How to read the sections
edit- 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.
- Scope: The overall scope of the case.
- CT?: An indication of whether or not a case includes or included a discretionary sanctions or contentious topic remedy.
- 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- Red (#CD5C5C) is a remedy that has since been rescinded or otherwise is wholly reliant on previous remedies that are themselves rescinded.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- Rescinded: If a remedy was terminated, this will be the calendar date (in UTC) when the remedy was ended.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.
2012
edit- Decided: Feb. 06, 2012
- Abbrev.: MI
- Type: Dispute
- Scope: Intractable dispute over Muhammad iconography and depictions
- CT?: Close - Nov. 01, 2022 (Remedy)
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community asked to decide issue of Muhammad images | ArbCom remands the underlying content and policy dispute to the community, with the final determination to be appended to this case after two months. | -- | -- | N/A | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Ludwigs2 topic-banned | Ludwigs2 is indefinitely topic-banned from any non-article edits about Muhammad. | -- | -- | Yes | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Ludwigs2 banned | Ludwigs2 is sitebanned 1yr. | -- | -- | Yes | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Tarc admonished | Tarc is admonished to be more collegial and professional in content disputes. | -- | -- | No | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| FormerIP admonished | FormerIP " " " " " " " " " " ". | -- | -- | No | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Hans Adler reminded | Hans Adler is reminded to be more civil in content disputes. | -- | -- | No | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 and discussions about Muhammad 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 can only be appealed to WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement or to ArbCom directly. (See WP:Contentious topics for more details.) | -- | Nov. 01, 2022 | Yes | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| General caution to parties | Since the dispute revolves around non-calligraphic representations of Muhammad - which are considered to be heretical by the vast majority of Muslims - ArbCom is strongly urging people involved in it to re-examine their actions and the reactions to them and reconsider if they want to continue participating. | -- | -- | No | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Motion: Discretionary sanctions sunset | This motion sets the contentious topic designation to sunset on Nov. 01, 2022. | Sep. 06, 2022 | -- | N/A | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: Feb. 15, 2012
- Abbrev.: BC3
- Type: Editor
- Scope: Δ's[i] conduct and blatant flouting of community restrictions
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community sanctions superseded | While ArbCom acknowledges the sanctions against Δ issued by the community are both justifiable and enacted in good faith, Δ's flagrant disregard for them has made their continued existence untenable. As such, ArbCom forcibly terminates the lot of them in favour of the remedies below. | N/A | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Betacommand banned | Δ is sitebanned until he satisfies the conditions met in Appeal of ban below. The first appeal won't be considered until at least a year has passed. | Yes | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Appeal of ban | Any ban appeal by Δ must include a detailed plan which includes what topics, subjects, and edits Δ wants to make and an understanding that his previous behaviour is unacceptable and he will refrain from it (similar to what was imposed on Ottava Rima). Once ArbCom has this plan, they will then open a formal community unban discussion - in essence making any appeal virtually impossible given his outright disregard for the prior sanctions. | No | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: Feb. 21, 2012
- Abbrev.: CE
- Type: Editor/Admin
- Scope: Malleus Fatuorum's gross incivility on Requests for Adminship and misuse of administrator tools by those blocking him for it
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Amended/Enacted | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawkeye7 desysopped | Hawkeye7's administrator rights are revoked. They may only get them back through a new, successful Request for Adminship. | -- | No | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Thumperward admonished | Thumperward is admonished both for misconduct and for his poor defence of his actions when challenged. | -- | No | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| John admonished | John is admonished for reversing another administrator's actions while said actions were under review through community discussion.[userlinks template omitted] |
-- | No | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Malleus Fatuorum topic-banned | Malleus Fatuorum is indefinitely topic-banned from discussions about Requests for Adminship in general. This does not apply to participating in one provided he limits himself to questioning the candidate, voting, and defending his vote within reason. (The original remedy banned him only from WP:Requests for adminship and subpages thereof, with the same carveouts.) |
