The Report on Lengthy Litigation

The Arbitration Committee did not open any cases this week, and closed one, leaving four cases open.

The Socionics case has entered its second week of deliberations. The case was filed by rmcnew, who alleged that Tcaudilllg has engaged in edit-warring and personal attacks. Tcaudilllg has denied the allegations, calling them "ad hominem attacks on [his] character". No significant drafting has yet taken place; a draft decision, to be written by arbitrator Carcharoth, is expected by 20 October.

The Asmahan case has entered its fifth week of deliberations. The filing editor, Supreme Deliciousness, alleges that Arab Cowboy has engaged in a variety of disruptive behavior on the "Asmahan" article; Arab Cowboy denies the allegations, and claims that Supreme Deliciousness is pursuing a disruptive agenda of his own. No drafting of proposals has yet taken place; a draft decision is expected from arbitrator John Vandenberg by 20 October.

The Eastern European mailing list case has entered its fifth week of deliberations, and its first week of voting. The case concerns a set of leaked mailing list archives which are alleged to show an extensive history of collusion among numerous editors of Eastern European topics. Standard workshop procedures have been suspended for the case, so normal drafting of proposals by the parties and other editors has not taken place.

The proposed decision, written by arbitrator Coren, would strip Piotrus of his administrator status, ban him for three months, and place him under a topic ban for one year; ban Digwuren and Martintg for three months and also place them under year-long topic bans; and issue a number of admonishments and reminders, as well as an amnesty for all participants of the mailing list not otherwise sanctioned. A secondary proposal by arbitrator Rlevse would ban Tymek for three months as well. No other arbitrators have yet commented on the proposed remedies.

The Speed of light case has entered its seventh week of deliberations, and its first week of voting. The case was filed by Jehochman, who cited concerns about "tendentious editing and disruption" by a large number of editors on the "speed of light" article.

The proposed decision, written by arbitrator Vassyana, condemns FDT and Brews ohare for a variety of inappropriate conduct, and would place both under a number of editing restrictions and topic bans. An alternative proposal by arbitrator Coren would ban FDT for one year.

Shortly before the proposed decision was published, the Committee adopted an injunction prohibiting FDT from participating on the case's pages and requiring him to submit any comments to the Committee directly.

The Lapsed Pacifist 2 case was closed this week. The decision places all articles related to the Corrib gas controversy and Shell to Sea under article probation, imposes revert restrictions and a topic ban on Lapsed Pacifist, and issues a number of admonishments and reminders—as well as, unusually, a commendation for GainLine.

A request to amend the Obama articles decision was filed by Jayron32, who has asked that the restrictions imposed on Grundle2600 as part of that case be expanded to cover additional forms of disruptive conduct.

A request for clarification of the Mattisse decision was filed by Moni3, who has asked that the Committee clarify the terms and execution of the mentoring plan imposed as part of that case. Extensive discussion regarding the request has taken place, but there has not yet been a definitive response from the arbitrators.

A request for clarification of the Asgardian-Tenebrae decision was filed by Hiding, who has asked that the Committee clarify the status of certain sanctions imposed on Asgardian as part of that case.

Arbitrator Vassyana has proposed a motion to amend the Date delinking decision to acknowledge that the full-date unlinking bot satisfies the requirements of a community-approved process for date delinking as stipulated in the case. Arbitrator voting is presently divided. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-19/Humour