The Committee closed one case during the week, and opened one new case. Three cases are currently open.
This case was opened this week after allegations of tendentious POV-pushing and a content dispute involving the usage of sources in the Coanda-1910 article. 21 kilobytes was submitted as on-wiki evidence by three users.
During the week, another 66 kilobytes was submitted as on-wiki evidence while several proposals were submitted in the workshop by arbitrators and others.
See last week’s Signpost coverage.
This case involves allegations of problematic behavior relating to the Monty Hall problem article. Evidence was submitted on-wiki by 17 editors. Drafters Elen of the Roads and SirFozzie submitted several proposed principles in the workshop before submitting a proposed decision for arbitrators to vote on. The case came to a close during the week after a total of 12 arbitrators voted on the proposed decision.
The Committee closed one case during the week, and opened one new case. Three cases are currently open.
This case was opened this week after allegations of tendentious POV-pushing and a content dispute involving the usage of sources in the Coanda-1910 article. 21 kilobytes was submitted as on-wiki evidence by three users.
During the week, another 66 kilobytes was submitted as on-wiki evidence while several proposals were submitted in the workshop by arbitrators and others.
See last week’s Signpost coverage.
This case involves allegations of problematic behavior relating to the Monty Hall problem article. Evidence was submitted on-wiki by 17 editors. Drafters Elen of the Roads and SirFozzie submitted several proposed principles in the workshop before submitting a proposed decision for arbitrators to vote on. The case came to a close during the week after a total of 12 arbitrators voted on the proposed decision.
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The article summarizes the decision well.
However, the article missed the main news story: the early drafted decision would have made it impossible to write (most) articles on mathematics, because editors would have been barred from providing simple examples that were not directly from reliable sources. The good news is that the arbitration committee listened to the mathematicians' concerns and drafted a decision that both is consistent with the WP rules and allows us to write articles for a general audience.
Another concern: I have long expressed displeasure with the statement about Gill. Gill referenced his own papers when referring to only others' results (and never his own). One ArbCom member opposed the statement about Gill; another formally abstained.
Thanks, Kiefer.Wolfowitz ( Discussion) 19:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC) reply