Amendment (Oct 2012) | Yes | 9 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Malleus Fatuorum admonished | Malleus Fatuorum is admonished for his gross incivility overall. | -- | No | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Administrators reminded | ArbCom reminds administrators that blocking should be a last resort, used only if lesser methods of ending disruption have either failed or are doomed to fail. | -- | No | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Editors reminded | ArbCom then points out to the community that incivility as a whole is not appropriate, and can actually prevent a consensus from emerging as it causes sides to become entrenched and unwilling to discuss matters with someone they see as a jerk. | -- | No | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Community and administrator imposed restrictions | Since ArbCom cannot force policy onto Wikipedia, the policy discussion with regards to community sanctions is remanded to the community. | -- | N/A | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Amendment (Oct 2012) | This amends Malleus Fatuorum's RfA ban by broadening its scope. | Oct. 25, 2012 | N/A | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
- Decided: Feb. 27, 2012
- Abbrev.: TGB
- Type: Other/Editor
- Scope: Appeal of TimidGuy's deus ex Jimbo siteban and Will Beback's harassment of TimidGuy that led to said siteban
- CT?: No[ii]
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TimidGuy: site ban vacated | Jimbo Wales' ban of TimidGuy is vacated.The ban was issued due to Will Beback convincing Jimbo Wales that TimidGuy was a mercenary editor, which ArbCom dismisses as sorely lacking any concrete evidence in the Findings of Fact. |
-- | -- | N/A | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TimidGuy: advised | TimidGuy is advised to adhere to the very strict MEDRS guideline while editing in the Transcendental Meditation topic-area. TimidGuy does have a conflict-of-interest in the topic area, but his siteban had nothing to do with his Transcendental Meditation connexions. | -- | -- | No | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Will Beback: desysopped | For his part in persuading Jimbo Wales to siteban an editor on false pretenses to further a harassment campaign, Will Beback's administrator rights are revoked. He may only get them back via a new, successful Request for Adminship. | -- | -- | N/A | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Will Beback: new religious movements topic ban | Will Beback is indefinitely topic-banned from the new religious movement topic area. (The original sanction was only for articles in the area.) |
Motion: Will Beback ban suspended | -- | Yes | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Will Beback: banned | Will Beback is sitebanned indefinitely. Appeals will not be considered before six months have passed and if they do not address the harassment/doxxing issues that resulted in TimidGuy's siteban. | -- | Motion: Will Beback siteban suspended | Yes | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| RFC on the "Conflicts of Interest" guideline[sic] | Since ArbCom cannot force policy onto Wikipedia, the policy discussion over WP:COI is remanded to the community, with ArbCom making the following Finding of Fact in this case required reading for anyone intending to participate in such a discussion: Many issues concerning paid editing, anonymous editing, outing and harassment, are unresolved. Our policies and guidelines are complicated and sometimes contradictory. Investigating, sanctioning and/or exonerating editors on the basis of who they are or what they do in real life is not only controversial but often impossible. Furthermore, extreme cases apart, there is no consensus about the extent that editors may edit articles on topics with which they are personally involved. Hence, of necessity, review must focus primarily on the editing patterns of those editors about whom problems are claimed. |
-- | -- | N/A | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Will Beback ban suspended | Will Beback's siteban is lifted, with the following conditions: * His topic ban is expanded to a more standard pages-and-discussions-broadly-construed one; * He is also indefinitely topic-banned from any discussions about conflicts of interest on Wikipedia, both in on- and off-wiki fora; * He is banned from attempting to seek personally-identifying information about, or doxxing, anyone; * He is under a one-way interaction ban from both TimidGuy and Keithbob, including seeking any sort of sanctions (with administrators receiving such requests from him being urged to forward them to ArbCom) Any breach of these conditions is grounds to summarily reinstate the siteban. Any further appeals will not be considered before a year has passed. |
Mar. 28, 2014 | -- | Yes | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: Mar. 23, 2012
- Abbrev.: ATC
- Type: Omnibus
- Scope: Persistent policy disputes around article titles
- CT?: Close - present (Remedy)
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Amended/Enacted | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All parties reminded | Everyone named as a party is scolded for personalising these policy disputes and told to start discussing like adults. | -- | No | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pmanderson restricted | Pmanderson is indefinitely topic-banned from WP:Manual of Style and article titling policies. | -- | Yes | 8 | 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 pages and discussions about the Manual of Style or article titling policies as they see fit. This specifically excludes any discussions of specific article titles taking place in the context of a (proposed) move. Any sanctions or warnings issued this way (both directly and consequentially) must be logged on the case page/centralised log and can only be appealed to WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement or to ArbCom directly. (The exclusion was added as a clarification.) |
Motion: Clarification | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Born2cycle warned | Born2cycle is warned against intransigence in policy discussions. | -- | No | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: Darkfrog24's ban appeal | 2016 ArbCom to Darkfrog24: Drop dead. Darkfrog would successfully appeal the same siteban in 2022. |
Dec. 12, 2016 | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Clarification | This motion clarifies that individual move requests, move reviews, article talk pages, [and] other venues at which individual article names may be discussedare not within the contentious topic's scope - it applies only to article title policies writ large and not disputes over the titles of individual pages. |
