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Only autoconfirmed users may file enforcement requests here; requests filed by IPs or accounts less than four days old or with less than 10 edits will be removed. All users are welcome to comment on requests except where doing so would violate an active restriction (such as an extended-confirmed restriction). If you make an enforcement request or comment on a request, your own conduct may be examined as well, and you may be sanctioned for it. Enforcement requests and statements in response to them may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator. (Word Count Tool) Statements must be made in separate sections. Non-compliant contributions may be removed or shortened by administrators. Disruptive contributions such as personal attacks, or groundless or vexatious complaints, may result in blocks or other sanctions.

To make an enforcement request, click on the link above this box and supply all required information. Incomplete requests may be ignored. Requests reporting diffs older than one week may be declined as stale. To appeal a contentious topic restriction or other enforcement decision, please create a new section and use the template {{Arbitration enforcement appeal}}.

Appeals and administrator modifications of contentious topics restrictions

The Arbitration Committee procedures relating to modifications of contentious topic restrictions state the following:

All contentious topic restrictions (and logged warnings) may be appealed. Only the restricted editor may appeal an editor restriction. Any editor may appeal a page restriction.

The appeal process has three possible stages. An editor appealing a restriction may:

ask the administrator who first made the contentious topic restrictions (the "enforcing administrator") to reconsider their original decision;
request review at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE") or at the administrators' noticeboard ("AN"); and
submit a request for amendment ("ARCA"). If the editor is blocked, the appeal may be made by email.

Appeals submitted at AE or AN must be submitted using the applicable template.

A rough consensus of administrators at AE or editors at AN may specify a period of up to one year during which no appeals (other than an appeal to ARCA) may be submitted.

Changing or revoking a contentious topic restriction

An administrator may only modify or revoke a contentious topic restriction if a formal appeal is successful or if one of the following exceptions applies:

The administrator who originally imposed the contentious topic restriction (the "enforcing administrator") affirmatively consents to the change,^[a] or is no longer an administrator;^[b] or
The contentious topic restriction was imposed (or last renewed) more than a year ago and:
- the restriction was imposed by a single administrator, or
- the restriction was an indefinite block.

A formal appeal is successful only if one of the following agrees with revoking or changing the contentious topic restriction:

a clear consensus of uninvolved administrators at AE,
a clear consensus of uninvolved editors at AN,
a majority of the Arbitration Committee, acting through a motion at ARCA.

Any administrator who revokes or changes a contentious topic restriction out of process (i.e. without the above conditions being met) may, at the discretion of the Arbitration Committee, be desysopped.

Standard of review
On community review

Uninvolved administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE") and uninvolved editors at the administrators' noticeboard ("AN") should revoke or modify a contentious topic restriction on appeal if:

the action was inconsistent with the contentious topics procedure or applicable policy (i.e. the action was out of process),
the action was not reasonably necessary to prevent damage or disruption when first imposed, or
the action is no longer reasonably necessary to prevent damage or disruption.

On Arbitration Committee review

Arbitrators hearing an appeal at a request for amendment ("ARCA") will generally overturn a contentious topic restriction only if:

the action was inconsistent with the contentious topics procedure or applicable policy (i.e. the action was out of process),
the action represents an unreasonable exercise of administrative enforcement discretion, or
compelling circumstances warrant the full Committee's action.

^ The administrator may indicate consent at any time before, during, or after imposition of the restriction.
^ This criterion does not apply if the original action was imposed as a result of rough consensus at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard, as there would be no single enforcing administrator.

Appeals and administrator modifications of non-contentious topics sanctions

The Arbitration Committee procedures relating to modifications and appeals state:

Appeals by sanctioned editors

Appeals may be made only by the editor under sanction and only for a currently active sanction. Requests for modification of page restrictions may be made by any editor. The process has three possible stages (see "Important notes" below). The editor may:

ask the enforcing administrator to reconsider their original decision;
request review at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE") or at the administrators’ noticeboard ("AN"); and
submit a request for amendment at the amendment requests page ("ARCA"). If the editor is blocked, the appeal may be made by email through Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee (or, if email access is revoked, to arbcom-enwikimedia.org).

Modifications by administrators

No administrator may modify or remove a sanction placed by another administrator without:

the explicit prior affirmative consent of the enforcing administrator; or
prior affirmative agreement for the modification at (a) AE or (b) AN or (c) ARCA (see "Important notes" below).

