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This user is banned from Wikipedia for one year, under the following ArbComm ruling:

User:Skyring is banned from Wikipedia for one year for wiki-stalking and acting in bad faith towards other contributors, as demonstrated in evidence. Any attempt at sockpuppetry shall, as per policy, result in this ban being reset. 

   Passed 5-0, 22:10, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

As the user breached the ban with an edit on the 15th of August, the ban has been reset as an from today. All breaches of the ban, as per ruling, will result in the ban being reset to run from the day of the breach for one year. Should no breaches occur, Skyring will be eligible to return to Wikipedia on 15 August 2006.

Due to breaches in the ban, namely use of a series of sockpuppets (running total: a suspected 14), the one year ban has now been restarted and will expire on 22 August 2006.

A subsequent edit, openly by Skyring, means that the ban has been reset and now will expire, subject to no more edits, on 25 August 2006.

As the user reappeared on Wikipedia with yet another sockpuppet, the 1 year ban has been restarted and is due to end, subject to no further edits, on 29 August 2006.

A further breach has led to the restarting of the ban. It is due to expire, subject to no more future edits, on 17 September 2006.

Ban extended to 30 September 2006. [1]

And to 4 October 2006. --fvw* 23:14, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Ban renewed until 17 October 2006 due to use of admitted use of sockpuppet 203.51.30.105. To date since his ban the user has run at least 29 31 suspected and proven sockpuppets. The total does not include other sockpuppets, both proven and suspected, who were not recorded on the sockpuppet page when blocked by various users, and many other IPs that were automatically blocked by Wikipedia when Skyring attempted to use them to circumvent his one year ban. Skyring has also been banned from the W-list for personal attacks.

A further attempt at evasion has extended the ban until 18th October 2006. Rob Church Talk | FAHD 23:28, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

This block has been extended to October 19, 2005. Bratschetalk | Esperanza 00:14, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

One year ban restarted due to use of in excess of 30 sockpuppets in last few days. (More than 5 in last 10 minutes. Will finish if no more sockpuppet usage on 20 October 2006.

Restarted due another breach. Will end 24 October 2006 if no more breaches.

Ban restarted due to another 15 breaches. Will end 25 October 2006. Will be extended as long as this user keeps editing pages using sockpuppets in breach of arbcom ruling.

Now 26 October 2006.

Skyring record since his original banning

Some of Skyring's suspected & proven sockpuppets since his 1st September 2005 ban

  1. 144.138.154.241
  2. 139.168.158.170
  3. 139.168.157.152
  4. 139.168.158.161
  5. 139.168.159.1
  6. 139.168.159.95
  7. 143.238.244.146
  8. 143.238.244.181
  9. 143.238.244.30
  10. 143.238.244.52
  11. 143.238.244.73
  12. 144.131.118.150
  13. 144.131.119.225
  14. 203.51.24.117
  15. 203.51.24.233
  16. 203.51.25.203
  17. 203.51.25.229
  18. 203.51.25.90
  19. 203.51.30.105
  20. 203.51.31.100
  21. 203.51.31.98
  22. 203.51.35.13
  23. 203.51.35.78
  24. 62.24.143.171
  25. AULDBITCH LOVES YOU
  26. Aroundtheworld
  27. Blue Moon Cocktail Bar
  28. DataCommander
  29. DoctorGrace
  30. DungareeDoll
  31. IloveParis
  32. MagicSpeller
  33. Notanerd
  34. Onlyapapermoon
  35. Rainrainrain
  36. Rasptongue
  37. Safeground
  38. Statue of limitations
  39. TheOneGirl
  40. Truetoform
  41. WaspFactory
  42. Called Jim
  43. Declared with a grin
  44. Except for the tool
  45. FamousRay
  46. Flatulent
  47. For playing the fool
  48. GuaranteedTrue
  49. Halfinch
  50. He's a good bloke and
  51. HisHoliness
  52. Lackaday-oh
  53. Laughter's no sin!
  54. Mandriver
  55. Mineeyes
  56. Not A Joke Joyce
  57. NudgeNudge
  58. QueenVickie
  59. SayNoMore
  60. Swinglow
  61. TurningHeads
  62. Ubuntu
  63. UncleJo
  64. EZ-SpelChek
  65. What a Friend
  66. WrongAgain

Many other IPs used have not been listed.