Feb. 11, 2017 | N/A | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: May 15, 2012
- Abbrev.: RF
- Type: Editor
- Scope: Rich Farmbrough's misuse of automation to make edits against consensus
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rich Farmbrough's administrator status revoked | Rich Farmbrough's administrator rights are revoked. He may only get them back through a new, successful Request for Adminship. | -- | -- | N/A | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Rich Farmbrough prohibited from using automation | Rich Farmbrough is indefinitely banned from using any sort of automation, with cvarveouts for his own userspace and Wikipedia's database reports. For the purposes of this remedy, any edits that reasonably appear to be automated shall be assumed to be so. (The original version had no carveouts.) |
Amd: Motion (December 2015) | Motion (July 2016) | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Elen of the Roads reminded | Elen of the Roads - who blocked one of Rich Farmbrough's bots and was a party to the case - is reminded that doing so is considered inappropriate. To her credit, she quickly reversed the block herself. | -- | -- | No | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion (May 2012) | This amends a Finding of Fact to clarify it. | May 28, 2012 | Motion 3 (RF) (January 2013) | N/A | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion on Rich Farmbrough enforcement (June 2012) | Due to breaches of his automation ban scant weeks after this case closed, Rich Farmbrough is sitebanned 30d as enforcement. In addition, he is required to blank his skins' Javascript pages (read: remove/disable any and all scripts he's loaded in), stop making pseudo-automated edits, and cannot make any edit that would bypass the edit window (such as using bots on an offline page or using rollback). The Checkuser tool will be used to verify Rich Farmbrough's future compliance with the prohibition[.] |
June 12, 2012 | Motion (July 2016) | Yes | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion 3 (RF) (January 2013) | The Finding of Fact amended above is struck in its entirety. Nothing in this decision constitutes an endorsement by the Committee of Rich Farmbrough's use of administrator tools to unblock his own [bot] accounts. |
Jan. 06, 2013 | -- | N/A | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Rich Farmbrough 3 (April 2014) | In light of a new breach of his sanctions in his userspace, Rich Farmbrough is warned in no uncertain terms the next breach will likely lead to his automation restrictions being rescinded in favour of a siteban. | Apr. 20, 2014 | -- | No | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion (December 2015) | This amends Rich Farmbrough's automation ban to give it a carveout for his own userspace and for WP:Database reports. | Dec. 27, 2015 | Motion (July 2016) | N/A | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion (July 2016) | Rich Farmbrough prohibited from using automation and the still-active restrictions from Motion (June 2012) are rescinded. This does not affect Rich Farmbrough's community-imposed bans on cosmetic changes or mass article creation. | July 09, 2016 | -- | N/A | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: June 14, 2012
- Abbrev.: GD
- Type: Editor
- Scope: GoodDay's refusal to accept consensus with regards to diacritics
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoodDay topic-banned from diacritics | GoodDay is indefinitely topic-banned from edits and discussions involving diacritics and diacritical marks. | -- | August 2016 | Yes | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GoodDay warned | GoodDay is warned that any more battleground conduct from them will be grounds for harsh sanctions issued with no further warning. | -- | -- | No | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| April 2013 | GoodDay didn't listen, and so is indefinitely sitebanned. They may appeal annually. | Apr. 22, 2013 | May 2014 | Yes | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | GoodDay's siteban is suspended for 1yr. During this time, any justified block or conduct policy violation will be grounds to reinstate the siteban. If the suspension period ends without the siteban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | May 21, 2014 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 7 | 0 | 6[iii] | 0 |
| August 2016 | GoodDay's ban from diacritics is suspended for 1yr. During this time, the topic-ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking them for misconduct in re diacritics or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the topic-ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | Aug. 11, 2016 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: July 18, 2012
- Abbrev.: PRT
- Type: Dispute/Admin
- Scope: Edit- and move-warring over Perth, Western Australia due to a disputed requested move
- CT? No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JHunterJ advised | JHunterJ is scolded for the manner in which he defended his actions. | No | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Deacon of Pndapetzim admonished | Deacon of Pndapetzim is admonished for wheel-warring on a matter where he is involved. | No | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Kwamikagami desysopped | For their role in the wheel-war over Perth, Kwamikagami's administrator rights are revoked. They may only get them back through a new, successful request for adminship. | N/A | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gnangarra admonished | Gnangarra is admonished for wheel-warring on a matter where they are involved. | No | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
(Any rescinded remedy which does not include a date was rescinded due to WP:Mandated external review being deprecated as a sanction on May 03, 2014.)
