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Red (#CD5C5C) is a remedy that has since been rescinded or otherwise is wholly reliant on previous remedies that are themselves rescinded.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Rescinded: If a remedy was terminated, this will be the calendar date (in UTC) when the remedy was ended.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.
Freedom skies is under 1RR/week and is required to explain every revert they make (except for obvious vandalism) on the affected article's talk page 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.
Yes
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Freedom skies must use one account
Freedom skies must choose an account from those they control, and is sitebanned until he does so. Once he picks an account, he must edit Wikipedia from that account and no other. (Freedom skies opted to resume using that account.)
Scope: Betacommand's misuse of administrator tools
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Betacommand desysopped
Betacommand's administrator privileges are revoked. He may regain them either through a new, successful Request for Adminship or by successfully appealing this remedy.
(A review was opened for this case a month and a half after it closed, but was closed with no further remedies due to Certified.Gangsta having been at that point harassed off the project by Ideogram, which led to the latter being community-banned 1yr.)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Rescinded
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Certified.Gangsta placed on revert parole
Certified.Gangsta is under 1RR/week and is required to explain every revert they make (except for obvious vandalism) on the affected article's talk page 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. (The vote and discussion about rescinding this sanction was conducted in camera.)
(The remedies below refer to "the FLG area", which refers to all articles, edits, and discussions about the Falun Gong and its adherents, broadly construed.)
Decided: May 09, 2007
Abbrev.: FLG
Type:Omnibus
Scope: Relentless edit-warring and POV-pushing on Falun Gong-related articles
CT?: Jan 19, 2010-present (Motion)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enacted/Amended
Rescinded
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Article probation
Any editor disrupting articles in the FLG area may be summarily banned from them or from the area as a whole. Any bans (and blocks arising from same) are to be logged on the case page.
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Imposition of discretionary sanctions
Yes
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Mcconn placed on revert parole
Mcconn is under 1RR/week and is required to explain every revert they make (except for obvious vandalism) on the affected article's talk page 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.
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Yes
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Samuel Luo banned
Samuel Luo is indefinitely topic-banned from the FLG area.
Provided the person being sanctioned has been alerted to this remedy's existence, any administrator may summarily sanction a user who disrupts the FLG area as they see fit. Any sanctions and 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 information.) (The original version only applied to articles.)
Henrygb's administrator privileges are revoked. Until he satisfies the conditions in Henrygb banned he cannot reapply for adminship in any fashion under any account.
N/A
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Henrygb limited to one account
As part of the conditions for Henrygb banned Henrygb must choose an account. Once he satisfies that remedy and from then on, he must edit from that account and no other.
Yes
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Henrygb banned
Henrygb is sitebanned until he submits to the Arbitration Committee's questioning around his misuse of multiple accounts. It's worth noting he was indefinitely blocked before the case and proceeded to evade this block, and he refused to engage with this Arbitration in any capacity.
Scope: Tobias Conradi's hostile interactions with administrators
CT? No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Civility parole
Tobias Conradi may be blocked up to an hour by any administrator for any personal attack or violation of civility. Blocks need not be logged.[sic]
Yes
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1RR
Tobias Conradi is limited to one revert per week on any article. This includes moves. Breaches are to be met with blocks of up to 1h, as above.
Yes
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Laundry lists of grievances
Tobias Conradi - who would be sitebanned two weeks after this case for harassment via email - is banned from keeping user subpages that are little more than lists of things he hates about Wikipedia or about other users.
Zero0000 is told in no uncertain terms to stop taking administrator actions against Zeq due to their prior history.
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No
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Zero0000 admonished
Zero0000 is reminded that a user who's on probation, like Zeq, must still be shown good faith as long as they are adhering to the probation's terms.
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No
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Zero0000 restricted from future admin actions
Since Zero0000 is still acting as an administrator in situations where he is involved, ArbCom warns that they may summarily desysop him unless he stops immediately. This specifically includes, but is not limited to, administrative action against or related to Zeq.
(This case was conducted on the request page as an open motion.)
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enacted
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Motion for Unblock and standard revert parole
Koavf is unblocked. As a condition, he is placed on 1RR for 1yr and must explicitly label his reverts. Breaches are to be met with blocks (capped at 24h) and, in the case of recidivism, reinstatement of the original indefinite block. All blocks levied as enforcement are to be logged on the case page.
