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) For the duration of this hearing, IZAK is to refrain from engaging in excessive cross-posting.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) No personal attacks.
2) Wikipedia is not a vehicle for propaganda or advocacy of any kind.
3) Wikipedia provides a variety of forums, including article and user talk pages, for communication by Wikipedia users regarding content of articles and Wikipedia policies and decisions which Wikipedia users are encouraged to use in furtherance of Wikipedia policies and goals.
4) Aggressive use of Wikipedia forums to mobilize support for point of view editing results in exacerbation of conflict.
5) The Arbitration Committee may consider current community norms and practice, regardless of whether the community have got as far as writing up an "official" policy on the matter, in making its decisions. This is an Arbitration Committee, not a court of law, and the community has empowered us to make such judgements by ratifying the Wikipedia:Arbitration policy. By the same policy, we are to apply such judgements with common sense, discretion, and an eye to the expectations of the community.
Notice, it doesn't make any mention of having a rule specifically against bad behavior before we consider it to be bad.
6) The occasional light use of cross-posting to Talk pages is part of Wikipedia common practice. Excessive cross-posting (XCP) goes against current Wikipedia community norms and is poor Wikiquette. In a broader context, it is "unwiki" - see e.g. Meatball:LessRedundancy. Wikipedia editors make use of a variety of methods to avoid XCP, such as Template:ArbCommOpenTask, Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board, pages based on "Related Changes", and so forth.
7) Wikipedia is not an experiment in participative democracy. The majority of its "votes" are intended to determine what the rough consensus is, rather than being an exercise in ballot-counting. "Get out the vote" activity that targets only those who are likely to vote in a particular way distorts this process. However, "get out the vote" activity that is a good faith attempt to inform people who are likely to be interested in a particular vote, regardless of which way they are likely to vote, is acceptable.
8) Aggressive point-of-view editing can produce widespread reactions as editors attempt to combat an outbreak of it, mobilizing others to join the fray. While this creates the appearance of disorder, it is better seen as an attempt to deal with a refractory problem.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) IZAK has made personal attacks, for example, " Sam's past pro-Nazi views"
1.1 IZAK has made personal attacks against User HistoryBuffEr in the context of edit warring with him with respect to HistoryBuffEr's allegedly POV edits to the article History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see comment, "meant to incite anti_semitism" and comment, "Rvert to Buffer's less deranged comments...very set on smearing Jews isn't he?".
2) IZAK has engaged in advocacy of the Zionist cause, for example, successfully campaigning for deletion of the article, Occupation of Palestine and adding a NPOV notice to an article which while unfavorable to Zionism had no dispute in the edit history and an empty talk page.
3) IZAK has engaged in advocacy of the Zionist cause, for example, adding a NPOV notice to an article which while unfavorable to Zionism had no dispute in the edit history and an empty talk page].
4) IZAK has, following Wikipedia's NPOV policy, also made edits which can be fairly characerized as NPOV edits, in controversial areas, for example, adding Category Palestine to Category Jerusalem and making a useful edit to Occupation of Palestine, now a disambiguation page.
5) IZAK has used the communication system of Wikipedia aggressively in furtherance of actions which violate Wikipedia's NPOV policy, successfully campaigning for deletion of the article Occupation of Israel
5.1) In response to a POV edit by User:HistoryBuffEr to the article, History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict#The war for Palestine, IZAK posted this message to Talk:Struggle over Palestine, than crossposted it to the user talk pages of AAAAA, Cecropia, DanKeshet, Evolver of Borg, Humus sapiens, Itai, Jayjg, Jfdwolff, MathKnight, Nyh, and YUL89YYZ. User AAAAA responded and IZAK suggested monitoring HistoryBuffEr's POV edits [1]. (In the complaint it is claimed that this crossposting incited an edit war at History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This finding of fact does not endorse that conclusion; it just confirms the existence and content of the edits.)
5.2) IZAK did not incite an edit war at History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was provoked by HistoryBuffEr who had been engaging in POV editing with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for at least the previous month, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Proposed_decision#Point_of_view_editing_by_HistoryBuffEr and Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Proposed_decision#Later_example_which_also_ignited_an_edit_war.
6) IZAK has used the communication system of Wikipedia aggressively in an attempt to influence the outcome of Wikipedia polls, particularly with respect to Isr/Pal issues.
