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Arbitration report

The Report on Lengthy Litigation


The Committee announced that an Audit Subcommittee has been established, which will investigate complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight privileges on the English Wikipedia. Additionally, the committee has prepared a provisional draft of an updated arbitration policy for initial community review.

The Arbitration Committee opened one case this week, and closed one, leaving eight cases open.

New cases

Evidence phase

Voting

Closed

  • MZMcBride: A case brought after administrator MZMcBride deleted numerous "secret pages". This case reviewed administrator conduct by MZMcBride, and did not rule on the appropriateness of the pages themselves. MZMcBride had previously been admonished for his administrator actions in a previous Request for Arbitration. In the final decision, among other things, the Arbitration Committee took note of MZMcBride's decision to resign his adminship before the case closed, and noted that if MZMcBride wishes to regain adminship in the future, he may either submit a new request for adminship or make a request to the committee.