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Rhona Martin

Rhona Howie, MBE (born 12 October 1966, Ayrshire), better known under her married name, Rhona Martin, is a British curler most famous for skipping the British women's team at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the team claimed the gold medal. She has also skipped for the Scotland curling team at both the World and European Championships.

Early career
Martin was long known in Scottish curling circles for her uncanny knack of repeatedly failing to win the national championships at the final hurdle, but finally won the right to appear in a major international championship in 1998, where she was skip of the Scotland team that won a silver medal at the European Curling Championships. With some significant changes in personnel, she returned to the championships in Chamonix the following year, where the team was narrowly edged out of the medal placings.

In 2000, Martin's quartet won the Scottish Women's Curling Championship, defeating the team led by former Olympic skip Kirsty Hay in the final, and were therefore entitled to represent Scotland at the World Curling Championships, held that year in Glasgow. They performed well at the World Curling Championships, with a particular highlight of defeating the Canadian side skipped by Kelley Law in the round-robin stage of the competition. However, Law earned her revenge against Scotland in the semi-finals, leading Canada to a 10–6 win. Martin's team was disappointed after missing out on a medal by losing 10–5 to Dordi Nordby's Norwegian outfit in the subsequent play-off.

2002 Olympics
The fourth-place finish at the World Championships left the team well placed to secure its place as Great Britain's representatives at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, selection for which was based on performances in the World and European Championships over the whole four-year Olympic cycle. Crucially, though, changes in the team's line-up meant that the European silver medal in 1998 was discounted, meaning that the team skipped by former world junior champion Julia Ewart, which represented Scotland at the 2001 World Championships in Lausanne, had the potential to be selected. Ewart recovered from a slow start to string together an extraordinary sequence of wins; a gold for Scotland would take Ewart and her teammates to the Olympics, and a silver would result in a special play-off to decide the selection. However, Scotland were derailed in the semi-final by Sweden, allowing Martin's team to represent Great Britain in Salt Lake City.

After battling illness, Martin arrived in Salt Lake City, and she and her teammates found their Olympic form early, reaching the brink of qualification for the semi-finals by winning five out of their first seven round-robin matches. However, the USA team came back to win against Martin's with a steal, and the British team then succumbed to Germany in the concluding round-robin match. The team's chances of progressing were thus dependent on a Swiss win over Germany. In order to progress to the semi-finals, it was necessary for the British team to win two successive tie-break matches against Sweden and Germany, which was achieved. The win over Sweden was an upset as Elisabeth Gustafsson was a 4 time World Champion.

For their semi-final match, the British team was paired with Kelley Law's Canadian team, to whom three members of Martin's team had lost whilst playing for Scotland at the same stage of the 2000 World Championships. Martin's team surged to an unexpected win, guaranteeing them a medal. As the underdog against Switzerland's Luzia Ebnother, the 2nd seed and a former World and European silver medalist, Britain won the final with Martin's last stone, often described as a difficult draw. The team of Martin, Debbie Knox, Fiona MacDonald and Janice Rankin thus became Great Britain's first gold medallists in any sport at the Winter Olympics since Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean came first in the ice dancing of the 1984 Winter Olympics. Later that year, Martin was awarded an MBE for services to curling.

Post-Olympic career
Martin's team lost to Jackie Lockhart's rink in the three-match final of the Scottish Championships, played within days of their return to Scotland. Attention was focused on Lockhart, whose team subsequently won the World Championships for Scotland, with Lockhart selecting the same stone used by Martin to seal victory in the Olympics for her own winning delivery. The rock was dubbed the Stone of Destiny, and is now housed in a Scottish sports museum. In 2005, Martin was back on the world stage, when her all-star team (including Lockhart at the second position) finished fifth at the European Championships.

Prior to the 2006 Winter Olympics, it was reported that Martin was living on welfare and that her financial problems were causing her to live apart from her husband. Her husband Keith had recently had trouble with his computer business, and they were forced to move into government housing. Martin had considered quitting curling, but her two children encouraged her to stay. Martin skipped the British Olympic team during the 2006 Winter Olympics, where the team was eliminated during the round-robin stage.

