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Currently, no requests for clarification or amendment are open.

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Clerks and trainees, please coordinate your actions through this section, so that we don't have multiple clerks working on the same cases at the same time. An IRC channel, #wikipedia-en-arbcom-clerks, and a mailing list, Clerks-l, are also available for private co-ordination and communication, although the mailing list is fairly low traffic.

Pending Requests

All work relating to pending requests on WP:RfAr.

Someone should probably ask about the Tang Dynasty amendment request.. It has more than majority vote in passing for most of the items there. (I'm recused on that one.) - Penwhale | 11:42, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Open Cases

All work relating to Arbitration cases already opened

Active/inactive arbitrators

This list will be used to set the number of active Arbitrators and the case majority on cases as they open. As of 8 January, there are 15 active Arbitrators for all new cases, and the majority is therefore 8 for all new cases (that is, those accepted after the "as of" date). See WP:AC/C/P#Calculating the majority for help. The master list is at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee#Current members.

Active (as of 5 January 2010):

1. Carcharoth
2. Cool Hand Luke
3. FayssalF
4. Fritzpoll
5. Hersfold
6. Kirill Lokshin
7. KnightLago
8. Mailer diablo
9. Risker
10. Rlevse
11. Roger Davies
12. Shell Kinney
13. SirFozzie
14. Stephen Bain
15. Steve Smith
16. Vassyana

Term formally ends 31 December 2009 but will remain on the committee until all cases in which he has participated close.

Away or inactive:

1. Coren
2. Newyorkbrad
3. Wizardman

Arbitrator announcements

Arbitrators, please note if you wish to declare yourself active or away/inactive, either generally or for specific cases. The clerks will update the relevant cases as needed. If you are returning, please indicate whether you wish to be: 1) Put back to active on all cases; 2) Left on inactive on all open cases, and only put to active on new cases; or 3) Left to set yourself to active on cases you wish (remember to update the majority on its /Proposed decision page).

• I will be going active on all new cases, and the Tothwolf case. Thanks! SirFozzie (talk) 19:34, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
• I will be active on cases going forward but not picking up the Tothwolf case. Shell 19:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

• I will need to go inactive on the Tothwolf case, unfortunately. Please update the template, and I think you will need to update the majority. I will also be inactive on other requests unless I specifically post in them, until approximately January 16th. Thanks. Risker (talk) 16:15, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Long term projects

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Discussion

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Images in case statements

There is a growing tendency to add irrelevant images to statements. These are attention seeking and serve only to reinforce the writer's POV. I've removed one just now. Please remove any others as and when they appear. Thanks,  Roger Davies 07:24, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Piotrus

I was perusing the arbcom case and noticed that the 1 year ban for piotrus ended up at 4 supports and 3 against, while 1 arb stated that they were abstaining. This means that there was one undeclared abstention (i.e. an arb didn't vote in any direction), meaning the motion passed (2 abstaining arbs means 4 is the magic number)? Or is a non response considered a vote against rather than abstaining? More a procedural question to further my own understanding than anything else. --Narson ~ Talk • 19:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Not voting is the same as opposing since we tallying the number of supports to figure if a motion or proposal passes. An abstain vote must be actively noted by voting since it reduces the majority. FloNight♥♥♥♥ 20:03, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Superb :) Thank you very much! --Narson ~ Talk • 22:43, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Copyediting of guide

Clerks, I am trying to copyedit the guide to arbitration for clarity. User:Penwhale asked that I place a notice here. The edits will concentrate on clarifying and simplifying the language; please let me know if I make inadvertent changes that you would consider a problem. Best, Kaisershatner (talk) 16:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

2nd Jack Merridew motion

Hi. There were two full copies of my last motion; one on the page and another on the talk page, and also duplicate copies of the prior motion in the intros to the new motion. I noticed that the motion had been moved per the discussion last month and went to tidy-up the link to it from my history page and I have cut the duplication for clarity. The only substantive change is a change of the word 'following' to 'above', as I made the second motion link to the original just above it instead of repeating it. I have linked to the copy of the votes and discussion on the talk page as was done for the prior motion and also added a link to the statements from my mentors and myself. It all seems much clearer to me this way.

• Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Jack Merridew ban review motion#Motion to amend User:Jack Merridew's 2008 unban motion
• Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for arbitration/Jack Merridew ban review motion#Motion to amend User:Jack Merridew's 2008 unban motion
• User:Jack Merridew/History

Cheers, Jack Merridew 21:08, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

request help from a clerk

Tothwolf, who's involved in an arbcom case with me, has decided to mark himself as retired in his user page. As a final bout of incivility, he's written a farewell post on his talk page which links to diff that includes a semi-attack on me. please see ]. I've tried to remove the wiki link to the attack, but he's come out of retirement to restore it. could someone remove the attack diff from his goodbye? the diff consists of uncivil language such as "Theserialcomma, you aren't fooling anyone here either." "due to your wikihounding, harassment, collusion, and gaming of the system." "considering that you've taken to harassing and wikihounding multiple editors (too many to name) and even administrators" and "heserialcomma, let me also be quite blunt with you: I'm not afraid of you or your bullying. Try as you did to find my identity and information about me to use to out, bully, and threaten me, you failed to find anything (although you certainly left quite a paper trail during your efforts)". i dont think he should be allowed to leave this soapbox, rambling nonsense personal attack against me as his 'farewell' to wikipedia message, since the arbcom results did not find anything he is claiming Theserialcomma (talk) 23:44, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

This does not relate to the enforcement of guidelines for conduct on arbitration pages, so there is little a clerk could do for you. Might you have more luck at the administrators' noticeboard for incidents? AGK 00:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)