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i have agreed to edit no where else to be unblocked to make this RfAr. someone else will have to do that for me. (thanks)
Other parties have been notified. Seraphimblade Talk to me 03:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Killerchihuahua: [1] Orangemarlin: [2]
(please refer to block log.)
at 18:17, 11 May 2007 KillerChihuahua (talk · contribs) blocked Rbj (talk · contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours (Incessant NPA violations, was repeatedly asked, warned, etc.)
after the 24 hours expired i made this single and last talk page edit , i would like to know what is so bad about that edit, and indeed no one has said anything bad about that edit that i know of.
then at 00:13, 15 May 2007 EVula (talk · contribs) blocked Rbj (talk · contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite (We're fed up with your abusive attitude. Go troll somewhere else.)
but within 2 minutes "recanted" that block. what justification EVula had to do that is beyond me, but he/she changed his/her mind before it made any difference to me, so i mind less than i am curious.
so now i'm thinking, "i'm gonna take a Wikipedia vacation and not edit at all." every couple of days i might go there and check something out (Wikipedia is still mostly quite good for technical articles, there are few controversial issues in Calculus or Classical Physics). NO EDITING FOR 2 WEEKS.
then at 21:26, 27 May 2007 KillerChihuahua (talk · contribs) blocked Rbj (talk · contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite (Attempting to harass other users: Using IPs after Last Chance decided on AN/I.. Restoring Indef block)
and there is this AN/I at [3] .
i do not know the specific edit or edits that are ascribed to me (as an anonymous IP) but i believe that it is clear that this frakus originated with User:Orangemarlin because of this [4]. both Killer and Orange have yet to justify their association of whatever edit or edits (they used to call for or justify such action) to me or to my WP account.
i used no anonymous IP to attack anyone at any time ever. i have used an "anonymous" IP once (twice with a trival correction) to contact an admin User:NicholasTurnbull over a year ago. otherwise i have never used an anonymous IP to edit Wikipedia.
User:Fred Bauder took a look (i assume with check_user or whatever it is called) and said that it produced "no useful results" (that cannot be construed to say that check_user had confirmed or implicated me in some attack edits). indeed admin User:Sandstein said in the AN/I: "Lacking that, I can't fairly determine whether it is sufficiently probable that Rbj is behind the IP attacks that have triggered the contested block."
how can they do this? how can they take non-evidence and use that as justification for an indefinite block? indeed User:Mangojuice's response to Sandstein's reservation was more scurrilous allegation with no evidence: "They might be meatpuppets rather than Rbj editing anonymously," Where did he come up with that?
i've been asked by the unblocking admin to "not continue the debate which precipitated this incident". that is fine by me. this is about the indefinite block and the explicit justification behind it. and my position is that i did nothing to motivate such a block after such "Last Chance" (because i did nothing at all, no edits whatsoever), indeed i did nothing to motivate any block after the last 24 hour block which was annoying but i wasn't contesting it (since EVula reversed it immediately). but there is nothing other than talk amongst themselves that hyped the defcon up to "Indefinite Block" when i cannot see anything i did after that (pre-"Last Chance") block expired to call for any block at all. and nothing other than sit around to justify the Last Chance threat to begin with.
MitchThrower has been made aware here:[5]
Rwilco201 suggested arbitration here, and MitchThrower agreed to it:[6]. I'm not familiar with the other steps in the process, and we've already agreed on arbitration.
Mitch Thrower made an appearance on "The Bachelor" advising Andy Baldwin "The Bachelor" on May 14, 2006.
There was a report on numerous internet blogs, primarily Cele|bitchy, that this appearance was staged, specifically that Mr. Thrower and Mr. Baldwin staged this appearance:
Mitch Thrower then wrote to Cele|bitchy and other blogs disputing this claim, which was summarized in their second article: http://www.celebitchy.com/3945/correction_bachelor_and_gatsby_arent_punking_abc/
In fact, the second article quotes an email from him, and features pictures that he sent to the blog.
I feel that this should be part of the public record as Mitch is a public figure, and this is noteworthy news - I feel that my last rev of the article presented that he was involved in a contraversy, cited the sources, and gave an impartial summary.