In 2007, Martin halted playing for the time being and focused on coaching. She spent 3 years doing the UK Sport Elite Coach Programme whilst delivering the Performance Development Coach role within the national governing body for curling, the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, looking after the National and Regional Academies. Martin joined the BBC commentary team for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, overseeing the curling along with Steve Cram. Prior to this, Martin also made several TV guest appearances on shows that included A Question of Sport, The Weakest Link and This Morning. In 2010, Rhona was appointed as the new women's head coach of the British and Scottish curling performance squad and was part of a five strong coaching team looking forward to the 2014 Winter Olympics. In June 2012, Martin was part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, taking the flame through Glasgow whilst being cheered on by the public. She also attended many Olympics events in London in her role as a games ambassador. Also in 2012, Martin was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Martin joined the BBC's commentary team for coverage of curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and again at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Medal theft
In May 2014, Martin's Olympic gold medal along with other Olympic memorabilia was stolen from a museum in Dumfries. In September 2017, two men were convicted of the theft, with a third convicted in 2019.

Awards

 * Frances Brodie Award: 2000

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Marxist–Leninist Front (in Swedish: Marxist-Leninistisk Front), was a small communist group in Sweden. MLF was formed through a split in KFML in 1972. The founders of MLF claimed that it had become impossible to conduct revolutionary activities through KFML. MLF published Kommunistisk Teori och Praktik. MLF suffered from internal disputes, and by the winter of 1973 the group was dissolved and merged into KFML(r).

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Talk:Fife Symington

positives to his policies that allowed him to gain election
I have edited this article with info that was easily available to me. However, I believe there must have been some positives to his policies that allowed him to gain election, and they are underrepresented in the article as it stands.--Pmeisel 16:21, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What exactly was this guy indicted for doing?
The article says he was indicted for fraud, extortion, etc. Details would seem very relevant. Cazort (talk) 13:46, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

On The Phoenix Lights
As perhaps the most prominent (foremost, credible, etc. - pick your adjective) witness of the 1997 Phoenix Lights, I believe this page deserves its own section on the Governor's testimony to the event. It's rather well documented - there is a CNN video that is easy to find on Youtube, and I am sure archived journal records are manifold. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.140.184.123 (talk) 07:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Is that really necessary? It's a momentous event, sure, but that's it basically. __meco (talk) 17:39, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia
The 15:24, 14 January 2009 GoodDay version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 20:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

constitution crisis
The most interesting part of this mans life is the constitutional crisis he nearly caused by sending National Guard troops to open the Grand Canyon.Kingman Daily Miner Which is not in the article. Ikip 16:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

UFO sighting
This can probably be kept out of the article, but is interesting:

 * Symington confirms he saw UFO 10 years ago
 * By LESLIE KEAN, The Daily Courier Sunday, March 18, 2007

 * Ten years after the "Phoenix Lights" UFO incident, former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, III, now says he saw an unidentified object that night, even though he originally did not say so publicly.

Ikip 16:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

moved to talk
"He was charged in a 1996 indictment; 1997 superseding indictment for false statements to federally insured financial institutions, wire fraud, attempted extortion and false statements in bankruptcy proceeding, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1014, 1343, 1951, 152, 2(a) and 2(b)"

This was in the background section, but replicates the governor section, except it is more specific. Ikip 16:21, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams 2/Proposed decision

all proposed Arbitrators should vote for or against each point or abstain.
 * Only items that receive a majority aye vote will be enacted.
 * Items that receive a majority nay vote will be formally rejected.
 * Items that do not receive a majority aye or nay vote will be open to possible amendment by any Arbitrator if he so chooses. After the amendment process is complete, the item will be voted on one last time.

Conditional votes for or against and abstentions should be explained by the Arbitrator before or after his/her time-stamped signature. For example, an Arbitrator can state that she/he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were enacted.

