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This noticeboard is for announcements and statements made by the Arbitration Committee. Only members of the Arbitration Committee or the Committee's Clerks may post on this page, but all editors are encouraged to comment on the talk page.
Arbitration motion regarding Eastern Europe
The Arbitration Committee received a report relating to off-wiki coordinated editing in the Eastern European contentious topic area. Following the completion of an investigation into the report and the private evidence provided, the Committee has passed the following motion:
For long-term off-wiki coordinated editing, Sadko (talk · contribs) and Боки (talk · contribs) are indefinitely banned from participating in the same community discussions as one another, or supporting each other in any sort of dispute. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
Support: Aoidh, Cabayi, Daniel, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, theleekycauldron, ToBeFree, Worm That Turned
For the Committee, theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 52 § Arbitration motion regarding Eastern Europe
CU/OS rolling appointment application - September 2025
The Arbitration Committee has received an application for CheckUser access and has reviewed them in consultation with the functionaries team. The Community is invited to evaluate the candidacy and comment at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#CU/OS rolling appointment application - September 2025 until 12:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC). ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:31, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
Wikipedia:Contentious topics#Renewal of page restrictions and Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Renewal of page restrictions are modified as follows:
If an uninvolved administrator (including the original enforcing administrator) decides that a page restriction is still necessary after one year, the administrator may renew the restriction by re-imposing it under this procedure and logging the renewal noting the CTOP invoked in the protection reason. The administrator renewing a page restriction then becomes the enforcing administrator. Page protections must clearly note in the protection reason that the protection action is an arbitration enforcement action and link to the applicable contentious topic page (e.g., WP:CT/BLP), which will cause the action to be automatically logged at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections. This does not apply to page restrictions imposed by consensus at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Wikipedia:Contentious topics#Logging and Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Logging 2 are modified as follows:
Contentious topic restrictions, excepting page protections, must be recorded in the arbitration enforcement log by the administrator who takes the action. Page protections must clearly note in the protection reason that the protection action is an arbitration enforcement action and link to the applicable contentious topic page (e.g., WP:CT/BLP), which will cause the action to be automatically logged at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections.
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures#Logging is modified as follows:
All sanctions and page restrictions, except page protections, must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log. Page protections must clearly note in the protection reason that the protection action is an arbitration enforcement action and link to the applicable contentious topic page (e.g., WP:CT/BLP), which will cause the action to be automatically logged at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections.
A central log of all page restrictions and sanctions (including blocks, bans, page protections or other restrictions) placed as arbitration enforcement (including contentious topic restrictions) is to be maintained by the Committee and its clerks at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log and Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/Protections.
For the Arbitration Committee, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:01, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures
Arbitration motion regarding Zak Smith
The Arbitration Committee has enacted a motion in lieu of a full case:
The topic of Zak Smith is placed under the extended-confirmed restriction. This restriction is set to lapse automatically one year after the enactment of this motion. If an editor believes this restriction should be extended, they may request the Committee consider an extension by posting an amendment request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment in the final month of the restriction's timeframe.
For the Arbitration Committee, Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 07:32, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Arbitration motion regarding Zak Smith
CheckUser appointment, October 2025
The Arbitration Committee is pleased to appoint the following user to the CheckUser team following private and public consultation:
- Asilvering (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
The Committee thanks everyone who participated and helped bring this process to a successful conclusion.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Sdrqaz (talk) 23:45, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § CheckUser appointment, October 2025
Proposed changes to the Committee's procedures
The Committee is considering remedies in Transgender healthcare and people which would modify the Committee's procedures. Please review the proposed decision and leave comments in your own section of the talk page. For the Arbitration Committee, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:43, 4 October 2025 (UTC)