Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2016

This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2016 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2016.

The required information is the user or page the sanction is being applied to, enforcing administrator, date, nature of sanction, including expiry date (if applicable), basis or context (such as link to AE request), and a diff of the user notification (if applicable).

“ All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log. Whenever a sanction or page restriction is appealed or modified, the administrator amending it must append a note recording the amendment to the original log entry.

To be valid, sanctions must be clearly and unambiguously labelled as an arbitration enforcement action (such as with "arbitration enforcement", "arb enforcement", "AE" or "WP:AE" in the Wikipedia log entry or the edit summary). If a sanction has been logged as an arbitration enforcement action but has not been clearly labelled as an arbitration enforcement action any uninvolved administrator may amend the sanction (for example, a null edit or reblocking with the same settings) on behalf of the original administrator. Labelling a sanction which has been logged does not make the administrator who added the label the "enforcing administrator" unless there is confusion as to who intended the sanction be arbitration enforcement.

A central log of all page restrictions and sanctions (including blocks, bans, page protections or other restrictions) placed as arbitration enforcement (including contentious topic restrictions) is to be maintained by the Committee and its clerks at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log.

” — Arbitration Committee Procedures on logging sanctions

2016

American politics 2

• HughD is blocked one week for violation of his topic ban from US politics since 2009, as notified here per an AE request. EdJohnston (talk) 19:28, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
• Sir Joseph is topic banned from editing any page relating to Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 17:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Sir Joseph (talk · contribs)'s AE appeal of the Bernie Sanders ban was declined. EdJohnston (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
    • Sir Joseph (talk · contribs)'s one-week topic ban from Bernie Sanders and related pages has been extended to six months for reasons explained here. Bishonen | talk 09:09, 6 March 2016 (UTC).
      • Sir Joseph's appeal, at WP:ARCA, of the 6 month topic ban was declined by the Arbitration Committee. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:52, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
  • Sir Joseph is blocked for 31 hours for violating his topic ban at WP:AE (edit in violation). — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
• Kendrick7 is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:50, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
• MXfurry is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 month, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
• Volunteer Marek is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
  • This action reversed per uninvolved administrator consensus. --Laser brain (talk) 15:13, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
• 74.62.192.83 blocked for one week for edits to Talk:Hillary Clinton email controversy Acroterion (talk) 01:24, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
• HughD has his topic ban expanded to cover any edit regarding conservative American politics from 2009 onwards in any article, and extended until Jan 1, 2017. [1] per AE discussion. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
• HughD (talk · contribs) Blocked one month and topic ban extended to indefinite and expanded to post-1932 American politics for multiple topic ban violations per AE discussion: [2] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
• The following pages have had page restrictions applied to them, due to their high visibility: Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016, Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016, United States presidential election, 2016, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:43, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

• Jaqeli is indefinitely topic banned from everything related to both Armenia and Georgia, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 20:19, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
• Gala19000 is indefinitely banned from wars and conflicts involving Turkey and from anything to do with Armenia, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 17:15, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
• Abbatai is topic banned from all pages related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted, for 30 days. AE discussion Notification — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:19, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
  • After violating his topic ban with this edit, Abbatai was blocked for 1 month. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 09:09, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
    • Abbatai's previous topic ban was extended for 6 months as a result of the block. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 10:04, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
• Gala19000 is blocked one week for violation of his topic ban and abusing multiple accounts, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 14:18, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
• Gala19000 is blocked one year for continued violation of his topic ban from Turkish wars, after the previous block expired, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 19:49, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Article titles and capitalisation

• Darkfrog24 is indefinitely topic banned from articles, discussions, and guidelines, explicitly including the manual of style, related to quotation marks and quotation styles, broadly interpreted. They may use quotes and quotation marks, and edit pages that include them, subject to normal editing rules (e.g. regarding edit warring). This ban may be appealed no sooner than 6 months after it is placed. Thryduulf (talk) 14:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
  • That topic ban replaced with: Darkfrog24 is indefinitely topic banned from the manual of style, and manual of style-related topics, specifically including quotation marks and quotation styles. This applies on all pages, including his and other's user talk pages. This may be appealed no sooner than 12 months from today (4 February 2016). Thryduulf (talk) 13:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
    • Institited an indefinate ban as Darkfrog24 appears to be incapable of understanding the terms of the TBAN. See discussion at Arbitration Enforcement. No object to an unblock in a couple of weeks if Darkfrog24 confirms they now get it and will stop relitigating their case through TBAN clarifications. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88

• Catflap08 blocked for a week for a series of topic ban violations and Hijiri88 warned about monitoring Catflap08's edits and breaking their interaction ban by reporting the topic ban violations. Both per this request at Arbitration Enforcement. Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:29, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Climate change