Throwers objections have been that:
This is spam. - I don't think it is since these references are cited and come from reputable newssources.
This is sneaky vandalism. Not sneaky vandalism since I've cited my reference, and quoted Mitch directly in the article.
This is userspace vandalism. - This information is on the public record - both in print, and confirmed by Mitch himself in correspondence.
Mitch has also mentioned that he I know him personally, have an agenda against him, or am trying to drive ad revenue. - None of these are true, I have no personal connection, no agenda, and have no commercial interest. I intially looked him up out of casual interest after "The Bachelor", and noted the news stories, and that the Wikipedia entries seemed to have been written by him and a user called EmilyAshland (both of which are posting from the same IP address). I put an original posting up, then read Wikipedia guidelines to cite my source, and have put up the links to many blogs reporting the story, as well as his response to the original blog. I tender that Mitch can't self-write his Wikipedia entry from his POV and not let others add content, especially valid content in the public domain that is sourced NPOV.
To User Rwilco201: three very important things of note from Mitch Thrower:
a) Wiki Administrator clearly stated in several locations that you have read and responded to previously. Here it is again so you don't have to click all the pages and posts that we created in this mess: "Celebrity tabloid-type web sites are not reliable sources, by the way." This quote is From administrator: User:Thatcher131 in case you want to challenge it.
This same statement was my point all along, if you look back this was my ONLY objective this entire time, and the only changes I made to the web site. In your continued approach to get this article in Wiki even after administrator elucidation, you seem to be grabbing for straws to support your case, or try to build another one. See my responses on other sites. And by the way, please no longer attempt to remove my responses on the talk and discussion pages, Wiki Administrators can see through this very easily. So they have provided a clear answer for you NO "celebrity gossip rumor" If you would like to change the wiki policy on this matter, as you still appear to not agree with it, or if you would like to further challenge Wikipedia administrators, then please use a different route than this conflict to argue your case.
b) The original article/e-mail you are so passionate about has actually been removed the author, original article you keep citing. If you would like, I could arrange to have a copy framed for you. ; )
c) Some information that may be helpful to you in the future -- you said Celebitchy article must be valid because it appeared in many blogs, and yet it actually only was "published" by one, but was picked up by other "outlets" who simply republish other sites text. This is the same way many news articles are sent through AP Newswire, and appear everywhere. And it is the way these tabloids blogs work, one blog or item of "runmors or news" appears in many places because it's copied automatically, and manufactured gossip has a life of it's own on the internet, especially when it's related to or "dropped into" various chat rooms by anonymous posters with similar ip's to Wiki folks. ; )
Think about spam. Think about "Urban Legends" that circulate thru the web, before anyone can look at sites like Snopes which makes a great effort to eliminate these legends that are started by one person, and propagated by unsuspecting people that do not understand the nature of how the web spreads rumors, damaging peoples lives and careers.
So Mr. or Mrs. Rwilco201 - Let’s declare a truce, and both go back to learning the ways of Wikipedia, and then figuring out ways to make solid contribution that are made within the Wikipedia guidelines and established procedures, Sound good? - Mitch Thrower
In case it's not clear from the above, there's been a dispute over on Mitch Thrower (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Some blog named "celebitchy" asserts that Mitch Thrower's appearance on a show was staged, and this information has been edit warred in and out [7] (the article is now protected with the disputed content out). I think the name of the blog speaks for itself. – Steel 20:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Thatcher appears to be on top of this. – Steel 20:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
In short, this situation can be solved by the routine application of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, which I intend to do right now. Thatcher131 20:01, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
[8] - diff on Reddi's talk page
Reddi (talk · contribs) is back after a one year probation on editing science-related articles. His arbitration case can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Reddi 2 with a final decision in arbitration case that was a finding of Disruptive editing, 3RR violations, Uncommunicative, Edit warring. New examples are:
This should not even be here as a request for arbitration. At most it probably would be under "request for clarification". I suggest arbitrators not to accept this. The same issue has been addressed over and over again and nothing new has come out.
