all proposed
Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or vote to abstain.
Conditional votes for, against, or to abstain should be explained by the Arbitrator in parenthesis after his time-stamped signature. For example, an Arbitrator can state that he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were enacted.
1) {text of proposed orders}
1) Until a final decision is rendered in this matter, Users HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are prohibited from editing any Wikipedia pages other than their user pages and the pages related to this arbitration.
2) Until a final decision is rendered in this matter, Users HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are prohibited from editing any Wikipedia pages ( article or talk) that deal with Israel, Palestine, or conflicts/people/events associated thereof.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) No personal attacks.
2) Wikipedia editors are expected to edit from a neutral point of view.
3) The Wikipedia policy of editing from a neutral point of view, a central and non-negotiable principle of Wikipedia, applies to situations where there are conflicting viewpoints and contemplates that significant viewpoints regarding such situations all be included in as fair a manner as possible.
4) Wikipedia editors are required to maintain a minimum level of courtesy toward one another, see Wikiquette, Civility and Wikipedia:Writers rules of engagement.
5) While the content of articles is the province of Wikipedia editors, a number of Wikipedia policies relate to content in peripheral ways, for example, it is desirable to limit reversions and to provide adequate references for material included in articles. See Reversions, Wikipedia:Edit war, Wikipedia:Three revert rule, Wikipedia:Check your facts, Wikipedia:Cite sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability
6) Wikipedia is not the place for publishing original work or development of Neologisms, Wikipedia:No original research.
7) Contributors are expected to obey Wikipedia policies, including the three revert rule.
8) The term "revert" as used in Wikipedia policy is intended to include both absolute reverts (that is, where versions differ not at all) as well as edits to versions that are only very slightly different).
9) Attempting to avoid being accused of reversion by making very minor edits that are then edited out again, whilst not expressly forbidden, is in bad faith and against the spirit of policy, and a violation of Wikiquette.
10) No person or group has the right to control content of Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:Ownership of articles.
11) In order for the arbitrators to be able to decide a case based on evidence, the evidence to be presented by the parties must be brief and well organized, focusing on the principle issues involved with adequate references to examples of the behavior complained of.
12) When editing on highly conflicted topics, editors should not allow themselves to be goaded into ill-considered edits and policy violations. Administrators in particular have a responsibility to set an example by staying cool when the editing gets hot.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) The state of Israel and the Zionist movement are engaged in a protracted conflict with the Palestinian people and other Islamic nations, hereafter refered to as the "conflict"
2) Information about and characterization of the conflict are themselves part of the conflict, see Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Hasbara.
3) There is a long history of disputes regarding the content of Wikipedia articles concerning the conflict.
4) In a number of instances there have been protracted struggles over the language used to characterize various matters, for example, while many others characterise the West Bank and Gaza as the "occupied territories" this is hotly disputed by partisans of Israel who advance other language such as "disputed territories". At times the NPOV policy is honored, for example, in the article West Bank which contains the following language: "The West Bank is considered by the United Nations as occupied by Israel, though some Israelis and various other groups prefer to refer to it as "disputed" rather than "occupied" territory." at other times it is not and protracted edit wars sometimes result over inclusion of one point of view or exclusion of another.
5) Enforcement of the NPOV policy has been lacking in this area and over an extended period POV editing has been engaged in by a number of editors, not only the two before us in this matter.
6) In many instances one side or the other has "won", while Wikipedia has lost, as articles which contain a mix of information favorable to one side or the other remain and protracted edit wars continue.
7) A number of the edits by User:66.93.166.174 can be identified as being by HistoryBuffEr (signed HistoryBuffEr), (signed HistoryBuffEr), post by 66.93.166.174 signature by HistoryBuffEr Earlier edits are consistent with HistoryBuffEr's POV and editing pattern, see [1], [2] and [3]. See also page histories to see proximity and similarity of edits by HistoryBuffEr and 66.93.166.174. Although HistoryBuffEr claims the ip address 66.93.166.174 is a "shared account" there is no evidence of any editor with an editing style different from HistoryBuffEr editing using that ip; therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that all edits by 66.93.166.174 were made by the person who edits using HistoryBuffEr.
