The
Arbitration Committee closed one case during the week from 30 July to 6 August. No new cases were accepted this week.
Closed case
Abu badali: This case addressed concerns about the methods used by
Abu badali in identifying non-free images and tagging them for deletion. In its final decision, the Arbitration Committee noted that Abu badali had failed to respond to a
request for comment concerning his behavior, and adopted a proposal by arbitrator
FloNight under which Abu badali was "counselled to be more patient and diplomatic with users who question his tagging of images and to work with them in a collaborative way."
Catalonia: A case brought by
Physchim62 involving alleged edit warring, possible sockpuppetry and other misconduct, including alleged misuse of blocking tools, by various editors on
Catalonia,
Valencian Community, and related articles.
Great Irish Famine: A case initiated by
SirFozzie, involving allegations including misuse of sources and harassment relating to
Great Irish Famine and other Ireland/Northern Ireland articles. Arbitrators are voting on arbitrator
Mackensen's proposal to place the Great Irish Famine article under the "mentorship" of three to five administrators, as well as proposals by arbitrator
Kirill Lokshin that would ban
Sarah777 from Wikipedia for one year and place
MarkThomas on civility parole.
Jeffrey O. Gustafson: A case brought by
John254 alleging incivility and other misconduct by administrator Jeffrey O. Gustafson. Arbitrator UninvitedCompany has proposed that Mr. Gustafson's administrator privileges be suspended for 30 days, while arbitrator Kirill Lokshin has proposed desysopping him.
Zacheus-jkb: A case involving the actions of
-jkb- and
Zacheus, who have been involved in disputes in other forums that were imported to the English Wikipedia. In a proposed decision, the Arbitration Committee would admonish both editors for their previous misconduct against each other but note that the problematic conduct seems to have stopped, and warn the parties not to resume practices such as posting identifying information about other editors or making personal attacks.
Armenia-Azerbaijan 2: A case alleging misconduct by various editors, some of whom were previously placed on revert parole in
an earlier case, on articles relating to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and related matters. A proposed decision drafted by arbitrator
Fred Bauder would place those editors already subject to the revert parole on
probation as well, and would impose identical remedies on any other editors who are identified as editing these articles aggressively and uncivilly.
COFS: A case initiated by
Durova based on a discussion at the community sanctions noticeboard. The case involves allegations of tendentious editing by various editors, sockpuppetry, conflicts of interest, and other user conduct issues on
Scientology related articles. The proposed decision submitted by UninvitedCompany would ban
COFS for 30 days for POV editing and require him to change his username and disclose any duties he may have to the Church of Scientology before resuming editing.
Pigsonthewing 2: A case initiated by
Moreschi concerning the conduct of
Pigsonthewing, including a series of conflicts between this user and other editors involving the use of
microformats on Wikipedia and other matters. A proposed decision submitted by UninvitedCompany would find that "Pigsonthewing disregards the Wikipedia way of doing things and is unable or unwilling to improve his pattern of participation" and would ban Pigsonthewing from editing Wikipedia for one year.
Attachment Therapy: A case initiated by
Shotwell, who alleges that other editors have engaged in POV pushing and tendentious editing on
attachment therapy and related articles. During the case, checkuser indicated that
DPeterson had created at least four sockpuppets that were used to edit-war on these articles and create the appearance of consensus. A proposed decision by Kirill Lokshin would ban DPeterson for one year for this misconduct and remind the other parties to exercise care while editing articles as to which they may have a
conflict of interest.
Motion to close
Piotrus: This case involves
Piotrus and other editors on Central and Eastern Europe-related articles. In the case, multiple parties have accused one another of edit-warring, incivility, unethical behavior, and biased editing. Under the currently proposed decision, an amnesty would be granted for prior editing problems on these articles, and the parties would be reminded of the need to edit courteously and co-operatively in the future. Two arbitrators have opposed closing the case pending consideration of additional remedies.
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