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted/Amended | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homunculus topic-banned | Homunculus is topic-banned from the FLG area for 1yr. | -- | -- | Yes | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Ohconfucius topic-banned | Ohconfucius is indefinitely topic-banned from the FLG area. | -- | Motion: Ohconfucius' topic-ban suspended | Yes | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Mandated external review | Any editor in the FLG area may be placed on mandated external review (hence "MER") as a discretionary sanction. Editors under MER are banned from making major edits to articles they are sanctioned from without first both getting consensus from uninvolved editors on the talk page and agreement from an uninvolved third party with no history in the area as to the edit's neutrality and sourcing. As one might imagine, this is functionally an article ban in all but name, as making any sort of edit - even simple edits like copyedits and vandalism reversion (WP:BANEX did not apply under MER) - becomes a hopeless, onerous slog due to the requirements for both a consensus on the talk page plus assent from a random person outside the dispute. MER would ultimately be explicitly deprecated in May 2014 after a year-long review of the contentious topics procedure, and all remedies that relied on it would be rescinded as obsolete at that time. |
-- | Sep. 08, 2012 | Yes | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Homunculus subject to mandated external review | Homunculus is indefinitely subject to MER in the FLG area. Appeals may only be to ArbCom via ARCA. (All three MER remedies were amended to add a link to the relevant policy page at the same time the overarching MER remedy was rescinded as redundant with that.) |
Sep. 08, 2012 | -- | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ohconfucius subject to mandated external review | Ohconfucius " " " " " " " " " " ". " " " " " " " ". | Sep. 08, 2012 | -- | Yes | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Colipon subject to mandated external review | Colipon " " " " " " " " " " ". " " " " " " " ". | Sep. 08, 2012 | -- | Yes | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Motion: Ohconfucius' topic-ban suspended | Ohconfucius' FLG topic-ban is suspended for 1yr. During this time, the topic-ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking them for FLG-related disruption or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | May 07, 2014 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: July 21, 2012
- Abbrev.: FÆ
- Type: Editor
- Scope: Fæ's sockpuppetry and conduct, and harassment of same
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fæ admonished | Fæ is admonished for attacking perceived opponents based on what they presume is their affiliation. | -- | -- | No | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Fæ limited to one account | Fæ must edit from the Fæ account and no other. They must also disclose any other accounts they control to ArbCom, receive permission from ArbCom to rename, and are explicitly denied any opportunity for a clean start. | -- | -- | Yes | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Fæ administrator tools | Fæ surrendered their tools in the face of a case centred on their use, and so can only regain them through a new, successful Request for Adminship. ArbCom mandates that any new RfA for Fæ include a link to a list of all of Fæ's previous accounts. | -- | -- | N/A | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Fæ banned | Fæ is indefinitely sitebanned. They may appeal semi-annually (every 6mo). | -- | Motion: Fæ unbanned with restrictions | Yes | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Michaeldsuarez banned | Michaeldsuarez is indefinitely sitebanned for using an external website to harass Fæ. They may appeal after 1yr. | -- | -- | Yes | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Delicious carbuncle severely admonished and warned | Delicious carbuncle comes a hair close to being sitebanned for the same reason as Michaeldsuarez above, the only reason they escaped being their (wise) decision to retract any information about Fæ to that external website. Instead, they are strongly admonished and warned the next time they pull this stunt will be grounds for an indefinite siteban. | -- | -- | No | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Motion: Fæ unbanned with restrictions | Fæ banned is rescinded. In its place, they are indefinitely topic-banned from images and BLPs relating to sexuality. Either or both of these topic bans may be appealed after 1yr. | Mar. 12, 2013 | Motion: Bans suspended | Yes | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Ban carveout | Fæ is granted a carveout to their topic-ban allowing them to edit or upload images related to sexuality provided the topic is older than 1000 CE. | May 16, 2014 | Motion: Bans suspended | N/A | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Bot access | Fæ is granted a carveout to their one-account restriction to trial or operate bot accounts as long as their tasks have been approved beforehand by the Bot Approvals Group. | Jan. 07, 2015 | -- | N/A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Commons fair use upload bot | Fæ is granted a carveout to their one-account restriction and sexuality topic-bans to operate Commons Fair Use Upload Bot in order to transfer images they would otherwise be banned from, as long as a third party requests it. In order to enforce compliance, the bot must log filenames, image locations, and any editor making such a request. | Jan. 15, 2015 | -- | N/A | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Bans suspended | Fæ's sexuality-related bans are suspended for 6mo. During this time, the topic-ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking them for sexuality-related disruption or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | Dec. 12, 2016 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2013
edit- Decided: Mar. 12, 2013
- Abbrev.: DC
- Type: Editor
- Scope: Doncram's mass creation of stub articles
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doncram: General editor probation | Doncram may be summarily sanctioned at administrator discretion if he is disruptive. This remedy may be appealed after 1yr and every 6mo thereafter should the first appeal fail. Any sanctions issued this way are to be logged. | -- | Amendment: Restrictions replaced | Yes | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Doncram: Article creation restriction | Doncram is indefinitely topic-banned from creating new pages in article space. This doesn't apply to drafts, provided they are reviewed by a third party prior to going live (i.e. go thru the full Articles for Creation process, which at this point had come into its own). This remedy may be appealed after 1yr. | -- | Amendment: Restrictions replaced | Yes | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| SarekofVulcan admonished[sic] | SarekOfVulcan is admonished for illogically edit-warring with Doncram. | -- | -- | No | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| SarekOfVulcan-Doncram interaction ban | SarekOfVulcan and Doncram are indefinitely under a mutual interaction ban. | -- | Amendment: Interaction ban suspended | Yes | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stub content debate remanded to community | Since ArbCom cannot force policy onto Wikipedia, the policy discussion about when stubs are suitable articles is remanded to the community. | -- | -- | N/A | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Amendment: Restrictions replaced | Doncram's probation (and a topic-ban issued under it) is rescinded. His article creation ban is narrowed in scope to pages related to the National Register of Historic Places (hence "NRHP"). | May 11, 2016 | Amendment: NRHP article ban suspended | Yes | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: NRHP article ban suspended | Doncram's NRHP article creation ban is suspended for 6mo. During this time, the ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking them for mass creation of low-quality NRHP articles or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | Nov. 05, 2016 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: Interaction ban suspended | SarekOfVulcan's and Doncram's interaction ban is suspended for 6mo. During this time, the interaction ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking either party for their interactions with the other or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | Jan. 21, 2018 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
