Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Archive/Placed by the Arbitration Committee

User	Decision	Type	Sanction (quoted from case)	Expiration Date
Neotarf	Interactions at GGTF	Topic ban	Indefinitely prohibited on the English Wikipedia from: editing any pages relating to or making any edit about: (i) the Gender Gap Task Force; (ii) the gender disparity among Wikipedians; and (iii) any process or discussion relating to these topics, all broadly construed. An uninvolved admin may remove any comments that breach this remedy, and impose blocks as necessary. The Committee's standard provisions on enforcement of arbitration provisions and appeals and modifications of arbitration enforcements apply.	Indefinite
Pete K	Waldorf education (amendment)	Topic ban	Pete K is topic banned indefinitely from the subject of Waldorf education, broadly construed. Enforcement of this provision shall be per the enforcement provisions in the Waldorf education case and shall be logged at the same case page. This restriction may be appealed to the Committee no less than one year from the date it is enacted, and if such appeal is unsuccessful no less than one year after the decline of the most recent failed appeal.	Indefinite
Justanonymous	Gun control	Topic ban	Justanonymous is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues, broadly construed.	Indefinite
Will Beback	Motion and talk page notice (TimidGuy ban appeal)	Interaction ban	Will Beback is directed to immediately cease commenting directly or indirectly on-wiki about User:TimidGuy and User:Keithbob. Will Beback also agrees to not communicate with the above editors, to not contact either their places of work or their colleagues, and to not seek sanctions for them, by any means. Administrators who receive requests for sanctions are requested to inform the Arbitration Committee by email.	Indefinite
		Topic ban	Will Beback is indefinitely topic-banned from making any edit on-wiki about, or any edit to any page relating to, new religious movements, broadly construed. This restriction replaces Will Beback's existing new religious movements topic ban.	Indefinite
		Topic ban	Will Beback is indefinitely topic-banned from making any edit on-wiki relating to conflicts of interest, paid advocacy or the real-world identity of any editor, broadly construed. Will Beback agrees to not become involved in any investigation broadly construed, either on- or off-wiki, into the real-world identity of any editor or into their real-world interests and affiliations.	Indefinite
RoslynSKP	Ottoman Empire–Turkey naming dispute	Editing restriction	RoslynSKP is indefinitely prohibited from changing 'Turkey' or 'Turkish' to 'Ottoman' on any article.	Indefinite
		Topic ban	RoslynSKP's topic ban from "editing any article relating to Turkish military history in and predating World War I" is suspended and will be unsuspended (and the prohibition will take effect) if any uninvolved administrator blocks RoslynSKP for misconduct relating to Turkish military history. If the block is reversed or repealed by any of the usual community channels of appeal, the topic ban will lapse back into suspension.	Indefinite
		Revert restriction	RoslynSKP is prohibited from making any more than one revert on any one page in any 72-hour period.	Indefinite
John Carter and Ignocrates	Ebionites 3	Interaction ban	Ignocrates (talk · contribs) and John Carter (talk · contribs) are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with each other (subject to the ordinary exceptions).	Indefinite
Hitmonchan	Manning naming dispute	Topic ban	Hitmonchan (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to any transgender topic or individual, broadly construed.	Indefinite
IFreedom1212	Manning naming dispute	Topic ban	IFreedom1212 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to any transgender topic or individual, broadly construed.	Indefinite
Josh Gorand	Manning naming dispute	Topic ban	Josh Gorand (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to any transgender topic or individual, broadly construed.	Indefinite
Apostle12	Race and politics	Topic ban	If Apostle12 does not return to editing before two months have elapsed [since 26 May 2013]: he will be indefinitely prohibited from editing any page relating to "race and politics", broadly construed; and this case will be un-suspended and closed.	Indefinite
Jokestress	Sexology	Topic ban	Jokestress is indefinitely banned from the topic of human sexuality, including biographical articles.	Indefinite
