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Arbitration report

Arbitration Report

The Arbitration Committee opened no cases this week, leaving two open.

Open cases

  • Climate change (Week 7): Special rules of conduct were put in place for this arbitration. The case resulted from the merging of several Arbitration requests on the same topic matter into a single case, and the failure of a related request for comment to make headway. Although the case is still technically open, the workshop phase has been closed to give a break to all participants while arbitrators think about a proposed decision.
  • Race and intelligence (Week 8): This case concerns accusations of incivility, disruptive editing, and tag-teaming to control the content on articles related to race and intelligence. Following a number of delays (see Signpost coverage from June 28, July 5, July 12), the case moved to the proposed decision phase. The proposed decision that was drafted by Coren has sparked several concerns among participants and non-participants. After last week's Signpost was published, Signpost readers have also made on-wiki comments about the proposed resolution of the case (example). The case remains in the proposed decision phase.

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Note: Last week's Arbitration report coverage of ArbCom announcements regarding the selection of CheckUser and Oversight candidates has drawn some concern by FT2, who provided a reworded version. Here, both versions can be compared. As always, readers are welcome to leave informed comments about the Signpost's coverage and to express their general expectations of the Signpost.