block is lifted, Gibraltarian is to be placed on personal attack parole, placed on a one-year probation regarding Gibraltar-related articles, and placed on an indefinite general probation.
  • AndriyK - Decided on 27 January 2006.
  • Webcomics - Decided on 25 January 2006.
    • Parties: User:Snowspinner, User:Dragonfiend, and User:Aaron Brenneman.
    • Remedies: Aaron Brenneman is admonished to be respectful of consensus in creating and altering Wikipedia policy. Aaron Brenneman, Dragonfiend, Snowspinner, and Tony Sidaway are all cautioned to remain civil even in stressful discussions.

2005

  • One hundred cases

December

  • Ten cases
  • Wilkes, Wyss and Onefortyone - Decided on 24 December 2005. Ted Wilkes and Wyss are both placed on probation indefinitely; both are banned from making edits related to a person's alleged sexual orientation.
  • Nobs01 and others - Decided on 23 December 2005. The editing ban ruled on Lyndon LaRouche 2 is expanded to include articles Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates, and Dennis King. Nobs01 is banned for one year (until 23 December 2006); is placed on indefinite probation, allowing three administrators to place restrictions on his editing, including a general ban. Cognition is banned for one month (until 23 January 2006); placed on indefinite personal attack parole; is banned from Lyndon LaRouche-related articles per the prior arbitration case. Herschelkrustofsky is placed on a one-year probation, allowing three administrators to place restrictions on his editing, including a general ban. Rangerdude is placed on a one-year probation, allowing administrators to ban Rangerdude from any article where the user's editing is considered disruptive.
  • Ultramarine - Decided on 23 December 2005. Ultramarine, Pmanderson, and Robert A. West are instructed to reach a consensus on the article Democratic peace theory. If any of them persist in sterile revert warring, admins may block them for a short period (up to a week) for each revert.
  • FuelWagon v. Ed Poor - Decided on 23 December 2005. FuelWagon is banned for six months (until 23 June 2006); is limited to one revert per article per week; is placed on indefinite general probation, allowing any three administrators to place limitations on his editing. Ed Poor is desysopped.
  • Climate change dispute 2/SEWilco - Decided on 23 December 2005. SEWilco is placed on indefinite probation; is cautioned not to strictly apply Arbitration Committee rulings; is prohibited from converting citation styles, either by bot or manually. The one revert parole placed on William M. Connolley in the prior case is removed
  • Regarding Ted Kennedy - Decided on 20 December 2005. Labgal, FishingGuy99, and 24.147.97.230 are banned for three months (until 20 March 2006). Those users and any users with similar editing patterns are banned from Kennedy family-related articles and talk pages for one year (until 20 December 2006).
  • Rangerdude - Decided on 18 December 2005. Rangerdude is placed on a one-year probation. Rangerdude and Willcmw are both admonished regarding their actions with respect to separate Wikipedians with their own articles. Cberlet and Nskinsella are cautioned to avoid over-involvement in the articles about themselves. Nskinsella is cautioned to avoid personal attacks.
  • Pigsonthewing - Decided on 9 December 2005. Pigsonthewing is banned for one day; is placed indefinite probation; is limited to one revert per article per week, excluding simple vandalism, for a period of one year. Karmafist is prohibited from any administrator activity which relates to Pigsonthewing.
    • Amended by open motion on 25 January 2006. Pigsonthewing is banned for one year (until 25 January 2007).
  • Rex071404 4 - Decided on 6 December 2005. Rex071404 is permanently banned from editing the John Kerry article; If Rex should begin similiar problematic editing at any other article, any admin may prohibit him from editing on that page.
  • Instantnood 2 - Decided on 4 December 2005. Instantnood, Huaiwei, and SchmuckyTheCat are all placed on probation for one year in regard to China-related articles. Instantnood is restricted to proposing only one page move, poll of editors, or policy change relating to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese) per week.