- Decided: Mar. 13, 2013
- Abbrev.: RAN
- Type: Editor
- Scope: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (hence "Norton")'s persistent copyright violations and self-citing
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) strongly admonished | Norton is strongly admonished for his relentless copyright violations and warns him in no uncertain terms that continuing to breach copyright will lead to an indefinite block or siteban, as this case was filed in lieu of a fourth copyvio block. | -- | -- | No | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )'s topic ban on article creation | ArbCom endorses Norton's community-issued article creation ban. He can appeal it after 6mo. | -- | Amendment: Topic-ban expanded | Yes | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) restricted from uploading images | Norton is indefinitely banned from uploading any sort of media to Wikipedia. To prevent them circumventing this by using Commons instead, any media they upload there expressly for Wikipedia use shall be treated as if it were uploaded to Wikipedia proper. This shall apply retroactively to all images currently uploaded by [Norton] to [Commons] at the time this remedy is enactedbut not to images already in use by the time the case closes. |
-- | -- | Yes | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) restricted from referencing external sites to which he has contributed | Norton is banned from citing any source which he has (co-)authored. He may link them on the talk pages of articles or at WP:RS/N in the context of discussing their viability, but even if consensus is in favour he still cannot cite the source himself. | -- | -- | Yes | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: Topic-ban expanded | Norton's page-creation ban is expanded to all namespaces, and he is indefinitely banned from moving any page into mainspace. This remedy can only be appealed after 6mo or after every article and draft he's created has been cleared of copyright violations or deleted (whichever comes later), and requires him to show evidence of cooperating with copyright-related investigations into his text contributions. Any page he creates may be summarily deleted under G5, and any page move may be summarily reversed with no discussion. | Oct. 16, 2015 | -- | Yes | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
SchuminWeb
edit- Deopped: Mar. 29, 2013
(Case closed with a desysop on the listed date after a three-month abeyance period due to SchuminWeb quitting Wikipedia to evade the Arbitration.)
- Decided: Apr. 25, 2013
- Abbrev.: SEX
- Type: Dispute
- Scope: James Cantor's and Jokestress' interactions in the transgenderism and paraphilia topic areas
- CT?: Close - Nov. 25, 2017 (Remedy)
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted/Amended | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jokestress and James Cantor mutual interaction ban | Jokestress and James Cantor are indefinitely under a mutual interaction ban. | -- | -- | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jokestress topic-banned from human sexuality | Jokestress is indefinitely topic-banned from the human sexuality and gender topic area. (The original wording had the same effect but was vague.) |
Motion: Jokestress' ban amended | -- | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 and discussions about transgenderism or paraphilias 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 can only be appealed to WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement or to ArbCom directly. (The original version applied only to articles.) |
Oct. 23, 2014 | Motion: Discretionary sanctions rescinded | Yes | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Motion: Discretionary sanctions rescinded | Discretionary sanctions is rescinded as redundant with GG's CTOP regime. Any sanctions still in effect are bound by the usual procedures for appeal. | Nov. 25, 2017 | -- | N/A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Jokestress' ban amended | This amends Jokestress' ban to clarify its scope. | Nov. 23, 2019 | -- | N/A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: June 23, 2013
- Abbrev.: ARG
- Type: Dispute
- Scope: POV-pushing in the History of Argentina topic area
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambalachero topic banned | Cambalachero is indefinitely topic-banned from the History of Latin America topic area. They may appeal this after one year. | -- | -- | Yes | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MarshalN20 topic banned | MarshalN20 is indefinitely topic-banned from the pre-December 1983 history of Latin America topic area as regards politics, militaries, or econonomics. (The original version was identical to Cambalachero's topic-ban above.) |
Dec. 30, 2013 | Amendment: MarshalN20 topic ban suspended | Yes | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lecen reminded | Lecen is warned to govern himself appropriately. | -- | -- | No | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Topic ban exemption: August 2013 | MarshalN20 is given a carveout to his ban allowing him to edit Falkland Islands and related pages in the context of that page's Featured push. Basalisk is granted authorisation to revoke this permission at any time. | Aug. 13, 2013 | Amendment: MarshalN20 topic ban suspended | N/A | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Topic ban exemption: July 2014 | " " " " " " " " " " " " United States " " " " " " " " " " ". | July 14, 2014 | Amendment: MarshalN20 topic ban suspended | N/A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: Cambalachero-Lecen interaction ban | Lecen is under mutual interaction bans with Cambalachero and MarshalN20. (These interaction bans were passed on the same day and as the result of the same ARCA thread.) |
Aug. 18, 2013 | -- | Yes | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: Cambalachero-MarshalN20 interaction ban | ||||||||
| Amendment Request: Argentine History February 2015 | Cambalachero is granted carveouts to edit the article, talk, and peer/good/featured review pages for Raúl Alfonsín, Carlos Menem, Fernando de la Rúa, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Pope Francis. Revocation of any of these carevouts must be logged and have a diff that shows Cambalachero is a problem on the affected page(s). | Feb. 04, 2015 | -- | Yes (revoke) | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: MarshalN20 topic ban suspended | MarshallN20's topic-ban from Latin American history is suspended for one year. During this time, the topic-ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking them for misconduct in the pre-Dec. 1983 Latin American history topic area or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the topic-ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. | Sep. 01, 2015 | -- | Yes (reinstatement) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Race and politics
edit- Closed: July 26, 2013
(Case closed via motion due to the primary party quitting Wikipedia to evade Arbitration; the motion sitebans them until they submit to questioning from the Arbitration Committee and adds a topic ban from the race and politics topic areas where they intersect on top of that.)
