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A final decision was posted by Arbitration Committee concerning the case Palestine-Israel articles 5 (aka PIA5), and the case was closed.
Summary of decision
[edit]A concise summary can be found at Special:Permalink/1271417868#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5 closed. This is a summary of the summary.
Arbs agreed on the following:
- No new bans - Ivanaa already banned in pre-case Arbcom action, but re-banned in IPA5
- Some topic bans
- A number of warnings and admonishments
- Novel remedy called "Balanced editing restriction", to be enforced technically (edit filter)
In a given 30-day period, a user under this restriction is limited to making no more than one-third of their edits in the Article, Talk, Draft, and Draft talk namespaces to pages that are subject to the extended-confirmed restriction under Arab–Israeli conflict contentious topic procedures.
- Novel remedy called "Article title restriction"
An article on a violent engagement within the Arab–Israeli conflict, broadly construed...may not describe the engagement as a "massacre", "murder", "bombing", "genocide", or "assassination" or similarly contentious word.
- Community encouraged to run an RFC on POV forks
- SPI clerks may invite contributors to leave (existing authorities)
There was a 50:50 split on "AndreJustAndre banned".
Community reaction
[edit]Community reaction to the decision was robust, with over 50 kB of comments on the committee noticeboard's talkpage, as of this issue's deadline.
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