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Promotion of Amortias and Miniapolis to full clerks

We are pleased to confirm trainees Amortias (talk · contribs) and Miniapolis (talk · contribs) as arbitration clerks, effective immediately.

We also express our thanks and gratitude to all the arbitration clerks for their diligent assistance with the arbitration process. For the Arbitration Committee, --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:41, 4 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 32#Promotion of Amortias and Miniapolis to full clerks

Motion: Activity

In accordance with the standing procedure on inactivity, the checkuser permissions of Deskana (talk · contribs) are removed. The committee thanks them for their service.

Supporting: Callanecc, Doug Weller, Drmies, Gamaliel, GorillaWarfare, Guerillero, Keilana, Kelapstick, Kirill Lokshin, Opabinia regalis

For the Arbitration Committee, --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 04:46, 17 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 32#Motion: Activity

Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity

The following is an ArbCom internal process. It supplements the ArbCom procedure on CheckUser/Oversight permissions and inactivity.

  1. Arbitrators will check the CheckUser and Oversight statistics at the end of each month to identify functionaries who have not met the activity requirements in the preceding three months.
  2. If a functionary has not met the requirements, they will be sent an email notification reminding them of the required activity levels and asking if and when they plan to return to activity.
  3. If within two weeks a functionary does not meet the activity requirements or reply with an acceptable plan to return to activity, an arbitrator will send them a second email notification. This message will alert the functionary that their advanced permission(s) (CheckUser and/or Oversight) will be removed after two weeks unless they respond with a plan to return to activity.
  4. If an arbitrator objects to a functionary's advanced permission(s) being removed automatically, they may notify the rest of the Arbitration Committee and initiate a discussion.
  5. If a functionary has not responded to the second notification within two weeks or has not provided a plan to return to activity, and no arbitrator has objected, an arbitrator will post an announcement on the Arbitration Committee noticeboard announcing the change and thanking the functionary for their prior service, and will request removal of the permission(s) at the Stewards' noticeboard.
  6. If an arbitrator has objected to automatic removal, a motion will be initiated and the Arbitration Committee will be notified via the arbcom-l mailing list. After two weeks the discussion will be closed and the permission(s) removed per the step above unless there are at least three arbitrators opposing removal, in which case it can be left open for more comments or a normal vote can be proposed.
Supporting: Callanecc, Opabinia regalis, Kelapstick, Kirill Lokshin, Guerillero, Keilana, Gamaliel, GorillaWarfare, Casliber, Doug Weller
Opposing: Courcelles
Not voting/Abstaining: DeltaQuad, DGG, Drmies, Salvio giuliano

For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talkcontribslogs) 23:27, 17 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 32#Arbitration motion regarding CheckUser & Oversight inactivity

Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

The Palestine-Israel articles 3 arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) has been amended by motion of the Arbitration Committee as follows:

Remedy 2 (General Prohibition) is replaced with, "All IP editors, accounts with fewer than 500 edits, and accounts with less than 30 days tenure are prohibited from editing any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This prohibition may be enforced by reverts, page protections, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters."

For the Arbitration Committee, Kharkiv07 (T) 14:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 32#Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended

Amendment to the Race and intelligence case (Mathsci unbanned)

Following a successful appeal to the Committee the October 2013 amendment to the Race and intelligence case is rescinded and Mathsci (talk · contribs) is unbanned from the English Wikipedia. The unban has been granted on the condition that Mathsci continue to refrain from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to the race and intelligence topic area, broadly construed. This is to be enforced as a standard topic ban. The following editing restrictions are in force indefinitely:

This motion is to be enforced under the enforcement clauses of the Race and intelligence case.

Support - Callanecc, Courcelles, Doug Weller, Drmies, Gamaliel, GorillaWarfare, Guerillero, Keilana, Kelapstick, Kirill Lokshin, Opabinia regalis
Abstain - Casliber
Not voting - DeltaQuad, DGG, Salvio giuliano

For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talkcontribslogs) 12:48, 10 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Amendment to the Race and intelligence case (Mathsci unbanned)