This action here is, I believe, to short circuit things ... I'd like to state that various steps have not been undertaken here ... and I have not been able to discuss with various parties and work at building consensus. I have attepted to do some Informal mediation (which has in one case is on going; in the other it failed). No Wikipedia:Requests for comment, no surveys were conducted, and no request for formal mediation of the dispute have been made.
I am editing all kinds of articles, mainly historically related content. I personally believe that halfblue is working on the behalf and in conjunction with others in bringing this up. [25] [26] The informal mediation, which I believe failed, was not with Halfblue but with SA, someone that Halfblue is working in conjunction with.
Response to "new" examples ...
I do not think, again, this action is warranted.
Having looked at the radiotelescope stuff, I think this is yet another example of Reddi pushing Teslaphile stuff to the detriment of wikipedia. Something should be done, especially given his history, to make it harder for him to do this William M. Connolley 18:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
[33] - diff on Quadzilla99's talk page
[34] - diff on Matthew's talk page
[35] - diff showing Tempshill posting to RfC/Policies
[36] - diff showing Tempshill posting to Wikipedia:Third Opinion
Template:Trivia has recently been added, by bot, to thousands of articles that have trivia sections. It currently reads, "Content in this section should be integrated into the body of the article or removed." This goes far beyond the guideline at WP:TRIVIA, which states that trivia sections should be avoided, and recommends a process of integrating trivia-section facts into the main article; but certainly does not state that trivia items should be removed just because they are items that are in a trivia section. Trivia sections are allowed in Wikipedia articles. Since Template:Trivia purports to remind the reader of a Wikipedia guideline, I believe the template must adhere to that guideline, and the template wording must be weakened.
The normal editing process has broken down; any changes to the "or removed" wording have been reverted by several editors, and the page is currently protected. I posted at RfC and I think two or three editors posted, but to little effect; I posted to Third Opinion but the matter was too complex for that forum. As this template-overreaching-our-policy is a matter of policy, I thought mediation would not work, and editors' attitudes seem to have hardened, too.
Secondly, I believe that the mass attachment of this tag must be reverted. I argue that this is an unnecessary defacing of thousands of articles with perfectly legitimate trivia sections.
Relevant discussion on the "or removed" wording is at Template talk:Trivia#Wording change, Template talk:Trivia#"or removed", Template talk:Trivia#Wording change (2), and Template talk:Trivia#Template Does Not Reflect Policies. Discussion of the mass attachment is at Template talk:Trivia#Why is a bot mass attaching this? and at Wikipedia talk:Avoid trivia sections in articles.
Editors reverting the template wording to the (IMO) impermissibly overreaching language include User:Matthew and User:Quadzilla99.
Thanks. Tempshill 16:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm not really sure what to say, but here we go: lolipops! Okay, on a more serious note: It's basically what Quadzilla99 has stated, and I also believe the botmaker should be given a medal (or a barnstar, heh). The talk page is pretty much indicative that there's no consensus to implement Tempshill's proposal -- I'm not really sure what there is to arbitrate. Matthew 17:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I encourage the arbcom to look at this, actually. Bot-run edit warring with templates is problematic, and the arbcom has previously looked unfavorably at edits designed entirely to "enforce" the manual of style for exactly this reason. I'd also point out that Matthew's actions with large edit wars are hardly limited to this issue - he has also mass reveted User:Ttn, run an unauthorized high speed bot from his main account, and edit warred substantially over the Template:FreeContentMeta templates. This points to a larger pattern of edit warring over multiple pages that troubles me greatly. Phil Sandifer 23:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
As jpgordon says, this is way premature, even if it isn't a content dispute. I actually think that the template isn't the real issue, nor is the bot, but the community attitude towards trivia itself that is causing the friction. I'm not sure what ArbCom can really do about that, though. Mangojuicetalk 13:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
As others have stated, this request for arbitration appears to be premature. This dispute does spark my interest because I've dealt with the underlying issues before. I was the editor who created the featured list Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc from an in popular culture section that used to exist in the main Joan of Arc article (which is also now featured). I consider the wholesale deletion of verifiable information a serious peril to this part of Wikipedia's database. As I have noted elsewhere, the POV habit of denigrating new media as useless ephemera has been known to cause serious problems for subsequent generations of scholars. So much of early cinema history has been lost that in the late twentieth century it required a doctoral dissertation to even list all the films that have been made about Joan of Arc. As Wikipedians of the early twenty-first century we are uniquely positioned to spare our children and grandchildren from similar headaches.