8) HistoryBuffEr has engaged in personal attacks on Jayjg, see [4], [5], [6] , [7], [8] and [9]
9) Jayjg has edited Wikipedia articles which concern the Israeli-Palestinian confict in a point of view way, see [10], [11], [12] a series of edits where Jayjg, while engaged in an edit war, removed the notice {{TotallyDisputed}} from the hotly disputed article, Arab-Israeli conflict following which he continued his edit war with Alberuni which has persisted over a month regarding inclusion of information that the September 11, 2001 attacks were justified by al-Qaida as being an extension of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first instance of this disputed material being added was on October 8 by Alberuni at [13]. There is very little or no discussion on the talk page by either party which addresses how this information might be appropriately handled as opposed to repeatedly inserting and removing it.
10) Jayjg also makes edits from a neutral point of view and often significantly contributes to the accuracy of information included in Wikipedia articles, for example see this example of NPOV edit, which removes a link to site which draws an unjustified pro-Zionist conclusion, see [22] and Jayjg's explanation at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Evidence#Anti-Zionism; see also [23]. For an example of editing material added by HistoryBuffEr which clarified the nature of the information, see [24] and his explanation at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Evidence#Yasser_Arafat_4. At times he has negotiated with other editors on "his side" such as Lance6wins regarding the accuracy of pro-Zionist material [25], [26]
11) HistoryBuffEr has made point of view edits to articles which concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see this edit of September 21, 2004 which ignited a brief edit war with Jayjg. This edit, repeatedly inserted, contains this language, "Palestine Jews then declared independent State of Israel in 1948, in violation of the U.N. Partition resolution, and began killing, expelling and terrorizing the indigenous Arab population, ethnically cleansing about 870,000 (about 80%) of native Arab population (see Palestinian Exodus)." In one revert, the comment, "NPOV Jayjg's propaganda)" was added [27]. Additional examples include [28], and [29].
11.1) On October 12, 2004, HistoryBuffEr, inserted similar language in History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [30], igniting an edit war with User IZAK, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/IZAK/Proposed_decision#Responding_to_a_POV_edit. See also this edit using the language, "The Israeli terror acts created about 750,000 Palestinian refugees" with the comment, 'NPOV cause of refugees; attacks on civilians are spelled "TERROR"'
12) HistoryBuffEr has frequently made edits which involve extensive rewriting of articles which relate to the conflict, see [31] and [32]. These edits, due to their complexity and numerous instances of included POV material, result in edit wars which are not easily resolved. See [33] for a brief discussion on this point by Jayjg and HistoryBuffEr.
13) Despite, as User:66.93.166.174, making a complete and very POV revision of the article Israeli-Palestinian conflict on September 13, 2004 ( [34]) HistoryBuffEr failed to enter any dialogue on Talk:Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He followed the same pattern with respect to Arab-Israeli conflict ( [35]), responding to Jayjg's request to talk with insults meanwhile insisting that a disputed notice remain at the head of the article despite his failure to discuss the issues.
14) HistoryBuffEr has inserted into the article Yassir Arafat [36], and other articles, [37], the novel phrase, "occupation colonies", which is meant to desribe Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. When quieried regarding the use of this phrase he responded, not with references to its use in published work, but with argumentation regarding its propriety, see [38]. Googling for this phrase produces a few hits, one [39] a reprint of Wikipedia's article on a China Daily forum; a second use at [40] on http://www.miftah.org/ a Palestinian information site; the third, possibly independant, use of the phrase would not load (There are, of course, a few hits on Wikipedia pages).
15) HistoryBuffEr has engaged in discourteous behavior toward others in his editing conflicts with them, see [41]. [42] and [43].
16) The parties, together with partisans for their general point of view and assisted at times by informal mediators such as Ed Poor, have engaged in extensive negotiations regarding the structuring of articles concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see Talk:Occupation of Palestine. These negotiations while difficult, have sometimes been successful.