November

  • Fourteen cases
  • Silverback - Decided on 28 November 2005. Silverback is placed on personal attack parole for six months (until 28 April 2006); Is limited to one revert per article, per week.
  • Maoririder - Decided on 26 November 2005. Maoririder is placed under a mentorship.
  • Lightbringer - Decided on 23 November 2005. Lightbringer is placed on personal attack parole for six months (until 23 July 2006); is banned indefinitely from editing any article or talk page related to freemasonry, and may be briefly blocked, up to a week, in the case of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks, the maximum length of a block shall increase to one year.
    • Amended: Banned for one year
  • Stevertigo - Decided on 18 November 2005. Stevertigo is desysopped.
  • Polygamy - Decided on 14 November 2005. Researcher99 is banned indefinitely from editing articles which relate to polygamy, and may be briefly blocked, up to a week, in the case of repeat offenses. After 5 blocks, the maximum length of a block shall increase to one year.
  • REX - Decided on 14 November 2005. Matia.gr, Theathenae, and REX are placed on personal attack parole.
  • Louis Epstein - Decided on 12 November 2005. Louis Epstein, editing under any user name, as 12.144.5.2 or any other anonymous IP, may be briefly blocked if he neglects use of conventional punctuation. During 2005 no block shall exceed one day. During 2006 no block shall exceed one week. During 2007 no block shall exceed one month. Thereafter no block shall exceed one year.
    • This decision is not to be enforced so long as Babajobu is fixing Louis Epstein's punctuation habits as per his voluntary offer [4].
  • Zephram Stark - Decided on 12 November 2005. Zephram Stark is banned for six months; is placed on probation for one year (until 12 November 2006); is banned from Terrorism and all related articles.
  • jguk 2 - Decided on 11 November 2005. Jguk is indefinitely prohibited from changing BCE to BC or CE to AD in any article, for any reason, and may be briefly banned, up to a week in the case of repeated offenses.
    • Extended by Sortan on 25 February 2006 (see above).
  • Regarding The Bogdanov Affair - Decided on 11 November 2005. All user accounts used by participants in the external controversy are indefinitely banned from editing Bogdanov Affair and its talk page. A notice shall also be placed at the top of the article Bogdanov Affair which which briefly explains that the Wikipedia article has, in part, been conflated with the external event, the Bogdanov Affair, due to participation in editing of the article by participants in the event.
  • Everyking 3 - Decided on 11 November 2005. Everyking is prohibited for one year from posting to the administrator's noticeboard and subpages thereof; is prohibited from making comments on non-editorial actions taken by other administrators other than on the administrator's talk page, a Request for comment, or a Request for arbitration; is required to familiarize himself with the particulars of a situation before commenting on it.
  • BigDaddy777 - Decided on 9 November 2005. BigDaddy777 is banned for one year; is banned indefinitely from editing on topics related to American politics. Should BigDaddy777 be released by any administrator from the indefinite block imposed on him the other remedies imposed in this decision shall take effect at that point.
  • DreamGuy - Closed on 7 November 2005 without action.
  • Onefortyone - Decided on 3 November 2005. Onefortyone is placed on probation with respect to the biographies of celebrities. He may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research.

