Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Arbitration report
- We would like to return to our old practice of covering Arbcom as well as other major discussions on a regular basis. We'll try to cover such discussions every month or so. Please let us know what you think in the comments section. – Sb
Administrator removed by Arbcom
Arbcom desysoped Tinucherian and admonished him for violations of WP:UPE and WP:COI but did not ban him for the apparently obvious undeclared paid editing violations. Tinucherian had made an obscure COI declaration ten years ago and has referenced his LinkedIn page four times where his current paid editing position is made crystal clear. His use of admin tools has been rare since 2014, but he did rollback a promotional tag on his employer's page. His major offense against Arbcom may simply have been responding to their questions with a 2,000 word description of his past achievements on Wikipedia without addressing in any way the UPE and COI accusations against him. Arbcom did leave open the possibility of further community action.
In less dramatic changes, Arbcom also announced that the March 2025 CheckUser consultation did not result in any new CheckUsers, but GB fan did resign from the Oversight team.
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- The ArbCom action or the reporting? If the latter, I agree: something about the grammar felt vaguely....AI-ish? The use of "the ArbCom" in the title, when we almost always colloquially use just "ArbCom" to reference the group by the diminutive name, the use of the past perfect in the opening sentence. Then again, the more likely explanation is that it was just slightly hastily composed and one's brain begins to ascribe every little typo or minor grammatical error/idiosyncrasy to AI these days. SnowRise let's rap 04:57, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- The reporting, yes..."hastily composed" would be a problem, since the final version should always be well proofread before being published to the public. Still, whatever. it's lio! | talk | work 06:09, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm really pleased to see the ArbCom report and centralised discussion summaries returning to the Signpost. I want to keep up with these events but don't have the time to read through pages upon pages of discussion so these summaries are incredibly useful. WaggersTALK 10:58, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]