Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2006-09-05
Everyking desysopped
After a post on Wikipedia criticism site "Wikipedia Review", in which he discussed offering deleted article revisions containing personal information to an indefinitely blocked user, long-time contributor Everyking was desysopped on Sunday.
WordBomb, a Wikipedia Review contributor blocked from this site, posted a thread inquiring about the article on Gary Weiss, which was semi-protected on August 29, along with the deletion of several article revisions. In response, Everyking posted "I looked for you, but when you look at deleted revisions it doesn't show you the changes (or if so I don't know how to access them). I guess I could just post the full text and you could work out the differences yourself."[1]
In a post on the administrators' noticeboard, arbitrator Dmcdevit stated: "Recently it was brought to the attention of the Arbitration Committee that administrator Everyking has posted to an external site in the process of trying to determine the contents of inappropriate material, sensitive personal information, deleted from an article. Everyking looked up the deleted material using his administrator privileges, and offered to post the deleted content publicly...We view this as a serious misjudgment and a betrayal of the trust the community has given him in adminship. As such, Everyking has been immediately desysopped."[2]
Everyking responded almost immediately, saying "This is shocking and I call for it to be overturned. I didn't actually post anything (being worried that SlimVirgin might get pissed) and even if I did I don't see how it could be a betrayal of anything." When Dmcdevit mentioned his willingness to post personal information as a "liability", Everyking replied, "Personal information? I didn't even know what the content was. I still don't know. I sure as hell would never post anybody's personal information."
Debate
Significant debate ensued on the noticeboard, with many users supporting the desysopping, and others questioning it. Tony Sidaway said: "This was a gross and obvious violation of Administrator trust. Let us all remember that we have the power to do great harm, and we must resist the temptation to do so at all times. Private information is not ours to disclose; we only have administrator powers for one purpose: to improve Wikipedia. We cannot usually do that by publicly compromising private information."[2]
In defense of Everyking, Phil Sandifer said: "I will say, given the clearly stated suspicion on the page that the subject was a Wikipedia editor, some more care might have been in order. But honestly, I'm skeptical that this is in and of itself grounds for an emergency desysopping. It seems more like a case of the arbcom seeing an opportunity to justify a penalty they've wanted to put out for quite a while."[2]
Everyking is allowed to attempt to regain adminship by community request according to this message sent out by Sam Korn.
Notes
- ^ Wikipedia Review thread, posts made August 31, 2006.
- ^ a b c Various posts, Administrators' noticeboard. September 3-5, 2006.
Sexual images spark debate
Five images uploaded by Publicgirluk led to debate over how appropriate the images were, and whether they were legal or not. In the end, the images were deleted and Publicgirluk was indefinitely blocked after Jimbo Wales suggested that she was trolling.
The images were uploaded in July and August, and were used in some of Wikipedia's articles on sexuality. However, concerns were expressed about the images. One concern was the legality of the images; to comply with United States law, including the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, "sexually explicit" images must be documented with proof that the subject of the photo was over the age of 18 when the photo was taken. The definition of "sexually explicit", and the Act itself, are vague, leading to an uncertainty over the photos.
Debate on the issue started on the administrators' incident noticeboard, but was moved to a separate page. Cyde suggested that Publicgirluk have a picture taken of herself, holding up a sign to prove that she was the person depicted in the photo. Later, Voice of All deleted four of the images on August 27. In a later post, Publicgirluk maintained that she was over 18, that the photos were of herself, and that she had permitted them to be used; but she refused to have a photo taken of herself to prove it, believing such a move insulting. As a result, she said she no longer gave permission for any of the images to be used and wished to no longer contribute to Wikipedia.
After the incident, Jimbo Wales commented on the incident, saying ""Publicgirluk" should have been indef blocked and the images speedied without so much as a how do you do.". As a result, and after further discussion on the issue, Publicgirluk was blocked indefinitely by Nandesuka. The block was removed for a short while, but reinstated by Dragons flight.
Report from the Italian Wikipedia
Status and community news
As of 3 September, 2006, the Italian-language Wikipedia consisted of about 192,000 articles. Since September 2005, when it counted 68,173 articles, Italian Wikipedia's article growth index has been 182 percent.
Among these, 176 articles (approximately 1 in 1090) are considered voci di qualità ("Voices of quality," the Italian Wikipedia equivalent for featured articles ). The Italian language Wikipedia as yet has no equivalent for the good articles page in the English or Lesenswerte Artikel in the German Wikipedia.
