For the Arbitration Committee, Jenson ([[User:SilverLocust|SilverLocust]] [[User talk:SilverLocust|💬]]) 02:58, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
For the Arbitration Committee, Jenson ([[User:SilverLocust|SilverLocust]] [[User talk:SilverLocust|💬]]) 02:58, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
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This noticeboard is for announcements and statements made by the Arbitration Committee. Only members of the Arbitration Committee or the Committee’s Clerks may post on this page, but all editors are encouraged to comment on the talk page.
The Arbitration Committee has received an application for CheckUser access and has reviewed them in consultation with the functionaries team. The Community is invited to evaluate the candidacy and comment at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 52#CU/OS rolling appointment application – September 2025 until 12:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC). ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:31, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
The Arbitration Committee is pleased to appoint the following user to the CheckUser team following private and public consultation:
The Committee thanks everyone who participated and helped bring this process to a successful conclusion.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Sdrqaz (talk) 23:45, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 52 § CheckUser appointment, October 2025
The Committee is considering remedies in Transgender healthcare and people which would modify the Committee’s procedures. Please review the proposed decision and leave comments in your own section of the talk page. For the Arbitration Committee, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:43, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 52 § Proposed changes to the Committee’s procedures
The Arbitration Committee received a report relating to acute and long-term wikihounding and harassment by Rager7 (talk · contribs) towards Knightoftheswords281 (talk · contribs), which included private information as part of the contextual evidence presented.
Following the completion of an investigation into the report and the public and private evidence provided, the Committee has passed the following motion:
Support: Aoidh, Cabayi, CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, theleekycauldron, ToBeFree
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (talk) 00:30, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Arbitration motion regarding User:Rager7
The following Arbitrators will be resigning, effective December 31, 2025.
The Committee thanks them for their service.
For the Arbitration Committee, CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap’n!⚓ 01:26, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
On recommendation of the Electoral Commission, temporary English Wikipedia checkuser privileges are granted to stewards EPIC (talk · contribs), Mykola7 (talk · contribs), and XXBlackburnXx (talk · contribs), solely for the purpose of their acting as scrutineers in the 2025 Arbitration Committee election.
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (talk) 19:50, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Temporary checkuser privileges for 2025 Arbitration Committee election scrutineers
An arbitration case Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transgender healthcare and people has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
- In any challenge to the closure of a formal discussion within the WP:GENSEX topic area, users who participated in the underlying discussion are limited to at most two comments, not exceeding a combined total of 250 words. (See details.)
- An uninvolved administrator may restrict participation in an arbitration enforcement (WP:AE) noticeboard thread to certain users. (See details.)
- Administrators are reminded that they have broad discretion in moderating AE threads, including removing users’ sections, instructing users not to participate, and imposing AE sanctions against those who misuse the noticeboard.
- Raladic, Void if removed, and Sweet6970 are indefinitely banned from Wikipedia.
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist, Colin, Samuelshraga, Raladic, Void if removed, and Sweet6970 are indefinitely banned from transgender topics, broadly construed.
- Colin and Samuelshraga are admonished for their behavior in the transgender healthcare topic area.
- Springee is indefinitely banned from user-conduct enforcement noticeboards and admonished for their conduct in transgender topics, broadly construed.
- Aaron Liu is reminded to avoid bludgeoning discussions.
- These site bans and topic bans may be appealed twelve months after this announcement, and every twelve months thereafter.
For the Arbitration Committee, Jenson (SilverLocust 💬) 02:58, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