October

  • Nine cases
  • Keetoowah - Decided on 28 October 2005. Keetoowah is placed on personal attack parole. For any violation, he may be banned for up to three days.
  • DotSix - Decided on 28 October 2005. DotSix and all his sockpuppets are banned for one year (until 28 October 2006).
  • Rainbowwarrior1977 - Decided on 27 October 2005. Rainbowwarrior1977 is blocked indefinitely.
  • ArmchairVexillologistDon - Decided on 24 October 2005. ArmchairVexillologistDon is banned for one year (until 24 October 2006)
  • -Ril- - Decided on 22 October 2005. Ril is required to adopt an un-confusing signature; is banned for one month; may be blocked for a short period, up to 3 days, if he speedy-delete tags an article for reasons not listed in the Criteria for Speedy Deletion, or removes comments made by another user (for reasons other than archiving).
    • Superseded by -Ril- 2 on 28 March 2006 (see above).
  • Rktect - Decided on 22 October 2005. Rktect is banned indefinitely from all articles which relate to weights and measures (metrology). He may be briefly banned, up to one week, in the case of repeat offenses.
  • Zen-master - Decided on 15 October 2005. Zen-master is banned for one week for personal attacks; is placed on probation for one year, and during that time may be banned from any article which relates to race and intelligence if in the opinion of any administrator his editing is disruptive.
    • Modified on 14 December 2005. The one year probation is extended, from specific to race and intelligence, to include all articles.
    • Modified on 6 February 2006. Zen-Master is banned for one year. [5]
  • Yuber - Decided on 9 October 2005. Yuber and Guy Montag are placed on article-related probation of any article which relates to Islam or to the Israeli-Paletinian conflict. Guy Montag is is banned for three months from editing articles which concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (until 6 January 2006). Jayjg is reminded to use Wikipedia's dispute resolution procedure instead of edit-warring.
  • Coolcat, Davenbelle and Stereotek - Decided on 5 October 2005. Coolcat is prohibited from mediating until he is officially appointed to the Mediation Committee; prohibited from restructuring the comments of others on the talk page of any article or any user talk page other than his own; is placed under a mentorship for one year. Davenbelle, Stereotek , and Fadix are counseled to let other editors and administrators take the lead in monitoring Cool Cat.

September

  • Six cases
  • AI - Decided on 29 September 2005. AI is banned from Wikipedia pending final resolution of all legal disputes with Wikipedia.
  • ArmchairVexillologistDon - Closed on 24 September 2005 at the request of the participants.
  • JarlaxleArtemis 2 - Closed on 24 September 2005, following an indefinite block on JarlaxleArtemis for reasons cited on User:Linuxbeak/Admin stuff/JarlaxleArtemis.
  • OldRight - Decided on 14 September 2005. OldRight is placed on Probation for one year (until 14 September 2006).
  • Ed Poor - Closed on 13 September 2005, following Ed Poor's offered to resign as a Wikipedia Bureaucrat.
  • Gabrielsimon - Decided on 4 September 2005. Gabrielsimon is banned from editing Wikipedia for one month (until 4 October 2005), placed on parole such that any three sysops may block him for up to a month if he continues to be disruptive until he has not been so banned for 6 months, and limited to one revert per day per article. In addition he is limited to three reverts in total per 24 hours. He is instructed not to revert war at all and instead engage in dialogue on the talk pages of articles.

August

  • Eight cases
  • Argyrosargyrou - Decided on 21 August 2005. Argyrosargyrou is banned from Wikipedia for six months (until 21 February 2006), required not to use secondary accounts, and banned from all articles relating to Cyprus for six months from the end of the ban (from 22 February 2006 until 21 August 2006, unless the ban is reset).
  • Emico - Decided on 21 August 2005. Onlytofind is placed on personal attack parole for one year, and Emico is placed on personal attack parole for three months and banned from the articles Iglesia ni Cristo, Bereans, Erano Manalo, Felix Manalo, and Eduardo Manalo for one year.
  • Mlorrey - Decided on 15 August 2005. Mlorrey is banned from Wikipedia indefinitely pending resolution of his legal dispute with users Meelar and Firebug. Mlorrey is furthe banned from articles and talk pages which relate to gun control for one year (until 15 August 2006).
  • Alfrem - Decided on 12 August 2005. Alfrem is banned from editing libertarianism or libertarianism-related articles for three months (except for talk pages). If he edits those articles during the ban, he may be block for a period not less than one day and not exceeding two weeks.
  • Skyring (re-opened) - Decided on 12 August 2005. Skyring is banned for one year.
  • Trey Stone and Davenbelle - Decided on 11 August 2005. Trey Stone and Davenbelle are banned for one year from editing articles which concern politics, particularly articles which concern the foreign relations of the United States.
  • Cantus 3 - Decided on 8 August 2005. Cantus is banned from editing Developed country, Template:Europe, and Terri Schiavo; is reminded to used edit summaries; is limited to one revert per article or other page per 30 day period, and may be blocked for a short period of time (up to a week) for a violations; breaking his revert limitation on any page by using sockpuppets or anon editing, he may be banned from that page for up to a month.
  • Plautus satire vs Raul654 (re-opened) - Decided on 2 August 2005. Plautus rebanned for another year