SightWatcher	Race and Intelligence Review	Topic Ban	SightWatcher (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from editing and/or discussing the topic of Race and Intelligence on any page of Wikipedia, including user talk pages, or from participating in any discussion concerning the conduct of editors who have worked in the topic. This editor may however within reason participate in dispute resolution and noticeboard discussions if their own conduct has been mentioned.	Indefinite
Ludwigs2	Muhammad images	Topic ban	Ludwigs2 (talk · contribs) is prohibited from contributing to any discussion concerning Muhammad.	Indefinite
DMSBel	Abortion	Topic ban	DMSBel (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from abortion-related pages, broadly construed.	indefinite
Tenmei (now User:Enkyo2)	Senkaku Islands	Topic ban	Tenmei is indefinitely topic banned from the subject of Senkaku Islands, widely construed. The topic ban includes talk pages, wikipedia space and userspace.	Indefinite
	Tang Dynasty	Topic ban	Tenmei is topic-banned from Inner Asia during the Tang Dynasty for a period of six months. He is permitted to comment on the talkpage, so long as he does so in a civil fashion.	See note [erAC 1]
Lsorin	Henri Coanda	Topic ban	Lsorin (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing or commenting on articles about the Coanda(-1910 aircraft, its inventor Henri Coanda(, or the history of the jet engine. This topic-ban shall be effective indefinitely, but Lsorin may request that it be terminated or modified after at least six months have elapsed. In considering any such request, the Committee will give significant weight to whether Lsorin has established an ability to edit collaboratively and in accordance with Wikipedia policies and guidelines in other topic-areas of the project. The topic-ban imposed in this decision applies to all pages in all namespaces. However, the topic-ban does not preclude Lsorin from (1) responding to good-faith, reasonable inquiries from other editors on his user talkpage seeking information about the Coanda(-1910, as long as Lsorin does not misuse this permission; (2) participating in the arbitration enforcement discussion of any allegation that he violated the topic-ban; or (3) posting an authorized request for the lifting or modification of the topic-ban after the specified time period has elapsed.	Indefinite
Glkanter	Monty Hall problem	Topic ban	Glkanter is ... subject to an indefinite topic ban on subjects related to the Monty Hall Problem.	Indefinite
Kehrli	Kehrli 2	Topic ban	Kehrli (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from metrology-related articles, broadly defined, including talk pages and discussions	Indefinite
David.Kane	Race and intelligence	Topic ban	David.Kane (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from race and intelligence related articles, broadly construed.	Indefinite
Mikemikev	Race and intelligence	Topic ban	Mikemikev (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from race and intelligence related articles, broadly construed.	Indefinite
Vlad fedorov	Russavia-Biophys	Topic ban	Vlad fedorov is banned from editing articles about the Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics, and all related articles, broadly construed, for a period of no less than 6 months. At the end of 6 months, Vlad fedorov may apply to have the ban reviewed by the Arbitration Committee.	Indefinite
Ellol	Russavia-Biophys	Topic ban	Ellol is banned from editing articles about the Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics, and all related articles, broadly construed, for a period of no less than 6 months. At the end of 6 months, Ellol may apply to have the ban reviewed by the Arbitration Committee.	Indefinite
ChildofMidnight	ChildofMidnight	Editing restriction	User:ChildofMidnight is restricted to editing main (article) space, the talk pages of articles he has edited, Template talk:Did you know, and his own talk and user talk pages only. In all cases he is forbidden from discussing the behavior of other editors, real or perceived, outside of his own user talk page. ChildofMidnight may apply to the Committee for exemptions to this restriction for the purposes of good faith dispute resolution on a case-by-case basis. This remedy is concurrent (and cumulative) with any extant topic bans, and consecutive to any editing ban.	Indefinite
