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| Request name | Motions | Initiated | Votes |
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| Designating Sri Lanka as a contentious topic | 10 April 2024 | 0/0/0 |
| Case name | Closed |
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| Conflict of interest management | 13 Apr 2024 |
| Request name | Motions | Case | Posted |
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| Amendment request: Conduct in deletion-related editing | none | (orig. case) | 30 April 2024 |
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Designating Sri Lanka as a contentious topic
Initiated by Cossde (talk) at 01:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Proposed parties
- Cossde (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), filing party
- Oz346 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Petextrodon (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- JohnWiki159 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- SinhalaLion (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- UtoD (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request
- Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Disputes_over_Sri_Lanka_and_the_Sri_Lankan_Civil_War_are_common
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sexual_violence_against_Tamils_in_Sri_Lanka#WP:NOTSCANDAL,_WP:FALSEBALANCE_and_summarization
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sri_Lanka_Armed_Forces
Statement by Cossde
I am submitting this request for arbitration due to the on going disruptive editing about Sri Lanka as highlighted by highlighted by Robert McClenon in [6] add Sri Lanka to WP:ARBPAK. There is a clear need to identify Sri Lanka as a contentious topic and authorize administrators engade in Arbitration Enforcement to deal with disruptive editing with sanctions such as topic-bans.
Statement by Oz346
Statement by Petextrodon
Statement by JohnWiki159
Statement by SinhalaLion
Statement by UtoD
Statement by Robert McClenon (Sri Lanka)
I thank User:Cossde for filing this Request for Arbitration. I filed a Request for Arbitration Amendment about three weeks ago that is still listed as pending, but about to be declined, asking that the contentious topic designation of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan be expanded to include Sri Lanka, and in particular to include articles and disputes about the Sri Lanka Civil War. Arbitrators had and have doubts about expanding the area of focus to include Sri Lanka, but also seemed favorable to the idea of designating Sri Lanka as a separate contentious topic, either after a case or by motion. I do not see an immediate need for an evidentiary hearing, because the administrators at Arbitration Enforcement can perform the fact-finding to identify which editors are engaging in disruptive editing and topic-ban them.
There was a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation{Sri Lanka Reconciliation]] WikiProject. Its project page contains the overly optimistic statement that:
This WikiProject has served its stated purpose and is now defunct.
There is still or again a need to limit battleground editing about an island that has tragically been a real battleground, in order to maintain neutral point of view. The most straightforward way to do that is the contentious topics procedure. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Disputes over Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Civil War are common
A month ago, I failed a dispute at DRN over an atrocity that was a prelude to the Sri Lankan Civil War:
Declined Arbitration Cases
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1159486635#Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam (10 June 2023)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1158663393#Sri_Lanka_Armed_Forces (5 June 2023)
Archived Disputes at WP:ANI
Archived Disputes at WP:DRN
Statement by {Non-party}
Other editors are free to make relevant comments on this request as necessary. Comments here should address why or why not the Committee should accept the case request or provide additional information.
Designating Sri Lanka as a contentious topic: Clerk notes
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Designating Sri Lanka as a contentious topic: Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter <0/0/0>
Vote key: (Accept/decline/recuse)
- As indicated at ARCA, I do not think this should be folded in with any existing cases, but there does seem to be a strong indication that regular dispute resolution has broken down. I will wait further comment from the community but my initial thinking is that we could designate this topic contentious without need for a full case, unless there is indication that certain parties must be removed from this sphere. Primefac (talk) 11:07, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- I am also open, based on the evidence presented here, to designating Sri Lanka as a contentious topic without a full case. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:22, 10 April 2024 (UTC)