After considering /Evidence and discussing proposals with other arbitrators, parties and others at /Workshop, arbitrators may place proposals which are ready for voting here. Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or abstain. Only items that receive a majority "support" vote will be passed. Conditional votes for or against and abstentions should be explained by the arbitrator before or after his/her time-stamped signature. For example, an arbitrator can state that she/he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were passed. Only arbitrators or clerks should edit this page, non-arbitrators may comment on the talk page.
For this case, there are 11 active arbitrators of whom none are recused, so 6 votes are a majority.
Place those on
/Workshop. Motions which are accepted for consideration and which require a vote will be placed here by the arbitrators for voting.
Motions have the same majority for passage as the final decision.
1) {text of proposed motion}
Four net "support" votes needed to pass (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support")
24 hours from the first vote is normally the fastest an injunction will be imposed.
1) {text of proposed orders}
1) William Mauco ( talk · contribs), MariusM ( talk · contribs), EvilAlex ( talk · contribs), Domitius ( talk · contribs), Alaexis ( talk · contribs), and Buffadren ( talk · contribs) are limited to one content revert per article per day until the conclusion of this case. Furthermore, each content revert must be accompanied by a rationale on the article's talk page.
1) Accounts whose contributions focus on only a single narrow topic area, especially one of heated dispute, can be banned if their behaviour is disruptive to the project, for instance if they persistently engage in edit wars or in POV advocacy that serves to inflame editorial conflicts.
2) Using Wikipedia as a vehicle for so-called " astroturfing", i.e. concerted, externally driven campaigns that are designed to promote a given agenda in such a way as to give the fake impression of wide-spread and spontaneous popular support for an issue, is extremely disruptive and damaging to the project. Accounts that are shown to be connected to such campaigns will be banned. Other accounts, especially single-purpose accounts, whose contribution profile coincides conspicuously with a known astroturfing campaign, can be treated as sock- or meatpuppets and be banned also.
2.1) Using Wikipedia as a vehicle for so-called " astroturfing," that is, creating a false impression of widespread, spontaneous, popular support for an issue, is disruptive. Relevant policies include WP:NPOV, Conflict of interest, WP:SOCK, and WP:SPAM.
3) {text of proposed principle}
1) There is substantial evidence, published by reliable sources outside Wikipedia ( [1], [2], [3], [4]), that there exists a professionally concerted campaign of promoting pro-Transnistrian opinions on the web in the fashion of "astroturfing". This campaign operates from several countries. Among the websites connected with this campaign is "www.tiraspoltimes.com". Editors professionally connected with tiraspoltimes have edited Wikipedia to promote this and related websites and the political views they represent. This includes User:MarkStreet, User:William Mauco and their sockpuppets.
2) MarkStreet ( talk · contribs), aka Mark us street ( talk · contribs), is a single-purpose account professionally connected in real life to an organisation whose purpose it is to promote Transnistrian independence. He has stated he works for Tiraspol Times ( [5]), and identified himself as its founder and chief editor, Des Grant ( [6])
2a) MarkStreet has engaged in disruptive editing on Wikipedia, including extensive sockpuppetry, tendentious editing, revert warring, and violating Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest policy by pushing for the inclusion of links to his external site.
2b) Buffadren ( talk · contribs) is a sock- or meatpuppet of MarkStreet. Although he did not use both accounts simultaneously, he has violated WP:SOCK by persistently denying any relation with MarkStreet, thus faking a larger amount of editorial support for the positions they both advocated. He has edited disruptively by engaging in extended revert wars and pushing for the inclusion of links to his external site.
3) William Mauco ( talk · contribs) is a single-purpose account promoting a pro-Transnistrian POV and engaged in a long-standing conflict with MariusM and other pro-Moldovan editors. He has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing, involving extensive sockpuppeting, revert warring, using Wikipedia as an ideological battlefield.
3a) It is likely that William Mauco is associated with the same external professional organisation promoting Transnistria as MarkStreet. He has worked for them openly on at least one occasion, publishing pro-Transnistrian texts on the "Tiraspol Times" website ( [7]).
