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A final decision was posted by Arbitration Committee concerning the case Palestine-Israel articles 5 (aka PIA5), and the case was closed.
A concise summary can be found at Special:Permalink/1271417868#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5 closed. This is a summary of the summary.
Arbs agreed on the following:
In a given 30-day period, a user under this restriction is limited to making no more than one-third of their edits in the Article, Talk, Draft, and Draft talk namespaces to pages that are subject to the extended-confirmed restriction under Arab–Israeli conflict contentious topic procedures.
An article on a violent engagement within the Arab–Israeli conflict, broadly construed...may not describe the engagement as a "massacre", "murder", "bombing", "genocide", or "assassination" or similarly contentious word.
There was a 50:50 split on "AndreJustAndre banned".
Community reaction to the decision was robust, with over 50 kB of comments on the committee noticeboard's talkpage, as of this issue's deadline.
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