Lapsed Pacifist	Lapsed Pacifist 2	Topic ban	Lapsed Pacifist is topic banned, indefinitely, from articles related to the Corrib gas project, broadly defined. Any administrator may, after warning, extend this topic ban to other topic areas, in the event of further problematic editing. (alternative offered given previous arbitration case)	Indefinite
Abd	Abd-William M. Connolley	Topic ban	Updated by motion: Abd is indefinitely prohibited from discussing any dispute in which he is not an originating party. This includes, but is not limited to, article talk and user talk pages, the administrator noticeboards, and any formal or informal dispute resolution pages. He may, however, vote or comment at polls. Imposed by motion: Abd (talk · contribs) and William M. Connolley (talk · contribs) shall not interact with each other, nor comment in any way (directly or indirectly) about each other, on any page in Wikipedia. Should either editor do so, he may be blocked by any administrator for a short time, up to one week.	Indefinite
William M. Connolley	Abd-William M. Connolley	Topic ban	Imposed by motion: Abd (talk · contribs) and William M. Connolley (talk · contribs) shall not interact with each other, nor comment in any way (directly or indirectly) about each other, on any page in Wikipedia. Should either editor do so, he may be blocked by any administrator for a short time, up to one week.	Indefinite
Betacommand (now known as Δ)	Betacommand 2	Topic Ban.	5.1) The Committee expects that the disputes and disruption underlying this case will cease as a result of this decision. In the event of non-compliance or a continued pattern of disputes, further review by the Committee may be sought after a reasonable time. In such a review, the Committee may impose appropriate sanctions including but not limited to the revocation of any user's privilege to use automated tools such as bots and scripts, revocation of other privileges, topic bans, civility restrictions, or any other remedies needed to end the disruption. Nothing in this paragraph restricts the authority of administrators to take appropriate action to deal with any disruptive incidents that may occur. Motion: Pursuant to the provisions of Remedy 5.1, and mindful of the recent and current disputes surrounding this user in many fora, the committee by motion indefinitely topic-bans ? (formerly known as Betacommand) from making any edit enforcing the non-free content criteria, broadly construed. User:? is also formally reminded of the civility restriction and other terms to which they are still subject as a condition of the provisional suspension of their community ban.	Indefinite
CSI LA, Grrrilla, Makoshack, Proximodiz, Su-Jada, TaborG	Scientology	Topic ban	The following editors are topic-banned from Scientology and restricted to one account:	Indefinite
Jack Russell Terrier, Jpierreg, Maureen D, OngoingHow, Seelltey, Tturrisi, Voxpopulis	Scientology	Topic ban	The following accounts are topic-banned from Scientology and each restricted to one account	Indefinite
Antaeus Feldspar	Scientology	Topic ban	Antaeus Feldspar (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology.	Indefinite
Derflipper	Scientology	Topic ban	Derflipper (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology and restricted to one account.	Indefinite
Misou	Scientology	Topic ban	Misou (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology and restricted to one account.	Indefinite
Orsini	Scientology	Topic ban	Orsini (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology.	Indefinite
Shrampes	Scientology	Topic ban	Shrampes (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology and restricted to one account.	Indefinite
Shutterbug	Scientology	Topic ban	Shutterbug (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology and restricted to one account.	Indefinite
The Legendary Shadow!	Scientology	Topic ban	The Legendary Shadow! (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology. This topic ban replaces the prior informal topic ban. The editor is also restricted to a single account.	Indefinite
Touretzky	Scientology	Topic ban	Touretzky (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Scientology.	Indefinite
G-Dett	West Bank – Judea and Samaria	Topic ban	G-Dett (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing any Arab-Israeli conflict-related article/talk page or discussing on the dispute anywhere else on the project.	Indefinite
MeteorMaker	West Bank – Judea and Samaria	Topic ban	MeteorMaker (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing any Arab-Israeli conflict-related article/talk page or discussing on the dispute anywhere else on the project.	Indefinite