The latest six additions to the list of voci di qualità are Catania, Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France), Lalla Fadhma, Adelboden, Campanile di Giotto (Giotto's Bell Tower) and Santa Reparata.
As of 3 September, 2006, the total number of registered users is approximately 88,000, while active users (editors with more than 100 edits per month) is currently estimated at approximatly 300 people. 53 users of the Italian Wikipedia have been appointed as administrators. This makes the sysops of it.wiki 0.06% of all users, a comparable percentage to the English (0.05%), German (0.08%) or French Wikipedias (0.08%).
Recent changes
Winds of change in the Italian Wikipedia community: last July the community chose a brand new layout for the Main Page that went on-line on July 20; furthermore a new structure for the Bar (the Italian equivalent for the Village Pump) has been adopted during the first days of August. There will probably be a poll about this new version during the first weeks of September.
Festival della qualità
Every month, the community sets up one or two Festival della qualità (that stands for Quality Festival) in order to improve the quality of selected articles and pages.
The aim of the current Festival (from 5 August to the end of August) is to create new quality articles concerning words which are commonly used in the Italian language. Up to 22 August, 61 new articles of this kind have been written. This is a good result, considering that the month of August is commonly the height of vacation period in Italy (lots of wikipedians are still in "Wikipause").
The previous Festival (held from 20 July to 3 August) was dedicated to the articles tagged as da wikificare (articles that need to be wikified in en.wiki). As a result of that festival 785 articles were wikified.
Prizes
On 14 December 2005, the Italian Wikipedia has been awarded with 2 premi WWW (WWW prizes) by the Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The first prize was for the Istruzione e Lavoro (Educational and Work) category, for being the new landmark in Italy for online knowledge. The second prize was for the Internet Educational category because it is a free encylopedia, made by a collective intelligence, enhancing knowledge dissemination and its free access.
Media reports
The Italian Wikipedia is often quoted on Italian media, as shown in the Rassegna stampa page (same as the en.wiki Press coverage). In recent months, Italian media has increased it.wp's coverage and interviewed some of its administrators. The last interview of an Italian sysop has been broadcast, on 14 August, by Rai Uno, the main channel of RAI, the Italian public broadcasting company.
Wikimedia Italia Meeting 2006 and Wikiraduni
The second Wikimedia Italia Meeting took place on 2 September and 3 in Valentano, near Viterbo. During the meeting, members of Wikimedia Italia (the Italian local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation) renewed social charges and approved the yearly budget of the association.
This "official" meeting is not the only one for Italian contributors. Actually, they meet each other quite often: the last Wikiraduno (Wikipedia:Meetups) took place in Milan on 6 August. Other remarkable Wikiraduni that took place during last spring and summer were in Piacenza, Zurich, Vicenza, Genova and Bologna, some of them as part of bigger meetings or conventions.
Other projects
Apart from the Wikipedia, there are several Wikimedia projects in Italian language. They are Wikinotizie (like Wikinews in English), Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikizionario (like Wiktionary in English).
There are also a large number of younger sisters of the Italian Wikipedia, like Wikipedias in Arpitano, Catalano, Corso, Friulano, Latino, Ligure, Lombardo, Napoletano, Piemontese, Romancio, Sardo, Siciliano, and Veneto languages. They are local languages that are spoken in the nearby regions of Italy and Switzerland.
English Wikipedia reaches 1,000 administrators
On 2 September, Wikipedia reached another important milestone when Angela promoted Xyrael (nom) to admin status. This marked the 1000th administrator on the English Wikipedia, a number which has doubled in little over a year (see chart, left). Xyrael was nominated for adminship by Petros471 and was supported by 54 Wikipedians.
Xyrael's promotion marked the 1000th administrator on the English Wikipedia, giving approximately[1] one administrator for every 1,345 articles and 2,157 registered users. Furthermore, there is one administrator for every 111 users who have made at least ten contributions, according to Erik Zachte's Wikipedia Statistics website, which was last updated using June 2006 statistics.
Nae'blis pointed out on the requests for adminship talk page that there are between 35 and 40 former administrators, so the English Wikipedia probably passed 1,000 administrators ever promoted sometime in mid-July. However, this is the first time that there have been 1,000 user accounts with admin access at the same time.
