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Red (#CD5C5C) is a remedy that has since been rescinded or otherwise is wholly reliant on previous remedies that are themselves rescinded.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Rescinded: If a remedy was terminated, this will be the calendar date (in UTC) when the remedy was ended.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.
Ed Poor may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area he disrupts at administrator discretion. All such bans (and blocks arising from them) are to be logged on the case page.
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Motion: Ed Poor (February 2017)
Yes
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Motion: Ed Poor (February 2017)
The above remedy and all still-active topic-bans levied under it are rescinded.
Based on his representations to the Arbitration Committee, Ackoz is unblocked.[user template omitted]
N/A
6
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Probation
Ackoz may be summarily blocked if he is disruptive at administrator discretion. Any such blocks are capped at 1mo and are to be logged on the case page.
Yes
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0
Gross imposition
If Ackoz returns to his old habit of relentless trolling, he may be sitebanned by consensus of the community, with the ban and rationale for it logged on the case page. (Nota bene: As far as I can determine this remedy never needed to be invoked.)
Scope: Marudubshinki's misuse of admin tools and bots
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Marudubshinki desysopped
Marudubshinki's administrator rights are revoked. They may only get them back via a new, successful Request for Adminship.
N/A
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Bot restrictions
Marudubshinki is indefinitely banned from using automated scripts or bots. Breaches are to be met with blocks, duration left to administrator discretion and logged on the case page.[1]
Scope: Harassment campaign against MONGO coordinated offsite, and MONGO's desperate attempts to mitigate it
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Amended/Enacted
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Links to ED
Any links to, or content taken from, Encyclopædia Dramatica (hence "ED") is to be removed on discovery barring a clear consensus to include it. (The original version of this remedy did not allow for consensus to override it.)
Feb. 12, 2021
Yes
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MONGO
Because of the fact that he was a target of extensiveharassment from ED, and particularly from user "Fuckface", an amnesty is extended to MONGO for his edit-warring to remove ED links.
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N/A
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Editors of ED
Users of ED not otherwise sanctioned in this case are told in no uncertain terms that there is zero tolerance for continuing ED's harassment and trolling campaigns on Wikipedia proper.
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No
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PrivateEditor
As a consequence of the below remedy and the determination that they are ED user "Fuckface", the sockpuppet PrivateEditor is sitebanned indefinitely.
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Yes
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Rootology banned
Rootology[ii], under whatever username, is sitebanned indefinitely. (Rootology successfully appealed their ban, and later would vanish.)
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Yes
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It is not prohibited to create a Wikipedia article on [ED]
Nothing in this arbitration or in ATK should be read as a ban on creating an article about ED, provided the sourcing exists to support such an article.
Not counting users who have been blocked, any of the 21 named parties to the case may be summarily topic-banned from the Kosovo topic-area at administrator discretion as long as the case is active.
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Yes
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PerfectStorm/C-c-c-c banned
C-c-c-c is sitebanned 1yr for persistent disruption, both with and without his sockpuppet PerfectStorm.
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Yes
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Bormalagurski banned
Bormalagurski is sitebanned 1yr for edit warring and incivility.
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Yes
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Hipi Zhdripi limited to one account
Hipi Zhdripi must edit from that account and no other.
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Yes
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[Three parties] banned from Kosovo-related articles
Hipi Zhdripi, Ilir pz, abnd Vezaso are each topic-banned from the Kosovo topic area for 1yr.
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Yes
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ChrisO warned
ChrisO is warned against edit-warring, especially via rollback (which, as a reminder, was still exclusive to the administrator toolset at this time).
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No
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Probations
For the next year, each of Dardanv (once his siteban lapses), Ferick, Laughing Man, Osli73, and Tonycdp may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area 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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Revert paroles
For the next year, each of Ilir pz, Hipi Zhdripi, Vezaso, Dardanv (once his siteban lapses), Ferick, Laughing Man, Osli73, and Tonycdp are under 1RR/week and required to explain any reverts they make (other than obvious vandalism) on the talk page of the affected article. Breaches are to be met with blocks (capped at 1mo for the first five and 1yr thereafter) and logged on the case page.
