The Report on Lengthy Litigation

The Arbitration Committee opened one case and closed two this week, leaving seven open:

The Committee appointed Masem and Xavexgoem as moderators for WikiProject Ireland Collaboration to replace the three who have stepped down; one vacancy has yet to be filled (pending discussion with the participants). The Committee authorised the Audit Subcommittee to release statistics on the use of the Oversight tool for the 6 month period ending 30 April 2009. The Committee also passed a motion relating to the Baronets naming dispute Arbitration request and three users involved in that matter—Vintagekits, Kittybrewster, and BrownHairedGirl.

• Mattisse: A case—brought when a recent Request for Comment failed to abate concerns regarding her behaviour—examining the conduct of User:Mattisse.
• Macedonia 2: A case about naming disputes at the Macedonia article, and ChrisO's use of administrator tools in the dispute.
• Tang Dynasty: A case about editing conflicts on Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty.
• Obama articles: A case opened to review behavior of editors of articles related to Barack Obama.

• Date delinking: A case regarding the behavior of editors in the ongoing dispute relating to policy on linking dates in articles. An injunction has been issued prohibiting large-scale linking or delinking of dates until the case is resolved. Over 130 proposals have been presented, including remedies which restrict, ban, topic ban, or admonish certain parties. The case has only recently entered voting, and so none of the proposals presently pass.
• Ryulong: A case regarding Ryulong's use of his administrator tools. A proposed remedy which would desysop Ryulong currently has the support of 8 arbitrators (with 0 opposition); additional remedies admonishing and cautioning Ryulong have been proposed. Additional remedies pertaining to Mythdon have been proposed.
• Scientology: A case regarding behavioral problems in Scientology-related articles; the case is related to the prior case, COFS. Thirty-four remedies have been proposed.

There are presently no case with an active motion to close.

• Abd and JzG: A case brought regarding a dispute between Abd and JzG about the latter's use of administrative tools on Cold fusion. The Committee held that JzG is not an uninvolved administrator with respect to cold fusion articles, and admonished him to not use his administrator tools in any situation he is involved in. The Committee urged Abd to heed good-faith feedback when handling disputes, to incorporate that feedback, and to clearly and succinctly document previous and current attempts at resolution of the dispute before escalating to the next stage of dispute resolution; and advised Abd to heed good-faith feedback when handling disputes and to incorporate that feedback.
• West Bank - Judea and Samaria: A dispute about editor behavior in discussions about naming conventions for certain Israel- and Palestine-related locations. The following users are banned from editing any Arab-Israeli conflict-related article/talk page or discussing the dispute anywhere else on the project: Canadian Monkey, G-Dett, Jayjg, MeteorMaker, Nickhh, Nishidani, NoCal100, and Pedrito. The Committee stripped Jayjg of his status as a functionary and of all associated privileged access, including the CheckUser and Oversight tools and subscription to the checkuser-l, oversight-l, and functionaries-en mailing lists.
• Aitias: A case regarding Aitias's use of his administrator tools. The suspension of Aitias' adminship—which had been in effect since a motion passed before the case was opened—was lifted (and Aitias is free to request at any time that a bureaucrat restore his tools). Aitias is admonished for inappropriate and unnecessarily sarcastic comments and is banned from Requests for rollback and its talk page for six months.

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