Upon his promotion, Xyrael said: "The fact that we've broken the barrier of one thousand sysops is far more exciting for the community than the promotion of myself. I'm happy to think that we've continued to develop the number of people who have the deep interest in Wikipedia that administrators do enough to reach this figure. Wikipedia is growing and changing every day and this is how it should be. We can always improve, and I hope that I live up to your expectations as an admin."
Administrator count on other Wikipedias
The Wikipedia with the second-highest admin count is the German Wikipedia, with 225 admins. Third and fourth place belongs to the French Wikipedia, with 109 admins, and the Polish Wikipedia, with 98 admins, respectively.
1000 ± 1
- Runcorn (nom), closed 31 August.
- Xyrael (nom), closed 2 September.
- Netsnipe (nom), closed 3 September.[2]
- Winhunter (nom), closed 4 September.[2]
Notes
- ^ Note that these statistics are only for 1,000 administrators. The number of current administrators (as of 29 November 2024) is 851. There is one administrator for every 8,129 articles and 56,799 registered users. As of June 2006, there is one administrator for every 131 users who have made at least ten contributions.
- ^ a b An emergency desysopping (see related article) of Everyking at 23:43 UTC 3 September (by the decision of the Arbitration Committee) left the administrator count at 1,000 again. Winhunter brought the count up to 1,001 a short time thereafter.
Voting begins in Board elections
Voting in the Board of Trustees elections started this week. The voting, which will run until September 21, began on Friday and uses approval voting, where each voter can vote for an unlimited number of candidates.
There were also a number of changes in the field of candidates late last week, which were only added to the Signpost's coverage after press time. Two candidates, Cerejota and NicholasTurnbull, were disqualified from the race prior to the start of voting by general counsel and interim executive director Brad Patrick because they had not confirmed themselves by providing required paperwork and identification to the Wikimedia Foundation office. In addition, there were also several candidate entries in the hours before the deadline, and one candidate, Hadraj, also withdrew from the race, bringing the final number of candidates in the elections to 17. All but one of the candidates had also responded to the "interview" questions the Signpost asked, and their replies were subsequently added to last week's article. The only candidate not to reply yet was Linuxbeak, who cited that "several severe situations" had come up, preventing him from finishing his replies. The Signpost will update the candidates' responses when his reply is received.
Two new election officials were also appointed this week. A resolution by the current Board, passed with supporting votes from Michael Davis, Angela Beesley, and Florence Nibart-Devouard, confirmed that James Forrester and Jon Harald Søby were to become assistant election officials immediately, joining Aphaia, Datrio, and Essjay as election officials. Aphaia is also an assistant election official, while Datrio and Essjay are officially inspectors of the election. According to the resolution, the appointments were aimed to reduce the current workload of the officials, at least one of whom has become inactive publicly over the past few weeks.
An announcement by the election officials also clarified several issues relating to suffrage before the voting started. The notice amended the suffrage requirements, which state that a user must have at least 400 edits on one Wikimedia project prior to 1 August, 2006 and have started contributing 90 days prior to that date, by defining whether or not blocked users may vote. Users banned or blocked indefinitely from any Wikimedia project may not vote, but those blocked on a certain project may vote on another project where they are eligible or vote after their block expires or is removed, if voting is still ongoing. This clarification, according to the officials, does not change any of the previous requirements but instead puts in writing the "oral tradition" that has been used for several elections.
Voting for the most part ran smoothly, even though there was initially some confusion from a limited number of users about where to vote, stemming from the fact that all the election pages are located in Meta. As of September 2, according to statistics compiled by ArnoLagrange from the public list of voters, there were nearly 700 votes already, with approximately a third of those votes coming from the English Wikipedia. More recent statistics compiled by Digitalme on September 6 show 1347 votes, with around 43% coming from the English Wikipedia.
Wikipedia in the news
In the news
- News.com.au ran a column on the vandalism on the page Steve Irwin.
- Linuxinsider published a story on what smaller Wikipedias think about creating a big Wikipedia.
- New scientist published a story on software that learns new words from Wikipedia for use in WordNet.
- Aaron Swartz (User:AaronSw) has written a story on who writes Wikipedia. Aaron is also up for election in the Wikimedia Board of Trustees election.
News and notes
Votes to start on proposed logos
Votes on proposed logos for Wikiversity, Wikibooks, and Wiktionary will begin this week on Thursday, 7 September. Each of the proposed logo pages has undergone much discussion about the changes, and voting will use approval voting. Voting will conclude toward the latter part of the month.
