Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-08/Arbitration report
The Report On Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee closed four cases this week. Additionally, Herschelkrustofsky was banned for one year in a motion in a prior case.
FourthAve
A case against FourthAve was closed on Tuesday. As a result, FourthAve was banned from Wikipedia for 1 year, and placed on indefinite personal attack parole, probation, and general probation. FourthAve was found to have made personal attacks and engaged in "aggressive point of view editing" on articles relating to the University of Dubuque and Jim Nussle.
Lou franklin
A case against Lou franklin was closed on Friday. As a result, Lou franklin was indefinitely banned from pages and talk pages relating to societal attitudes towards homosexuality, and placed on personal attack and revert paroles. Lou franklin had edit-warred, and the Committee called him a "disruptive" and "ineffective" editor.
Depleted uranium
A case against editors on Depleted uranium was closed on Saturday. As a result, Nrcprm2026, a.k.a. James S., was banned from articles relating to depleted uranium and uranium trioxide, and placed on probation and general probation. TDC was also placed on a one-revert-per-day limit for a year, and users who had made personal attacks on James S. were warned. James S. and TDC had edit warred on the pages in question.
Aucaman
A case brought against Aucaman was closed on Sunday. As a result, Xebat and all his accounts were banned for one year, and Aucaman, Zmmz, SouthernComfort, ManiF, Kashk, and User:Khoikhoi were placed on probation for one year. Aucaman and SouthernComfort were also banned from editing articles relating to Persians and Iranians, and Zmmz was banned from editing Persian people and Iranian peoples. Xebat had made ethnic-related personal attacks, while Aucaman had made lesser personal attacks, and all parties in the case had edit warred.
Herschelkrustofsky motion
A motion to ban Herschelkrustofsky for one year passed on Friday. The measure, which received 6 support votes and no opposition, amended a previous case.
Other cases
Cases involving Deathrocker (user page), Infinity0 (user page), Sam Spade (user page), and PoolGuy (user page) were accepted this week. All are the evidence phase.
An additional case involving editors on Biological psychiatry is in the evidence phase.
Cases involving users SqueakBox and Zapatancas, Messhermit (user page), and Jacrosse (user page), Marcosantezana (user page), and Locke Cole (user page) are in the voting phase.
Motions to close are on the table in the cases involving Monicasdude (user page), Terryeo (user page), and users DarrenRay and 2006BC.
A motion to restrict StrangerInParadise to one user account has seven support votes with no opposition.
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So I take it that this is the equivalent of a daily police blotter on a common newspaper. --Shultz IV 04:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]