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Currently, there are no requests for arbitration.

No cases have recently been closed (view all closed cases).

No arbitrator motions are currently open.

This noticeboard's primary purpose is to to attract the attention of the clerks to a particular matter by non-clerks. Non-clerks are welcome to comment on this page in the event that the clerks appear to have missed something.

The clerks may be contacted privately, in the event a matter could not be prudently addressed publicly (i.e., on this page), by composing an email to clerks-llists.wikimedia.org; only the clerk team and individual arbitrators have access to emails sent to that list.

A procedural reference for clerks (and arbitrators) is located here.

Pending actions

Clerks and trainees, please coordinate your actions through this section, so that we don't have multiple clerks working on the same cases at the same time. An IRC channel, #wikipedia-en-arbcom-clerks, and a mailing list are also available, although the mailing list is low traffic and has a public archive.

To be opened

Cases may be opened by clerks or trainees 24 hours after the fourth net vote to accept has been made.

• Geogre-William M. Connolley (ie. the Giano II "wheel-war" case) is at four votes to accept. I will take this case (and open it in around 24 hours time, as it recieved its fourth vote to accept only moments ago), if that's OK with everyone. Daniel (talk) 00:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Yup. I really want to get involved with opening a case and actually doing some clerks ( ;-) ), but unfortunately I unblocked Giano just last week so I'm a little too involved. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:42, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
    • You can always idle in the IRC channel and watch my edits and ask any questions :) Daniel (talk) 00:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
      • Do you plan to handle this and Yorkshirian at the same time? — Rlevse • Talk • 01:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
        • Heh, I didn't realise you noted my initials for Yorkshirian. I'm a great fan of whoever-opens-it-keeps-it, so would you be able to take over that case? Daniel (talk) 01:18, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
          • You asked us to open for you (as opposed to instead of). Who'd like to take over Yorkshirian? — Rlevse • Talk • 01:24, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• I'll take Yorkshirian with Nish, so Daniel can take the wheel war case. John Vandenberg 01:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Well, it's 5-2 now. But I hadn't touched the Yorkshirian case (not knowing it was mine), so that seems most logical. Daniel (talk) 01:45, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Mind-meld. DanielB, Jayvdb, and I were talking. Jay will take over the Yorkshirian case and Nish will follow the case with him. DanielB will take the WMC case (or whatever we call it) if it opens. Ryan is recused from that one. Ryan will help with the next case that comes up after WMC and should follow it. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Motions and temporary injunctions

Motions and temporary injunctions are made by arbitrators on /Proposed decision. Temporary injunctions require 4 net support votes to pass (each "oppose" subtracts a "support"). Other motions have the same majority for passage as the case itself.

To be closed

Cases may be closed by clerks or trainees after the fourth net vote to close, but generally wait at least 24 hours after the first motion to close. In cases where the arbitrators have disagreed and not all the findings or remedies have passed, wait at least 24 hours after the final close vote is cast to give other arbitrators a chance to raise objections.

Reassignment/breaks

Generally, the clerk or trainee who opens a case should follow the progress of the case and be available to answer questions from the parties. If for any reason you need someone to take over one or more of your current cases (too busy, wikibreak, etc.), post a request here.

Other work

Discussion for all other and miscellaneous issues, that are not covered by the above sections, but are related to a particular case. Please note that general discussion related to the arbitration process and clerking should go to #General discussion, rather than here.

Active/Inactive Arbitrators

General list

This list will be used to set the number of active Arbitrators and the case majority on cases as they open. As of May 16, 2008, there are 13 active Arbitrators, so the majority is 7 for new cases (that is, those accepted after the "as of" date). The master list is at WP:AC#Members.

Active:

1. Blnguyen
2. Charles Matthews
3. FayssalF
4. FloNight
5. FT2
6. Jdforrester
7. Jpgordon
8. Kirill Lokshin
9. Matthew Brown (Morven)
10. Paul August
11. Sam Blacketer
12. Thebainer

Away or inactive:

1. Deskana
2. UninvitedCompany

Arbitrator announcements

Arbitrators, please note if you wish to declare yourself active or away/inactive, either generally or for specific cases. The clerks will update the relevant cases as needed. If you are returning, please indicate whether you wish to be: 1) Put back to active on all cases; 2) Left on inactive on all open cases, and only put to active on new cases; or 3) Left to set yourself to active on cases you wish (remember to update the majority on its /Proposed decision).

• Please move me to inactive on all cases, and put me on the inactive arbitrators list, due to extended illness that I'm dealing with. --Deskana (talk) 12:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Done. Get better soon :) Cheers, Daniel (talk) 13:33, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
• I'm back. I will mark myself active on pending cases as desired. Thanks Paul August ☎ 18:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Noted. Welcome back Paul. Daniel (talk) 01:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

General discussion

Having had a bit of a chat with jvdb - here are some diff.s which are relevant to my case, which could maybe be 'filed' in someway with the rest of the case pages? (there are also, I think, two other requests filed, one by Avruch, and one by me - if that's salient at all....)

• The current discussion on the arb talk page
• discussion on the admin.s noticeboard re. vandalism
• discussion at the arb pages on the same subject.

feel free to file this info. as appropriate (if necessary in the round file on the floor! cheers, Privatemusings (talk) 03:28, 27 June 2008 (UTC)