Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

Arbitration report

Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely

Administrator desysopped

Following a case that closed on 16 October 2017, Arthur Rubin was desysopped "for repeatedly not meeting the community expectations and responsibilities of administrators as outlined in WP:ADMINACCT". Specific incidents included removing permissions from a user during an ANI discussion – which reversed another admin's administrative action without prior notification or discussion – and failing to provide evidence for claims made against another user.

Current requests

Crosswiki issues request: Request opened 31 October 2017 by Fram, other involved party Ymblanter – motion for discussion closed 22 November probably looking at an RfC about "whether and how information from Wikidata should be used on English Wikipedia"
Mister Wiki case: Request opened 21 November 2017 by TonyBallioni; other involved parties Salvidrim! and Soetermans – vote reached 6/0/0 on 23 November and very likely to result in a case

Declined requests

Zoyetu request: Request opened 16 October 2017 by Zoyetu – declined <0/4/0/3>, opener topic banned on 7 November
Joefromrandb request: Request opened 20 October 2017 by TomStar81 – declined <3/7/2>
Conduct at Reference Desks request: Request opened 30 October 2017 by Robert McClenon – declined <0/9/0>
List of unofficial users of Iranian rial request: Request opened 31 October 2017 by John N Smith – unanimously declined
Nathan B. Forrest request: Request opened 6 November 2017 by Azarbarzin – declined <0/8/0>
List of European islands by population – Island of Ireland countries editing dispute: Request opened 9 November 2017 by PompeyTheGreat – declined <0/7/0>

In brief

Elections: 2017 elections kicked off with Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2017. There are eight vacant seats with two-year terms. Self-nominations are closed; voting will commence Monday 00:00, 27 November until Sunday 23:59, 10 December, UTC.

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What does "opener tban blocked 7 November" mean? Typo or internal enwiki jargon? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:36, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Jargon. I'm pretty sure the fully-expanded is "The user who submitted the arbitration request was blocked for violating a topic ban on 7 November" (which may have been unrelated). --Izno (talk) 14:28, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As this is a multinational project, I would really appreciate if people refrained from usign slang, jargon, unnecesary abreviations, etc. Why? Well, I could have expressed my last sentence in something like: A vel si sus dejáis de rajar en una froma to chunga de fablar, que no sus entiendi un piho, odo. I bet that you have found the last sentence I at least a bit hard to understand, even if you know Spanish. Well, the same can happen with the English language. So, please, keep it simple if it can be. B25es (talk) 15:53, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've been bold and replaced the problematical word. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:21, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I made the report and apologize for the brevity. We were under quite a bit of time pressure especially with the US holiday in the background. It was also my first arbitration report writeup for Signpost. Which is a good time to plug joining the staff if you are interested in matters of writing. We can always use more hands. ☆ Bri (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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