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Yes
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Kosovo related articles on Article probation
All articles related to Kosovo are put on Article probation to allow more swift dealing with disruption.[sic] (This remedy was immediately superseded by the one below; both passed.)
Any editor disrupting the Kosovo topic area may be summarily topic-banned from it at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page.
MAC
Yes
6
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ChrisO
ChrisO is encouraged to develop the ability and practice of assisting users who are having trouble understanding and applying Wikipedia policies in doing so.[User template omitted]
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No
6
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0
Dardanv banned
Dardanv is sitebanned 1mo for edit-warring and sockpuppetry.
SpinyNorman may be summarily topic-banned from any article 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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SpinyNorman placed on personal attack parole
SpinyNorman may be summarily blocked if he makes an edit judged to be a personal attack. Any such blocks are to be logged on the case page, their duration left to administrator discretion.
Yes
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0
SpinyNorman placed on revert parole
SpinyNorman is under 1RR/week. Breaches are to be met with blocks (the duration of which is left to administrator discretion) and logged on the case page.
Yes
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0
SpinyNorman is placed on general probation
SpinyNorman may be summarily sitebanned for up to 1yr at administrator discretion. Any such bans must be logged on the case page.
Yes
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SpinyNorman to edit with one account
SpinyNorman must edit from that account and no other - meaning no creating more sockpuppets and no more running back to the JonGwynne account he's likely been using before.
(The reason for the seemingly contradictory remedies below is Pat8722's attempt to evade Arbitration by faking a wikibreak.)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Probation
Assuming they return from their "wikibreak", for the next year from that point Pat8722 may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area they disrupt at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page.
Yes
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Enforcement by block
The Arbitration Committee doesn't buy that Pat8722 is on a wikibreak and requires them to either go through a full Arbitration on their behaviour or accept the probation above. If they won't do either and return to active editing, they will be blocked. (This was passed as enforcement.)
ArbCom encourages Wikipedia's developer corps to find a way to allow Giano to get back into the account he locked himself out of and to amend his block log to remove Carnildo's "hate speech" block rationales (see UWW). Giano is warned not to escalate matters when he has a complaint by making sweeping condemnations of other users.
N/A
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2
Jdforrester reminded
Jdforrester is reminded to maintain decorum appropriate for an Arbitrator. (While not formally recused from this case due to how quickly net-4 was met, Jdforrester was a party to the case and did not participate in it as an Arbitrator.)
No
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2
Kelly Martin's sysop/checkuser/oversight access
Kelly Martin resigned her userrights under controversial circumstances. She must go through a new, successful Request for Adminship to regain administrator rights and fresh elections to regain Oversighter/Suppressor and Checkuser userrights.
GreekWarrior is sitebanned 1yr, essentially endorsing the community ban this case was appealing.
Yes
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0
GreekWarrior placed on probation
After his ban lapses or is lifted, GreekWarrior may be summarily sitebanned for any duration at administrator discretion. Any such bans must be logged on the case page.
(The remedies below refer to "the user behind the Art Dominique sockfarm", which refers to the sockpuppet group called "Kven-user" in the case text (Art Dominique being the oldest account and putative master).)
Decided: Nov. 04, 2006
Abbrev.: KVN
Type: Editor
Scope: Addressing the Art Dominique sockfarm
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Kven-user limited to one account
The user behind the Art Dominique sockfarm must choose an account or be sitebanned until they do. Once they choose, they must edit from that account and no other.
Yes
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Kven-user placed on probation
Once they have chosen an account and identified it to the Arbitration Committee, the user behind the Art Dominique sockfarm may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area they disrupt at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page.
Yes
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Kven-user banned
The user behind the Art Dominique sockfarm is indefinitely topic-banned from the Kven people topic area.