- Decided: Aug. 13, 2013
- Abbrev.: KW-I
- Type: Dispute
- Scope: Kiefer.Wolfowitz' and Ironholds' importing off-wiki disputes onto Wikipedia
- CT?: No
(This case was under greater scrutiny than usual due to the explosive allegations and past histories of both editors; Wolfowitz had publicly accused users of breaching child-protection policies and Ironholds had been caught vandalising other WMF projects while logged out. As such, the Arbitrators and Clerks semi-protected all case pages and put in place a one-strike system; users who misbehaved or went off-topic could be summarily topic-banned or blocked at Clerk/Arbitrator discretion after an initial warning.)
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ironholds desysopped | Ironholds' administrator rights are revoked for vandalism of other WMF wikis and using sexually-charged language on Wikipedia-related IRC channels in addition to their substandard on-wiki conduct. They may only regain them through a new, successful Request for Adminship. | N/A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ironholds admonished | Ironholds is admonished for the conduct described above. | No | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Kiefer.Wolfowitz banned | Kiefer.Wolfowitz is indefinitely sitebanned for publicly accusing editors of breaching WP:Protecting children's privacy and for gratuitous and unrepentant incivility towards other editors en generale. They may appeal after the first year and then semiannually thereafter. | Yes | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
- Decided: Sep. 05, 2013
- Abbrev.: TPM
- Type: Omnibus
- Scope: Tribalism and conduct on Tea Party movement and related articles
- CT?: Close - Oct. 30, 2015 (Remedy)
(Remedies below refer to "the TPM area", which encompasses all pages and edits about the Tea Party movement, broadly construed.)
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interim decision: Suspend case | So as to allow a moderated discussion a chance to succeed, this case is held in abeyance until it completes or until July 01, 2013 (whichever is first). In the interim, ArbCom declares the TPM area a contentious topic. 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 in the 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 can only be appealed to WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement or to ArbCom directly. | June 01, 2013 | -- | Yes | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Interim decision: Reinstate case | The moderated discussion has failed, and so the case is active again. The contentious topic declaration remains in place. | July 02, 2013 | -- | N/A | --[v] | -- | -- | -- |
| Discretionary sanctions | (See Interim decision: Suspend case) (This was seen as redundant with AP2's contentious topic and deprecated as a consequence.) |
-- | Oct. 30, 2015 | Yes | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Goethean topic-banned | Goethean is indefinitely topic-banned from the TPM area. They may appeal this after 6mo. | -- | -- | Yes | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| North8000 topic-banned | North8000 " " "-" " " " ". " " " " " " ". | -- | Amendment: North8000 topic-ban suspended | Yes | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Malke 2010 topic-banned | Malke 2010 " " "-" " " " ". " " " " " " ". | -- | -- | Yes | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Xenophrenic topic-banned | Xenophrenic " " "-" " " " ". " " " " " " ". | -- | Amendment: Xenophrenic sanctions sunset | Yes | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Xenophrenic interaction ban with Collect | Xenophrenic is indefinitely under a one-way interaction ban from Collect. | -- | Amendment: Xenophrenic sanctions sunset | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arthur Rubin topic-banned | Arthur Rubin is indefinitely topic-banned from the TPM area. He may appeal this after 6mo. (While this remedy was rescinded, it is not struckthrough on the case; see here for confirmation of the rescission.) |
-- | Amendment: Arthur Rubin ban suspension in favour of 1RR | Yes | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Community sanctions lifted | Due to their poor wordsmithing making them completely unfit for purpose, the community sanctions that were issued in the TPM area are all terminated. | -- | -- | N/A | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ubikwit topic-banned | Ubikwit is indefinitely topic-banned from the TPM area. They may appeal this after 6mo. | -- | -- | Yes | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Collect topic-banned | Collect is topic-banned from the TPM area for 6mo. | -- | -- | Yes | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Phoenix and Winslow topic-banned | Phoenix and Winslow is indefinitely topic-banned from the TPM area. They may appeal this after 6mo. | -- | -- | Yes | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Snowded-Phoenix and Winslow interaction ban | Phoenix and Winslow and Snowded are indefinitely under a mutual interaction ban. | -- | -- | Yes | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Amendment: Arthur Rubin ban suspension in favour of 1RR | Arthur Rubin's topic-ban from the TPM area is suspended for 1yr. During this time, the topic-ban may be reinstated at administrator discretion for disruption, either by blocking them for misconduct in the TPM area or by fiat. If the suspension period ends without the topic-ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), it will automatically lapse. ArbCom also puts Arthur Rubin under an indefinite 1RR in the TPM area, effective the date of this amendment's passage and independent of the topic-ban's ultimate fate. He may appeal the 1RR after 1yr. |