17) Jayjg has violated the general community guidelines on Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version which evolved into the Three-Revert Rule on several occasions directly, including 4 reverts in 144 minutes on Anti-Semitism between 20:55, 9 Jul 2004 and 23:16, 9 Jul 2004, and, similarly, 4 reverts in 129 minutes to Historicity of Jesus between 19:09, 21 Jul 2004 and 21:28, 21 Jul 2004, and repeatedly on Dore Gold in the month and half over which the article has existed.
18) The principals in this matter have been very verbose in their presentation of evidence, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg/Evidence/Full version, expanding their presentation to the point that it is unwieldly, confusing and essentially unusable by the Arbitrators.
19) A request has been made by the arbitrators for a summary of the evidence in this matter at
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg/Evidence. Neither of the principals have HistoryBuffEr has not been forthcoming with a[n adequate] summary.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) HistoryBuffEr is banned for 30 days for making personal attacks.
2) HistoryBuffEr is banned for 30 days for discourtesy.
3) HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are prohibited for a period of one year from editing any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict except in the following manner: each edit shall involve insertion or removal of one discrete piece of information which shall be referenced either by comment or footnote to a specific page in a book published in English and readily available in libraries or by purchase. References to urls are acceptable only if the site is in English and the information referenced is readily located by consulting the webpage.
3.1) HistoryBuffEr is prohibited for a period of one year from editing any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict except in the following manner: each edit shall involve insertion or removal of one discrete piece of information which shall be referenced either by comment or footnote to a specific page in a book published in English and readily available in libraries or by purchase. References to URLs are acceptable only if the site is in English and the information referenced is readily located by consulting the webpage.
3.2) HistoryBuffEr is prohibited for a period of one year from editing any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
4) For the period of editing restrictions in the event information is disputed, the source of the information may be included in the article as may conflicting information.
5) For the period of editing restrictions neither HistoryBuffEr nor Jayjg may remove any adequately referenced information from any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Doing so may result in a 24-hour block imposed by any administrator. In the case of Jayjg, unblocking himself will be severely dealt with.
6) For the period of editing restrictions reorganizations of articles which do not involve addition or removal of information may be done by either party. The other party may not revert, nor may the initiator of the reorganization restore the reorganization should a third party revert.
7) HistoryBuffEr is placed on standard personal attack parole for three months. If he makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be personal attacks, then he shall be temp-banned for a short time, up to three days, and the parole shall be reset.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) For the period of editing restrictions edits by either HistoryBuffEr or Jayjg which are not referenced may be removed by any user. In the event the reference given does not support an edit made by either of them it may be removed after notification to them and an explanation made on the talk page of the article.
2) For the period of editing restrictions, edits by HistoryBuffEr which violate them may be removed by any user. Repeat violations may be sanctioned by an adminstrator by a short ban (up to one day for intial violations, up to a week for repeat violations).
2.1) For the period of editing restrictions, edits by HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg which violate them may be removed by any user. Repeat violations may be sanctioned by an adminstrator by a short ban (up to one day for intial violations, up to a week for repeat violations).
My feeling is that HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are only two of the many POV editors in this hotly disputed area. Conflict in this area has been a part of Wikipedia for as long as I can remember. It would be unfair to single either of them out by banning them from the area when they are part of a larger group which has routinely broken NPOV editing rules in this area. We can apply the same editing rules to any of the rest of them if they continue with their current practices should they not take this decision as a guide to their own editing. Fred Bauder 14:23, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
I happen to believe that the editing restrictions detailed above should be applied to everyone editing those articles - hence my votes opposing any such editing restrictions placed on HB alone. -- Grun t 🇪🇺 03:23, 2005 Jan 1 (UTC)
Jayjg knows the right thing to do and generally consistently does it, but has been goaded into blowing his top on occasion. But of late he's been acting in an exemplary fashion - David Gerard 18:29, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Four Aye votes needed to close case
all proposed
Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or vote to abstain.
