Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-30/Arbitration report

For the last Arbitration Report of 2015, we have the Arbitration enforcement 2 case closed. Meanwhile, the Kevin Gorman case has been suspended.

On 25 December, Arbitration enforcement 2 concluded. The Committee affirmed that restrictions were made to Eric Corbett during the Interactions at GGTF case and that he has been blocked multiple times for violating those restrictions. The Atlantic article that focused on, in part, the Lightbreather case prompted a discussion on Jimbo Wales' talk page. Corbett participated in that discussion and posted comments "which could be reasonably construed as violating his topic ban". As a result, administrator Kirill Lokshin blocked Corbett for a month. Yngvadottir unblocked Corbett and was desysopped because that action "violated the standard procedure for appeals and modifications of sanctions". The filing party of the case, Black Kite, was found to have "cast aspersions against, and made personal attacks on other users" after Corbett's block, and another named party, Giano, was also found to have "repeatedly cast aspersions against, and made personal attacks on editors and administrators involved in enforcing Eric's restrictions".

The remedies of the case confirm Eric Corbett's sanctions imposed as a result of the GGTF case, "but mandates that all enforcement requests relating to them be filed at arbitration enforcement and be kept open for at least 24 hours." Black Kite was also admonished for their actions, though Black Kite is currently retired. And for the last remedy:

In brief

• Kevin Gorman case suspended: The Arbitration Committee voted 7–0 to suspend the Kevin Gorman case. The suspension will be from 22 December 2015 to 2 January 2016.
• Nadirali's topic ban is suspended: A 7-0 motion by the Committee at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment was made to have Nadirali's topic ban from "India, Pakistan and Afghanistan broadly construed", which was part of their unban conditions, be suspended for one year.
• Rich Farmbrough case amended: A motion by the Committee on 27 December was made to have remedy 2 of Rich Farmbrough's restrictions, which prohibited him from using automation, "not apply in Rich Farmbrough's user space, his user talk space, or any subpage of Wikipedia:Database reports."
• Soap desysopped and banned: On 30 December, for off-wiki harassment, Soap had their admin rights removed and was indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia.
• Checkuser and oversight permissions restored: On 30 December, DoRD had their CheckUser and Oversighter statuses re-granted after resigning earlier this year.