Administrators modifying sanctions out of process may at the discretion of the committee be desysopped.

Nothing in this section prevents an administrator from replacing an existing sanction issued by another administrator with a new sanction if fresh misconduct has taken place after the existing sanction was applied.

Administrators are free to modify sanctions placed by former administrators – that is, editors who do not have the administrator permission enabled (due to a temporary or permanent relinquishment or desysop) – without regard to the requirements of this section. If an administrator modifies a sanction placed by a former administrator, the administrator who made the modification becomes the "enforcing administrator". If a former administrator regains the tools, the provisions of this section again apply to their unmodified enforcement actions.

Important notes:

For a request to succeed, either

(i) the clear and substantial consensus of (a) uninvolved administrators at AE or (b) uninvolved editors at AN or

(ii) a passing motion of arbitrators at ARCA

is required. If consensus at AE or AN is unclear, the status quo prevails.

While asking the enforcing administrator and seeking reviews at AN or AE are not mandatory prior to seeking a decision from the committee, once the committee has reviewed a request, further substantive review at any forum is barred. The sole exception is editors under an active sanction who may still request an easing or removal of the sanction on the grounds that said sanction is no longer needed, but such requests may only be made once every six months, or whatever longer period the committee may specify.
These provisions apply only to contentious topic restrictions placed by administrators and to blocks placed by administrators to enforce arbitration case decisions. They do not apply to sanctions directly authorized by the committee, and enacted either by arbitrators or by arbitration clerks, or to special functionary blocks of whatever nature.
All actions designated as arbitration enforcement actions, including those alleged to be out of process or against existing policy, must first be appealed following arbitration enforcement procedures to establish if such enforcement is inappropriate before the action may be reversed or formally discussed at another venue.

Information for administrators processing requests

Thank you for participating in this area. AE works best if there are a variety of admins bringing their expertise to each case. There is no expectation to comment on every case, and the Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) thanks all admins for whatever time they can give.

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Before commenting, please familiarise yourself with the referenced ArbCom case. Please also read all the evidence (including diffs) presented in the AE request.
When a request widens to include editors beyond the initial request, these editors must be notified and the notifications recorded in the same way as for the initial editor against whom sanctions were requested. Where some part of the outcome is clear, a partial close may be implemented and noted as "Result concerning X".
Enforcement measures in arbitration cases should be construed liberally to protect Wikipedia and keep it running efficiently. Some of the behaviour described in an enforcement request might not be restricted by ArbCom. However, it may violate other Wikipedia policies and guidelines; you may use administrative discretion to resolve it.
More than one side in a dispute may have ArbCom conduct rulings applicable to them. Please ensure these are investigated.

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Request for modification: Kosovo article-level limitations

By request from Newyorkbrad, I'm cross-posting this as a notification of an ongoing proposal at WP:AN#Request to relax article restriction on Kosovo. Please discuss there. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:11, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Buttons

This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.
Requests may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs (not counting required information), except by permission of a reviewing administrator.

Request concerning Buttons

User who is submitting this request for enforcement: Future Perfect at Sunrise (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 10:58, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User against whom enforcement is requested: Buttons (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Search CT alerts: in user talk history • in system log

Sanction or remedy to be enforced: WP:ARBMAC#Discretionary sanctions

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

on United Regions of Serbia: long-term slow rv-warring against multiple editors
- 2 April
- 4 April
- 7 April
- 10 April
- 11 April
- 16 April
- 17 April
- 22 April
- 24 April
- 16 May
on 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence
- 16 May, tag-team reverting in concert with rv-war-only account [[User:TrinaryEarth], making personal attacks against opposing editors
- 17 May, same rv, no edit summary
- 18 May, continued slow rv-warring just at 1/day
- 19 May
on Geography of Kosovo:
- 26 May, expressing sense of "ownership" by claiming other editors need "authorization" to edit
- [1] immediate re-revert without discussion

Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any: was blocked in 2011 for edit-warring and misuse of "vandalism" accusations on similar Serbia-related topics

If discretionary sanctions are requested, supply evidence that the user is aware of them (see WP:AC/DS#Awareness and alerts)

Warned today, prior to latest rv [2]

Additional comments by editor filing complaint

Editor evidently has a long-term pattern of routinely using edit-warring as their primary response to content disagreement. Before 2011, he even had a note describing his role on Wikipedia as "protects and monitors any and all pages concerning Serbia and Serbs from vandalism".