Conditional votes for, against, or to abstain should be explained by the Arbitrator in parenthesis after his time-stamped signature. For example, an Arbitrator can state that he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were enacted.
1) {text of proposed orders}
1) Until a final decision is rendered in this matter, Users HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are prohibited from editing any Wikipedia pages other than their user pages and the pages related to this arbitration.
2) Until a final decision is rendered in this matter, Users HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are prohibited from editing any Wikipedia pages ( article or talk) that deal with Israel, Palestine, or conflicts/people/events associated thereof.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) No personal attacks.
2) Wikipedia editors are expected to edit from a neutral point of view.
3) The Wikipedia policy of editing from a neutral point of view, a central and non-negotiable principle of Wikipedia, applies to situations where there are conflicting viewpoints and contemplates that significant viewpoints regarding such situations all be included in as fair a manner as possible.
4) Wikipedia editors are required to maintain a minimum level of courtesy toward one another, see Wikiquette, Civility and Wikipedia:Writers rules of engagement.
5) While the content of articles is the province of Wikipedia editors, a number of Wikipedia policies relate to content in peripheral ways, for example, it is desirable to limit reversions and to provide adequate references for material included in articles. See Reversions, Wikipedia:Edit war, Wikipedia:Three revert rule, Wikipedia:Check your facts, Wikipedia:Cite sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability
6) Wikipedia is not the place for publishing original work or development of Neologisms, Wikipedia:No original research.
7) Contributors are expected to obey Wikipedia policies, including the three revert rule.
8) The term "revert" as used in Wikipedia policy is intended to include both absolute reverts (that is, where versions differ not at all) as well as edits to versions that are only very slightly different).
9) Attempting to avoid being accused of reversion by making very minor edits that are then edited out again, whilst not expressly forbidden, is in bad faith and against the spirit of policy, and a violation of Wikiquette.
10) No person or group has the right to control content of Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:Ownership of articles.
11) In order for the arbitrators to be able to decide a case based on evidence, the evidence to be presented by the parties must be brief and well organized, focusing on the principle issues involved with adequate references to examples of the behavior complained of.
12) When editing on highly conflicted topics, editors should not allow themselves to be goaded into ill-considered edits and policy violations. Administrators in particular have a responsibility to set an example by staying cool when the editing gets hot.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) The state of Israel and the Zionist movement are engaged in a protracted conflict with the Palestinian people and other Islamic nations, hereafter refered to as the "conflict"
2) Information about and characterization of the conflict are themselves part of the conflict, see Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Hasbara.
3) There is a long history of disputes regarding the content of Wikipedia articles concerning the conflict.
4) In a number of instances there have been protracted struggles over the language used to characterize various matters, for example, while many others characterise the West Bank and Gaza as the "occupied territories" this is hotly disputed by partisans of Israel who advance other language such as "disputed territories". At times the NPOV policy is honored, for example, in the article West Bank which contains the following language: "The West Bank is considered by the United Nations as occupied by Israel, though some Israelis and various other groups prefer to refer to it as "disputed" rather than "occupied" territory." at other times it is not and protracted edit wars sometimes result over inclusion of one point of view or exclusion of another.
5) Enforcement of the NPOV policy has been lacking in this area and over an extended period POV editing has been engaged in by a number of editors, not only the two before us in this matter.
6) In many instances one side or the other has "won", while Wikipedia has lost, as articles which contain a mix of information favorable to one side or the other remain and protracted edit wars continue.
7) A number of the edits by User:66.93.166.174 can be identified as being by HistoryBuffEr (signed HistoryBuffEr), (signed HistoryBuffEr), post by 66.93.166.174 signature by HistoryBuffEr Earlier edits are consistent with HistoryBuffEr's POV and editing pattern, see [1], [2] and [3]. See also page histories to see proximity and similarity of edits by HistoryBuffEr and 66.93.166.174. Although HistoryBuffEr claims the ip address 66.93.166.174 is a "shared account" there is no evidence of any editor with an editing style different from HistoryBuffEr editing using that ip; therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that all edits by 66.93.166.174 were made by the person who edits using HistoryBuffEr.