Aug. 24, 2014 | -- | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: Xenophrenic sanctions sunset | Xenophrenic's topic and interaction bans are suspended for 4w. During this time, the bans may be reinstated only by a consensus of administrators, and the existence of the sanctions is not to be taken into account when determining if an edit by Xenophrenic is inappropriate. If the suspension period ends without the bans being reinstated (or any active appeals of reinstatements by Xenophrenic are successful), they will automatically lapse. | Dec. 04, 2014 | -- | Yes (see text) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amendment: North8000 topic-bans suspended | North8000's topic-bans from the post-1932 United States politics topic area[vi], the GC area, and homophobia issued as conditions of a successful ban appeal are all suspended for 1yr. During this time, any or all of the topic-bans may be reinstated only by requesting it at Clarification/Amendment. If the suspension period ends without a topic-ban being reinstated (or all reinstatements successfully appealed), that topic-ban will automatically lapse. | Aug. 26, 2020 | -- | No (see text) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Decided: Sep. 11, 2013
- Review closed: Mar. 04, 2015
- Abbrev.: BOX
- Type: Omnibus
- Scope: Intractible disputes and misconduct surrounding infoboxes in articles
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pigsonthewing and infoboxes | Pigsonthewing is indefinitely banned from discussing or participating in the addition or removal of infoboxen. (The review exists primarily because of this remedy's weaknesses.) |
-- | Review | Yes | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Nikkimaria admonished | Nikkimaria is admonished for being Pigsonthewing's dance partner. | -- | -- | No | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Gerda Arendt restricted | Gerda Arendt is indefinitely banned from adding, deleting, or restoring infoboxes to articles (other than ones she is actively creating) and from making more than two comments in infobox-related article-content discussions. | -- | Motion: Gerda Arendt sanction sunset | Yes | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Gerda Arendt admonished | Gerda Arendt is admonished for treating the infobox discussion as a war to be fought. | -- | -- | No | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Smerus reminded | Smerus is reminded to conduct himself in a civil manner.[userlinks template omitted] |
-- | -- | No | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Editors reminded | All editors in the infobox debate, writ large, are admonished for incivility and for hijacking article discussions (about a specific infobox) to discuss infoboxen en generale. | -- | -- | No | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Community discussion recommended | Since ArbCom cannot force policy onto Wikipedia, the policy discussion concerning infoboxen is remanded to the community. | -- | -- | N/A | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Review: Pigsonthewing restricted | Pigsonthewing and infoboxes is rescinded. In its place, Pigsonthewing is banned from adding infoboxen to any article. | Review | Motion: Pigsonthewing restrictions rescinded | Yes | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Review: Pigsonthewing; discussion | POTW#Pigsonthewing placed on probation is rescinded. In its place, Pigsonthewing may be summarily topic-banned from discussions he disrupts at administrator discretion. Any such bans are to be logged on the case page for the review. | Motion: Pigsonthewing discussions rescinded | Yes | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Review: Pigsonthewing; article creation | Pigsonthewing is given a carveout on his infobox ban for articles he himself has created within the past 14 days. | Motion: Pigsonthewing restrictions rescinded | N/A | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Motion: Gerda Arendt sanctions sunset | Gerda Arendt restricted is suspended for 6mo. In its place, they are banned from adding or restoring infoboxen to pages they didn't create without first (attempting to) attain consensus on the talk page of the article to be edited. In addition, they may be summarily banned from any discussion about infoboxes they disrupt at administrator discretion. During this time, the more restrictive ban may be reinstated by a consensus of administrators for cause. If the suspension period ends without the lesser restrictions being breached, they and Gerda Arendt restricted will be automatically rescinded. | May 31, 2015 | -- | Yes | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motion: Pigsonthewing restrictions rescinded | Review: Pigsonthewing restricted and its related carveout are rescinded. | Apr. 21, 2016 | -- | N/A | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Motion: Pigsonthewing discussions rescinded | Review: Pigsonthewing; discussion is rescinded. | Apr. 21, 2016 | -- | N/A | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
- Decided: Oct. 16, 2013
- Abbrev.: MND
- Type: Dispute
- Scope: Intractible dispute and move-warring over the name of the (then-transitioning) Chelsea Manning article
- CT?: Only during case[vii]
