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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. This is not, by any means, a requirement, but we do require that both parties be represented in proceedings.

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. After these two steps, the Arbitrator will then consider the case, and reach a conclusion, and determine the outcome that is required. It's the duty of the Arbitrator to move a case he accepted to a subpage of UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration, and to update the status of the arbitration case in the Arbitration Cases in Progress section.

As a note, by requesting an Arbitration, all parties are thus obliged to accept the outcome of the Arbitration. Not doing will be considered Vandalism, and such vandalism attempts will be treated as if the vandal has already received two warnings.

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.

Current Arbitrators

For guidelines on how to arbitrate, see Arbitration Guidelines.

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 (even if not listed below) and use this page for the arbitration, so long as both parties agree to the 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.

edit Volunteer Arbitrators in Alphabetical Order
DanceDanceRevolution	Rosslessness

Arbitration Cases Currently Under Consideration

Administration Notice

Use this header to create new arbitration cases. Once all sides have chosen an arbiter, move the case to a sub-page of UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration and update its status in the Arbitration Cases in Progress section.

Cobra vs User:Doc Ryleigh

The Cobra group page is currently contested. As the contesting party hasn't come forward yet with any proposals for an acceptable solution, I will go ahead in order to resolve this edit conflict.

Main contester is User:Doc Ryleigh, Cobra's former leader. (Associated contesters include, but aren't necessarily limited to User:Goribus and User:Urgggggggh.)

Doc Ryleigh has stopped to be the leader over a year ago and has since been succeeded by two other leaders, namely User:Sage Carr and myself (as evident in the group pages uncontested history). My own leadership position has also been cemented by a recent internal poll, which I entered uncontested.

Doc Ryleigh was unhappy with the current administration and policies. Rather than to try to get back into position by convincing the members to adjust policies and personell, she has tried to grab attention by a sneak PKing attack while she still had diplomat access to our forums. After the majority of the members has voiced to kick her out completely, she got in control of the old root admin account and abused it to claim control of the group's old forums, throwing out everyone who dared to speak up against her claim.

I restarted new forums, and had the majority of the group actively following me to them. (10 confirmed separate members on the new forums, leaving a maximum of 4 members to Doc Ryleigh's rogue faction - all of whom have been idle for months and solely returned for the recent drama.)

As the rogue faction lacks popular support by the members and can back up its claims on the page only on lost titles and stolen forums access, it has no business to claim any ownership or editing rights for Cobra or any of its associated sub-pages, talk pages, categories, templates, recruitment ads, guides or images.

As per Umbrella precedent, they are free to start a new group, even under a similar name, but not by vandalizing a page they have no ownership of.

I propose the following arbitrators:

• User:Boxy
• User:DanceDanceRevolution
• User:Kempy
• User:Krazy Monkey
• User:MisterGame
• User:Rosslessness
• User:Vapor

I'll await now the response by the contesting party. -- Spiderzed█ 18:55, 20 June 2011 (BST)

I offer to arbitrate. I'm vaguely familiar with the facts, and I hate all of you just as much.--Yonnua Koponen ^{T G P} ^^^ 19:05, 20 June 2011 (BST)

I can arbitatortot this shit. I don't know who either of you niggas is but I promise to solve this lest we want another Tupac and Biggie death. I propose a rap battle. --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 19:39, 20 June 2011 (BST)

I feel a bit of background knowledge might be best suited to the arbitrator in this case and as I know none, I doubt I'd be a particularly fitting arbitrator for this case, so even if I were picked I'd probably sit this one out. -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 20:42, 20 June 2011 (BST)

I'm intrigued that you put me up in your list of arbitrators. While I thank you for your trust in me I'm afraid I have to decline (should I be accepted by the other party, which I doubt but anyway). I do actually have a lot of experience in inner group drama and can closely relate to the issue at hand. However, I'm extremely busy at the moment and I really won't have time for this. I'll definitely keep an eye on the case though. Good luck. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 21:28, 20 June 2011 (BST)

I have no expectation of being accepted but I'll offer to arbitrate anyway. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 23:06, 20 June 2011 (BST)

Having caught up on your old arbie cases tonight, I would accept you. Ryleigh? -- Spiderzed█ 00:07, 21 June 2011 (BST)

I'll offer to arbitrate. I may not be Spiderzed or Ryleigh's top choice but I'm a nuetral party and just so happen to have a good deal of free time on my hands at this point in time. ~ _{01:14, 21 June 2011 (UTC)}

Vapor would work for me too. -- Spiderzed█ 07:15, 21 June 2011 (BST)

Annabell/Ryleigh has agreed to let me handle this on her behalf.

