Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement

This is a message board for coordinating and discussing enforcement of Arbitration Committee decisions. Administrators are needed to help enforce ArbCom decisions. Any user is welcome to request help here if it involves the violation of an ArbCom decision. Please make your comments concise. Administrators are less likely to pay attention to long diatribes.

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Enforcement

Enforcement requests against users should be based on the principles and decisions in their Arbitration case.

Please be aware that these pages aren't the place to bring disputes over content. Arbitration Committee decisions are generally about behavior, not content. Very few editors have content dispute prohibitions. Requests for Comments is still the best place to hash out content disputes.

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If an Arbitration case has not been finalized, it is not enforcable. In that case, bad behavior should be reported on WP:AN/I and you should consider adding the behavior to the /Evidence page of the Arbitration case.

Note to administrators: Arbitration Committee decisions are the last stop of dispute resolution. ArbCom has already decided that certain types of behavior by these users is not constructive to our purpose of building an encyclopedia. If you participate on this page you should be prepared to mete out potentially long term bans and you should expect reactive behavior from those banned. The enforcement mechanisms listed in each individual case should be constructed liberally in order to protect Wikipedia and keep it running efficiently. Not all enforcement requests will show behavior restricted by ArbCom. It may, however, violate other Wikipedia policies and guidelines which you may use administrative discretion to deal with.

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• Diffs showing the violating behavior
• Point to the final decision in their Arbitration case, a list with summary disposition is at WP:AER
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• Sign and date your report with Wikipedia's special signature format (~~~~). The archival bot uses the time stamp to determine when to archive reports.

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• Notify the user at his or her user talk page.

Archives

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Kosovo

The article on Kosovo is experiencing ongoing sockpuppetry and repeated violations of an Arbitration Committee injunction. A number of ultranationalist editors are trying to change the intro to a version which asserts their (decidedly non-mainstream) POV and wipes out many other innocuous changes, such as a gallery and interwiki links. The article is currently under an ArbCom injunction, but Vezaso (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has repeatedly violated it with sockpuppet edits, so far using Dardanv (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), Palmucha (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Semarforikuq (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Kushtrimxh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has also broken the injunction today. Vezaso sockpuppets are the main thing to look out for - if you see it being reverted to this version by a newly created user, that's almost certainly Vezaso again. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo#Log of blocks and bans lists the scorecard so far. I would encourage people to add Kosovo to their watchlists to keep an eye on the situation. -- ChrisO 23:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Intangible

Intangible (talk · contribs) - case: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Intangible.

Could someone have a look at the recent edits at Vlaams Belang and Bloed-Bodem-Eer en Trouw, especially the latter. I feel I'm being drawn into an edit war with Intangible again. In the latter article, he keeps removing a paragraph linking the neo nazi organisation with the Vlaams Belang, very loosely based indeed on WP:V. Thanks. Please have a word with him.

[1], [2] and [3]. (You'll find my two reverts inbetween those three.) --LucVerhelst 18:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Verhelst, what is your problem? Here you accuse me of sockpuppetry [4], here you accuse me of tendentious edits [5][6]. This is ridiculous. My edits were not tendentious, I provided an edit rational in all cases (and some on the talk page). You have no consensus for your rv [7]. It's a shame you should be blaming me for tendentious editing. Intangible 18:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• I didn't acuse you of being or using a sockpuppet, I was discussing the possibility that you would return to Wikipedia after the arbcom decision as a sockpuppet, and how the arbcom decision could be inforced in that case.
• You might have added the diff where I provided an explanation for calling your edits tendentious : [8].

--LucVerhelst 21:52, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Could someone please have a friendly word with him ? Please ? [9], [10], [11], here he seems to have realised he couldn't go on on the first track, deciding to try something new : [12], [13] --LucVerhelst 21:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

From WP:PROB "Striking out at users on probation is strongly discouraged." It seems you now already have struck out on me on more than three occassions, the latest being [14]. This is really uncalled for Mr. Verhelst, and I hope an administrator will have a word with you, because this is tiresome. Intangible 08:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

People that disagree with you on the subject of an article are not necessarily striking at you personally, you know. Or do you mean the reference to your ArbCom case ? I think I am fully entitled to point out to you in what way you are -in my opinion- violating the ArbCom decision/your probation. --LucVerhelst 09:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

One more : [15] --LucVerhelst 10:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

And these maybe on the BBET article[16], [17] and on the Neo-Nazism article[18] --LucVerhelst 10:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but these edits were necessary to make sure no false authority is given to the view of this journalist. There is enough conspiracist thinking going around at Wikipedia. Cas Mudde, a well-known political science professor at the University of Antwerpen, who studies neo-nazi groups in West Europe, had never heard of BBET before, but somehow this journalist knows all! Intangible 16:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Messhermit edit warring at Alberto Fujimori

Hi, Messhermit has been edit waring at the Alberto Fujimori article, while on probation: Messhermit placed on Probation for one year. Accordingly, could I request that he is no longer allowed to edit this article? Thanks, Addhoc 11:04, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

He's banned from editing that article now. See the notice on the talk page. --Tony Sidaway 20:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Addhoc 22:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)