6.1) On October 3, 2004 User:Sam Spade was nominated for administrator, IZAK took an interest in the matter, on October 6, he voted on the matter "Opposed absolutely!" and then notified RK and over 20 other users regarding the nomination, [2]. This initial post simply provided a link to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade. On October 10, 2004 IZAK posted a message to AAAAA and twenty other users [3] which advocated voting no on Sam Spade's nomination based on his history of editing the article Jew, "Vote "NO". Opposed to SamSpade's unfriendly views in the Jew article." Continuing on October 10, he posted a message [4] to Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade containing a link to User:Spleeman/Sam Spade. This was followed in his next edit by a "bill of particulars" detailing the sins of Sam Spade. He continued on October 10, with this post to Theresa knott and about 30 other users advocating either a no vote or a change of vote to no again with a link to User:Spleeman/Sam Spade. This message went to a wide variety of Wikipedia users, many of whom had supported Sam Spade's nomination. Voting ended late on October 10, the nomination defeated (38/38/6) ends 23:02, 10 Oct 2004. This finding is based on an issue raised in the complaint and attempts only to document the evidence.
6.2) Sam Spade made some edits to Jew during July and August, 2004, including this edit [5] which characterizes Holocaust denial as a "debate." Reverted, he added the header, {{TotallyDisputed}} to the article [6] and shortly thereafter the header, {{attention}}. It was during this series of reverts that IZAK raised the question of anti-Semitism [7].
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) IZAK is banned for 10 days for making personal attacks.
2) IZAK is banned from editing articles which relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for one year.
2) IZAK is banned from editing articles which relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for three weeks.
3) IZAK is prohibited from posting messages on user talk pages which contain personal attacks or advocate actions by Wikipedia users in furtherance of POV disputes with repect to Zionism or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
3.1) IZAK is placed on standard personal attack parole [for 2 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 one week. Administrators are requested to be particularly vigilant with respect to personal attacks made on user talk pages, and cross-posted personal attacks.
3.2) IZAK is prohibited from cross-posting messages on talk pages in furtherance of POV disputes with repect to Zionism or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) {text of proposed enforcement}
I have asked IZAK and others to present evidence of NPOV editing by IZAK on the evidence page. I will incorporate the results of this request into the decision if it turns out that IZAK is editing in a NPOV manner rather than the POV manner which is set forth above. Fred Bauder 12:22, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
I declare my intention to remain recused here, due to the presence of findings of fact involving HistoryBuffer. However, I strongly urge other arbitrators not to create policy - I firmly believe the crossposting issue, regardless of its merits, should be decided by the community, not the arbitration committee. Ambi 01:02, 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) For the duration of this hearing, IZAK is to refrain from engaging in excessive cross-posting.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) No personal attacks.
2) Wikipedia is not a vehicle for propaganda or advocacy of any kind.
3) Wikipedia provides a variety of forums, including article and user talk pages, for communication by Wikipedia users regarding content of articles and Wikipedia policies and decisions which Wikipedia users are encouraged to use in furtherance of Wikipedia policies and goals.
4) Aggressive use of Wikipedia forums to mobilize support for point of view editing results in exacerbation of conflict.
5) The Arbitration Committee may consider current community norms and practice, regardless of whether the community have got as far as writing up an "official" policy on the matter, in making its decisions. This is an Arbitration Committee, not a court of law, and the community has empowered us to make such judgements by ratifying the Wikipedia:Arbitration policy. By the same policy, we are to apply such judgements with common sense, discretion, and an eye to the expectations of the community.
Notice, it doesn't make any mention of having a rule specifically against bad behavior before we consider it to be bad.
6) The occasional light use of cross-posting to Talk pages is part of Wikipedia common practice. Excessive cross-posting (XCP) goes against current Wikipedia community norms and is poor Wikiquette. In a broader context, it is "unwiki" - see e.g. Meatball:LessRedundancy. Wikipedia editors make use of a variety of methods to avoid XCP, such as Template:ArbCommOpenTask, Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board, pages based on "Related Changes", and so forth.
7) Wikipedia is not an experiment in participative democracy. The majority of its "votes" are intended to determine what the rough consensus is, rather than being an exercise in ballot-counting. "Get out the vote" activity that targets only those who are likely to vote in a particular way distorts this process. However, "get out the vote" activity that is a good faith attempt to inform people who are likely to be interested in a particular vote, regardless of which way they are likely to vote, is acceptable.
8) Aggressive point-of-view editing can produce widespread reactions as editors attempt to combat an outbreak of it, mobilizing others to join the fray. While this creates the appearance of disorder, it is better seen as an attempt to deal with a refractory problem.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) IZAK has made personal attacks, for example, " Sam's past pro-Nazi views"
1.1 IZAK has made personal attacks against User HistoryBuffEr in the context of edit warring with him with respect to HistoryBuffEr's allegedly POV edits to the article History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see comment, "meant to incite anti_semitism" and comment, "Rvert to Buffer's less deranged comments...very set on smearing Jews isn't he?".