July

  • Four cases
  • Irate (re-opened) - Decided on 25 July 2005. Irate is on one year's personal attack parole.
  • Zivinbudas - Decided on 22 July 2005. Zivinbudas is banned for one year.
  • Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell - Decided on 21 July 2005. Tkorrovi and Paul Beardsell are placed under a six-month personal attack parole. Paul Beardsell is banned from editing artificial consciousness indefinitely, and Tkorrovi is banned from editing it for three months.
  • KaintheScion et al. Decided on 2 July 2005. User:Enviroknot is banned for one year; is required to use the account Enviroknot and no other.

June

  • Eight cases
  • Jguk - Decided on 30 June 2005. Jguk, Southerncomfort, and other involved users are warned strongly to abide by WP:DATE#Eras, specifically to not change date systems outright to their preferred style unless there is some substantial reason for the change.
  • Njyoder - Decided on 30 June 2005. Njyoder is banned for one year from editing articles related to gender or sexuality; placed under a one-year personal attack parole.
  • Climate change dispute - Decided on 26 June 2005. Cortonin is banned for six months from editing any article relating to climate change. William M. Connolley is hereby prohibited for six months from reverting any article relating to climate change more than once per 24 hour period (vandalism excepted). JonGwynne is banned from Wikipedia for three months; banned for six months from editing any article relating to climate change.
  • Skyring - Decided on June 2005. Skyring is banned for two months; banned for one year from editing any article (or talk page) which relates to the government or governance of Australia; placed under a one-year personal attack parole; admonished to be more civil and to cease attempts to provoke other contributors. Adam Carr is admonished to avoid discourtesy and personal attacks. Jtdirl is reminded that the best response to attempts to provoke is not to be provoked, and that valid edits should not be blindly reverted.
    • Reopened on 1 August 2005 (see above)
  • Internodeuser - Decided on 19 June 2005. Internodeuser is banned until one year after his most recent legal threat. Further legal threats will reset the ban, and the ban will remain in place during and after any formal action taken.
  • Instantnood, et al. - Closed on 7 June 2005. The dispute ended without need for intervention.
  • Wareware - Closed on 7 June 2005, following the user's departure from Wikipedia.
  • LevelCheck - Decided on 2 June 2005. LevelCheck is blocked indefinitely as a disruptive potential sockpuppet.

May

  • One case
  • Netoholic 2 - Decided on 5 May 2005. Netoholic is placed under the mentorship of Raul654, Kim Bruning and Grunt, with a suspended ban from editing the Wikipedia: and Template: namespaces for twelve months to be enacted should Netoholic decide the mentorship is not working.