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enacted/Amended | Rescinded | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temporary 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 and discussions about Chelsea Manning, United States v. Manning, or Chelsea Manning gender identity media coverage as they see fit as long as this case is active. Any sanctions or warnings issued this way (both directly and consequentially) will automatically terminate at the end of this case unless a remedy explicitly states otherwise. | -- | See text | Yes | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hitmonchan topic-banned | Hitmonchan is indefinitely topic-banned from the transgenderism topic area. | -- | -- | Yes | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [iFreedom1212] topic-banned | iFreedom1212 " " "-" " " " " ". | -- | -- | Yes | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Tarc topic-banned | Tarc " " "-" " " " " ". | -- | -- | Yes | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Josh Gorand topic-banned | Josh Gorand " " "-" " " " " ". | -- | -- | Yes | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Baseball Bugs topic-banned | Baseball Bugs is indefinitely topic-banned from the classified leak and transgenderism topic areas. | -- | -- | Yes | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| David Gerard admonished | For using every tool and tactic in his disposal to prevent the Chelsea Manning article from being moved off that title despite his involvement in the dispute, David Gerard is strongly admonished. (This case predates WP:DEADNAME becoming policy.) |
-- | -- | No | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| David Gerard restricted in use of tools | David Gerard is indefinitely banned from using his administrator tools in the transgenderism topic area. He may appeal this semiannually (every 6mo). | -- | -- | No (out of scope) | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Discretionary sanctions applicable | ArbCom notes that this case already fell under an existing contentious topic, and that it can - and should - be used for matters like this moving forward. (The case originally pointed to SEX as the CTOP in question, and was later amended to change it to GG when SEX's designation was rescinded as redundant with it. This remedy would ultimately be superseded by GS along with GG's own contentious topic designation.) |
Motion: Changing off a defunct CT regime | GS | N/A | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Editors reminded | All editors involved in this dispute, writ large, are scolded for allowing the behavioural situation to escalate needlessly and for disparaging commentary. | -- | -- | No | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Motion: Changing off a defunct CT regime | This changes the CTOP mentioned in Discretionary sanctions applicable to GG. It also explicitly rescinds GGTF's contentious topic designation as redundant with GG's. | Feb. 22, 2019 | GS | N/A | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
- Decided: Nov. 04, 2013
- Abbrev.: EB3
- Type: Editor
- Scope: John Carter's POV-pushing attempts centred around the Gospel of the Ebionites
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ignocrates-John Carter interaction ban | Ignocrates and John Carter are indefinitely under a mutual interaction ban. | Yes | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| John Carter topic-banned | John Carter is indefinitely topic-banned from pages in the Ebionites topic area. | Yes | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| John Carter's administrator status | John Carter requested his administrator rights be removed during the case, and so can only regain them via a new, successful Request for Adminship. | N/A | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Decided: Dec. 23, 2013
- Abbrev.: OET
- Type: Dispute
- Scope: RoslynSKP's and Jim Sweeney's long-running dispute over the military history of the Ottoman Empire/Turkiye ca. World War I.
- CT?: No
| Remedy name | Remedy (in modern terms) | Enforceable? | Sup | Opp | Abs | Rcs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RoslynSKP prohibited | RoslynSKP is indefinitely banned from making edits that change the words "Turkey" or "Turkish" to "Ottoman" on any page. She may appeal this after 1yr. | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| RoslynSKP suspended topic ban | RoslynSKP is indefinitely topic-banned from pages in the Turkish/Ottoman military history pre-November 1918 topic area. This topic ban was suspended and would only take effect if RoslynSKP is blocked for misconduct in the topic area, which she was 10 days after this case. Any successful block appeals will re-suspend the ban, and after 9mo both blocks and the ban can be appealed to ArbCom the same way as any other Arbitration remedy, regardless of her/the ban's current status. |
Yes | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| RoslynSKP revert restriction | RoslynSKP is indefinitely under 1RR/72h. She may appeal this after 6mo. | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| RoslynSKP tagging restriction | For the next year, RoslynSKP is banned from unilaterally adding maintenance tags to articles. | Yes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jim Sweeney reminded | Jim Sweeney is scolded for dancing with RoslynSKP and told to make more of an effort in earlier stages of dispute resolution to prevent a situation like this occurring again. | No | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Footnotes
edit- ^ Pronounced "delta"
- ^ Locus of case falls entirely into the TM area
- ^ The case page states six abstentions; the motion lists two explicit abstentions and four "not voting" (presumably recused); this motion was done in camera. This summary will use the case page's totals.
- ^ Scope of case falls entirely in the FLG area
- ^ This motion was triggered by the time limit placed on the abeyance above and did not require a vote.
- ^ Ban was converted to an AP2 ban due to TPM being deprecated in favour of AP2 at time of the appeal
- ^ Falls under multiple different CT regimes; see Discretionary sanctions available for more details