2) IZAK has engaged in advocacy of the Zionist cause, for example, successfully campaigning for deletion of the article, Occupation of Palestine and adding a NPOV notice to an article which while unfavorable to Zionism had no dispute in the edit history and an empty talk page.
3) IZAK has engaged in advocacy of the Zionist cause, for example, adding a NPOV notice to an article which while unfavorable to Zionism had no dispute in the edit history and an empty talk page].
4) IZAK has, following Wikipedia's NPOV policy, also made edits which can be fairly characerized as NPOV edits, in controversial areas, for example, adding Category Palestine to Category Jerusalem and making a useful edit to Occupation of Palestine, now a disambiguation page.
5) IZAK has used the communication system of Wikipedia aggressively in furtherance of actions which violate Wikipedia's NPOV policy, successfully campaigning for deletion of the article Occupation of Israel
5.1) In response to a POV edit by User:HistoryBuffEr to the article, History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict#The war for Palestine, IZAK posted this message to Talk:Struggle over Palestine, than crossposted it to the user talk pages of AAAAA, Cecropia, DanKeshet, Evolver of Borg, Humus sapiens, Itai, Jayjg, Jfdwolff, MathKnight, Nyh, and YUL89YYZ. User AAAAA responded and IZAK suggested monitoring HistoryBuffEr's POV edits [1]. (In the complaint it is claimed that this crossposting incited an edit war at History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This finding of fact does not endorse that conclusion; it just confirms the existence and content of the edits.)
5.2) IZAK did not incite an edit war at History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was provoked by HistoryBuffEr who had been engaging in POV editing with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for at least the previous month, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Proposed_decision#Point_of_view_editing_by_HistoryBuffEr and Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/HistoryBuffEr_and_Jayjg/Proposed_decision#Later_example_which_also_ignited_an_edit_war.
6) IZAK has used the communication system of Wikipedia aggressively in an attempt to influence the outcome of Wikipedia polls, particularly with respect to Isr/Pal issues.
6.1) On October 3, 2004 User:Sam Spade was nominated for administrator, IZAK took an interest in the matter, on October 6, he voted on the matter "Opposed absolutely!" and then notified RK and over 20 other users regarding the nomination, [2]. This initial post simply provided a link to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade. On October 10, 2004 IZAK posted a message to AAAAA and twenty other users [3] which advocated voting no on Sam Spade's nomination based on his history of editing the article Jew, "Vote "NO". Opposed to SamSpade's unfriendly views in the Jew article." Continuing on October 10, he posted a message [4] to Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade containing a link to User:Spleeman/Sam Spade. This was followed in his next edit by a "bill of particulars" detailing the sins of Sam Spade. He continued on October 10, with this post to Theresa knott and about 30 other users advocating either a no vote or a change of vote to no again with a link to User:Spleeman/Sam Spade. This message went to a wide variety of Wikipedia users, many of whom had supported Sam Spade's nomination. Voting ended late on October 10, the nomination defeated (38/38/6) ends 23:02, 10 Oct 2004. This finding is based on an issue raised in the complaint and attempts only to document the evidence.
6.2) Sam Spade made some edits to Jew during July and August, 2004, including this edit [5] which characterizes Holocaust denial as a "debate." Reverted, he added the header, {{TotallyDisputed}} to the article [6] and shortly thereafter the header, {{attention}}. It was during this series of reverts that IZAK raised the question of anti-Semitism [7].
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) IZAK is banned for 10 days for making personal attacks.
2) IZAK is banned from editing articles which relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for one year.
2) IZAK is banned from editing articles which relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for three weeks.
3) IZAK is prohibited from posting messages on user talk pages which contain personal attacks or advocate actions by Wikipedia users in furtherance of POV disputes with repect to Zionism or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
3.1) IZAK is placed on standard personal attack parole [for 2 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 one week. Administrators are requested to be particularly vigilant with respect to personal attacks made on user talk pages, and cross-posted personal attacks.
3.2) IZAK is prohibited from cross-posting messages on talk pages in furtherance of POV disputes with repect to Zionism or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on
1) {text of proposed enforcement}
I have asked IZAK and others to present evidence of NPOV editing by IZAK on the evidence page. I will incorporate the results of this request into the decision if it turns out that IZAK is editing in a NPOV manner rather than the POV manner which is set forth above. Fred Bauder 12:22, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)
I declare my intention to remain recused here, due to the presence of findings of fact involving HistoryBuffer. However, I strongly urge other arbitrators not to create policy - I firmly believe the crossposting issue, regardless of its merits, should be decided by the community, not the arbitration committee. Ambi 01:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Four Aye votes needed to close case