First I'd like to clarify several things. Spiderzed by his own admission on the original Cobra forums is a temporary leader. And both he and his faction stated in March that if the previous leader (Sage) returned then he would step down. Sage has not returned, but the previous leader before him has and decided to take her group back. The whole killing Spiderzed had nothing to do with anything. It was just a for laughs thing. Ryleigh and I were both amused by the idea of a Cobra civil war, but quickly just decided to kill Sally and take the forum back.

Spiderzed is also grossing exaggerating what happened. Before becoming leader Ryleigh was named leader and had the Root Admin account and the founder User:Bullgod 's account and password in case she would need either during her run as leader. Spiderzed had neither. Which is how Ryleigh was able to reclaim the forums. No one was thrown out. They were just demoted to normal members. All of which were welcome to reapply. A good chunk got butthurt and deleted their accounts. Spiderzed included. Ryleigh has emailed Bullgod just to prove that the founder of the group gives his blessing for a former commander that he knows take the leadership from a temporary leader that I'm almost certain he's never met. If membership numbers are suddenly pertinent, I'm in talks with several PKers about joining our faction. But I'm fairly sure numbers are completely irrelevant in determining group leadership/ownership and therefore determining ownership of the wiki-page.

We reject all of his arbitrators and instead suggest the following:

• User:AnimeSucks
• User:Ashley Valentine
• User:Karloth vois
• User:Misanthropy
• User:Sexualharrison

In closing, I'm not exactly sure why this is even going to arbitration. But whatever. When it's all said and done it's just going to be another piece of evidence that Cobra isn't Spiderzed's nor was it ever his. -- Goribus 04:17, 21 June 2011 (BST)

I don't think suggesting personal friends as impartial arbitrators is going to work for this case, might take this into consideration. -- Thadeous Oakley Talk 07:07, 21 June 2011 (BST)

I recognize Goribus as agent. - Oh, and while rejecting all arbitrators out of hand is an often used tactic on A/A, it works only if you don't want arbies to take off at all and are happy with the status quo. You, however, wish for change. Stagnation isn't your friend in this one. -- Spiderzed█ 07:15, 21 June 2011 (BST)

Close friends? Devil Ash and I barely know each other. Although we are on good terms. I don't think I've spoken to Karloth except maybe once in IRC. YOG as we both know is a neutral party. I wouldn't count him as a friend in this matter. Also I didn't reject all arbitrators. Just all of the ones you suggested as your list is as seemingly biased in your favor as you claim mine is in my favor. Karek? I'll consider. The others? No. Accept or reject my Arbitrators so we can either continue until we agree on an Arbitrator or to the next step please and thanks. -- Goribus 07:52, 21 June 2011 (BST)

pass. i would just like to remain neutral and not involved. i already tried to work this out internally and didn't get anywhere.--User:Sexualharrison14:08, 21 June 2011 (bst)

I have already decided that Karek is acceptable (and he wasn't on my original list, nor on yours). Shall we thus proceed with him? -- Spiderzed█ 18:40, 21 June 2011 (BST)

I would attempt to arbitrate impartially, but I can see why Spiderzed wouldn't accept me (specifically, both Goribus and I are members of Red Rum). That said, I know nothing about the situation whatsoever and would need to read up on it all.--Karloth Vois ^¯\(°_o)/¯ 12:13, 21 June 2011 (BST)

Just thought I'd throw my hat into the ring as well. I am uninvolved in the current situation but I have a equal conflict-of-interest in both parties (Gorbius as a fellow member of Red Rum and Spizerzed as a fellow sysop whom I have a lot of respected for) and so I feel that I have no overriding bias. Anyway, I'm here as a "third option".--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 14:55, 21 June 2011 (BST)

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