A part of Wikipedia:WikiProject biography is an effort I spearheaded to organize and categorize cultural depictions pages for high art, literature, and popular culture references to Wikipedia's 200 core biography subjects. I created most of Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great by resurrecting material that an deletionist had removed. I hope dispute resolution solves this problem, but if reasonable efforts fail I would urge the Committee to accept a future request. In the very long term this could be one of the more important cases. DurovaCharge! 20:40, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Requests for clarification from the Committee on matters related to the Arbitration process. Place new requests at the top.
What is the ArbCom's opinion on wheel warring (other than "don't do that")? Is there anything in particular an outside editor could do (or bring here) when a severe case of wheel warring is spotted? >Radiant< 14:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm filing this appeal to bring to your attention the harrasment that I have suffered following the sentence passed by the Arbitration Committee, which was that I be placed under one year revert patrol.
Kindly take the the time to read and evaluate the evidence that I produce in the following section:-
Following a blanket reversion of my edits and suffering racial abuse at the hands of JFD this discussion took place. In reply to Mr. Paul August saying that " The "Freedom skies" case does not provide justification for the blanket revertion of Freedom skies' edits. Doing so would be a blatant violation of appropriate editorial practice." JFD's reply was "How about this? I will explain fully the justification for the reversion of any particular edit on an article's Talk page. That's reasonable."
He did not participate in any further interaction on the Arbitration Committee page after then.
I was involved in a car accident and suffered some minor injuries; I placed a tag on the 21:16, 22 May 2007 declaring a brief wikibreak during which JFD has gone on an unprecedented revert spree.
He changed Playing cards from this version to this version with an edit summary "rv POV-pushing by sockpuppet Phillip Rosenthal."
He has never edited on that article before and appeared there for the express purpose of deleting my edits.
I edited Pasta to GA class and JFD appeared there and placed "Though the Chinese were eating noodles as long ago as 2000 BCE" at the begining of Pasta.
Italian food now has a begining of what the Chinese were eating in 2000 BCE thanks to this Han Chinese nationalist editor.
JFD deletes a link to the Foreign influence on Chinese martial arts article and copies/pastes material from the PRC propoganda piece Bodhidharma, Shaolin Kung fu, and the disputed India connection, which does not deserve a place on this encyclopedia in the first place.
JFD deletesJeffrey Broughton also notes that Yang may have been referring to a different monk named Bodhidharma, as he briefly mentions a Bodhidharma twice. to suit his nationalist POV when Jeffrey Broughton clearly notes Of course, Yang may have been referring to another Bodhidharma. His record mentions a Bodhidharma twice in passing.
JFD deletes a citation from the peer reviewed Journal of the American Oriental Society to suit his nationalist POV.
JFD first removes the neutral narrative crafted by Saposcat himself.
JFD then blanks the "Historical roots of Zen" section.
JFD blanks the following paragraphs as well:
The earliest conceptual and practical beginnings of Zen lie in India, its formation and evolution as an innovative religious movement lies in China.[1]
Buddhist monks brought sacred books, images and Buddhist meditation to China. Buddhist monks taught methods of meditation found in the Pali Canon. These in turn were soon mingled with Taoist meditational techniques. Most of the translations attributed to An Shih Kao, deal with meditation (dhyana) and concentration (samadhi). His translation of the Sutra on Concentration by Practicing Respiratory Exercises explains the ancient yogic and early Buddhist practice of controlling the breath by counting inhalation and exhalations.[2]
The Mahayana school of Buddhism is noted for its proximity with Yoga. [3] In the west, Zen is often set alongside Yoga, the two schools of meditation display obvious family resemblances.[4] The melding of Yoga with Buddhism--a process that continued through the centuries--represents a landmark on the path of Yoga through the history of India. This phenomenon merits special attention since the Zen Buddhist school of meditation has its roots in yogic practices. [5]
You'll note that the citations blanked by this abusive Chinese nationalist user were from Heinrich Dumoulin.