Project statistics
Statistics on Wikimedia Foundation projects were analyzed and released this week by Kelly Martin, with technical assistance from Gregory Maxwell. The data shows that approximately 48 percent of all edits occurs on the English Wikipedia, and that out of those edits, a little over half originate from the United States. Approximately 15 percent of edits on the English Wikipedia, meanwhile, come from the United Kingdom, with the rest coming from other countries such as Canada and Australia.
Milestones
Wikipedia passed several new milestones this week. According to Alexa, Wikipedia, inclusive of all language versions, reached 50 million unique visitors in one day for the first time. In addition, the English language Wikipedia also became the first Wikipedia to surpass 1,000 administrators (see related story).
Briefly
- The Russian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 registered users.
- The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 30,000 registered users.
- The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
- The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
- The Greek Wiktionary has reached 100,000 page edits.
- The Dutch Wikinews has reached 500 news items.
- The Thai Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users and 14,000 articles.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 pages.
- The Russian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
- The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 total pages.
- The Armenian Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
- The Cherokee Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
- The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
- The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 25,000 entries.
- The Aromanian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
- The Tajik Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Greek Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
- The French Wikisource has reached 20,000 texts.
- The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 14,000 registered users.
- The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.
Features and admins
Administrators
Eight users were granted admin status last week: Teke (nom), Guinnog (nom), Runcorn (nom), Xyrael (nom) (the 1000th administrator (see accompanying article)), Netsnipe (nom), Winhunter (nom), Carnildo (nom), and JPD (nom).
With his promotion to administrator, Carnildo joins the ranks of WP:100, the 45th RfA to do so.
Everyking was desysopped involuntarily after an emergency ruling by the Arbitration Committee (see related story).
Featured Content
Sixteen articles were featured last week: Diary of a Camper (nom), Larrys Creek (nom), Kochi (India) (nom), Everton F.C. (nom), Pericles (nom), Chicago Bears (nom), 2003 Pacific hurricane season (nom), Adi Shankara (nom), Point Park Civic Center (nom), Caffeine (nom), Rhys ap Gruffydd (nom), St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (nom), Frank Klepacki (nom), History of the Philippines (nom), Ketuanan Melayu (nom) and Fuck the Millennium (nom).
Ten articles were de-featured last week: The Beatles, Thunderball, The Giver, Economy of Africa, Metrication, Olympic Flame, Middle-earth, Max Weber, Commonwealth of Nations and Fred Phelps.
The following portal reached featured status last week: Portal:Indonesia.
One list reached featured list status last week: List of Prime Ministers of Canada.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Sequence alignment, History of Central Asia, Talbot Tagora, Chew Valley, Gremlins, Atomic line filter and Corinthian War.
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as the pictures of the day: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Sandstone, Fielding positions of cricket, Dante and Virgil in Hell, Walschaerts valve gear, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Moai.
Three pictures reached featured picture status last week:
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Bugs, Repairs, and International Operational News
Last week in MediaWiki Software
- Introduce "anchorencode" colon function (Rob Church) r16279
- Use simplified email addresses when running on Windows (Rob Church)
- Pass page title as parameters to "linkshere" and "nolinkshere" and update default message text
- Uploading directly from public URLs now allowed. Set $wgAllowCopyUploads = true ; in LocalSettings.php. Limited to $wgMaxUploadSize (default:100MB); URL upload is limited to sysops by default, and displayed as a second line if appropriate.
- Fix Atom feed version number in header links (Brion Vibber)
- List registered parser function hooks on Special:Version (Rob Church)
- Include SVN revision number in {{CURRENTVERSION}} output, where applicable
- Fix bug in wfRunHooks which caused corruption of objects in the hook list
- Show block log fragment on Special:Blockip (Rob Church)
- MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage may optionally contain wiki links to any number of disambiguation templates.
- Special:Disambiguations now shows pages in NS:0 that link to any pages that embed any of the templates listed at MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage.
- Fix formatting of titles on Special:Undelete (Rob Church)
- Fix action=raw&templates=expand (Brion Vibber)
- Add namespace and direction classes to classic skins (Brion Vibber)
- Don't "return to main" from OutputPage::loginToUse() if the the user can't read the main page in the first place (Rob Church)
- Fix minor borkage in HTMLForm (Brion Vibber)
- Replaced message 'watchthis' with new message 'watchthisupload' in Special:Upload (Jimmy Collins)
- Add a quickie script dumpSisterSites.php for generating a page list in the format for WSR-1 SisterSites support
The Report On Lengthy Litigation
The Arbitration Committee opened one new case this week, and closed four cases.