8) HistoryBuffEr has engaged in personal attacks on Jayjg, see [4], [5], [6] , [7], [8] and [9]
9) Jayjg has edited Wikipedia articles which concern the Israeli-Palestinian confict in a point of view way, see [10], [11], [12] a series of edits where Jayjg, while engaged in an edit war, removed the notice {{TotallyDisputed}} from the hotly disputed article, Arab-Israeli conflict following which he continued his edit war with Alberuni which has persisted over a month regarding inclusion of information that the September 11, 2001 attacks were justified by al-Qaida as being an extension of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first instance of this disputed material being added was on October 8 by Alberuni at [13]. There is very little or no discussion on the talk page by either party which addresses how this information might be appropriately handled as opposed to repeatedly inserting and removing it.
10) Jayjg also makes edits from a neutral point of view and often significantly contributes to the accuracy of information included in Wikipedia articles, for example see this example of NPOV edit, which removes a link to site which draws an unjustified pro-Zionist conclusion, see [22] and Jayjg's explanation at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Evidence#Anti-Zionism; see also [23]. For an example of editing material added by HistoryBuffEr which clarified the nature of the information, see [24] and his explanation at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Evidence#Yasser_Arafat_4. At times he has negotiated with other editors on "his side" such as Lance6wins regarding the accuracy of pro-Zionist material [25], [26]
11) HistoryBuffEr has made point of view edits to articles which concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see this edit of September 21, 2004 which ignited a brief edit war with Jayjg. This edit, repeatedly inserted, contains this language, "Palestine Jews then declared independent State of Israel in 1948, in violation of the U.N. Partition resolution, and began killing, expelling and terrorizing the indigenous Arab population, ethnically cleansing about 870,000 (about 80%) of native Arab population (see Palestinian Exodus)." In one revert, the comment, "NPOV Jayjg's propaganda)" was added [27]. Additional examples include [28], and [29].
11.1) On October 12, 2004, HistoryBuffEr, inserted similar language in History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [30], igniting an edit war with User IZAK, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/IZAK/Proposed_decision#Responding_to_a_POV_edit. See also this edit using the language, "The Israeli terror acts created about 750,000 Palestinian refugees" with the comment, 'NPOV cause of refugees; attacks on civilians are spelled "TERROR"'
12) HistoryBuffEr has frequently made edits which involve extensive rewriting of articles which relate to the conflict, see [31] and [32]. These edits, due to their complexity and numerous instances of included POV material, result in edit wars which are not easily resolved. See [33] for a brief discussion on this point by Jayjg and HistoryBuffEr.
13) Despite, as User:66.93.166.174, making a complete and very POV revision of the article Israeli-Palestinian conflict on September 13, 2004 ( [34]) HistoryBuffEr failed to enter any dialogue on Talk:Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He followed the same pattern with respect to Arab-Israeli conflict ( [35]), responding to Jayjg's request to talk with insults meanwhile insisting that a disputed notice remain at the head of the article despite his failure to discuss the issues.
14) HistoryBuffEr has inserted into the article Yassir Arafat [36], and other articles, [37], the novel phrase, "occupation colonies", which is meant to desribe Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. When quieried regarding the use of this phrase he responded, not with references to its use in published work, but with argumentation regarding its propriety, see [38]. Googling for this phrase produces a few hits, one [39] a reprint of Wikipedia's article on a China Daily forum; a second use at [40] on http://www.miftah.org/ a Palestinian information site; the third, possibly independant, use of the phrase would not load (There are, of course, a few hits on Wikipedia pages).
15) HistoryBuffEr has engaged in discourteous behavior toward others in his editing conflicts with them, see [41]. [42] and [43].
16) The parties, together with partisans for their general point of view and assisted at times by informal mediators such as Ed Poor, have engaged in extensive negotiations regarding the structuring of articles concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see Talk:Occupation of Palestine. These negotiations while difficult, have sometimes been successful.