4) MariusM ( talk · contribs) is a single-purpose account promoting a pro-Moldovan POV and engaged in a long-standing conflict with MarkStreet and other pro-Transnistrian editors. He has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing, involving revert warring, creation of abusive POV forks, using Wikipedia as an ideological battlefield, and abusing his user space for political soapboxing.
5) EvilAlex ( talk · contribs) is a single-purpose account promoting a pro-Moldovan POV and engaged in a long-standing conflict with MarkStreet and other pro-Transnistrian editors. He has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing, involving revert warring, creation of abusive POV forks, using Wikipedia as an ideological battlefield, and abusing his user space for political soapboxing.
6) {text of proposed finding of fact}
Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.
1) As an abusive and tendentious single-purpose account trying to professionally abuse Wikipedia for externally motivated political propaganda purposes, MarkStreet ( talk · contribs) and all his alternate accounts, including Buffadren ( talk · contribs), are indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
1.1) As an abusive and tendentious single-purpose account trying to professionally abuse Wikipedia for externally motivated political propaganda purposes, MarkStreet ( talk · contribs) and all his alternate accounts, including Buffadren ( talk · contribs), are indefinitely banned from the project.
2) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, William Mauco ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
2.1) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, William Mauco ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the project.
3) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, MariusM ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
3.1) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, MariusM ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the project.
4) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, EvilAlex ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
4.1) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, EvilAlex ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the project.
5) {text of proposed remedy}
1) Any user who violates a ban imposed by this decision may be blocked, for up to a year in the event of repeat offenses. All blocks are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Transnistria#Log of blocks and bans.
2) {text of proposed enforcement}
Clerks and arbitrators should use this section to clarify their understanding of the final decision--at a minimum, a list of items that have passed. Additionally, a list of which remedies are conditional on others (for instance a ban that should only be implemented if a mentorship should fail), and so on. Arbitrators should not pass the motion until they are satisfied with the implementation notes.
Four net "support" votes needed to close case (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support")
24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close.
Clerk note: I construe James F.'s comment as an oppose to closing, even though he didn't use the word "oppose," so currently 3 net votes to close. Newyorkbrad 16:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
After considering /Evidence and discussing proposals with other arbitrators, parties and others at /Workshop, arbitrators may place proposals which are ready for voting here. Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or abstain. Only items that receive a majority "support" vote will be passed. Conditional votes for or against and abstentions should be explained by the arbitrator before or after his/her time-stamped signature. For example, an arbitrator can state that she/he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were passed. Only arbitrators or clerks should edit this page, non-arbitrators may comment on the talk page.
For this case, there are 11 active arbitrators of whom none are recused, so 6 votes are a majority.
Place those on
/Workshop. Motions which are accepted for consideration and which require a vote will be placed here by the arbitrators for voting.
Motions have the same majority for passage as the final decision.
1) {text of proposed motion}
Four net "support" votes needed to pass (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support")
24 hours from the first vote is normally the fastest an injunction will be imposed.
1) {text of proposed orders}
1) William Mauco ( talk · contribs), MariusM ( talk · contribs), EvilAlex ( talk · contribs), Domitius ( talk · contribs), Alaexis ( talk · contribs), and Buffadren ( talk · contribs) are limited to one content revert per article per day until the conclusion of this case. Furthermore, each content revert must be accompanied by a rationale on the article's talk page.
1) Accounts whose contributions focus on only a single narrow topic area, especially one of heated dispute, can be banned if their behaviour is disruptive to the project, for instance if they persistently engage in edit wars or in POV advocacy that serves to inflame editorial conflicts.
2) Using Wikipedia as a vehicle for so-called " astroturfing", i.e. concerted, externally driven campaigns that are designed to promote a given agenda in such a way as to give the fake impression of wide-spread and spontaneous popular support for an issue, is extremely disruptive and damaging to the project. Accounts that are shown to be connected to such campaigns will be banned. Other accounts, especially single-purpose accounts, whose contribution profile coincides conspicuously with a known astroturfing campaign, can be treated as sock- or meatpuppets and be banned also.
2.1) Using Wikipedia as a vehicle for so-called " astroturfing," that is, creating a false impression of widespread, spontaneous, popular support for an issue, is disruptive. Relevant policies include WP:NPOV, Conflict of interest, WP:SOCK, and WP:SPAM.