Closed cases
- Ericsaindon2: Closed on Sunday after one and a half months, a case involving the actions of Ericsaindon2, Coolcaesar and Will Beback. Coolcaesar claimed that Ericsaindon2 had tried to insert original research, had disrupted Wikipedia, used sockpuppets, uploaded images violating copyright law, and failed to assume good faith. In response, Ericsaindon2 claimed that Coolcaesar had contributed equally to the dispute, and that Will Beback had misused admin powers, in particular with incorrect and biased application of the 3RR. Ericsaindon2 was restricted to one account, banned for one year, and placed on Probation.
- Israeli apartheid: Closed on Saturday after two months, a case involving the actions of editors and administrators on Allegations of Israeli apartheid (formerly at Israeli apartheid). The article was the site of a move war during a poll to determine the article's naming. Remedies were passed encouraging negotiation and mediation, admonishing administrators involved in the dispute, directing discussion of issues to Wikipedia:Central discussions/Apartheid, and granting an amnesty to all users except Zeq, who remained banned from the article.
- Eternal Equinox: Closed on Wednesday after two months, a case involving Eternal Equinox. Several users complained that Eternal Equinox had been trying to claim ownership of articles with edit wars and abuse directed at those who tried to edit them. Eternal Equinox claimed to have left Wikipedia, but the other parties argued that this was not credible because of a number of similar statements made previously. Eternal Equinox had since returned, editing anonymously from several related IP addresses while acknowledging his or her identity. Eternal Equinox was placed on probation and personal attack parole, and Jim62sch was cautioned to "avoid teasing or taunting sensitive users".
- Añoranza: Closed on Tuesday after two months, a case involving Añoranza. Users asserted that Añoranza had been incivil, and had filed a retaliatory request for comment and request for checkuser. The dispute involved the usage of terms such as "Operation Iraqi Liberation" for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Añoranza was banned for one week for the disruptive way in which he went about bringing the terms to light and the parties were encouraged to enter into good-faith negotiations into the matter.
New case
- Ackoz: A case involving the actions and community ban of Ackoz, and his later account, Azomc. The user previously contributed to Wikipedia under the name Ackoz, but, after being banned for three days, elected to leave. After a while, he decided to return, and admits to "some trolling" since then. However, he has stated that were he unblocked, he would cease his disruptive behaviour, and would be prepared to undergo mentorship. Some administrators, however, believe that he should nonetheless remain blocked.
Evidence phase
- Marudubshinki: A case involving the actions of Marudubshinki. Snottygobble, I@n and others allege that Marudubshinki has operated an unauthorised bot, and misused his sysop powers by unblocking himself and allowing his bot to delete pages. Marudubshinki has not presented a statement in his defence.
- MONGO: A case involving the actions of MONGO, rootology, and others. The case centers around Encyclopædia dramatica, and an article posted on the site portraying MONGO in a negative light.
Voting phase
- Ed Poor 2: A case involving Ed Poor. JoshuaZ and Consumed Crustacean have accused Poor of POV pushing and disruption; Poor has not introduced evidence in the case. Ed Poor was party to two prior cases; the first was closed after Poor resigned his status as a bureaucrat, and the second resulted in his desysopping. Fred Bauder has proposed a remedy placing him on probation, but no other arbitrators have yet commented.
- Pat8722: A case involving the actions of Pat8722. BorgHunter has accused Pat8722 of edit-warring. Pat8722 has requested that the ArbCom stay the case while he pursues 6 pro se cases in the American courts, and has agreed not to edit Wikipedia in the interim. Fred Bauder has proposed a motion establishing the principle of a "continuance", and a remedy extending this to Pat8722. However, no other arbitrators have yet commented on the matter.
- St Christopher: A case involving St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine, a school whose accreditation status is in dispute, and in particular the behaviour of ParalelUni on the page. Dmcdevit has proposed remedies affirming the community ban of ParalelUni, and banning all single-purpose accounts from editing the article, which have been supported by Fred Bauder.