NoCal100	West Bank – Judea and Samaria	Topic ban	NoCal100 (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing any Arab-Israeli conflict-related article/talk page or discussing on the dispute anywhere else on the project.	Indefinite
Pedrito	West Bank – Judea and Samaria	Topic ban	Pedrito (talk · contribs) is prohibited from editing any Arab-Israeli conflict-related article/talk page or discussing on the dispute anywhere else on the project.	Indefinite
Mantanmoreland	Mantanmoreland	Article ban	Mantanmoreland, under any current or future account, is banned from editing articles related to Gary Weiss, Patrick Byrne, Overstock.com, Naked Short Selling, and other mainspace articles in the area of dispute, broadly construed. He may make suggestions on talk pages, subject to the requirements of remedy 1. User:Mantanmoreland is directed to edit Wikipedia from only a single user account and to advise the Arbitration Committee of any change of username, and to edit only through a conventional ISP and not through any form of proxy configuration.	Indefinite
Ferrylodge	Ferrylodge	Topic ban	Ferrylodge (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is subject to an editing restriction indefinitely. Any uninvolved administrator may ban Ferrylodge from any article which relates to pregnancy or abortion, interpreted broadly, which they disrupt by inappropriate editing.	Indefinite
Elsanaturk, Hetoum I, ChateauLincoln, Moosh88, Meowy, VartanM, Aynabend	Armenia-Azerbaijan 2	Probation, Civility restriction	Supervised editing (formerly known as probation). You may be banned by any administrator from editing any or all articles which relate to the region of Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran and the ethnic and historical issues related to that area should you fail to maintain a reasonable degree of civility in your interactions with one another concerning disputes which may arise. Civility supervision (formerly known as civility parole). If you make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, then you may be blocked for a short time of up to one week for repeat offenses.	Indefinite
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey	Jeffrey Vernon Merkey	Legal threat parole	Jeffrey Vernon Merkey (talk · contribs) is placed on permanent legal threat parole. Any uninvolved administrator may indefinitely block him if he makes any statement that can be reasonably construed as a direct or indirect legal threat.	Indefinite [erAC 2]
MarkStreet	Transnistria	Topic ban	As an abusive and tendentious single-purpose account trying to professionally abuse Wikipedia for externally motivated political propaganda purposes, MarkStreet (talk · contribs) and all his alternate accounts, including Buffadren (talk · contribs), are indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.	Indefinite
William Mauco	Transnistria	Topic ban	As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, William Mauco (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.	Indefinite
EvilAlex	Transnistria	Topic ban	As a disruptive single-purpose account with a history of edit-warring and tendentious editing, EvilAlex (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from making any contributions related to Transnistria. This ban applies to all namespaces including talk and user talk pages.	Indefinite
Tobias Conradi	Tobias Conradi	Civility restriction, Revert limitation	Tobias Conradi may be blocked up to an hour by any administrator for any personal attack or violation of civility. Blocks need not be logged. Tobias Conradi is limited to one revert per week on any article. This includes moves. Tobias Conradi is prohibited from maintaining laundry lists of grievances.	Indefinite
Henrygb	Henrygb	Account restriction	Henrygb shall edit Wikipedia from only a single account.	Indefinite
Samuel Luo	Falun Gong	Topic ban	Samuel Luo (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned indefinitely from editing Falun Gong-related articles or their talk pages.	Indefinite
Tomananda	Falun Gong	Topic ban	Tomananda (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is banned indefinitely from editing Falun Gong-related articles or their talk pages.	Indefinite
Freedom skies	Freedom skies	Account restriction	Freedom skies shall select one account and use only that account. Any other account used may be indefinitely banned. Pending selection of an account Freedom skies may not edit Wikipedia.	Indefinite
