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 13 active Arbitrators (excluding 1 who is recused), so 7 votes are a majority.
Arbitrators may place proposed motions affecting the case in this section for voting. Typical motions might be to close or dismiss a case without a full decision (a reason should normally be given), or to add an additional party (although this can also be done without a formal motion as long as the new party is on notice of the case). Suggestions by the parties or other non-arbitrators for motions or other requests should be placed on the
/Workshop page for consideration and discussion.
Motions have the same majority for passage as the final decision.
1) {text of proposed motion}
A temporary injunction is a directive from the Arbitration Committee that parties to the case, or other editors notified of the injunction, do or refrain from doing something while the case is pending.
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) The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a high-quality, free-content encyclopedia, in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect among contributors. Conduct that conflicts with this goal—such as importing off-wiki disputes into Wikipedia, creating or escalating unnecessary controversy unrelated to improving the site, harassing other editors either onsite or offsite, or encouraging others to do any of these things—is disruptive and unwelcome.
2) The project has always aspired to the highest standards of reliability and integrity. The ongoing growth and prominence of the English Wikipedia, which is now one of the top ten websites in the world and often the first search engine hit when research is done on a topic, makes these goals even more important. This is especially essential where article content relates to living persons or to ongoing off-wiki controversies.
3) The policy on multiple accounts addresses situations in which the same individual edits Wikipedia from more than one user account. The use of multiple accounts, while discouraged, is generally permitted. However, abusive sockpuppetry—such as the use of multiple accounts to vote or comment more than once in the same discussion, or to seek to create an illusion of more support for a position than actually exists—is forbidden.
4) In determining whether two accounts are sockpuppets of the same individual, administrators, the community, and the Arbitration Committee may consider all relevant evidence, including CheckUser findings, contribution histories and patterns, similarities or differences in online mannerisms, explanations provided by the users in question, and any other legitimate and reliable information available. In accordance with the principle of assuming good faith, allegations of sockpuppetry are not to be made lightly, but only based upon reasonable cause. In investigating and resolving such allegations, abusive sockpuppetry by established contributors will not be presumed, but is to be inferred based only upon a substantial weight of credible evidence.
4.1) Sockpuppet identification for Wikipedia purposes is based upon evidence of likelihood, and not legal certainty. A finding that two accounts are sock- or meat-puppets, should be read to mean that there is a strong basis in evidence that this is the case, and that the community may treat them as being effectively the voice or action of one person for purposes of wiki operation. In determining whether two accounts are to be treated as sockpuppets, all relevant evidence is considered taken as a whole, including CheckUser findings, contribution histories and patterns, similarities or differences in online mannerisms, and any other meaningful and reliable information available. Analysis of behavioral patterns, and identification of common behaviors, is one recognized means of doing so, although such analysis must be performed carefully to ensure the quality of conclusions.
5) Wikipedia's role with respect to serious off-wiki or "real world" controversies and disputes is to provide encyclopedic coverage of such matters from a neutral point of view where they are notable and sufficiently documented in reliable sources. Neither Wikipedia's mainspace article content, nor its administrative and dispute-resolution procedures culminating in Arbitration, are intended or may be used as a vehicle for off-wiki disputes such as those involving the financial markets or legal or regulatory issues.
6) The pages associated with Arbitration cases are primarily intended to assist the Arbitration Committee in arriving at a fair, well-informed, and expeditious resolution of each case. Participation by editors who present good-faith statements, evidence, and workshop proposals is appreciated. While allowance is made for the fact that parties and other interested editors may have strong feelings about the subject-matters of their dispute, appropriate decorum should be maintained on these pages. Incivility, personal attacks, and strident rhetoric should be avoided in Arbitration as in all other areas of Wikipedia.
7) The purpose of Arbitration is to provide a fair, equitable, well-informed, expeditious, and final resolution of disputes on Wikipedia that have not been resolved through other forms of dispute resolution, in the best interests of the encyclopedia and all of its contributors. To serve this purpose, the Arbitration Committee may after due deliberation elect to address a dispute primarily by issuing remedies designed to safeguard the best interests of the encyclopedia going forward, rather than by adopting findings addressing sharply contested historical facts.