April

  • Nine cases
  • John Gohde - Decided on 30 April 2005. John Gohde is banned for one year. Other remedies apply should he return after this time.
  • RJII - Closed on 23 April 2005 without decision. The original dispute appeared to have long been resolved (an article "definitions of capitalism" was created and linked from the opening paragraph of capitalism) and healthy amounts of interaction were occuring between the disputants (see e.g. recent edit history on capitalism and recent discussions at its talk page.)
  • Rex071404 3 - Decided on 23 April 2005. As Rex has banned himself voluntarily for six months, official sanction is given to this ban and he shall remain blocked for those six months.
  • 172 2 - Decided on 22 April 2005. 172 is requested to clarify this issue by stating whether he wishes to continue as an admin of Wikipedia
  • Irate - Decided on 17 April 2005. User:Irate is banned for three months. Decided on 25 July 2005: User:Irate is on one year's personal attack parole.
  • GRider - Decided on 10 April 2005. User:GRider is prohibited from editing any deletion-related page for a period of one year.
  • Baku Ibne, et al. - Decided on 10 April 2005. All sockpuppet accounts of LIGerasimova/Osmanoglou/etc. are to be blocked indefinitely and User:Rovoam is subject to a revert limitation and a personal attack parole.
  • RK 2 - Decided on 7 April 2005. The previous article ban is revoked and replaced with a revert limitation and personal attack parole for one year.
  • Everyking 2 - Decided on 5 April 2005. User:Everyking is prohibited from editing articles relating to Ashlee Simpson for one year, and may apply to have this sanction lifted in two months.

March

  • Nine cases
  • Dr Zen - Decided on 27 March 2005. Dr Zen is indefinitely prohibited from removing images from Clitoris.
  • Anthony DiPierro 2 - Decided on 26 March 2005. Anthony is subject to a one revert limitation, prohibited from creating deleted content that fails to pass a vote for undeletion, subject to ad hoc blocks for disruption, and banned from editing the Wikipedia namespace.
  • Noah Peters - Closed without action taken on 20 March 2005. No party to the dispute added evidence after the case was opened.
  • JarlaxleArtemis - Decided on 18 March 2005. JarlaxleArtemis is required to prepare and sign a statement that he has read and understood several Wikipedia policies and is prohibited from editing articles or uploading images until he has done so; if this is done and JarlaxleArtemis continues to demonstrate ignorance of Wikipedia policies, he may be banned for short amounts of time.
  • Robert Blair - Decided on 14 March 2005. Robert Blair is banned for a year from editing articles relating to medicine, circumcision or genitalia.
  • PSYCH - Decided on 12 March 2005. PSYCH is subject to personal attack parole.
  • Xed - Decided on 9 March 2005. Xed is banned for three months and subject to one years' personal attack parole. Slrubenstein is cautioned against making personal attacks.
  • JonGwynne - Decided on 6 March 2005. JonGwynne is subject to personal attack parole for three months and a one revert limitation on articles related to global warming.
  • CheeseDreams 2 - Decided on 3 March 2005. CheeseDreams is banned for 6 months for disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee; 3 months for abuse of Wikipedia processes and procedures; 3 months for abuse of sockpuppet accounts; and 6 months for significant disruption, relating to a dispute with Rienzo. Bans will run consecutively to a maximum of one year. Rienzo is banned for 6 months for significant disruption, relating to a dispute with CheeseDreams.
    • See also -Ril- and -Ril- 2. -Ril- determined to be a sock of CheeseDreams.

February

  • Seven cases
  • WikiUser - Decided on 26 February 2005. WikiUser is banned for one year for personal attacks, legal threats and other unreasonable behaviour. On his return he will be subject to bans of up to a week for any further disruptive or unreasonable behaviour.
  • Robert the Bruce - Decided on 18 February 2005. Robert the Bruce is banned for one year, and banned for a further year from sex-related articles. Numerous other editors are warned to improve their editing habits.
  • Lyndon LaRouche 2 - Decided on 15 February 2005. Herschelkrustofsky is restricted to one account, placed on POV parole, banned from making Lyndon LaRouche-related edits for one year, and cautioned against making personal attacks. SlimVirgin is similarly cautioned against making personsal attacks.
  • Gzornenplatz - Decided on 7 February 2005. Gzornenplatz, found to be Wik, is subjected to the hard ban applied to the latter with explicit note of the possibility of appeal.
  • Chuck F - Decided 6 February 2005. user:Chuck F is banned for 2 months and subject to various restrictions when he returns.
  • Charles Darwin-Lincoln dispute - Decided 04 February 2005. User:Adraeus and User:Vfp15 are banned for one month. On his return User:Vfp15 is prohibited from editing the articles Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln and their talk pages. He is also prohibited from reverting any article for three months.
  • Antifinnugor - Decided on 1 February 2005. Antifinnugor is placed on personal attack parole and prohibited from editing Finno-Ugric languages and Uralic languages for a year, with chance of appeal in three months.

