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CU/OS rolling appointment application – January 2026
[edit]The Arbitration Committee has received an application for CheckUser and Oversight permissions from Daniel Quinlan (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) and has reviewed it in consultation with the functionaries team. The committee invites the community to evaluate the candidacy and comment on the talk page of this noticeboard until 23:59, 8 January 2026 (UTC). For the Arbitration Committee, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:28, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 53 § CU/OS rolling appointment application – January 2026
Functionary appointment, January 2026
[edit]Following private and public consultations, the Arbitration Committee is pleased to appoint Daniel Quinlan (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) to both the Checkuser and Oversight teams.
The committee thanks all editors who participated in the consultation.
For the Arbitration Committee, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:24, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 53 § Functionary appointment, January 2026
Arbitration motion regarding Falun Gong
[edit]The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
Remedy 10 of the Falun Gong case ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic designation remain in force and are governed by the contentious topics procedure.
For the Arbitration Committee, EggRoll97 (talk) 00:23, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 53 § Arbitration motion regarding Falun Gong
Arbitration motions regarding ARBPIA5 topic bans
[edit]The Arbitration Committee has resolved by a series of motions that:
Iskandar323 (talk · contribs) has violated their topic ban. ([1][2][3]). Iskandar323 was previously warned by Tamzin on 21 February ([4]) and blocked for 2 weeks by ScottishFinnishRadish ([5]) on 26 November for violating their topic ban.
Iskandar323 is indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
Levivich is warned for violating their topic ban imposed in Palestine-Israel articles 5.
Violations of restrictions directly imposed by the Arbitration Committee on a specific editor may be reported directly to the Committee via Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment (AR/CA). Unless there are privacy concerns or other factors that are unsuitable for public discussion, emails sent to the Committee about violations will not be acted upon and may be discarded without a response by the Committee. As a general principle, good-faith reports will be directed to AR/CA, and other reports will be ignored.
Based on an explicit finding that a topic ban from the Arab-Israeli conflict has been insufficient to prevent disruption, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may extend an existing topic ban to include other topics related to Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs. They should cite at least one diff pertinent to each area into which the ban is extended.
For the Arbitration Committee, DatGuyTalkContribs 07:05, 23 January 2026 (UTC)