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Ebionites 3 case closed

The Ebionites 3 case has closed with an interaction ban for the two editors involved in the dispute.

The Ebionites 3 case, initiated by Ignocrates, which involved a long-running dispute between two editors over a 2nd century religious document, was closed. The following remedies were enacted:

• Clarification request:Infoboxes: A request made by Anthonyhcole for clarification of Gerda Arendt's restriction on adding infoboxes was closed . The Committee clarified that acting on behalf of a restricted user to breach a restriction is WP:PROXYING and so is not permitted, and that Gerda did breach her restriction by adding the infobox to the article in question. Arbitrator Carcharoth emphasized that "The restrictions on adding or removing infoboxes are not because the articles should or shouldn't have infoboxes, but because the editors given those restrictions have demonstrated poor judgement over discussions."
• Clarification request:Ayn Rand: An amendment request initiated by TParis regarding an administrator editing through protection on an article with Arbcom sanctions was declined, after the editor in question self-reverted the edit .
• Motion regarding Manning naming dispute : By motion of the committee, finding of fact 22, regarding Baseball Bugs, has been replaced by the following: "During the course of the dispute, Baseball Bugs (talk · contribs) frequently accused other participants in the dispute of misconduct [1], [2] [3]; engaged in soapboxing based on his personal view of the article subject's actions [4] [5] [6] [7]; and needlessly personalised the dispute [8]."
• Motion regarding Phil Sandifer: the committee resolved by motion to desysop and indefinitely ban Phil Sandifer for posting allegedly non-public personal information about a Wikipedia editor on an external website. See also this week's related Signpost article: "Alleged 'outing' of an editor's personal information leads to Wikipedia ban".
• Arbitration Committee Elections RFC: The yearly Arbitration Committee Election request for comments is now closed.
• Arbitration Clerk changes: Arbitration clerks Guerillero and AlexandrDmitri have resigned. Bbb23 has joined the clerk team as a trainee clerk.
• Discretionary sanctions discussion: A request by the committee for comment on discretionary sanctions was closed.

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• Just wanted to mention that nominations for the 2013 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are open until Tuesday, 19 November at 23:59 (UTC). Those interested in running should follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2013/Candidates. Best. 64.40.54.139 (talk) 21:33, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  There's only been a handful of candidates so far. I hope that's been (or going to be) more prominently advertised somewhere, that's the first time I came across it. Robofish (talk) 01:36, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]