January

  • Fifteen cases
  • Rienzo - Decided on 28 January 2005. Rienzo and associated sockpuppets are banned for three months. Personal attack parole applies.
  • Libertas - Decided on 28 January 2005. Libertas and all sockpuppets are banned for one year due to bad behavior. Other remedies apply.
  • 172 - Decided on 25 January 2005. 172 is placed on revert and edit summary parole for one month.
  • Everyking - Decided on 24 January 2005. Everyking is prohibited for one year from reverting articles related to Ashlee Simpson, and may apply in six months to have this restriction removed.
    Remedy 2.2 revert parole clarified on 26 February 2005. Any article which contains a link to Ashlee Simpson or mentioning Ashlee Simpson, see what links to Ashlee Simpson, is an article "relating to Ashlee Simpson"; therefore falling within the articles covered by the revert limitation, if Everyking is editing with respect to that portion of an article which is concerned with Ashlee Simpson and in the opinion of an administrator reverting the article.
  • 168.209.97.34 - Decided on 22 January 2005. -lothario- (identified as the user editing from this IP address) is banned for three days ending 25 January 2005 and is placed on POV parole.
  • ArmchairVexillologistDon Closed on 19 January 2005 with an open verdict; ArmchairVexillologistDon has ceased contributing to Wikipedia. Subject to reactivation should ArmchairVexillologistDon return.
  • IZAK - Decided on 18 January 2005. IZAK is banned for ten days and placed on personal attack parole for two months.
  • HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg - Decided on 16 January 2005. HistoryBuffEr is blocked for 60 days ending 17 March 2005 and is restricted in editing Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles; personal attack parole also applies. Both parties are prohibited for the period of editing restrictions (one year for HB, none for Jayjg) from removing adequately referenced information from Israeli-Palestinian conflict articles and may not revert changes which are purely structural reorganisation.
  • CheeseDreams - Decided on 12 January 2005. CheeseDreams is banned from editing in general for eight days, and from editing Christianity-related articles for one year. A two revert per twenty-four hour period limitation is also applied.
  • Ciz - Decided on 10 January 2005. Ciz and all other accounts are banned from editing articles related to zoophilia and placed on personal attack parole.
  • Alberuni - Decided on 10 January 2005. Alberuni is banned for a period of one year; personal attack parole is also applied, as well as a requirement to discuss all reverts.
  • User:66.20.28.21 and other accounts - Decided on 6 Jan 2005. 66.20.28.21 and other accounts are not permitted to edit disputed articles without communication, in violation of NPOV policies, or in violation of original research policies.
  • Netoholic - Closed on 2 Jan 2005 with an open verdict as the major involved disputants have since resolved their differences.
  • Gene Poole vs. Samboy - Decided on 1 Jan 2005. No remedies passed. (Gene Poole had recently left.)
  • Snowspinner vs. Lir - Decided on 1 January, 2005. Lir is banned from editing Wikipedia for one year. A standing order is also enacted indefinitely.