- Kehrli: A case involving the actions of Nick Y and Kherli on Mass-to-charge ratio and related articles. Both protagonists accuse each other of POV pushing, adding unsourced information, and adding dispute tags without reason. Fred Bauder has proposed remedies banning Kehrli from articles relating to M/z, and from changing the notation m/z where found to any other notation.
- Israel-Lebanon: A case involving the actions of AdamKesher, Tasc and others on 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. AdamKesher accuses Tasc of removing relevant external links which satisfy WP:EL, and he denies the allegation. In response, Denis Diderot accuses Kesher of "using Wikipedia as a tool to promote his POV". Fred Bauder has proposed remedies permitting the linking to blogs which offer contemporary comment on a current event from Wikipedia pages, cautioning all editors to use common sense above literal interpretation of Wikipedia policy, and permitting any editor "particularly Tasc", to be banned from the article for an "appropriate period" should they engage in edit warring on the issue. These proposals have yet to be commented on.
- Deir Yassin massacre: A case involving the actions of KimvdLinde and Guy Montag on Deir Yassin massacre. KimvdLinde alleges that Montag has violated his probation by rewriting the article, unilaterally moving it to "Battle of Deir Yassin", violating copyright and votestacking. In return, Montag refuses "to participate in any of these proceedings", and alleges that KimvdLinde has abused her admin tools by exercising them in a dispute in which she is involved. Fred Bauder has proposed remedies banning Montag from articles relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and suggested that Montag's probation be extended. These remedies have attracted the support of three other arbitrators.
- Warren Kinsella: A case involving the actions of Arthur Ellis, Pete Peters and others on the Warren Kinsella article. Both users accuse the other of disruptive edits on the page, and Peters and others acccuse Ellis of sockpuppetry using anon accounts, while Ellis alleges that administrators dealt inequitably with him and Peters. Fred Bauder has proposed remedies banning Ellis indefinitely from all articles relating to "Canadian politics and its blogosphere", and limiting him to one account. Charles Matthews has indicated his support for these proposals.
- Zer0faults: A case involving the actions of Zer0faults and Nescio on Template:War on Terrorism, War on Terror and related arguments. Nescio alleges that Zer0faults has engaged in violation of WP:POINT, disruptive editing, and "uncivil remarks". In return, Zer0faults alleges that Nescio has failed to assume good faith, violated WP:POINT and WP:RS, and failed to provide explanations for his reverts. A single remedy that would place Zer0faults on probation was proposed by Fred Bauder, and has the support of three arbitrators.
- Intangible: A case involving the actions of Intangible. Cberlet alleges that Intangible has used an "aggressive and confrontational" editing style to push his POV (partly through the wholesale deletion of the term "far right" from numerous pages), making sweeping edits and reverts with little or no discussion, and being "contentious and confrontational" in talk page discussions. Intangible vigorously denies the allegations. A remedy, supported by six arbitrators, would place Intangible on probation. Other remedies, proposed by Dmcdevit, and supported by two and three arbitrators respectively, but opposed by Fred Bauder, would also place Tazmaniacs and AaronS on probation.
- Sathya Sai Baba: A case involving Andries and SSS108's actions on the article Sathya Sai Baba. Both have accused each other of "POV pushing", and violating Wikipedia's policy on original research. Proposed remedies that unsourced or poorly sourced information be removed from these articles, and a complete amnesty for Andries and SSS108 for any unreliable information they may have added in the past have the support of five arbitrators.
Motion to close
- CoolKatt number 99999: A case involving the actions of CoolKatt number 99999 on WWOR-TV and related articles, as well as the actions of Crossmr, Kramden4700 and others. A temporary injunction has been enacted, which bans CoolKatt from editing pages other than his own user pages and the arbitration pages for the duration of the case. If closed CoolKatt would be banned from U.S. television articles for one year and placed on probation, and all of his user subpages not compliant with WP:USER would be deleted.
- Heqong: A case (formerly referred to as Chiang Kai-shek) involving the actions of Heqong (formerly Chiang Kai-shek) on China and Taiwan-related articles. If closed, Heqong would be placed on personal attack parole and probation, and banned for one month for personal attacks.
- His excellency: A case involving the actions of His excellency. The case involves the actions of His excellency on Islam-related talk pages. If closed, His excellency would be banned for six months, His excellency and Timothy Usher would be be placed on probation, and a remedy permitting the use of "traditional Muslim usages", such as "Salam, brother", so long as they do not create a hostile environment for non-Muslims, would be enacted.