The anonymous user causing problems on Gundagai, New South Wales must register an account and edit only via that account. (This injunction is not temporary and did not expire when the case was closed.)
Yes
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Gundagai editor banned
The aforementioned anonymous user is sitebanned for 1yr.
Scope: Dispute over BLP-violating edits on Jack Hyles
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Rescinded
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Article probation
Anyone editing articles in the Jack Hyles topic area may be summarily topic-banned from those articles for disruption (individually or as a group) at administrator discretion.
Nov. 19, 2015
No (no enforcement provision)
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Vivaldi and Arbustoo
Since the underlying content dispute and edit war was over poorly-sourced and controversial material, Vivaldi and Arbustoo are warned against edit-warring over such content.
Rex Germanus and Ulritz are under 1RR as long as this case is active.
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Yes
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Ulritz placed on revert parole
For the next year, Ulritz is under 1RR/week and must explain every revert he makes on the talk page of the affected article (excluding obvious vandalism). Breaches are to be met with blocks (capped at 1w for the first five and 1yr thereafter) and logged on the case page.
" " " ", Ulritz may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) must be logged on the case page.
The remedies applied to Ulritz and Rex Germanus - the 1RR/week, justification requirement, and probation - shall also be applied to an anonymous user who was a party to the case but not sanctioned.
(This case has been courtesy-blanked for the privacy of its participants. Jean-Thierry Boisseau and any employees working at his music label are topic-banned from their label's artists, and Boisseau personally is placed on probation. This case has enforcement threads.)
Schrodinger82 is topic-banned from the Bowling for Columbine topic area for 1yr. This may be repealed if [ArbCom] feels that his editing of other topics demonstrates significantly improved understanding of Wikipedia's core principals.[sic]
This is essentially a reiteration of policy as regards linking to or citing contributory copyright infringement (i.e. a link/source which itself is a copyright violation).
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No
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Articles which relate to Rachel Marsden
Articles related to Rachel Marsden may be stubbed or summarily deleted (presumably as attack pages) if they are grossly unsourced or sourced to unacceptable sources.
May 15, 2022
Yes
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0
Bearcat and Bucketsofg
Bearcat and Bucketsofg are expected to conform to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons rather than the liberal interpretation they have applied. ArbCom is failing to treat egregious BLP violations with the gravitas they deserve.
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No
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Arthur Ellis banned for one month
Since Rachel Marsden falls into the topic-area Arthur Ellis is banned from, he is sitebanned one month as enforcement of that topic-ban. ArbCom, however, do acknowledge that his behaviour in this matter was otherwise much better from a BLP standpoint than Bearcat and Bucketsofg's.
While Fresheneesz isn't going to be sanctioned for their disruption with trying to get WP:Non-Notability to become policy at this time, ArbCom is more than willing to revisit this case per an WP:ARCA request if their behaviour does not drastically improve.
CT?: Nov. 19, 2007 - present (imported from another case via motion)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Enacted
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Tommysun banned
Tommysun is indefinitely topic-banned from the pseudoscience and science topic areas.
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Yes
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0
Tommysun placed on probation
Tommysun may be summarily topic-banned from any article he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page/centralised sanctions log.
Iantresman may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page/centralised sanctions log.
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Yes
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ScienceApologist cautioned
ScienceApologist[v] is warned to adhere to the spirit and letter of policies while editing in the pseudoscience topic area. It's worth noting that a second case specifically to deal with behaviour around them was spun off from this one.
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No
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Discretionary sanctions
Provided the person being sanctioned has been alerted to the existence of this remedy, any administrator may summarily sanction a user who disrupts pages or discussions related to pseudoscience or fringe science (hereafter "the PS 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.) (This remedy was originally passed in M-SA and moved to this case by motion in March 2012.)
Since the locus of this matter is the impasse regarding making WP:Protecting children's privacy a policy, ArbCom considers the matter out-of-scope and remands it to the community.
