Decided: The calendar date (in UTC) when the case was decided. If the case did not reach a decision, it will be Closed instead. If the case involved an administrator "retiring", it will be "Deopped" instead.
Abbrev.: A shorthand abbreviation of the casename. See ArbCaseAbv for more details.
Type: The type of case it is:
Admin: A case centred around the conduct of one or more administrators.
Dispute: A case that examines an intractible dispute between two or more editors directly.
Editor: A case about the (non-administrative) misconduct of an editor.
Functionary: A case centred around misuse of Suppressor or Checkuser permissions.
Omnibus: A case about misconduct in a topic area writ large.
Other: Any case that doesn't fall into one of the categories above.
Remedy name: The name of the remedy (or a description of it, for earlier cases which did not have sectioned remedies).
Remedy (in modern terms): Basically my best attempt to explain, in plain English and modern understanding, what the remedy means.
If this section has a coloured background, the colour indicates its status or origin:
Yellow (#FFFF00) is a temporary injunction issued mid-case.
Blue (#00BFFF) is a post-close amendment or motion.
Red (#CD5C5C) is a remedy that has since been rescinded or otherwise is wholly reliant on previous remedies that are themselves rescinded.
Green (#32CD32) is a remedy whose wording was amended post-close, either due to an amendment/motion or due to changes in process (such as Discretionary Sanctions to Contentious Topic).
Brown (#D2691E) is suspended or in abeyence, usually as part of a period where a remedy has been appealed.
Amended/Enacted: If a remedy was added or amended post-close, this will be the calendar date (in UTC) when the remedy was modified or took effect.
Rescinded: If a remedy was terminated, this will be the calendar date (in UTC) when the remedy was ended.
Enforceable?: Indicates whether a given remedy can be invoked at WP:AE. Any remedy that predates April 2006 and was not still in force by then predates AE entirely.
Sup/Opp/Abs/Rcs: The vote totals for a remedy (Support, Oppose, Abstain, Recused).
Any case that has been courtesy-blanked or closed without action will be given a very brief description and nothing further.
KyndFellow is indefinitely topic-banned from the sex tourism topic area for high conflict-of-interest, including spamming his own websites on the topic. It is presumed that articles regarding any person, business,[ service, accommodation] or sex tourism destination mentioned on his websites are related articles, but the ban extends to all articles which relate to sexual services or sex tourism destinations.
Yes
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KyndFellow placed on Probation
KyndFellow may be summarily topic-banned from any article or talk page he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page.
Yes
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Sites promoted by KyndFellow
The matter of KyndFellow's websites is remanded to the standard venues for such matters, i.e. article talk pages, COI/N, and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.
(The remedies below refer to "The Aggressive Anonymous Critic", which refers to the unregistered IP-hopping user whose behaviour is at the locus of this case.)
All parties to this case, registered or otherwise, are topic-banned from Brahma Kumaris as long as this case is active.
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Yes
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[Aggressive Anonymous Critic] banned
The Aggressive Anonymous Critic is sitebanned 1yr for threatening another user and accusing them of child abuse.
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Yes
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[Aggressive Anonymous Critic] placed on Probation
The Aggressive Anonymous Critic may be summarily topic-banned from any article they disrupt at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page.
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Yes
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Article probation
Any editor disrupting Brahma Kumaris may be summarily topic-banned from it at administrator discretion. Bans and blocks are to be logged as above.
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Motion: Brahma Kumaris (July 2020)
Yes
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Motion: Brahma Kumaris (July 2020)
"Article probation" is rescinded. Any sanctions still active remain bound by the standard appeal procedure for enforcement.
Scope: Policy disputes about article naming conventions
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Closing of a consensus decision making procedure
ArbCom is basically restating policy with regard to closing policy discussions here.
No
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No penalties for violation of consensus
Except for Izzy Dot (who still gets off lightly) ArbCom is extending an amnesty to all the parties due to the lack of clarity around whether there's consensus in the underlying dispute.
N/A
7
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User:Izzy Dot banned
Izzy Dot is sitebanned 14d for sexual harassment. ArbCom is failing to treat it with the gravitas it deserves.
Dionyseus, GuardianZ, and Skinny McGee are each under 1RR and required to explain each of their reverts (barring obvious vandalism) as long as this case is live.
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Yes
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Editing bans at Midnight Syndicate
GuardianZ and Skinny McGee are each topic-banned from the Midnight Syndicate topic area indefinitely. Dionyseus is topic-banned from it for 3mo.
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Yes
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Ban for disruption
Any present or past [employee] of Midnight Syndicate, Nox Arcana, or Monolith Graphics, under any username or anonymous IP is indefinitely topic-banned from articles in the Midnight Syndicate topic area.