HughD (talk · contribs) topic banned from climate change, broadly construed. AE discussion: [3] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

Electronic Cigarettes

• Mystery Wolff is indefinitely banned from the topic of electronic cigarettes on all pages of Wikipedia, with right of appeal after six months per this AE closure. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 01:21, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Eastern Europe

• User:Solntsa90 is topic banned from RT (TV network) and Talk:RT (TV network) for six months, for disruptive behavior specifically in the discussion of reliable sources. Drmies (talk) 17:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
• Doctor Franklin (talk · contribs) is subject to a WP:0RR ban for 1 year, for a pattern of continuously disruptive EW behavior (after being warned several times, and previously blocked). — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 13:39, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
• Solntsa90 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the topic of Vladimir Putin on all pages of Wikipedia including talk, for long-term edit warring on a troublesome article (14 reverts of the Putin article during February). EdJohnston (talk) 05:08, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Editing of Biographies of Living Persons

• Sfarney (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from Rick Alan Ross and all related pages and content per rationale here. Bishonen | talk 10:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC).

Falun Gong

• Sinceouch2422 indefinately blocked per this AE discussion, Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:17, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
• STSC (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from editing and/or discussing topics related to the Falun Gong movement and/or the persecution thereof, broadly construed, across all namespaces, per this discussion. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 19:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

An appeal to this sanction was declined at WP:AE per this discussion. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 10:25, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

GamerGate

• MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 01:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

MarkBernstein was blocked for 1 week for violating the discretionary sanction. Mike V • Talk 00:37, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

Blocked for 6 weeks for another breech of that topic ban. Courcelles (talk) 21:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

• Org.aidepikiw is subject to the standard GamerGate topic-ban--this means that they are indefinitely topic-banned from the subjects of: (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. Zad68 12:28, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Indefinitely blocked after obviously intentional breach of sanctions. Acroterion (talk) 11:38, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Page-level sanctions

• Brianna Wu: 500/30 restriction- editing prohibited to accounts newer than 30 days and/or with less than 500 edits. Gamaliel (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
• Anita Sarkeesian: 500/30 restriction- editing prohibited to accounts newer than 30 days and/or with less than 500 edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:59, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Genetically modified organisms

• Prokaryotes (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages and content related to genetically modified organisms, broadly construed, as the outcome of this enforcement request. MastCell ^Talk 19:56, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
  • Topic-ban appealed at WP:AN; appeal closed as unsuccessful.
  • Prokaryotes reverted the closure of his appeal and continued to dispute the sanction; again closed as unsuccessful.
  • Topic-ban appealed to WP:AE ([4]); closed as duplicative.
  • Topic-ban appealed to WP:ARCA; appeal closed as unsuccessful.
• Semitransgenic (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages and content related to genetically modified organisms, broadly construed, as the outcome of this AE discussion. Spartaz ^Humbug! 11:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

India-Pakistan

• Sigmabaroda blocked indefinitely 11 Jan 2016 for disruptive editing on Indian articles.[5]. Bishonen | talk 03:31, 18 January 2016 (UTC) (belated logging).
• MBlaze Lightning — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
• FreeatlastChitchat — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
  • Blocked for a week for violation per discussion here Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
• TalhaZubairButt — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
• Truth should trump indefinitely topic banned from all pages and discussions relating to castes.[6] Bishonen | talk 17:47, 25 March 2016 (UTC).
• MBlaze Lightning blocked 72 hours due to personal WP:1RR-restriction violation @ Research and Analysis Wing --slakr^\ talk / 04:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
• Kashmir conflict and all articles related to the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir (initially posted here):

  A 1 RR restriction. Any attempt, even if made in good faith, to do more than one revert in a 24 hour period will lead to an immediate block.

  A revert without discussion restriction. Any revert of any edit, however minor, that is done without an explanation on the talk page will lead to an immediate block.

  A civility restriction. Any suggestion that any editor is not editing in good faith will lead to an immediate block.

  An ethnicity claim restriction Any attempt to bring the purported or deduced or imagined ethnic or nationality identities of any users will lead to an immediate block. This includes an editor's own stated ethnic identity or nationality. Wikipedia uses reliable sources and the weighting of those sources to decide what to include, what not to include, and how the content should be stated in an article. Please stick to arguments based on those factors.

  --regentspark (comment) 13:10, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

• Towns Hill (talk · contribs) (formerly User:TalhaZubairButt) – Banned from the topic of conflicts between India and Pakistan and from anything to do with Bangladesh. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 15:18, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
• FreeatlastChitchat indefinitely prohibited from all edits and pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 14:23, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
• Axtramedium is indefinitely topic banned from Gurjara-Pratihara and related pages.[7] Bishonen | talk 14:31, 25 May 2016 (UTC).

