Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard

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Change to the CheckUser team

At his request by email to the committee, the CheckUser permissions of MusikAnimal are removed. The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks MusikAnimal for his long service as a CheckUser, and his continuing service on Wikipedia.

For the Arbitration Committee, Primefac (talk) 19:55, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 49 § Change to the CheckUser team

Proposed motion for amendment to Arbitration procedures: Documenting transition procedures

The Arbitration Committee is considering a motion to include a section on arbitrator transitions in the Committee's procedures. Comments are welcomed in the relevant section. For the Committee, — Wug·a·po·des 19:37, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitrator access to mailing lists and permissions motion passed

The Arbitration Committee has passed the following amendment to its procedures:

Arbitrators-elect must sign the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information and any other non-disclosure agreements required for access to privileged communications before assuming office. All arbitrators are:

subscribed to all Committee-managed email lists;
assigned the CheckUser and Oversight permissions for use in office; and
given access to the oversight and checkuser queues on the VRTS system.

At the end of their term, outgoing arbitrators will:

be removed from all Committee-managed email lists with the following exceptions:
- access to the clerks-l mailing list will be removed absent a request to remain, and
- access to the functionaries-en mailing list will remain absent a request to be removed; and
have their CheckUser and Oversight permissions removed unless the outgoing arbitrator requests to retain one or both of them.

For the Arbitration Committee, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:52, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Archived discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 50 § Arbitrator access to mailing lists and permissions motion passed

Arbitration motion regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case is rescinded. There are no actions remaining in force from this remedy, so the community are free to conduct and close these and related discussions moving forward. The Committee thanks Xeno and Valereee for their work as moderators; KrakatoaKatie, RoySmith, and TheSandDoctor for their work as closers; and all the editors who participated in these discussions to date.

For the Arbitration Committee, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:40, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Arbitration motion regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing

Change to the Functionaries team

Following a request to the Committee, the CheckUser and Oversight permissions of Callanecc (talk · contribs) have been restored.

For the Arbitration Committee, Primefac (talk) 18:43, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Change to the Functionaries team