8) Despite certain formal aspects of the proceedings and legalistic terminology that is sometimes used, Wikipedia Arbitration is not and does not purport to be a legal system comparable to courts or regulatory agencies. The Arbitration Committee strives for fairness in every case. However, the evidence is generally limited to what can be located and presented online, safeguards such as mandatory disclosure of information and cross-examination of witnesses are not available, and only issues directly affecting Wikipedia are considered and resolved. Arbitration decisions should be read with these limitations in mind and should not be used, or misused, by any side in connection with any off-wiki controversy, dispute, allegation, or proceeding.
9) At times, an excessive focus on one aspect of a matter, or enabling of unhelpful and disruptive agendas, can detract from the project as a whole and encourage a sensation-seeking mindset with matching wikilawyering, hostilities and divisions. None of these are productive and whilst at times (due to human nature) unfortunately unavoidable, they are to be studiously avoided and rejected as norms by users. Editors are encouraged to consider the effect of their manner of participation in sensational discussions, and editors who are prone to sensationalizing may be restrained.
10) {text of proposed principle}
1) The dispute includes a user conduct issue involving editing of a range of articles including naked short selling, overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, the (now-redirected article) Judd Bagley, and Gary Weiss, which are the subject of a bitter and protracted off-wiki controversy, as well as a large number of other article and non-article pages ( afd 1 afd 2 rfa 1 et al.). It has been alleged that editing of these articles may have been affected by abusive sock- or meat-puppetry, and/or conflicts of interest.
1.1) A second locus of dispute relates to Wikipedia's reluctant use as a vehicle and battleground for real world personal agendas, and the manner in which inadvertantly and in good faith, a number of users and administrators have perpetuated rather than quenched this, instead of disowning the issue and focussing on the core purposes of the project - to write a neutral encyclopedia.
2) Allegations have been made that established contributors Mantanmoreland ( talk · contribs) and Samiharris ( talk · contribs) are alternate or related accounts. Both editors, who have or had clean block logs, have strongly denied the allegations and asserted that they are the victims of harassment. A request for CheckUser was inconclusive because Mantanmoreland edits from an ordinary ISP while Samiharris edited through proxies. The Arbitration Committee has carefully reviewed all of the extremely detailed evidence of various kinds as presented in a request for comment and in this case. A majority of the Committee concludes that the weight of the credible evidence taken as a whole is suggestive of or consistent with a relationship between the two accounts, but that the absence of usable CheckUser findings and other factors prevent a definitive conclusion from being reached.
2.1) Allegations have been made that established contributors Mantanmoreland ( talk · contribs) and Samiharris ( talk · contribs) are alternate or related accounts. Both editors, who have or had clean block logs, have strongly denied the allegations and asserted that they are the victims of harassment. A request for CheckUser was inconclusive because Mantanmoreland edits from an ordinary ISP while Samiharris edited through proxies. The Arbitration Committee has carefully reviewed all of the extremely detailed evidence of various kinds as presented in a request for comment and in this case. A majority of the Committee concludes that the weight of the credible evidence taken as a whole is suggestive of or consistent with a relationship between the two accounts, but various factors prevent a definitive conclusion from being reached.
3) A series of controversies concerning the articles in question and user conduct relating to them has embroiled or threatened to embroil Wikipedia in bitter and protracted off-wiki disputes, has led to expressions of concern about the reliability of these articles and the fairness of our processes, and has repeatedly disrupted the harmony of the Wikipedia community and the well-being of contributors in a variety of serious ways both on and off the site.
3.1) Disputes concerning the articles in question and user conduct relating to them has been extraordinarily disruptive and damaging. Over a period of two years it has embroiled or threatened to embroil Wikipedia in bitter and protracted off-wiki disputes, has led to persistent concerns about the reliability of these articles, and has repeatedly disrupted the harmony of the Wikipedia community. This included on and off site harassment, breach of privacy, gross incivility and personal attack, short fuses leading in some cases to improper administrative actions, internal conflict, and the use of the encyclopedia for advocacy and perpetuation of off-site disputes, including multiple incidents where unsourced and disparaging negative statements were made in respect of living individuals on a variety of articles and pages. These in turn led to speculative witch-hunts, divisiveness, bad-faith assumptions, and further dispute, and damage both to the community internally, and the perception of Wikipedia externally.