Blanks a British Broadcasting Corporation citation and changes "Bodhidharma, the founder and first patriarch of Zen" to "Bodhidharma."
In addition to the charges of Wikistalking and abuse the nationalist user has also added me to User:Dbachmann/Wikipedia and nationalism here. Surely this must say a thing or two on the level of enjoyment that JFD recieves by stalking and abusing me.
He has blanked content elsewhere, and has edited with a Chinese nationalist mindset which now has seen several things being attributed to China thanks to JFD. I'll bring scores of additional references if required to but I feel that my post is already too long as it is.
In light of the recent developments highlighting JFD's malicious nature and disregard for all Wikipedia policies I humbly request the Arbitration Committee to consider the following remedies:
In addition to this evidence I have produced additional and recent evidence that JFD is a biased Chinese nationalist editor with an agenda and is manipulating the outcome of the arbitration case to suit his motives.
In the light of the combined evidence I humbly request the members of the Arbitration Committee to review and amend my punishment and I humbly submit the following pleas:-
Additionally,
Kindly forgive the hastily written statement and I'm sorry for any spelling/grammer inconsistencies on my part. I have not bothered to spell check and am writing this under injuries following a vehicle accident.
Regards, Freedom skies| talk 09:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Fred Bauder has wiped out my user and discussion page. I don't believe I am/was in violation of any Wikipedia rule or ArbCom ruling. Can the ArbCom please explain this action or if I am correct in my view, give me permission to restore my pages. There is currently discussion on my talk page about this issue. Thanks! --Pete K 03:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Fred seems to be the only one weighing in on this issue. Could someone neutral please have a look. Thanks! --Pete K 18:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I came here to examine the ArbCom's remedies in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Skyring, because Skyring's current behaviour at Australia and Talk:Australia is pretty much the same as the behaviour that saw him taken to ArbCom originally (minus the wikistalking).
I notice that discussions below re: Pigsonthewing indicate that remedies run sequentially rather than concurrently. In Skyring's case, he was banned for a year for wikistalking, and this ban was reset a number of times due to block evasion, resulting in a final ban expiry of 26 October 2006. He was also banned for one year from editing articles or talk pages relating to the government or governance of Australia. My take on this is that the latter ban should have commenced on the date of expiry of the former. If so, then Skyring has been in constant (presumably unknowing) violation of that ban since December 2006. Is it appropriate to instate this one year ban at this time?
Hesperian 05:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) (Andy Mabbet) is subject to indefinite probation as a result of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing. He was also placed on revert parole for one year, which has expired, and was banned for one year, which has also expired. However, he continues to be (or has resumed being) disruptive. Following this report I banned Andy from making userbox-related edits for one month [37]. Today he was reported for making four reversions on Sutton Coldfield (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Andy persists in calling the edits "POV vandalism" and insists that reverting vandalism does not break 3RR. I and others see this as a content dispute. Since the edits involved infoboxes again, I extended and expanded Andy's ban from infobox-related edits [38]. However, it would probably be better to place Andy back on a one revert per week per article parole. This would allow him to make other infobox-related edits he says need to be made, but would allow admins to rein in his apparently undiminished tendency to edit war rather than seek dispute resolution. Thatcher131 14:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Procedural question: This is a unique case given that the ruling was amended, but it would seem to me that the revert parole should have been frozen when the one year ban was implemented, meaning that the revert parole would continue until December 9, 2007. Perhaps this isn't the case, but in my opinion it should be- a ban shouldn't be meant to supersede previous remedies, it should be an additional, consecutive remedy. Ral315 » 06:27, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
The revert parole runs for a year after the one year ban, otherwise it would be a nullity. Fred Bauder 20:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Koavf (talk · contribs · block log) recently contacted me via email, asking for an appeal by the ArbCom of his indefinite block, which was placed in November by Dmcdevit with the log summary of "Extensive block history for perpetually edit warring and disruptive behavior, but behavior is unmodified. Exhaustion of the community's patience." Koavf's reasons for his unblock are copied below:
He also wrote that "I am seeking to be unblocked by the Arbitration Committee; I have been blocked for several months and was a very active contributor to Wikipedia prior to the block. I have tried several means to get unblocked, and none of them have borne fruit (e.g. the most recent was e-mailing the blocking admin, who has not responded in over a week.)"