3) {text of proposed principle}
1) There is substantial evidence, published by reliable sources outside Wikipedia ( [1], [2], [3], [4]), that there exists a professionally concerted campaign of promoting pro-Transnistrian opinions on the web in the fashion of "astroturfing". This campaign operates from several countries. Among the websites connected with this campaign is "www.tiraspoltimes.com". Editors professionally connected with tiraspoltimes have edited Wikipedia to promote this and related websites and the political views they represent. This includes User:MarkStreet, User:William Mauco and their sockpuppets.
2) MarkStreet ( talk · contribs), aka Mark us street ( talk · contribs), is a single-purpose account professionally connected in real life to an organisation whose purpose it is to promote Transnistrian independence. He has stated he works for Tiraspol Times ( [5]), and identified himself as its founder and chief editor, Des Grant ( [6])
2a) MarkStreet has engaged in disruptive editing on Wikipedia, including extensive sockpuppetry, tendentious editing, revert warring, and violating Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest policy by pushing for the inclusion of links to his external site.
2b) Buffadren ( talk · contribs) is a sock- or meatpuppet of MarkStreet. Although he did not use both accounts simultaneously, he has violated WP:SOCK by persistently denying any relation with MarkStreet, thus faking a larger amount of editorial support for the positions they both advocated. He has edited disruptively by engaging in extended revert wars and pushing for the inclusion of links to his external site.
3) William Mauco ( talk · contribs) is a single-purpose account promoting a pro-Transnistrian POV and engaged in a long-standing conflict with MariusM and other pro-Moldovan editors. He has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing, involving extensive sockpuppeting, revert warring, using Wikipedia as an ideological battlefield.
3a) It is likely that William Mauco is associated with the same external professional organisation promoting Transnistria as MarkStreet. He has worked for them openly on at least one occasion, publishing pro-Transnistrian texts on the "Tiraspol Times" website ( [7]).
4) MariusM ( talk · contribs) is a single-purpose account promoting a pro-Moldovan POV and engaged in a long-standing conflict with MarkStreet and other pro-Transnistrian editors. He has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing, involving revert warring, creation of abusive POV forks, using Wikipedia as an ideological battlefield, and abusing his user space for political soapboxing.
5) EvilAlex ( talk · contribs) is a single-purpose account promoting a pro-Moldovan POV and engaged in a long-standing conflict with MarkStreet and other pro-Transnistrian editors. He has a history of disruptive and tendentious editing, involving revert warring, creation of abusive POV forks, using Wikipedia as an ideological battlefield, and abusing his user space for political soapboxing.
6) {text of proposed finding of fact}
Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.
1) As an abusive and tendentious single-purpose account trying to professionally abuse Wikipedia for externally motivated political propaganda purposes, MarkStreet ( talk · contribs) and all his alternate accounts, including Buffadren ( talk · contribs), are indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
1.1) As an abusive and tendentious single-purpose account trying to professionally abuse Wikipedia for externally motivated political propaganda purposes, MarkStreet ( talk · contribs) and all his alternate accounts, including Buffadren ( talk · contribs), are indefinitely banned from the project.
2) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, William Mauco ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
2.1) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, William Mauco ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the project.
3) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, MariusM ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
3.1) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, MariusM ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the project.
4) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, EvilAlex ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.
4.1) As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, EvilAlex ( talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the project.
5) {text of proposed remedy}
1) Any user who violates a ban imposed by this decision may be blocked, for up to a year in the event of repeat offenses. All blocks are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Transnistria#Log of blocks and bans.
2) {text of proposed enforcement}
Clerks and arbitrators should use this section to clarify their understanding of the final decision--at a minimum, a list of items that have passed. Additionally, a list of which remedies are conditional on others (for instance a ban that should only be implemented if a mentorship should fail), and so on. Arbitrators should not pass the motion until they are satisfied with the implementation notes.
Four net "support" votes needed to close case (each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support")
24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close.
Clerk note: I construe James F.'s comment as an oppose to closing, even though he didn't use the word "oppose," so currently 3 net votes to close. Newyorkbrad 16:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)