Over 300 edits were made contrary to the ban imposed by the ArbComm.

Happy to be here!

Skyring

My name's Peter and I'm happy to be a small part of a great project. My interests lie more in the direction of hunting down and killing errors or refining awkward phrasing than in creating huge slabs of text, but I think there's a definite role for me here!

I'm middle aged, balding, married, a parent, a bookseller, a programmer, an ex-political journalist, ex-hacker, ex-public servant, occasional author and artist. Catholic in tastes, militant middle of the road in politics, conservative republican and passionate democrat. I live in Canberra in a house packed to the rafters with thousands, countless thousands according to my inventory program, of books of all shapes, sizes and types.

If you want to know more about me, check out my Bookcrossing bookshelf and my LiveJournal blog. I've recently returned from trips to New Zealand, the UK and the USA, which are summarised here.

The following material is being assembled to provide a handy reference.

Views on the Australian Head of State

It may seem odd to state that there is a diversity of opinion as to the identity of the Australian head of state, and I can understand why some people have difficulty with this, but the demonstrable fact is that this diversity of opinion exists, and if the Prime Minister himself believes that the Governor-General rather than the Queen is the head of state, then obviously this is something worthy of investigation.

As a Wikipedia editor, my own opinions are irrelevant, except to say that it is my firm opinion that Wikipedia articles should reflect fact rather than opinion.

The three views

There are three opinions as to who is the head of state:

  1. The Queen as sole head of state
  2. The Queen and Governor-General as joint heads of state with seperate roles
  3. The Governor-General as sole head of state

Government Sources

A Parliamentary Library Research Brief summarises the two "sole head of state" views in the context of "Who Must Open the Sydney Olympics?"[2]

If the Queen is not the Australian Head of State and the Governor-General is, he must open the Sydney Olympic Games as prescribed by the Olympic Charter of the IOC.
(The Governor-General opened the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The paper noted that the Queen could delegate her powers to the Governor-General, instructing him to open the games as her representative, but no such delegation was made, nor were any instructions issued.)

The Commonwealth Government Directory of March 1997 states that the Governor-General is the head of state on page ix under "Arrangement of entries"[3]

Entries are arranged in accordance with the formal structure of the Commonwealth Government. First is the Governor-General (the Head of State), with the Federal Executive Council (of which the Governor-General is the President)...
This directory is the official printed directory of Commonwealth government officers and representatives, published quarterly by the Australian Government Publishing Service in Canberra. It must be noted that the description of the Governor-General as head of state is not uniform from edition to edition, commencing during the years of the Keating Government and swapping from Governor-General to Queen and back again several times in the 11 years since.

Politicians

John Howard, Australian Prime Minister 1996-date.

The Queen is Queen of Australia. However, under our present constitution, the Governor-General is effectively Australia’s head of state.[John Howard's Statement on the Republic Referendum]

Simon Crean, Federal Opposition Leader 2001-2003, described the Governor-General as the head of state in an interview given during the Peter Hollingworth affair.[4]

Of course I do because I've known him over many years and he has done important work for the community. I also have sympathy for the circumstances of his wife and I expressed those to the Governor-General at ANZAC Day. But, you know, there's a whole lot emotions going here. But the truth of it is we're dealing with the Head of State and the Head of State cannot be a person who has covered up for child sex abusers.

Constitutional scholars

Others

Professor Owen E Hughes in Australian Politics, 3rd edition, Macmillan Education, Melbourne 1998, pp170-1

The Governor-General is the head of state and performs important ceremonial duties, but it is a mistake to see the role purely in those terms. The position is one of great formal power, both legal and political. The Constitution gives the Governor-General power to commission the government, appoint the ministers and command the military. Colin Howard argues this system is not a monarchy but a Governor-Generalship, with prerogative powers now deriving from the Constitution, rather than from being the Queen's representative.
The reference to Howard is in his The Constitution, Power and Politics, Melbourne, Fontana, 1980, p71.

US Department of State Background Note: Australia

Head of state is the governor general, who is appointed by the Queen of Australia (the British Monarch).[5]
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