No
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Ban for disruption
Users intentionally pretending to be children (for whatever reason) may be blocked for disruption as necessary.
No
5
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0
0
Counseling
Users who actually are children and don't understand why it may not be a good idea to reveal information about themselves online may have any personally-identifying information deleted, revision-deleted, or suppressed and be mentored by a more experienced and sympathetic Wikipedia editor about protecting their privacy and information online.
Lochdale is indefinitely topic-banned from the Elvis Presley 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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0
Onefortyone on probation
Despite his behaviour noticeably improving and being used as a contrast to Lochdale's, ArbCom reminds Onefortyone that he remains on probation with respect to editing articles which concern celebrities.
Asmodeus is indefinitely topic-banned from articles in the Christopher Michael Langan 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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Asmodeus placed on Probation
Asmodeus may be summarily topic-banned from any page or topic area he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks resulting from same) are to be logged on the case page.
Yes
6
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0
0
Asmodeus cautioned
Asmodeus is cautioned to be courteous to other users.
No
6
0
0
0
DrL
DrL (who verges on being indistinguishable from Asmodeus) and any other user behaving in the same manner as Asmodeus or DrL are subject to the same topic-ban and probation as Asmodeus. Any user so sanctioned other than DrL or Asmodeus must be given a link to this remedy first.
Yes
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FeloniousMonk counseled
Feloniousmonk is advised to collaborate with other administrators for help dealing with disruptive users.
While ScienceApologist[vi] also believed Asmodeus was Langan, he got somewhat snippy when Asmodeus aggressively responded to a polite question and did not engage to anywhere the lengths that Hal Fisher did. As such, ArbCom counsels them to be more patient and diplomatic with users who appear to be editing about themselves.
BhaiSaab may be summarily topic-banned from any article or topic area he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans (and blocks arising from same) must be logged on the case page.
MONGO's administrator rights are revoked. He may only regain them through a new, successful Request for Adminship. ArbCom does nothing to alleviate the still ongoing relentless harassment from ED other than rub salt in the wound by stating it doesn't justify his actions.
N/A
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Seabhcan is desysopped
Seabhcan's administator rights are revoked. He may only regain them through a new, successful Request for Adminship.
N/A
6
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0
Seabhcan is placed on personal attack parole
Seabhcan may be summarily blocked for up to 24h for making an edit judged to be a personal attack. Any blocks must be logged on the case page.
(The references to "the WE area" in the remedies refer to the Waldorf education topic area, related pages, and edits about it in any venue, broadly construed.)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enacted/Amended
Rescinded
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Waldorf education and related articles placed on probation
Any editor disrupting pages about the WE area may be summarily topic-banned from it (either for individual pages or for the topic area as a whole). In addition, all pages in the WE area are under WP:Biographies of living persons-style sourcing requirements.
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Discretionary sanctions
Yes
6
0
0
0
Pete K banned
Pete K is indefinitely topic-banned from the WE area.
Mar. 20, 2007 (Review)
Motion (September 2014)
Yes
5
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0
Pete K ban clarified
Pete K's topic-ban extends to userspace as well. (Such edits would be considered part of the proscribed area by modern readings.)
June 06, 2007
Motion (September 2014)
Yes
6
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0
0
Article probation
[Waldorf education] and related articles remain on WP:Article probation.[link in original]
Mar. 20, 2007 (Review)
Discretionary sanctions
No
5
0
0
0
Discretionary sanctions
Provided the person being sanctioned has been alerted to the existence of this remedy, any administrator may summarily sanction a user who disrupts the WE 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.
Jan. 30, 2013
Motion (February 2022)
Yes
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0
Motion (September 2014)
This motion allows Pete K an avenue of appeal to get his topic-ban lifted, with annual appeals.
Sep. 28, 2014
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N/A
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Motion (February 2022)
The contentious topic designation for the WE area is rescinded. Any sanctions still active remain bound by the standard appeal procedures for enforcement.
