Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

Arbitration​Committee

This noticeboard is for announcements and statements made by the Arbitration Committee. Only members of the Arbitration Committee or the Committee's Clerks may post on this page, but all editors are encouraged to comment on the talk page.

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Arbitration motion regarding a case request about User:YellowMonkey

Passed by a vote of 8-2 at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case:

The Arbitration Committee has considered the request for arbitration (filed 30 November 2010) concerning administrator actions by YellowMonkey, which followed a request for comment on similar issues (certified 23 November). Although YellowMonkey responded to the original issues raised in the request for comment, he has not edited since 24 November 2010 (six days before the arbitration request was filed) and has not yet been afforded the opportunity to address the new issues raised in the request for comment or in this arbitration request. Accordingly, the arbitration request is declined as premature, and those wishing to engage in dispute resolution on this matter (including YellowMonkey) are directed to the request for comment or other appropriate venues.

For the Arbitration Committee, NW (Talk) 21:18, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Personnel changes effective 1 January 2011

Effective 1 January 2011, the Arbitration Committee membership is as follows:

• Casliber (talk · contribs)
• Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk · contribs)
• Cool Hand Luke (talk · contribs)
• Coren (talk · contribs)
• David Fuchs (talk · contribs)
• Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs)
• Iridescent (talk · contribs)
• Jclemens (talk · contribs)
• John Vandenberg (talk · contribs)
• Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs)
• Mailer diablo (talk · contribs)
• Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs)
• PhilKnight (talk · contribs)
• Risker (talk · contribs)
• Roger Davies (talk · contribs)
• Shell Kinney (talk · contribs)
• SirFozzie (talk · contribs)
• Xeno (talk · contribs)

The following new arbitrators are granted both CheckUser and Oversight permissions, per their request:

• Casliber (talk · contribs) (Arbcom-related use only)
• Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk · contribs)
• Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs)
• Iridescent (talk · contribs) (Arbcom-related use only)
• Jclemens (talk · contribs)
• PhilKnight (talk · contribs)
• Xeno (talk · contribs) (Arbcom-related use only)

The Arbitrator members of the Audit Subcommittee (AUSC) are:

• Xeno
• Jclemens
• Risker

The members of the Ban Appeals Subcommittee (BASC) for the first three months of 2011 are:

• Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry
• PhilKnight
• Cool Hand Luke
• Shell Kinney will continue as co-ordinator of this subcommittee.

The following members of the Arbitration Committee are retiring as of 1 January 2011:

• Carcharoth (talk · contribs)
• FayssalF (talk · contribs)
• KnightLago (talk · contribs)

The Arbitration Committee expresses its thanks to all three for their service throughout their respective terms. KnightLago and Carcharoth may elect to remain active on the two requests for arbitration that are currently open, and will notify the clerks directly of their intentions.

With respect to CheckUser and Oversight permissions:

• KnightLago will continue with both CheckUser and Oversight permissions
• Carcharoth has requested that his CheckUser and Oversight permissions be removed
• FayssalF's CheckUser permissions are removed due to inactive status

In addition:

• FloNight (talk · contribs) is granted extension of Oversight and CheckUser permissions until further notice.
• Bastique (talk · contribs) is granted Oversight permissions further to the Arbitration Committee announcement posted 27 August 2010.

We thank all members, past and present, of the Arbitration Committee and the Functionaries group for their continued support and effort on behalf of Wikipedia over the past year.

For the Arbitration Committee,

Risker (talk) 23:58, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Change in status - Arbitration Committee clerk

This serves to confirm that NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs) is formally appointed as a full clerk to the Arbitration Committee. NuclearWarfare has been acting in this role for an extended period, and has been amongst the most active members of the clerking cadre. The Committee appreciates his continued diligence in this area.

For the Arbitration Committee,

Risker (talk) 19:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Arbitration Clerks Seeking New Volunteers

The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks are simple—opening, closing, passing and declining cases and motions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; and preserving order and proper formatting on cases. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.

Past clerks have gone on to be (or already were) successful lawyers, naval officers, and Presidents of Wikimedia Chapters. The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot.

Please email clerks-llists.wikimedia.org if you are interested in becoming a clerk, and a clerk will reply with an acknowledgement of your message and any questions we want to put to you.

For the Arbitration Committee clerks,
NW (Talk) 20:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria

At Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment, the Arbitration Committee reviewed a request by User:Jayjg to remove editing restrictions placed on him in the abovementioned case. By a vote of 12-0, the Committee passed the following motion:

In view of his compliance with Remedy 11 of the West Bank - Judea and Samaria case, the editing restrictions placed on Jayjg (talk · contribs) in that same case are lifted effective at the passage of this motion. Jayjg is reminded that articles in the area of conflict, which is identical to the area of conflict as defined by the Palestine-Israel articles case, remain the subject of discretionary sanctions; should he edit within this topic area, those discretionary sanctions continue to apply.

For the Arbitration Committee,
NW (Talk) 18:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Ban appeal by User:Turbotad

The Arbitration Committee en banc has allowed the appeal of:

• Turbotad (talk · contribs · logs)

The details of the decision have been posted on the editor's talk page.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger ^talk 10:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Sanctions appeal by User:Koavf

Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment:

The restrictions placed upon Koavf (talk · contribs) in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Koavf and in User:Koavf/Community sanction are terminated, effective immediately. Koavf is reminded to edit in the future in full accordance with all Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

For the Arbitration Committee,
NW (Talk) 05:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/World War II

This Arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedies have been passed:

• Communicat (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing or commenting on articles about World War II or the Aftermath of World War II. This prohibition is of indefinite duration, but may be appealed to the Committee by Communicat after six months;
• Communicat is placed under a behavioral editing restriction for a period of one year.

For the Arbitration Committee,
AGK [•] 15:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

User:X!, our new Arbitration clerk

The Arbitration clerks would like to welcome User:X! to the clerk team as a trainee!

At the same time, the call for volunteers that we issued last week is still applicable. Users who would like to join the clerk team, whether they be administrators or not, are welcome to apply by sending an email to clerks-l@lists.wikimedia.org. NW (Talk) 17:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion

Appeal to BASC: SanchiTachi

The Ban Appeals Subcommittee has allowed the appeal of:

• SanchiTachi (talk · contribs)

The text of the decision has been posted on the editor's talk page.

For the Arbitration Committee, Shell ^babelfish 19:26, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Archived discussion