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Yes
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Motion
The remedies above are suspended for 90 days from the date of this motion. Any editor previously sanctioned under either may edit in the topic area as though their ban was not in force, provided they only use one account to do so. Any disruption will result in the offender's topic-ban being reinstated or (if that is not feasible) an equivalent sanction being applied. At the end of those 90 days, a request may be made at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and amendment to formally rescind the topic-bans. (To my knowledge a follow-up ARCA request was not made.)
Richardmalter and any user or IP that behaves as he does are indefinitely topic-banned from the Yoshiaki Omura topic area. All accounts and IPs that breach this ban are to be logged on the case page. (The second remedy is just a clarification of the topic area that, while necessary at the time, would be unneeded today.)
Husnock's emergency desysop due to risk of account compromise and unblocking himself is made permanent. He may only regain the tools through a new, successful Request for Adminship.
No
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Husnock cautioned regarding improper use of alternative accounts
Husnock is cautioned about his sockpuppet use.
No
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Husnock cautioned regarding original research and copyright
Husnock is cautioned to comply with Wikipedia's synthesis and copyright policies.
Husnock is warned that if he gets the admin bit again, he needs to be far more responsible with the tools and his account security.
No
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Being part of the solution
ArbCom turns its gaze to the users who contributed to the noticeboard threads that led to this case and exacerbated the situation. They are encouraged to be more insightful and helpful in the future.
(This case was deliberated in camera and its public-facing pages have been courtesy-blanked for the privacy of Nathanrdotcom. ArbCom confirms his indefinite block, converting it into an indefinite Arbitration siteban.)
For the purposes of the interaction ban, any edits to articles where WLU or Mystar had previously been in conflict will be considered interaction with the other party. In essence, this topic-bans WLU and Mystar from articles they've fought over.
All accounts whose sole purpose is editing about Derek Smart are at 0RR on Derek Smart. Any editors that fit the description and make a revert will first be given a link to this remedy and pointers to either the talk page or to the Volunteer Responce Team. Further reverts are to be met by blocks, with length left to administrator discretion. Enforcement of this remedy should be done by users who haven't been involved in any of the article's content or conduct discussions.
Yes
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Referred for cleanup
Because Derek Smart is in such a poor state, ArbCom remands the content dispute to the community and requires notices be posted to every widely-read public venue available on a regular basis until the situation improves.
Supreme Cmdr and any sockpuppets or meatpuppets thereof (read: surrogates of Derek Smart) are indefinitely topic-banned from the Derek Smart article.
Yes
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Derek Smart
ArbCom explicitly notes that BLP applies here and grants permission for pages to be deleted as necessary to enforce it, including the project pages and talk pages of this Arbitration proceeding.
Provided the person being sanctioned has been alerted to the existence of this remedy, any administrator may summarily sanction a user who disrupts pages and discussions related to India, Pakistan, or Afghanistan (hereafter "the IP area") as they see fit. Any sanctions or warnings issued this way (both directly and consequentially) must be logged on the case page/centralised log, and for the first year they can only be appealed to WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement or to ArbCom directly. (See WP:Contentious topics for more details.)
July 29, 2012
Yes
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Motion 1 (April 2018)
A discretionary sanction as applied to MapSGV is rescinded, without prejudice to them being re-sanctioned for misbehaviour in the IP area.
Apr. 07, 2018
N/A
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Motion 2 (April 2019)
A discretionary sanction as applied to SheriffIsInTown is suspended for six months, and may be reinstated by fiat by any admin if disruption from him starts again. If those six months pass without incident, the sanction will be formally rescinded.
Andries is indefinitely topic-banned from articles in the Sathya Sai Baba topic area. (The original version of this remedy also banned him from relevant talk pages.) (This is collapsed on the case page, but I cannot find any evidence Andries actively requested the topic-ban be lifted or any evidence it began to be enforced after Dec. 2012.)
Apr. 12, 2008
Andries banned: Motion
Yes
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Andries banned: Motion
Andries banned is suspended for three months, and may be reinstated by any administrator if disruption from him starts again. If the three months pass without incident, Andries may formally request the remedy be rescinded entirely.
Sep. 29, 2012
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Yes
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Sources
Editors involved at Sathya Sai Baba are encouraged to use better sources and improved citation style.
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No
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Ektanik to edit under a single user name
Ektanik must choose a username. Once they have done so, they must edit in the Sathya Sai Baba topic area under that username and no other.
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Yes
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Prior remedies clarified
ArbCom is once again reaffirming WP:BLP protections apply to Sathya Sai Baba. (These protections dropped on April 24, 2013, two years after his death.)
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No
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Open remedy
This is a reminder/threat to the parties that ArbCom retains jurisdiction and are willing to issue summary remedies if matters escalate again.
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No
6
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Wikisunn banned
Wikisunn is indefinitely topic-banned from the Sathya Sai Baba topic area.
