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Arbitration report

Injunction – preliminary protection levels for BLP articles when removing PC

The Arbitration Committee opened no new cases. Two cases are currently open.

Open cases

Racepacket (Week 4)

During the week, drafter PhilKnight submitted a proposed decision for arbitrators to vote on.

Tree shaping (Week 4)

During the week, further comments were submitted in the workshop. Drafter Elen of the Roads is currently expected to submit a proposed decision.

Injunction

A request for arbitration was filed during the week regarding biography of living persons (BLP) articles and implementing the shutdown of pending changes (PC) on those articles. The Committee passed a preliminary injunction, applying to all administrators (admins), which is effective immediately:

When an admin removes PC protection from a BLP flagged article, that admin shall
  1. replace level 1 PC with semi-protection of an equivalent duration, and
  2. replace level 2 PC with full protection of an equivalent duration.
Admins who have recently removed PC from BLP articles are expected to assure that these protection levels have been applied to those articles.

















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