2004

  • Thirty-five cases

December

November

  • Eight cases
  • Cantus vs. Guanaco - Decided on 24 November, 2004. Cantus is limited to one revert per article per day and prohibited from editing Siberia or Clitoris. Guanaco must re-apply for adminship.
  • Irismeister 3 - Decided on 20 November, 2004. Irismeister is banned for one year. The personal attack parole on Irismeister is also altered: if he makes further personal attacks or legal threats, he may be banned for a period of up to one month, or up to one year in more extreme cases.
  • Avala - Decided on 17 November, 2004. Avala is required to follow majority opinion for one month, and required to cite sources supporting his claims for three months. Should he start to edit regularly again, he would be on probation for one year.
  • Rex071404 2 - Closed on 16 November, 2004, following his departure from Wikipedia.
  • Lance6wins - Decided on 12 November, 2004. Lance6wins is banned from editing any article relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Zero000 is desysopped for two weeks and on probation for two months thereafter.
  • Rex071404 - Closed on 12 November, 2004, following his departure from Wikipedia.
  • Jimmyvanthach - Decided on 12 November, 2004. Jimmyvanthach, Celindgrenand, and Tran Van Ba are prohibited from editing any article related to the Vietnamese royal family and recent Vietnamese history/politics.
  • RickK vs. Guanaco (ab initio "The Matter of Michael") - Jimbo unbanning Michael made the matter mostly moot. The only remedy was to award Guanaco for creative problem solving.

October

  • Four cases
  • RK - Decided October 14, 2004. RK is banned from Wikipedia for 4 months. Further, he is banned from all articles directly or indirectly related to Judaism for 1 year.
  • Orthogonal - Closed October 14, 2004, following his departure from Wikipedia. Subject to reactivation should he return.
  • JRR Trollkien - Closed October 2, 2004, with no findings of fact or decision. JRR Trollkien has long since left.
  • Kenneth Alan - Decided October 1, 2004, User:Kenneth Alan banned for one year. Enforcement provisions may be added before case is formally closed.

September

  • Four cases
  • K1 - Closed on 28 Sep 2004 with an open verdictafter.
  • ChrisO and Levzur Closed on 20 Sep 2004 with an open verdict; no ruling necessary, as Levzur has ceased contributing to Wikipedia.
  • User:PolishPoliticians - Decided on 18 Sep 2004, personal attack parole applied to PolishPoliticians and all new accounts on affected pages.
  • Lyndon LaRouche (Herschelkrustofsky, Adam Carr, John Kenney, and AndyL) - Decided on 12 Sep 2004, Adam Carr and Herschelkrustofsky are both banned for one day, and all editors of Lyndon LaRouche are warned regarding promotional material on that page.

August

  • Four cases
  • User:Guanaco versus User:Lir - Decided on 30 Aug 2004 to warn sysops to follow proper blocking guidelines.
  • Mr-Natural-Health - Decided on 26 Aug 2004. There was an earlier partial decision on 25 June.
  • Lir - Decided on 23 Aug 2004, blocked for 15 days, revert parole applied, and other remedies.
  • Cantus - Decided on 01 Aug 2004, apply a revert parole to Cantus and other remedies.

July

June

May

April

  • One case
  • Anthony DiPierro - Decided on 25th April 2004 to instruct Anthony with regards to his VfD edits, and refer other issues to mediation. The vote was unanimous with 6 votes in favour and 4 de-facto abstentions. Note that the case was accepted solely to investigate use of VfD.

March

  • Three cases
  • Irismeister - Decided on 31st March 2004 that Irismeister would be banned from editing all pages for ten days, and banned from editing Iridology indefinitely. Decision can be found at Irismeister/Decision.
  • Wik - Decided on 15th March 2004 that Wik would have a three month probation during which he may be temp-banned in certain circumstances. There were six votes in favour, three opposed, and one de-facto abstention. Further decisions and minority opinions can be read at Wik/Decision.
  • Plautus satire vs Raul654 - Decided on 11th March 2004 that Plautus satire is to be banned for one year, up to and including March 11 2005. The vote was unanimous with 8 votes in favour and 1 de-facto abstention; a further vote in favour of extending the ban indefinitely was held but not met.

February

  • One case
  • Theresa knott vs. Mr-Natural-Health - Decided on 11th February 2004 that Mr-Natural-Health would be banned from editing for 30 days (i.e., until 12 Mar 2004). The vote was 6-2 in favor of banning, with 2 explicit and 1 de-facto abstention.
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