Ilena	Barrett v. Rosenthal	Topic ban	Ilena is banned indefinitely from editing articles which relate to alternative medicine, Quackwatch and related articles, and litigation she was involved with. The ban includes talk pages with the exception of articles which relate to breast implants.	Indefinite
Wikisunn	Sathya Sai Baba 2	Topic ban	Wikisunn is banned indefinitely from editing Sathya Sai Baba and related articles or their talk pages.	Indefinite
SSS108	Sathya Sai Baba 2	Topic ban	SSS108 is banned indefinitely from editing Sathya Sai Baba and related articles or their talk pages.	Indefinite
Freelanceresearch	Sathya Sai Baba 2	Topic ban	Freelanceresearch is banned indefinitely from editing Sathya Sai Baba and related articles or their talk pages.	Indefinite
Supreme Cmdr	Derek Smart	Topic ban	Supreme Cmdr and other surrogates of Derek Smart are banned from editing Derek Smart. They may edit the talk page.	Indefinite
GuardianZ	Midnight Syndicate	Topic ban	GuardianZ (talk · contribs), and Skinny McGee (talk · contribs) are banned indefinitely from Midnight Syndicate.	Indefinite
Skinny McGee	Midnight Syndicate	Topic ban	GuardianZ (talk · contribs), and Skinny McGee (talk · contribs) are banned indefinitely from Midnight Syndicate.	Indefinite
195.82.106.244	Brahma Kumaris	Probation	195.82.106.244 is placed on Probation. He may be banned from editing any article which he disrupts by engaging in aggressive biased editing, especially that relying on inadequately sourced original research.	Indefinite
KyndFellow	Sex tourism	Probation	KyndFellow, editing under any username or anonymous ip, is indefinitely placed on Probation. He may be banned from any article or talk page which he disrupts by aggressive biased editing. All bans are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Sex tourism#Log of blocks and bans.	Indefinite
Alden Jones	Piotrus 2	Account restriction	Alden Jones is limited to one revert per page per week, with the exception of simple vandalism; and is required to discuss all content reverts on the relevant talk page.	Indefinite
Irpen	Piotrus 2	Account restriction	Irpen is limited to one revert per page per week, with the exception of simple vandalism; and is required to discuss all content reverts on the relevant talk page.	Indefinite
NinaGreen	Shakespeare authorship question	Topic ban	She is also topic-banned indefinitely from editing any article relating to the Shakespeare authorship question, William Shakespeare, or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, all broadly construed (remedy 2)	Indefinite
Ryoung122	Longevity	Topic ban	"Ryoung122 is indefinitely prohibited from editing, commenting on, or otherwise participating in any Wikipedia process related to articles about longevity, broadly interpreted."	Indefinite
Racepacket and LauraHale	Racepacket	Interaction ban	LauraHale and Racepacket are directed to immediately cease commenting about each other directly or indirectly in any forum related directly or indirectly with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes mailing lists, IRC channels that use the word "wikipedia" or "wikimedia" in their name, or any WMF-hosted project. They are also directed not to seek sanctions on each other either publicly or privately through any means, except through arbitration enforcement processes. Administrators who receive any such requests for sanctions are requested to inform the Arbitration Committee.	Indefinite
Ryulong	GamerGate	Topic ban	Prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.	Indefinite
ArmyLine	GamerGate	Topic ban	Prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.	Indefinite
Xander756	GamerGate	Topic ban	Prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.	Indefinite
Loganmac	GamerGate	Topic ban	Prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. These restrictions may be appealed to the Committee only after 12 months have elapsed from the closing of this case.	Indefinite
Scalhotrod	Lightbreather	Interaction ban	The default i-ban exceptions remain in place but improper use of them by Lightbreather is sanctionable as an i-ban evasion. For consistency and ease of administration, the i-bans may be enforced by any uninvolved administrator as an arbitration enforcement action but any resultant appeals may be made only to the committee and only by email.	Indefinite

Notes

1. 6 months after a suitable mentor is found and approved by the Arbitration Committee
2. Currently moot; user was originally banned for one year via a remedy in the same arbitration case but the ban was extended to indefinite afterwards for off-wiki harassment.