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This noticeboard is for announcements and statements made by the Arbitration Committee. Only members of the Arbitration Committee or the Committee's Clerks may post on this page, but all editors are encouraged to comment on the talk page.
An arbitration case regarding GiantSnowman has now closed, and the final decision is available at the link above. The following remedy has been enacted:
GiantSnowman is admonished for overuse of the rollback and blocking functions, and reminded to "lead by example" and "strive to model appropriate standards of courtesy"; to "respond promptly and civilly to queries about their Wikipedia-related conduct and administrative actions and to justify them when needed"; to not use admin tools in "cases in which they have been involved" including "conflicts with an editor" and "disputes on topics"; to "treat newcomers with kindness and patience"; and to apply these principles in all interactions with all editors. GiantSnowman is placed under review indefinitely; during the review, with the exception of obvious vandalism, he is subject to the following restrictions:
- He may not revert another editor's contribution without providing an explanation in the edit summary. This includes use of MediaWiki's rollback function, any tool or script that provides a similar function, and any manual revert without an edit summary. Default edit summaries, such as those provided by the undo function or Twinkle's rollback feature, are not sufficient for the purpose of this sanction
- He may not block an editor without first using at least three escalating messages and template warnings
- He may not consecutively block an editor; after one block he is advised to consult with another admin or bring the matter to the attention of the community
- He may not place a warning template on an editor's talk page without having first placed an appropriate self-composed message containing links to relevant policies and guidelines
- He may not place more than five consecutive warning templates or messages; after which he is advised to consult with another admin
- He may not use MassRollback.js
Violations may be reported by any editor to WP:AE. GiantSnowman may appeal any or all of these sanctions, including the review itself, directly to the Arbitration Committee at any time.
For the Arbitration Committee, Bradv🍁 18:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Amendment request: Crouch, Swale clarification request
Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment:
The restriction on page creation imposed on Crouch, Swale (talk · contribs) as part of their unban conditions in January 2018 is modified as follows:
- Crouch, Swale is permitted to create new pages outside of mainspace such as talkpages and AfD pages.
- Crouch, Swale is permitted to create new articles only by creating them in his userspace or in the draft namespace and then submitting them to the Articles for Creation process for review. He is permitted to submit no more than one article every seven days. This restriction includes the creation of new content at a title that is a redirect or disambiguation page.
- The one-account restriction and prohibition on moving or renaming pages outside of userspace remain in force.
For the Arbitration Committee, Bradv🍁 22:29, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Alex Shih
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
The "Alex Shih" request for arbitration is accepted. Given that Alex Shih (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has retired from the English Wikipedia, this case will be opened but suspended for a duration not to exceed one year, during which time Alex Shih will be temporarily desysopped.
If Alex Shih should return to active editing on the English Wikipedia during this time and request that this case be resumed, the Arbitration Committee shall unsuspend the case by motion and proceed through the normal arbitration process. Such a request may be made by email to arbcom-en wikimedia.org or at the Clerks' noticeboard.
If such a request is not made within one year of the "Alex Shih" case being opened and suspended, this case shall be automatically closed, and Alex Shih shall remain desysopped. He may regain the administrative tools at any time via a successful request for adminship.
For the Arbitration Committee --Cameron11598 (Talk) 05:54, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
New OTRS queues
In an early 2017 RfC, the community endorsed the view that private evidence related to abusive paid editing should be submitted privately to relevant people when there are concerns related to privacy or outing. To better allow the functionary team to investigate instances of abusive paid editing where private evidence is a factor, the Arbitration Committee has established the paid-en-wp OTRS queue to receive such private evidence. The email address associated with this queue is paid-en-wp wikipedia.org. The queue will be reviewed by a subset of arbitrators and interested local CheckUsers, who will investigate all reports and take any necessary action.
