UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Civility policy/Arbitration page
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While the wiki community attempts to work on the basis of encouragement and cooperation, there are occasions where wiki users find themselves unable to reach accord. In the event of this happening, the Arbitration Team may be called upon to intervene, and attempt to find a reasonable compromise that, while perhaps not satisfying both parties, may at least assist in defusing the situation, thanks to the unbiased third party.
Guidelines for Arbitration Requests
In assisting in Arbitration, we generally suggest that both parties agree to the Arbitration and a common Arbitrator. If there's no agreement after one week since the original request for Arbitration took place, an uninvolved Sysop will then nominate a willing, active an unbiased Arbitrator for it; this is the same if the accused party chooses to ignore or mock the case. If this happens, the parties have 24 hours to reach an agreement, and if they do not reach accord after this, the Sysop's nominated Arbitrator automatically takes the case. It's considered very poor form to ignore or mock a case, and this may be grounds for a harsher conclusion by the ruling Arbitrator.
Any Arbitration request should provide at least the following:
- The aggrieved parties. Either person vs person, or [list of people] vs [list of people].
- The reason for the arbitration. This should very specifically be without reference to people, as that information has already been provided. It should be a short paragraph indicating the causes of the aggrievement, and why both parties feel it requires arbitration
- Any pages affected by the aggrievement. This should be a simple list of links.
Once the Arbitration commences, the Arbitrator will request statements from all parties involved. Any evidence to back up one's statement should be provided in link form. Each party will then have an opportunity to rebut their opponent's statement. During this process is forbidden to users not directly related to the case to make any comments. After these two steps, the Arbitrator will then consider the case, reach a conclusion, and determine the outcome that is required. There are two types of sanctions an Arbitrator can give to any of the parties involved:
- Vandal escalations: They consist of an escalation of the vandal warnings/bannings status an user may have.
- Page and contact limitations: They consist on barring users from all the pages the Arbitrator believes they shouldn't participate for whatever ammount of time he/she believe is needed, and bar users from personally refer or contact each other for any ammount of time as well.
The ruling would then be reviewed by an uninvolved Sysop that will specifically double check the punishments and limitations not to be exaggerated (i.e. an Arbitrator barring an user to participate on any administrational and community page on the wiki forever would be unwarranted):
- If the ruling seems to be fine, then he/she will endorse it, stating this at the end of the Arbitration case and delivering any warnings or bannings the Arbitrator deemed necessary: from now on breachs on the Arbitration ruling would be dealt with escalations on the banning status of the breaching user ignoring if he/she still doesn't have two warnings to be banned.
- If the reviewing Sysop deems the ruling excessive, then he would request the Arbitrator to make a new ruling and review it again. If the excess is repeated, he can either ask for a new ruling again or have the Arbitrator himself may be warned and the case restarted with another Arbitrator, but this last thing should only be carried on with the active Sysop's general consensus. Note that this sanction can be delivered by any Sysop, not only the one that endorsed the violated Arbitration ruling.
Archives
After the Arbitration is over, it will then be moved to an archive page. As publicly accessible pages, they may be used to establish precedent in further, applicable cases.
The current archive page is
The previous Arbitration archives:
Current Arbitrators
The following users have placed their hand up as users who are willing to be contacted to act as an Arbitrator. The role of Arbitrator is not restricted to the Administration team; any user can be contacted as an Arbitrator. Users who wish to place their hand up as an Arbitrator should place their name below on the list, using *{{usr|YourUserPage}}
Also note that not all listed Arbitrators are active on the Wiki.
| Available Arbitrators in Alphabetical Order | ||
Arbitration Cases Currently Under Consideration
There are currently no cases under consideration