Longevity

• 930310 Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:22, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
• GreatGreen Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 10:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
• BjörnBergman 1RR on Longevity broadly construed for six months from today's date per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 18:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
• Sailor Haumea indefinitely topic banned from longevity, broadly construed. Per this AE discussion. Zad68 20:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Macedonia

• Fez120 (talk · contribs) — WP:1RR for 3 months on all articles within the topic area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:02, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
• Crovata — WP:1RR for 3 months within area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:08, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
• Zoupan — WP:1RR for 1 week within area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:08, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Muhammad images

• User:SheriffIsInTown is topic banned from all pages related to Muhammad broadly construed for a period of 1 month. In response to a pattern of non-neutral edits contrary to consensus. HighInBC 20:25, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
• Ttt74 (talk · contribs) is topic banned for six months from all editing related to Muhammad per these notices. Bishonen | talk 21:08, 28 February 2016 (UTC).

Palestine-Israel articles

• User:HistoryWrite has been blocked indefinitely for gaming the 500/30 restriction, see this discussion. Bishonen | talk 09:15, 3 February 2016 (UTC).
• 104.162.193.17 (talk · contribs) has been blocked three days under the 500/30 rule for editing pages related to the Arab-Israeli conflict with an IP. See this notice. This IPv4 is probably the same editor as the IPv6 reported at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 19:51, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
• Semiprotected Palestine for one year. IP editors are not allowed to edit this article per WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. EdJohnston (talk) 03:31, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
• 104.162.193.17 (talk · contribs) for three months under the 500/30 restriction for continuing to edit pages related to the Arab-Israeli conflict with an IP. See this message. EdJohnston (talk) 18:13, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
• WwiikkiiPEDIA is blocked indefinitely from editing, for their primary purpose in editing clearly being disruption, shown by their repeated violation of WP:ARBPIA3#500/30, in direct violation of the sanctions already in effect on the page State of Palestine. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 15:28, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
• Mrbrklyn Blocked for 48 hours for violating WP:ARBPIA2#500/30 with this edit. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:55, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
• Chesdovi is topic banned from Zionism (broadly construed) and Western Wall or adding references to Palestine or Palestinians in articles that do not contain them. I have left out categories as they should be covered by the Zionism tban. Chesdovi is cautioned that high volumes of repetitive edits in sensitive areas that case disruption are to be avoided. Further controversy over such edits will result in long blocks. Per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:13, 25 March 2016 (UTC)(Prev topic ban from IP area still extant). Spartaz ^Humbug! 17:56, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
• Wikiwillkane (talk · contribs) is warned to observe the terms of the 500/30 general prohibition, per this notice. After a complaint at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 23:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
• AmirSurfLera (talk · contribs) blocked three months for multiple topic ban violations. AE request: [8]. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 13:03, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
• E.M.Gregory (talk · contribs) is topic banned from the entire Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly construed, for one month. This is in response to severe BLP issues as explained here. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
• Im Tirtzu extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. Nakon 04:37, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
• 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30, [9] Nakon 04:22, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Pseudoscience

• Realskeptic Topic ban appeal dismissed. [10] Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:13, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
• TheBIHLover has been topic banned from Bosnian pyramid claims and all related pages and discussions for three months.[11] Bishonen | talk 12:13, 21 March 2016 (UTC).
• Beautifulpeoplelikeyou is banned from the topic of electronic harassment and psychotronics, broadly construed. per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
• Askahrc is indefinitely banned from the topic of Deepak Chopra on all pages of Wikipedia including talk and noticeboards, per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 15:45, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
• Conzar is indefinitely banned from the topic of vaccination, broadly construed, on all pages of Wikipedia including talk and noticeboards per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 17:32, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
• QuackGuru is topic banned from Vani Hari and its talk page, and is not to discuss the matter elsewhere on Wikipedia, for the next three months. [12] Drmies (talk) 23:47, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
• TeeVeeed is indefinitely topic banned from editing Vaxxed and the topic area of vaccination.[13] Bishonen | talk 07:59, 22 April 2016 (UTC).

Scientology

• Sfarney prohibited from (i) from editing articles related to Scientology or Scientologists, broadly defined, as well as the respective article talk pages and (ii) from participating in any Wikipedia process relating to those articles, including as examples but not limited to, articles for deletion, reliable sources noticeboard, administrators' noticeboard and so forth, for a period of one year under Remedy 5.1. [14] The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 15:34, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

The Troubles

• Jonniefood (talk · contribs) topic banned 90 days from The Troubles and Ulster Banner, broadly construed, for a 1RR violation at Flag of Northern Ireland (AE request: [15]). Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)