3.2) A series of extraordinarily disruptive controversies concerning the articles in question and user conduct relating to them has embroiled or threatened to embroil Wikipedia in bitter and protracted disputes, both on and off the site. These have caused significant disruption and damage to the project, have led to expressions of concern about the reliability of these articles and the fairness of our processes, and has repeatedly disrupted the harmony of the Wikipedia community and the well-being of contributors in a variety of serious ways. The disruption has included at times, on and off site harassment, breach of privacy, gross incivility and personal attack, short fuses leading in some cases to improper administrative actions, internal conflict, and the use of the encyclopedia for advocacy and perpetuation of off-site disputes. It has also led to unsourced and disparaging negative statements being made or linked in respect of living individuals on a variety of articles and pages. These in turn led to speculative witch-hunts, divisiveness, bad-faith assumptions, and further dispute, causing damage both to the community internally, and to the perception of Wikipedia externally.
4) The policy Wikipedia:No open proxies was established in January 2006. It acknowledged that prohibiting open proxies might cause problems for some users, but most open proxy use was abusive in nature. Heated debate verging on edit warring took place during July - August 2007 to soften or revoke it, and it was changed around October 2007 to allow open proxies unless "blocked... to deal with editing abuse", a decision that has been unhelpful in this case, and which potentially deprives the community of evidence from technical abuse-detection tools in cases where they are most relevant. The decision was somewhat contentious amongst users at the time.
5) {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) Any current or future editor who, after this decision is announced, makes substantial edits to naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or closely related pages or discussions on any page is directed:
A note concerning these restrictions shall be placed on the talkpage of each of the affected articles. In case of any doubt concerning application or interpretation of these restrictions, the Arbitration Committee may be consulted for guidance.
2) Any uninvolved administrator may impose a reasonable restriction (e.g., a revert or civility limitation) or page-ban against any editor who, after receiving a warning containing a link to this decision, edits naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or any related page or discussion in a disruptive or uncivil fashion, who edits them in contravention of site policies and guidelines, or who attempts to reintroduce subtle or overt partisan advocacy regarding any external dispute concerning these subjects into Wikipedia.
3) The Arbitration Committee urges that knowledgeable and non-conflicted users not previously involved in editing naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, and Gary Weiss should carefully review these and related articles for adherence to Wikipedia policies and address any perceived or discovered deficiencies. This is not a finding that the articles are or are not satisfactory in their present form, but an urging that independent members of the community examine the matter in light of the case.
4) Mantanmoreland, under any current or future account, is banned from editing articles related to Gary Weiss, Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com, Naked Short Selling, and other mainspace articles in the area of dispute, broadly construed. He may make suggestions on talk pages, subject to the requirements of remedy 1.
4.1) For a period of one year, Mantanmoreland, under any current or future account, is banned from editing articles related to Gary Weiss, Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com, Naked Short Selling, and other mainspace articles in the area of dispute, broadly construed. He may make suggestions on talk pages, subject to the requirements of remedy 1.
5) Mantanmoreland is directed to edit Wikipedia from only a single user account and to advise the Arbitration Committee of any change of username, and to edit only through a conventional ISP and not through any form of proxy configuration.
6) {text of proposed enforcement}
1) Any user who violates any restriction imposed by this decision, or imposed by an administrator acting on the authority of this decision, may be blocked for an appropriate length of time by any uninvolved administrator. A warning should generally be given before a block is imposed, except for severe violations. All blocks, bans, or restrictions imposed under this decision shall be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Mantanmoreland#Log of blocks, bans, and restrictions.
2) The remedies contained in this decision should be construed and, if necessary, enforced so as to ensure that the highest standards of reliability and user conduct are maintained on the articles in question, to avoid further disruption arising from disputes and recriminations surrounding these articles, and to prevent Wikipedia from suffering from any further unnecessary involvement with the external dispute.
3) Any serious violation of the remedies in this decision or any related circumstance affecting the well-being of the project and its contributors should be reported to the Arbitration Committee immediately.
4) {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.
Items passing at closing: Principles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Facts: 1, 2.1, 3 Remedies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Enforcement: 1, 2, 3
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.