17) Jayjg has violated the general community guidelines on Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version which evolved into the Three-Revert Rule on several occasions directly, including 4 reverts in 144 minutes on Anti-Semitism between 20:55, 9 Jul 2004 and 23:16, 9 Jul 2004, and, similarly, 4 reverts in 129 minutes to Historicity of Jesus between 19:09, 21 Jul 2004 and 21:28, 21 Jul 2004, and repeatedly on Dore Gold in the month and half over which the article has existed.
18) The principals in this matter have been very verbose in their presentation of evidence, see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg/Evidence/Full version, expanding their presentation to the point that it is unwieldly, confusing and essentially unusable by the Arbitrators.
19) A request has been made by the arbitrators for a summary of the evidence in this matter at
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg/Evidence. Neither of the principals have HistoryBuffEr has not been forthcoming with a[n adequate] summary.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) HistoryBuffEr is banned for 30 days for making personal attacks.
2) HistoryBuffEr is banned for 30 days for discourtesy.
3) HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are prohibited for a period of one year from editing any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict except in the following manner: each edit shall involve insertion or removal of one discrete piece of information which shall be referenced either by comment or footnote to a specific page in a book published in English and readily available in libraries or by purchase. References to urls are acceptable only if the site is in English and the information referenced is readily located by consulting the webpage.
3.1) HistoryBuffEr is prohibited for a period of one year from editing any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict except in the following manner: each edit shall involve insertion or removal of one discrete piece of information which shall be referenced either by comment or footnote to a specific page in a book published in English and readily available in libraries or by purchase. References to URLs are acceptable only if the site is in English and the information referenced is readily located by consulting the webpage.
3.2) HistoryBuffEr is prohibited for a period of one year from editing any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
4) For the period of editing restrictions in the event information is disputed, the source of the information may be included in the article as may conflicting information.
5) For the period of editing restrictions neither HistoryBuffEr nor Jayjg may remove any adequately referenced information from any article which relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Doing so may result in a 24-hour block imposed by any administrator. In the case of Jayjg, unblocking himself will be severely dealt with.
6) For the period of editing restrictions reorganizations of articles which do not involve addition or removal of information may be done by either party. The other party may not revert, nor may the initiator of the reorganization restore the reorganization should a third party revert.
7) HistoryBuffEr is placed on standard personal attack parole for three months. If he makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be personal attacks, then he shall be temp-banned for a short time, up to three days, and the parole shall be reset.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) For the period of editing restrictions edits by either HistoryBuffEr or Jayjg which are not referenced may be removed by any user. In the event the reference given does not support an edit made by either of them it may be removed after notification to them and an explanation made on the talk page of the article.
2) For the period of editing restrictions, edits by HistoryBuffEr which violate them may be removed by any user. Repeat violations may be sanctioned by an adminstrator by a short ban (up to one day for intial violations, up to a week for repeat violations).
2.1) For the period of editing restrictions, edits by HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg which violate them may be removed by any user. Repeat violations may be sanctioned by an adminstrator by a short ban (up to one day for intial violations, up to a week for repeat violations).
My feeling is that HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg are only two of the many POV editors in this hotly disputed area. Conflict in this area has been a part of Wikipedia for as long as I can remember. It would be unfair to single either of them out by banning them from the area when they are part of a larger group which has routinely broken NPOV editing rules in this area. We can apply the same editing rules to any of the rest of them if they continue with their current practices should they not take this decision as a guide to their own editing. Fred Bauder 14:23, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
I happen to believe that the editing restrictions detailed above should be applied to everyone editing those articles - hence my votes opposing any such editing restrictions placed on HB alone. -- Grun t 🇪🇺 03:23, 2005 Jan 1 (UTC)
Jayjg knows the right thing to do and generally consistently does it, but has been goaded into blowing his top on occasion. But of late he's been acting in an exemplary fashion - David Gerard 18:29, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Four Aye votes needed to close case