UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration

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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 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.

Available Arbitrators in Alphabetical Order
Acoustic Pie Airborne88 Akule AnimeSucks Atticus Rex Axe Hack Blood Panther boxy Cheeseman Conndraka Cyberbob240 DanceDanceRevolution DarkStar DevilAsh Dragon fang Finis Valorum	Funt Solo Gus Thomas Galaxy125 hagnat Haliman111 Headless Gunner Honestmistake Iscariot Jed Jedaz JaredV Karek Kikashie Labine50 Matthewfarenheit MichaelRead	MikhailA Novascotia Nubis Ottari Pdeq Rosslessness Scotw Seventythree Sonny Corleone Studoku Suicidal Angel The Grimch Toejam V2Blast Xan Krieger Z. slay3r

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.

There are currently no cases under consideration

Arbitration Cases in Progress

Iscariot and The Order of Philosophe Knights versus Sarah Aline and The Upper Left Corner

Involved Users	Iscariot versus Sarah Aline
Arbitrator	J3D
Created	17:38, 4 September 2008 (BST) by Iscariot
Status	Awaiting Iscariot's Opening Statement
Summary	Dispute over the content of the Southall Mansion location page.

Jorm and the MOB versus Zeug and Extinction

Involved Users	Jorm versus Zeug
Arbitrator	Cheese
Created	21:32, 22 September 2008 by Jorm
Status	Awaiting Jorm's Opening Statement
Summary	Jorm wants all references to the MOB removed from Zeug's United Zombies of Malton portal and from aforementioned portal's wiki page.

Grimch vs. Conndraka

Involved Users	The Grimch versus Conndraka
Arbitrator	Honestmistake
Created	03:32, 29 May 2008 by The Grimch
Status	In progress
Summary	Grim wants the ruling Conndraka made against him removed and for Conndraka to cease ruling on adminitrative matters he brings.

Archives

• List of Arbitration Cases