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Arbitration report

The Report On Lengthy Litigation

The Arbitration Committee closed two cases this week, brought against Rex071404 and Pigsonthewing.

Rex071404

A case against Rex071404 was closed on Tuesday. As a result, Rex071404 has been permanently banned from John Kerry. The Arbitrators also ruled that any administrator can block Rex071404 from any article if they rule that Rex071404's editing there is "problematic". Rex071404 was accused of trying to "own" the article on John Kerry. This is the fourth case brought against Rex071404; after the third, Rex071404 voluntarily left the site for 6 months.

Pigsonthewing

A case brought against Pigsonthewing was closed on Friday. As a result, Pigsonthewing was banned for one day, placed on indefinite probation, and placed on a one-revert per article per week limitation for a period of one year. Pigsonthewing was accused of "stirring up trouble", and getting into lengthy revert wars on numerous articles. Additionally, Karmafist, an administrator involved in the dispute, was prohibited from "any administrator activity" against Pigsonthewing.

Other cases

A case was accepted this week against Gibraltarian (user page). It is in the evidence phase.

Other cases against Carl Hewitt (user page), voters on webcomics AFDs, Reddi (user page), EffK (user page), editors on climate change-related articles, numerous editors on Neuro-linguistic programming, Johnski (user page), a series of editors on Winter Soldier, Xed (user page), and Copperchair (user page) are in the evidence phase.

Cases against AndriyK (user page), Fuelwagon and Ed Poor, editors Ted Wilkes, Wyss, and Onefortyone, numerous editors on Ted Kennedy, Rangerdude (user page), numerous editors on Political Research Associates, and Ultramarine are in the voting phase.