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Los Angeles Wikimeetup

Los Angeles, California Wikipedians are organizing a meetup on 26 September.

Wikiversity vote started

The Wikiversity project, which currently resides on Wikibooks, has started a vote to move to wikiversity.org, which currently hosts a near-dormant German Wikiversity project. The vote will last until 1 November.

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2005-09-19

The Report On Lengthy Litigation

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The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week; one against Ed Poor, and another against OldRight. In addition, the Wikipedia community has banned JarlaxleArtemis, who was found to be creating a number of abusive sockpuppets.

Ed Poor

The case against Ed Poor (user page) for "abuses of power" was closed this week, after he voluntarily resigned as a bureaucrat, while still retaining adminship. The Arbitration Committee was satisfied with this, and "closed [the case] without further comment". The dispute originally stemmed from Ed Poor's deletion of AFD (then VFD), and subsequently deleting the request for comment regarding this issue.

OldRight

A dispute against OldRight (user page, also Old Right) has closed, with the user(s) being put on probation for one year. OldRight was accused of removing sourced information from articles, including The Passion of the Christ and Katherine Harris, as well as adding POV information and original research.

JarlaxleArtemis

A case against JarlaxleArtemis (user page) is likely to close, after a checkuser operation resulted that the user had created a number of abusive nicknames attacking administrators, most notably Linuxbeak. It was suggested that JarlaxleArtemis may be related to MARMOT, a vandal that surfaced in June 2005. The Arbitration Committee has made a motion to close, which had 2 votes at press time.

Other cases

Cases against -Ril- (user page), Stevertigo (user page), Rainbowwarrior1977 (user page), and an IP dubbed DotSix are in the evidence phase.

Cases against 12.144.5.2 (user page, a.k.a. Louis Epstein), Rktect (user page), DreamGuy (user page), and Ultramarine (user page) have all reached 4 or more votes, the minimum for a case to be accepted.

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