This queue is not a replacement for existing community processes to address abusive paid editing. In particular, all public evidence related to abusive paid editing should continue to be submitted at the appropriate community noticeboards, such as Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. Private reports that do not contain private evidence or can be sufficiently handled by existing community processes will be redirected accordingly. Reports will also be redirected to the Arbitration Committee as a whole, where appropriate.
Further, the checkuser-en-wp OTRS queue has been established to allow private requests for CheckUser to be sent to the local CheckUser team. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to checkuser-en-wp wikipedia.org rather than the functionaries-en list. Similar to the above, all private requests that can be sufficiently handled by existing community processes, such as WP:SPI, will be redirected accordingly.
The Arbitration Committee would like to note that the creation of these queues was endorsed by the 2018 Arbitration Committee, with the announcement delayed into the new year as the queues were organized and created.
For the Arbitration Committee, ~ Rob13Talk 16:25, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#New OTRS queues
Permissions restored to There'sNoTime
There'sNoTime (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) self-requested removal of their advanced permissions on 11 December 2018. By There'sNoTime's request, their checkuser and oversight permissions are restored by the committee, effective immediately.
For the Arbitration Committee, AGK ■ 22:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Eastern Europe and Macedonia
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
At Amendment II in Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe is replaced as text by Eastern Europe or the Balkans. Remedy 3 in Macedonia is superseded by this amendment.
For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 23:26, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Changes to functionary team
By motion, in accordance with the Committee's procedure on functionary permissions and inactivity, the CheckUser and Oversight permissions of Ks0stm (talk · contribs) are removed.
- Support: AGK, BU Rob13, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, KrakatoaKatie, Worm That Turned.
- Oppose: None.
- Not voting: Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore.
- Inactive: Callanecc, Courcelles, Mkdw, SilkTork.
At their own request, the CheckUser permission of Keegan (talk · contribs) and the Oversight permission of Sphilbrick (talk · contribs) are removed.
The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks Keegan, Ks0stm, and Sphilbrick for their service. The Committee is also grateful to the current CheckUser and Oversight permission holders for their invaluable contributions as functionaries.
For the Arbitration Committee, Katietalk 00:44, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 39#Changes to functionary team
Motion: Manning naming dispute
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
To consolidate and clarify gender-related discretionary sanctions, the Arbitration Committee resolves that:
- Remedy 15 of the Manning naming dispute case is amended to read:
The standard discretionary sanctions adopted in
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SexologyWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate for (among other things)"all articles dealing with transgender issues""all edits about, and all pages related to ... any gender-related dispute or controversy" and associated persons remain in force. For the avoidance of doubt, these discretionary sanctions apply to any dispute regarding the proper article title, pronoun usage, or other manner of referring to any individual known to be or self-identifying as transgender, including but not limited to Chelsea/Bradley Manning. Any sanctions imposed should be logged at theSexologyGamerGate case, not this one.
- Clause 2 of the February 2015 motion at the Interactions at GGTF case is struck and rescinded. Nothing in this motion provides grounds for appeal of remedies or restrictions imposed while discretionary sanctions were in force. Such appeals or requests to lift or modify such sanctions may be made under the same terms as any other appeal.
- The following amendment is added to the Interactions at GGTF case:
The standard discretionary sanctions adopted in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate for (among other things) "all edits about, and all pages related to ... any gender-related dispute or controversy" remain in force. For the avoidance of doubt, these discretionary sanctions apply to any discussion regarding systemic bias faced by female editors or article subjects on Wikipedia, including any discussion involving the Gender Gap Task Force. Any sanctions imposed should be logged at the GamerGate case, not this one.
For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 17:40, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Level 1 desysop of Bogdangiusca
Under the Level 1 desysopping procedures, the administrator permissions of Bogdangiusca (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) have been temporarily removed as a suspected compromised account.
Supporting: BU Rob13, KrakatoaKatie, GorillaWarfare
For the Arbitration Committee, ~ Rob13Talk 18:16, 2 March 2019 (UTC)