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Yes
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Amendments[sic]
This terminates a community-levied sanction on Koavf. While the text also explicitly rescinds the remedy above it had already lapsed on its own terms, even factoring in extensions for breaches.
Nationalist - whom TingMing was found to be a sockpuppet of - is sitebanned 1y. As the TingMing account was indefinitely blocked during the case, Nationalist is effectively sitebanned 1yr and indefinitely blocked on top of that.
The case is suspended to allow a last-ditch mediation to try and resolve the situation. (It would ultimately fail due to Tajik - who had suggested the mediation - doing everything in his power to evade it and avoid scrutiny.)
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N/A
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Ban endorsed
The indefinite ban of Tajik is endorsed.[userlinks template omitted]
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Tajik Restricted
Yes
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Tajik banned
(This remedy - a time-limited siteban - is superseded by the above.)
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N/A
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Tajik Restricted
Tajik's indefinite ban is lifted. As a condition, he is under 1RR/week and must explain every revert he makes (except for obvious vandalism) on the talk page of the affected article. Breaches are to be met with blocks (capped at 1mo) and logged on the case page.
Sep. 12, 2008
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Yes
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AzaToth reminded
AzaToth is admonished for refusing to defend his unblocks of Tajik and E104421, which were done against consensus.
Scope: Possible collusion/proxy editing by editors and administrators in re Hkelkar
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Aksi great removed as a party
Since they have little-to-no involvement to the matter at hand, Aksi great is removed as a party.
N/A
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Mediation
The underlying content dispute is remanded to mediation.
N/A
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Admin actions between parties barred
Any administrator named as a party to this case (Dbachmann, Nearly-Headless Nick, DaGizza) who performs any administrative action against another party to this case will be summarily desysopped if and when ArbCom finds out about it.
No (Out of AE's remit)
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Rama's Arrow is desysopped
Rama's Arrow's administrator rights are revoked. He may only get them back through a new, successful Request for Adminship. It's worth noting that Rama's Arrow's misuse of admin tools was the only item that there was sufficient evidence for.
N/A
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On notice
ArbCom warns all parties that continuing to use Wikipedia to push ethnopolitical disputes will result in blocks, albeit in a rather comedic way: Parties who continue such behaviour, and parties who consider it their moral duty to call out such behaviour, will be hit on the head with sticks until the situation improves.
Scope: Miskin's edit-warring and contemporary (un)blocks for same
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Miskin cautioned
Miskin is warned to discuss his edits and gain consensus for them if they are reverted.
No
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Swatjester advised
Swatjester is advised to treat edit-warriors fairly when blocking and to take previous block history (specifically, the length of time between blocks) into account.
Scope: Legal threats from Jeffrey Vernon Merkey (hence "JVM") and resultant harassment of him
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey banned
JVM is sitebanned 1yr.
Yes
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Jeffrey Vernon Merkey placed on legal threat parole
JVM may be summarily and indefinitely blocked for making any edit that could reasonably be construed as a legal threat, regardless of who he claims will bring the lawsuit.
Yes
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Pfagerburg banned
For harassment of JVM, Pfagerburg is sitebanned 1yr.
Scope: Zacheus' and -jkb-'s importation of their Czech wikipedia disputes
CT?: No
Remedy name
Remedy (in modern terms)
Enforceable?
Sup
Opp
Abs
Rcs
Parties admonished
-jkb- and Zacheus are reprimanded for carrying on as they have been.
No
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Parties restricted
Both -jkb- and Zacheus are banned from making personal attacks, casting aspersions, and using their off-wiki history to win or provoke content disputes. Breaches are to be met with blocks (length left to administrator discretion) and logged on the case page.
(The remedies below refer to "the AA area", which refers to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the ethnopolitical, ethnic, and historical conflicts between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkiye, and Iran, broadly construed.)
(This is essentially a prototypical discretionary sanctions regime, and would be supplanted by Contentious Topics Declaration v.1.0.)
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Amended Remedies and Enforcement
Yes
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Amended Remedies and Enforcement
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 the AA 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 ArbCpm directly. (See WP:Contentious topics for more details.)
DPeterson is sitebanned 1yr for creating sockpuppets specifically to manipulate consensus in his favour.
Yes
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Parties reminded
Since a lot of the parties to this case have some connexion to organisations defending or combatting Dyadic developmental psychotherapy, all parties are warned to avoid editing articles where they would have a conflict of interest and encouraged to disclose their affiliations.