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 13 active Arbitrators (excluding 1 who is recused), so 7 votes are a majority.
Arbitrators may place proposed motions affecting the case in this section for voting. Typical motions might be to close or dismiss a case without a full decision (a reason should normally be given), or to add an additional party (although this can also be done without a formal motion as long as the new party is on notice of the case). Suggestions by the parties or other non-arbitrators for motions or other requests should be placed on the
/Workshop page for consideration and discussion.
Motions have the same majority for passage as the final decision.
1) {text of proposed motion}
A temporary injunction is a directive from the Arbitration Committee that parties to the case, or other editors notified of the injunction, do or refrain from doing something while the case is pending.
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) The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a high-quality, free-content encyclopedia, in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect among contributors. Conduct that conflicts with this goal—such as importing off-wiki disputes into Wikipedia, creating or escalating unnecessary controversy unrelated to improving the site, harassing other editors either onsite or offsite, or encouraging others to do any of these things—is disruptive and unwelcome.
2) The project has always aspired to the highest standards of reliability and integrity. The ongoing growth and prominence of the English Wikipedia, which is now one of the top ten websites in the world and often the first search engine hit when research is done on a topic, makes these goals even more important. This is especially essential where article content relates to living persons or to ongoing off-wiki controversies.
3) The policy on multiple accounts addresses situations in which the same individual edits Wikipedia from more than one user account. The use of multiple accounts, while discouraged, is generally permitted. However, abusive sockpuppetry—such as the use of multiple accounts to vote or comment more than once in the same discussion, or to seek to create an illusion of more support for a position than actually exists—is forbidden.
4) In determining whether two accounts are sockpuppets of the same individual, administrators, the community, and the Arbitration Committee may consider all relevant evidence, including CheckUser findings, contribution histories and patterns, similarities or differences in online mannerisms, explanations provided by the users in question, and any other legitimate and reliable information available. In accordance with the principle of assuming good faith, allegations of sockpuppetry are not to be made lightly, but only based upon reasonable cause. In investigating and resolving such allegations, abusive sockpuppetry by established contributors will not be presumed, but is to be inferred based only upon a substantial weight of credible evidence.
4.1) Sockpuppet identification for Wikipedia purposes is based upon evidence of likelihood, and not legal certainty. A finding that two accounts are sock- or meat-puppets, should be read to mean that there is a strong basis in evidence that this is the case, and that the community may treat them as being effectively the voice or action of one person for purposes of wiki operation. In determining whether two accounts are to be treated as sockpuppets, all relevant evidence is considered taken as a whole, including CheckUser findings, contribution histories and patterns, similarities or differences in online mannerisms, and any other meaningful and reliable information available. Analysis of behavioral patterns, and identification of common behaviors, is one recognized means of doing so, although such analysis must be performed carefully to ensure the quality of conclusions.
5) Wikipedia's role with respect to serious off-wiki or "real world" controversies and disputes is to provide encyclopedic coverage of such matters from a neutral point of view where they are notable and sufficiently documented in reliable sources. Neither Wikipedia's mainspace article content, nor its administrative and dispute-resolution procedures culminating in Arbitration, are intended or may be used as a vehicle for off-wiki disputes such as those involving the financial markets or legal or regulatory issues.
6) The pages associated with Arbitration cases are primarily intended to assist the Arbitration Committee in arriving at a fair, well-informed, and expeditious resolution of each case. Participation by editors who present good-faith statements, evidence, and workshop proposals is appreciated. While allowance is made for the fact that parties and other interested editors may have strong feelings about the subject-matters of their dispute, appropriate decorum should be maintained on these pages. Incivility, personal attacks, and strident rhetoric should be avoided in Arbitration as in all other areas of Wikipedia.
7) The purpose of Arbitration is to provide a fair, equitable, well-informed, expeditious, and final resolution of disputes on Wikipedia that have not been resolved through other forms of dispute resolution, in the best interests of the encyclopedia and all of its contributors. To serve this purpose, the Arbitration Committee may after due deliberation elect to address a dispute primarily by issuing remedies designed to safeguard the best interests of the encyclopedia going forward, rather than by adopting findings addressing sharply contested historical facts.
