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Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment that:

1) Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating to Prem Rawat, broadly construed; this supersedes the existing Article Probation remedy.

2) Any current non-expired Article Probation sanctions are hereby vacated and replaced with standard Discretionary Sanctions in the same terms and durations as the vacated sanctions. If appropriate, these may be appealed at Arbitration Enforcement.

3) The Logs of blocks, bans, and restrictions at the Prem Rawat 2 case page is to be merged into the original Prem Rawat log at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat#Logs of blocks, bans, and restrictions, which is to be used for all future recording of warnings and sanctions.

For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 17:15, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case that:

The accepted case is hereby suspended pending SchuminWeb's return to editing. SchuminWeb is instructed not to use his administrator tools in any way until the closure of the case; doing so will be grounds for removal of his administrator userrights. Should SchuminWeb decide to resign his administrative tools, the case will be closed and no further action taken. Should SchuminWeb not return to participate in the case within three months of this motion passing, this case will be closed, and the account will be desysopped. If the tools are resigned or removed in either of the circumstances described above, restoration of the tools to SchuminWeb will require a new request for adminship.

For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 19:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case that:

The community is asked to hold a discussion that will establish a definitive consensus on what will be included in the article Jerusalem (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), with a specific emphasis on the lead section and how Jerusalem is described within the current, contested geopolitical reality. As with all decisions about content, the policies on reliable sourcing and neutral point of view must be the most important considerations. The editors who choose to participate in this discussion are asked to form an opinion with an open mind, and to explain their decision clearly. Any editor who disrupts this discussion may be banned from the affected pages by any uninvolved administrator, under the discretionary sanctions already authorised in this topic area. The discussion will be closed by three uninvolved, experienced editors, whose decision about the result of the discussion will be binding for three years from the adoption of this motion.

For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri (talk) 22:21, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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2013 Arbitration Committee members

With the election concluded and the successful candidates formally appointed, with effect from 00:01 (UTC), 1 January 2013 the Arbitration Committee comprises:

• AGK (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• Carcharoth (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• Coren (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• Courcelles (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• David Fuchs (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• Hersfold (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• Risker (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• Roger Davies (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• Salvio giuliano (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• SilkTork (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2013
• Timotheus Canens (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014
• Worm That Turned (talk · contribs) – term expires 31 December 2014

Advanced permissions for 2013 Arbitration Committee members

Advanced permissions are authorised as follows for the newly-elected/re-elected arbitrators with effect from 1 January 2013:

• Carcharoth (talk · contribs) – will be assigned CheckUser and Oversight
• Coren (talk · contribs) – will be assigned Oversight, already holds CheckUser
• David Fuchs (talk · contribs) – already holds CheckUser and Oversight
• Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs) – already holds CheckUser and Oversight
• NuclearWarfare (talk · contribs) – will be assigned CheckUser, already holds Oversight
• Salvio giuliano (talk · contribs) – already holds CheckUser and Oversight
• Timotheus Canens (talk · contribs) – will be assigned CheckUser and Oversight
• Worm That Turned (talk · contribs) – will be assigned CheckUser, already holds Oversight

Retiring 2012 Arbitration Committee members and changes to their permissions

The following arbitrators are retiring from the Committee on the expiry of their terms at 23:59 (UTC), 31 December 2012. The Committee is grateful to them for their service to the Committee and to the community and takes this opportunity to thank them for it.

• Casliber (talk · contribs)
• Elen of the Roads (talk · contribs)
• Jclemens (talk · contribs)
• PhilKnight (talk · contribs)
• SirFozzie (talk · contribs)
• Xeno (talk · contribs)

Several retiring arbitrators have indicated they wish to work as functionaries. They will provisionally retain access to CheckUser and Oversight pending an upcoming annual review of the Functionaries team by the Committee. However:

• Xeno (talk · contribs) has already relinquished CheckUser and Oversight.
• SirFozzie (talk · contribs) is relinquishing CheckUser and Oversight at the end of his term.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger Davies ^talk 22:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The terms of the following arbitrator members of the Audit Subcommittee expire at 23:59 (UTC), 31 December 2012:

• Courcelles (talk · contribs)
• Jclemens (talk · contribs)
• PhilKnight (talk · contribs)

The vacated seats will be taken for six-month terms by the following arbitrators with effect from 00:01 (UTC), 1 January 2013:

• AGK (talk · contribs)
• Coren (talk · contribs)
• Timotheus Canens (talk · contribs)

As a consequence of the election of Salvio giuliano (talk · contribs) to the Arbitration Committee, he has resigned his seat as a Community Member of the Audit Subcommittee with effect from 23:59 (UTC), 31 December 2012. His seat will be filled for the unexpired portion of the term (that is, until 28 February 2013) by MBisanz (talk · contribs), the alternate Community Member, with effect from 00:01 (UTC), 1 January 2013.

The Committee is grateful to the participating arbitrators and to MBisanz for their service.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger Davies ^talk 22:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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• Cool Hand Luke (talk · contribs) is relinquishing CheckUser with immediate effect because of inactivity.
• Deskana (talk · contribs) has recently relinquished Oversight because of inactivity with the tool.

The Committee takes this opportunity to thank Cool Hand Luke and Deskana for their hard work and commitment as functionaries.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger Davies ^talk 22:28, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The Arbitration Committee clerks are currently looking for a few dependable and mature editors willing to serve as clerks. The responsibilities of clerks include opening and closing arbitration cases and motions; notifying parties of cases, decisions, and other committee actions; maintaining the requests for Arbitration pages; preserving order and proper formatting on case pages; and other administrative and related tasks they may be requested to handle by the arbitrators. Clerks are the unsung heroes of the arbitration process, keeping track of details to ensure that requests are handled in a timely and efficient manner. Clerks get front-line seats to the political and ethnic warfare that scorches Wikipedia periodically, and, since they aren't arbitrators themselves, are rarely threatened with violence by the participants.

Past clerks have gone on to be (or already were) successful lawyers, naval officers, and Presidents of Wikimedia Chapters. The salary and retirement packages for Clerks rival that of Arbitrators, to boot. Best of all, you get a cool fez!

Please email clerks-llists.wikimedia.org if you are interested in becoming a clerk, and a clerk will reply with an acknowledgement of your message and any questions we want to put to you.

For the Arbitration Committee clerks,  Lord Roem ~ (talk) 05:36, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Resolved by motion at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment that:

In the Rich Farmbrough case, the revised Finding of Fact 8, enacted on 28 May 2012 is vacated. Nothing in this decision constitutes an endorsement by the Committee of Rich Farmbrough's use of administrative tools to unblock his own accounts.

For the Arbitration Committee, (X! · talk)  · @114  ·  01:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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