Scope: Deletion/undeletion wheel war over the Daniel Brandt article
CT?: No
(The Daniel Brandt in question is notthe German musician. This case was opened via deus ex Jimbo and was sparked over a wheel war from a content dispute. While Jimbo noted that some of the administrator actions taken were done in an attempt to de-escalate the dispute, the relentless wheel warring made it impossible to tell who was acting in good faith or not.)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Motion adopted during the case
Since neither long-term suspension nor revocation of Freakofnurture's administrator privileges is being seriously considered by the Committtee, their administrator rights, emergency-revoked by Jimbo directly, are restored as of this motion (passed Mar. 06, 2007).
N/A
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Yanksox desysopped
Jimbo Wales' emergency desysop of Yanksox is made permanent. They must either go through a new, successful Request for Adminship or successfully appeal this remedy to regain administrator rights.
N/A
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0
Gaillimh banned
Gaillimh is sitebanned 10 days for inappropriately closing a deletion review discussion about the Daniel Brandt article and edit-warring over it.
Yes
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0
Geni desysopped
Jimbo Wales' emergency desysop of Geni is made permanent. They must either go through a new, successful Request for Adminship or successfully appeal this remedy to regain administrator rights.
N/A
11
0
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0
Doc Glasgow, Bumm13, and Mailer diablo cautioned
Doc glasgow, Bumm13, and Mailer diablo are strongly cautioned regarding involvement in repeated deletion/undeletion of pages.
Smallbones is indefinitely topic-banned from the Robert Prechter topic area. Breaches are to be met with blocks (length left to administrator discretion) and logged on the case page. It should be noted that the filer, Rgfolsom, has a disclosed connexion to the topic area, but otherwise his behaviour (other than edit-warring out of frustration) was far better than Smallbones'.
Ilena is sitebanned 1yr for extreme incivility and combativeness.
Yes
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Ilena banned from editing alternative medicine
Ilena is indefinitely topic-banned from what would later become the ACU area as well as the Quackwatch and Barrett v. Rosenthal topic areas (the latter two of which she has an obvious high conflict-of-interest with; Quackwatch is Stephen Barrett's website). There is a carveout for talk pages in the breast implants topic area. Breaches are to be met with blocks (length left to administrator discretion) and logged on the case page.
Yes
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Fyslee is cautioned
Fyslee is cautioned to edit from a neutral point of view using reliable sources when possible, and to seek consensus on the talk page when not.
The indefinite block of BryanFromPalatine levied before the case was filed is endorsed by the Arbitration Committee and becomes an Arbitration siteban.
Any editor disrupting the Free Republic page may be summarily topic-banned from it provided they have been given a warning with a link to this remedy first. All such bans (and blocks arising from them) must be logged on the case page. (This was rescinded as redundant with/superseded by AP2's discretionary sanctions regime.)
Feb. 22, 2008
Oct. 30, 2015
Yes
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Democratic Underground placed on article probation
Any editor disrupting the Democratic Underground page may be summarily topic-banned from it. All such bans (and blocks arising from them) must be logged on the case page, (As with the remedy above, this was rescinded as redundant/superseded.)
InShaneee is admonished to respond promptly and politely to questions about his use of administrator tools, not to block editors he is in direct dispute with, and to confer with other administrators if there's even a chance a block he levies could be questioned.
No
10
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1
InShaneee's admin privileges suspended
InShaneee's administrator rights are suspended for 10d, after which he will automatically regain them.
N/A
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Worldtraveller
Worldtraveller is given words of encouragement by ArbCom, who encourage them to continue editing as they have been and put this whole affair behind them.
Scope: Darwinek's incivility and abuse of rollback
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Darwinek desysopped
Darwinek's administrator rights are revoked. He may regain them either through a new, successful Request for Adminship or by successfully appealing this remedy.
N/A
7
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0
Darwinek placed on civility parole
For the next year, Darwinek may be summarily blocked if he makes an edit judged to be incivil, a personal attack, or an assumption of bad faith against another editor. Such blocks are capped at 1w for the first five and 1yr thereafter.
Aivazovsky is under 1RR/week and required to explain any reverts they make (other than obvious vandalism) for 1yr. Breaches are to be met with blocks (capped at 1w for the first five and 1yr thereafter) and logged on the case page.
Atabek is under 1RR/week and required to explain any reverts they make (other than obvious vandalism) for 1yr. Breaches are to be met with blocks and logged as above.
Fedayee is under 1RR/week and required to explain any reverts they make (other than obvious vandalism) for 1yr. Breaches are to be met with blocks and logged as above.
For the next year, ROOB323 may be summarily blocked for up to a week if he makes an edit judged to be incivil, a personal attack, or casting aspersions against another editor. All blocks are to be logged on the case page.
Yes
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1
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1
TigranTheGreat placed on revert parole
TigranTheGreat is under 1RR/week and required to explain any reverts they make (other than obvious vandalism) for 1yr. Breaches are to be met with blocks (up to 1w for the first five and 1yr thereafter) and logged on the case page.