8) Despite certain formal aspects of the proceedings and legalistic terminology that is sometimes used, Wikipedia Arbitration is not and does not purport to be a legal system comparable to courts or regulatory agencies. The Arbitration Committee strives for fairness in every case. However, the evidence is generally limited to what can be located and presented online, safeguards such as mandatory disclosure of information and cross-examination of witnesses are not available, and only issues directly affecting Wikipedia are considered and resolved. Arbitration decisions should be read with these limitations in mind and should not be used, or misused, by any side in connection with any off-wiki controversy, dispute, allegation, or proceeding.
9) At times, an excessive focus on one aspect of a matter, or enabling of unhelpful and disruptive agendas, can detract from the project as a whole and encourage a sensation-seeking mindset with matching wikilawyering, hostilities and divisions. None of these are productive and whilst at times (due to human nature) unfortunately unavoidable, they are to be studiously avoided and rejected as norms by users. Editors are encouraged to consider the effect of their manner of participation in sensational discussions, and editors who are prone to sensationalizing may be restrained.
10) {text of proposed principle}
1) The dispute includes a user conduct issue involving editing of a range of articles including naked short selling, overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, the (now-redirected article) Judd Bagley, and Gary Weiss, which are the subject of a bitter and protracted off-wiki controversy, as well as a large number of other article and non-article pages ( afd 1 afd 2 rfa 1 et al.). It has been alleged that editing of these articles may have been affected by abusive sock- or meat-puppetry, and/or conflicts of interest.
1.1) A second locus of dispute relates to Wikipedia's reluctant use as a vehicle and battleground for real world personal agendas, and the manner in which inadvertantly and in good faith, a number of users and administrators have perpetuated rather than quenched this, instead of disowning the issue and focussing on the core purposes of the project - to write a neutral encyclopedia.
2) Allegations have been made that established contributors Mantanmoreland ( talk · contribs) and Samiharris ( talk · contribs) are alternate or related accounts. Both editors, who have or had clean block logs, have strongly denied the allegations and asserted that they are the victims of harassment. A request for CheckUser was inconclusive because Mantanmoreland edits from an ordinary ISP while Samiharris edited through proxies. The Arbitration Committee has carefully reviewed all of the extremely detailed evidence of various kinds as presented in a request for comment and in this case. A majority of the Committee concludes that the weight of the credible evidence taken as a whole is suggestive of or consistent with a relationship between the two accounts, but that the absence of usable CheckUser findings and other factors prevent a definitive conclusion from being reached.
2.1) Allegations have been made that established contributors Mantanmoreland ( talk · contribs) and Samiharris ( talk · contribs) are alternate or related accounts. Both editors, who have or had clean block logs, have strongly denied the allegations and asserted that they are the victims of harassment. A request for CheckUser was inconclusive because Mantanmoreland edits from an ordinary ISP while Samiharris edited through proxies. The Arbitration Committee has carefully reviewed all of the extremely detailed evidence of various kinds as presented in a request for comment and in this case. A majority of the Committee concludes that the weight of the credible evidence taken as a whole is suggestive of or consistent with a relationship between the two accounts, but various factors prevent a definitive conclusion from being reached.
3) A series of controversies concerning the articles in question and user conduct relating to them has embroiled or threatened to embroil Wikipedia in bitter and protracted off-wiki disputes, has led to expressions of concern about the reliability of these articles and the fairness of our processes, and has repeatedly disrupted the harmony of the Wikipedia community and the well-being of contributors in a variety of serious ways both on and off the site.
3.1) Disputes concerning the articles in question and user conduct relating to them has been extraordinarily disruptive and damaging. Over a period of two years it has embroiled or threatened to embroil Wikipedia in bitter and protracted off-wiki disputes, has led to persistent concerns about the reliability of these articles, and has repeatedly disrupted the harmony of the Wikipedia community. This included on and off site harassment, breach of privacy, gross incivility and personal attack, short fuses leading in some cases to improper administrative actions, internal conflict, and the use of the encyclopedia for advocacy and perpetuation of off-site disputes, including multiple incidents where unsourced and disparaging negative statements were made in respect of living individuals on a variety of articles and pages. These in turn led to speculative witch-hunts, divisiveness, bad-faith assumptions, and further dispute, and damage both to the community internally, and the perception of Wikipedia externally.