Following some discussion on our mailing list, it was suggested that Koavf be unblocked and instead placed on standard revert parole. This seems reasonable; his block log shows multiple prior blocks for 3RR violations, and a revert parole would thus hopefully address that issue while allowing him to continue his ways as a productive editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flcelloguy (talk • contribs)
Koavf (talk · contribs) is unblocked and placed on standard revert parole. He is hereby limited to a maximum of one content revert per page per day for one year. Each revert must be explicitly marked as such. Any such violations may result in further blocks of up to 24 hours, and multiple violations (i.e. three or more) may result in longer blocks or the resumption of the original indefinite block, depending on the administrator's discretion. Blocks should be mentioned on the requests for Arbitration page.
Clerk note: The motion is adopted. I will notify and unblock the user and remind him of the revert parole. Newyorkbrad 14:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
(Not sure where you want this.) I don't quite understand this particular motion without a case. I don't feel vehemently about any half-year old ban of mine, but I do disagree that it should be done this way. Mostly, an arbitration case should never take anyone by surprise. The original ban was endorsed by several admins, and no one in the community was willing to unblock after an ANI discussion. If anyone (arbitrators included) think that a revert parole is a better option, it would have been better to 1) discuss with the blocking administrator and then 2) put it to the community on some noticeboard. That's normal admin courtesy. I can't avoid the feeling that, by bypassing the usual options, arbcom has essentially (whether intentionally or not) mixed up their administrator and arbitrator hats. Dmcdevit·t 07:35, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I think this appeal should have been exposed to public. No one from the list of people who participated at the AN/I discussion have been informed of this process. I think people should be informed at least.
Anyway, as i had stated in the AN/I back on November 2006, i have no objection to see Koavf contributing again but it remains conditional (partial ban - see AN/I). I still think the same. In parallel, i don't understand that if they revert more than once a day they'd only be blocked for 24h. Why not longer? Why not putting them on a probation period with stricter conditions instead? Anyway, i assume good faith and would not object if Justin is willing to do as they say. I'd have no problems in seeing them contributing again but totally POV-free the same way they have done at Citizendium. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 19:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I agree with FayassalF. I'm surprised that the arbcom is willing to unblock someone banned with a clear community consensus per discussion on the incident noticeboard and without a strong reason to involve itself. (This does not look like a case that would be accepted if it had been brought back in November.) I therefore think this looks like bypassing the community, which should only be done when it is clear the arbcom can do a better job of resolving the dispute than the community can. That said, I would welcome Koavf back if he promises not to edit war anymore, but has he done so? If so, where? Picaroon (Talk) 21:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't mind the Arbitration Committee taking cases like this, so long as the community is given the opportunity of final appeal (i.e. if ArbCom reverses a ban, the community can restore the ban after another discussion). Ral315 » 02:08, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Is any kind of official motion really required? This is basically a community ban. By my understand, any admin can undo a community ban, since the definition of a community ban is simply a ban that no admin is willing to undo. I would suggest that someone unblock him unilaterally and then if anyone wants him reblocked they can start a full arbcom case. --Tango 10:09, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that in addition to being Arbcom members, they are still members of the Wikipedia administration community. And as such, any one of them can decide a community ban was inappropriate and overturn it unilaterally. It's patently ludicrous to argue that the Arbcom may not do something in summary motion that they can do as ordinary administrators. It does not really need majority vote either, simply one of the admins saying "I'm dubious over this ban, if people want a ban they should take it to full Arbitration." --Barberio 10:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Thanks to all involved, not only for essentially agreeing to the kind of conclusion I desired, but also for finally putting an end to this limbo. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:28, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Waldorf_education#Pete_K_banned applies to user pages with respect to content which relates to Waldorf education, PLANS, Rudolf Steiner, orAnthroposophy. Based on [39], [40], [41], and [42].
Clerk note: There are currently 12 active arbitrators, so a majority is 7.