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested: [3]

Discussion concerning Buttons

Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator.
Administrators may remove or shorten noncompliant statements. Disruptive contributions may result in blocks.

Statement by Buttons

Statement by NE Ent

Close without action. 1) United_Regions_of_Serbia: Editors are expected to discuss disputed changes. Buttons initiated discussion at Talk:United_Regions_of_Serbia on 15 April. Give no one replied, they should allowed to make their edit. 2) Geography of Kosovo: (You don't have the authority to make that decision on your own) is a substantially different statement than I own the article. Per consensus, none of us have the ability to make a content decision "on our own." The reverts cited were different content. 3) 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence: Special:Contributions/TrinaryEarth is not a revert only account, and Buttons is participating in discussion at Talk:2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence#A_problem.

Regretfully, a lame technicality: the DS notification provided is invalid per the current arbcom requirements at Wikipedia:AC/DS#Awareness_and_alert, which requires the notification template be posted unmodified. (I agree that's its a lame rule totally out of sync with our iar pillar, but ya'll will have to take that up with the committee). NE Ent 12:18, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Statement by (username)

Result concerning Buttons

This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.

As discussed by NE Ent, we may not act on this request because the warning was not provided in the form required by the Arbitration Committee, and no evidence of how Button might otherwise have been aware of discretionary sanctions is provided. The complainant should alert Buttons with the required template, {{Ds/alert}}, and may resubmit this request if problems persist. I offer no opinion on the merits of the request, which I have not read in detail because of the abovementioned formal problem. Sandstein 16:09, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Buttons was notified in November 2009 by User:Toddst1 here using an old-style notice. Since that notice is more than one year in the past, it seems not to count any more. Buttons should be notified now using {{Ds/alert}}. I recommend that User:TrinaryEarth be indefinitely blocked as a sock under normal admin authority. His account was created on 28 April and on 3 May he is already chatting away accusing Bobrayner of various things and restoring a contentious bit of text to the lead of 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence. To keep down the general level of socking I recommend putting semiprotection on this article as well as United Regions of Serbia. EdJohnston (talk) 16:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Sandstein, NE Ent, and EdJohnston: That warning issued by Toddst1 does count under the continuity section of the new discretionary sanctions procedures. As it is a warning issued under the old system so it becomes an alert for twelve months after the new DS procedure passed. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lugia2453

Not actionable, at least not in this form. Complainant 67.164.188.243 blocked by Acroterion in part because of this report. Sandstein 16:18, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

This request may be declined without further action if insufficient or unclear information is provided in the "Request" section below.
Requests may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs (not counting required information), except by permission of a reviewing administrator.

Request concerning Lugia2453

User who is submitting this request for enforcement: 67.164.188.243 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) 15:57, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

User against whom enforcement is requested: Lugia2453 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Search CT alerts: in user talk history • in system log

In the Sandy Hook Conspirarcy theory article her and another user keep removing a request to review the article for deletion even though I have made my request conform to the guidelines on the deletion standards page. I believe the request is valid and she is preventing the request from generating a discussion as would be proper by removing the tagging. She is not an administrator and should not remove tags without permission of an admin or moderator.

Sanction or remedy to be enforced: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/CASENAME#SECTION :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting_conspiracy_theories

Diffs of edits that violate this sanction or remedy, and an explanation how these edits violate it

(cur | prev) 15:55, 26 May 2014‎ McSly (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,531 bytes) (-272)‎ . . (Undid revision 610220748 by 67.164.188.243 (talk) the protocol is to take the article to AFD) (undo) (cur | prev) 15:49, 26 May 2014‎ 67.164.188.243 (talk)‎ . . (23,803 bytes) (+272)‎ . . (Undid revision 610220588 by Lugia2453 (talk) you can't revoke this tagging simply becuase you don't like it, once the article has been tagged you must follow the protocol of discussion.) (undo) (cur | prev) 15:48, 26 May 2014‎ Lugia2453 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,531 bytes) (-272)‎ . . (Undid revision 610219607 by 67.164.188.243 (talk) No, you've been told why your tagging is inappropriate on your talk page) (undo) (cur | prev) 15:40, 26 May 2014‎ 67.164.188.243 (talk)‎ . . (23,803 bytes) (+272)‎ . . (undo) (cur | prev) 15:33, 26 May 2014‎ Acroterion (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,531 bytes) (-149)‎ . . (Reverted 1 edit by 67.164.188.243 (talk): Rv inappropriate tagging. (TW)) (undo) (cur | prev) 15:33, 26 May 2014‎ 67.164.188.243 (talk)‎ . . (23,680 bytes) (+149)‎ . . (Undid revision 610218533 by Lugia2453 (talk)) (undo) (cur | prev) 15:31, 26 May 2014‎ Lugia2453 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (23,531 bytes) (-149)‎ . . (Reverted good faith edits by 67.164.188.243 (talk): Not a reason for speedy deletion. Even if does go through AFD, it'll likely end up being kept anyway. (TW)) (undo)

