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Arbitration report

Second Arbitration Enforcement case concludes as another case is suspended

Arbitration Enforcement 2 case closes

On 25 December, Arbitration enforcement 2 concluded. The Committee affirmed that restrictions were made to Eric Corbett during the Interactions at GGTF case and that he has been blocked multiple times for violating those restrictions. The Atlantic article that focused on, in part, the Lightbreather case prompted a discussion on Jimbo Wales' talk page. Corbett participated in that discussion and posted comments "which could be reasonably construed as violating his topic ban". As a result, administrator Kirill Lokshin blocked Corbett for a month. Yngvadottir unblocked Corbett and was desysopped because that action "violated the standard procedure for appeals and modifications of sanctions". The filing party of the case, Black Kite, was found to have "cast aspersions against, and made personal attacks on other users" after Corbett's block, and another named party, Giano, was also found to have "repeatedly cast aspersions against, and made personal attacks on editors and administrators involved in enforcing Eric's restrictions".

The remedies of the case confirm Eric Corbett's sanctions imposed as a result of the GGTF case, "but mandates that all enforcement requests relating to them be filed at arbitration enforcement and be kept open for at least 24 hours." Black Kite was also admonished for their actions, though Black Kite is currently retired. And for the last remedy:

The community is reminded that discretionary sanctions have been authorised for any page relating to or any edit about: (i) the Gender Gap Task Force; (ii) the gender disparity among Wikipedians; and (iii) any process or discussion relating to these topics, all broadly construed.

In brief

Kevin Gorman case suspended: The Arbitration Committee voted 7–0 to suspend the Kevin Gorman case. The suspension will be from 22 December 2015 to 2 January 2016.
Nadirali's topic ban is suspended: A 7-0 motion by the Committee at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment was made to have Nadirali's topic ban from "India, Pakistan and Afghanistan broadly construed", which was part of their unban conditions, be suspended for one year.
Rich Farmbrough case amended: A motion by the Committee on 27 December was made to have remedy 2 of Rich Farmbrough's restrictions, which prohibited him from using automation, "not apply in Rich Farmbrough's user space, his user talk space, or any subpage of Wikipedia:Database reports."
Soap desysopped and banned: On 30 December, for off-wiki harassment, Soap had their admin rights removed and was indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia.
Checkuser and oversight permissions restored: On 30 December, DoRD had their CheckUser and Oversighter statuses re-granted after resigning earlier this year.

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In AE2, ArbCom limped to a 6-5 statement that the month-long block was reasonable. In one day, the committee of 15 will have the blocking admin on it and only 3 other members will have endorsed his action as reasonable. This isn't worth a mention? What about that the committee failed to reach consensus on any substantive action on Eric's restrictions (narrow to just GGTF to jump to a site ban)? I'm disappointed that the coverage of this case lacks much analysis of the case or its implications. EdChem (talk) 16:00, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's a minor tragedy that Black Kite has retired while Kiril Lokshin, who's precipitate action triggered the whole mess, has been elected to ArbCom on a platform of "rapid drafts", which were the cause of so many problems last time he was on that august body. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

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