3.2) A series of extraordinarily disruptive controversies concerning the articles in question and user conduct relating to them has embroiled or threatened to embroil Wikipedia in bitter and protracted disputes, both on and off the site. These have caused significant disruption and damage to the project, have led to expressions of concern about the reliability of these articles and the fairness of our processes, and has repeatedly disrupted the harmony of the Wikipedia community and the well-being of contributors in a variety of serious ways. The disruption has included at times, on and off site harassment, breach of privacy, gross incivility and personal attack, short fuses leading in some cases to improper administrative actions, internal conflict, and the use of the encyclopedia for advocacy and perpetuation of off-site disputes. It has also led to unsourced and disparaging negative statements being made or linked in respect of living individuals on a variety of articles and pages. These in turn led to speculative witch-hunts, divisiveness, bad-faith assumptions, and further dispute, causing damage both to the community internally, and to the perception of Wikipedia externally.
4) The policy Wikipedia:No open proxies was established in January 2006. It acknowledged that prohibiting open proxies might cause problems for some users, but most open proxy use was abusive in nature. Heated debate verging on edit warring took place during July - August 2007 to soften or revoke it, and it was changed around October 2007 to allow open proxies unless "blocked... to deal with editing abuse", a decision that has been unhelpful in this case, and which potentially deprives the community of evidence from technical abuse-detection tools in cases where they are most relevant. The decision was somewhat contentious amongst users at the time.
5) {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) Any current or future editor who, after this decision is announced, makes substantial edits to naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or closely related pages or discussions on any page is directed:
A note concerning these restrictions shall be placed on the talkpage of each of the affected articles. In case of any doubt concerning application or interpretation of these restrictions, the Arbitration Committee may be consulted for guidance.
2) Any uninvolved administrator may impose a reasonable restriction (e.g., a revert or civility limitation) or page-ban against any editor who, after receiving a warning containing a link to this decision, edits naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or any related page or discussion in a disruptive or uncivil fashion, who edits them in contravention of site policies and guidelines, or who attempts to reintroduce subtle or overt partisan advocacy regarding any external dispute concerning these subjects into Wikipedia.
3) The Arbitration Committee urges that knowledgeable and non-conflicted users not previously involved in editing naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, and Gary Weiss should carefully review these and related articles for adherence to Wikipedia policies and address any perceived or discovered deficiencies. This is not a finding that the articles are or are not satisfactory in their present form, but an urging that independent members of the community examine the matter in light of the case.
4) Mantanmoreland, under any current or future account, is banned from editing articles related to Gary Weiss, Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com, Naked Short Selling, and other mainspace articles in the area of dispute, broadly construed. He may make suggestions on talk pages, subject to the requirements of remedy 1.
4.1) For a period of one year, Mantanmoreland, under any current or future account, is banned from editing articles related to Gary Weiss, Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com, Naked Short Selling, and other mainspace articles in the area of dispute, broadly construed. He may make suggestions on talk pages, subject to the requirements of remedy 1.
5) Mantanmoreland is directed to edit Wikipedia from only a single user account and to advise the Arbitration Committee of any change of username, and to edit only through a conventional ISP and not through any form of proxy configuration.
6) {text of proposed enforcement}
1) Any user who violates any restriction imposed by this decision, or imposed by an administrator acting on the authority of this decision, may be blocked for an appropriate length of time by any uninvolved administrator. A warning should generally be given before a block is imposed, except for severe violations. All blocks, bans, or restrictions imposed under this decision shall be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Mantanmoreland#Log of blocks, bans, and restrictions.
2) The remedies contained in this decision should be construed and, if necessary, enforced so as to ensure that the highest standards of reliability and user conduct are maintained on the articles in question, to avoid further disruption arising from disputes and recriminations surrounding these articles, and to prevent Wikipedia from suffering from any further unnecessary involvement with the external dispute.
3) Any serious violation of the remedies in this decision or any related circumstance affecting the well-being of the project and its contributors should be reported to the Arbitration Committee immediately.
4) {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.
Items passing at closing: Principles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Facts: 1, 2.1, 3 Remedies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Enforcement: 1, 2, 3
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.