Diffs of previous relevant sanctions, if any

Date Explanation
Date Explanation

If discretionary sanctions are requested, supply evidence that the user is aware of them (see WP:AC/DS#Awareness and alerts)

Mentioned by name in the Arbitration Committee's Final Decision linked to above.
Previously blocked as a discretionary sanction for conduct in the area of conflict, see the block log linked to above.
Previously given a discretionary sanction for conduct in the area of conflict on Date by Username (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA).
Alerted about discretionary sanctions in the area of conflict in the last twelve months, see the system log linked to above.
Gave an alert about discretionary sanctions in the area of conflict in the last twelve months, on Date
Participated in an arbitration request or enforcement procedure about the area of conflict in the last twelve months, on Date.
Successfully appealed all their own sanctions relating to the area of conflict in the last twelve months, on Date.

Additional comments by editor filing complaint

I am tagging this article again for AFD.

Notification of the user against whom enforcement is requested

Discussion concerning Lugia2453

Statements must be made in separate sections. They may not exceed 500 words and 20 diffs, except by permission of a reviewing administrator.
Administrators may remove or shorten noncompliant statements. Disruptive contributions may result in blocks.

Statement by Lugia2453

Result concerning Lugia2453

This section is to be edited only by uninvolved administrators. Comments by others will be moved to the section above.

Complainant blocked for disruptive editing, abuse of speedy deletion tags, edit-warring and for this bad-faith and inappropriate report. Acroterion (talk) 16:10, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And talkpage access revoked as well. Acroterion (talk) 16:14, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We can't process the request, at any rate, in this messed-up and incomplete form. I'm closing the request. It can be resubmitted, if needed, in proper form if it represents a genuine concern held in good faith. Sandstein 16:16, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1] The administrator may indicate consent at any time before, during, or after imposition of the restriction.

[2] This criterion does not apply if the original action was imposed as a result of rough consensus at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard, as there would be no single enforcing administrator.

[a]

[b]

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 As discussed by NE Ent, we may not act on this request because the warning was not provided in the form required by the Arbitration Committee, and no evidence of how Button might otherwise have been aware of discretionary sanctions is provided. The complainant should alert Buttons with the required template, {{tl|Ds/alert}}, and may resubmit this request if problems persist. I offer no opinion on the merits of the request, which I have not read in detail because of the abovementioned formal problem. <small><span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Sandstein|<font style="color:white;background:blue;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Sandstein&nbsp;'''</font>]]</span></small> 16:09, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 *Buttons was notified in November 2009 by [[User:Toddst1]] [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Buttons&diff=prev&oldid=327669482 here] using an old-style notice.  Since that notice is more than one year in the past, it seems not to count any more. Buttons should be notified now using {{tl|Ds/alert}}.  I recommend that [[User:TrinaryEarth]] be indefinitely blocked as a sock under normal admin authority. His account was created on 28 April and [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence&diff=prev&oldid=606882694 on 3 May he is already chatting away accusing Bobrayner of various things] and restoring a contentious bit of text to the lead of [[2008 Kosovo declaration of independence]]. To keep down the general level of socking I recommend putting semiprotection on this article as well as [[United Regions of Serbia]].  [[User:EdJohnston|EdJohnston]] ([[User talk:EdJohnston|talk]]) 16:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
+::{{Reply to|Sandstein|NE Ent|EdJohnston}} That warning issued by Toddst1 does count under the [[WP:AC/DS#Continuity|continuity]] section of the new discretionary sanctions procedures. As it is a warning issued under the old system so it becomes an alert for twelve months after the new DS procedure passed. <b>[[User:Callanecc|Callanecc]]</b> ([[User talk:Callanecc|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Callanecc|contribs]] • [[Special:Log/Callanecc|logs]]) 11:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 ==Lugia2453==

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