On this case, 0 arbitrators are recused and 1 are away/inactive, so 6 votes are a majority.

Proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on.
 * For all items:

Motions and requests by the parties
Place those on the discussion page.

Proposed temporary injunctions
Four net aye votes needed to pass (each nay vote subtracts an aye) 24 hours from the first vote is normally the fastest an injunction will be imposed.

Template
Enacted 1) User:CheeseDreams is banned from editing Wikipedia for the duration of this case except for the pages User:CheeseDreams, User talk:CheeseDreams and the arbitration case pages relating to her.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)(waive 24 hour wait, accounts have been blocked because of the release of CDs password already)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:09, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 15:24, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * →Raul654 15:38, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Enacted 2) User:CheeseDreams is limited to one account.  The following accounts are presumed to be either sockpuppet accounts of CheeseDreams or impersonations of Cheesedreams and are therefore to be blocked:  User:Cheesedreams, User:Cheese Dreams, User:Cheese dreams, User:Cheese-Dreams, User:Cheese-dreams, User:Cheese -dreams, User:CheeseyDreams, User:CheezDreams and User:CHEESEdreams.  All other sockpuppet or impersonation accounts identified can also be blocked.  The password for User:CheeseDreams has been changed for security reasons and will be released to CheeseDreams if she is able to prove her identity.  Otherwise the account will remain unavailable and CheeseDreams should mail any evidence she wants considered in her case to User:Sannse

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) (waive 24 hour wait, accounts have been blocked because of the release of CDs password already)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:09, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 15:24, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) I blocked all these accounts, including User:CheeseDreams, to forestall deniable abuse - see user:jguk's edit at.
 * →Raul654 15:38, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

=Proposed final decision=

Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point
1) Don't disrupt Wikipedia to make a point.

 * Aye:
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:25, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) again, true but not relevant to this case (disruption was not of the type described in this policy) see principle 9
 * sannse is right ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'm not sure there was a point - David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 21:06, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pointless RfCs/RfAs
2) Requests for comment and requests for arbitration should be used appropriately within the guidelines on that page. They should not be used for frivolous or pointless disputes and should not be used as a forum for personal attacks, harassment, and abuse.

 * Aye:
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:25, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 15:38, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Of course, we need a very high threshold for such.
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Sockpuppet abuse
3) The use of sockpuppet accounts, while not generally forbidden, is discouraged. Abuse of sockpuppet accounts, such as using them to evade blocks and bans, make personal attacks or reverts, or vandalize, is strictly forbidden.

 * Aye:
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:27, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

One user or several?
4) For the purpose of dispute resolution when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar editing habits they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:38, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Particularly when there are the tiniest of variations between the usernames!
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) Although the possibility that they are impersonation accounts (see #5) should also be taken into account.

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 21:17, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Impersonation accounts
5) Accounts designed to impersonate other contributors are not permitted (see Blocking policy). Accounts designed to impersonate may be immediately blocked indefinitely by any administrator.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:38, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 14:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Security of accounts.
6) Contributors are responsible for the security of their password. While accidental breaches are understandable and sometimes unavoidable, a contributor who deliberately releases their password should expect to be held responsible for any malicious edits made as a result.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:38, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:21, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) If it isn't promptly locked as a public hazard.
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Arbitration rulings
7) Arbitration rulings on the English Wikipedia are binding on contributors to the project and violations will be regarded seriously.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:38, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:22, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Proxy edits
8) "Proxy" edits on behalf of a banned user, or that assist a user in violating an arbitration injunction, are not permitted.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:38, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 21:26, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Reasonableness and disruption
9) Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably with respect to editing and relating to other users. Editing practices that cause disruption to the normal functioning of Wikipedia will not be tolerated.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 15:36, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 15:38, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:22, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

RfCs/RfAs
1) CheeseDreams has made repeated and unreasonable requests for comment and requests for arbitration, outside of the guidelines for these actions

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 18:02, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's the last of those that's especially noteworthy... Grunt 🇪🇺 18:21, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:23, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) I wouldn't give an "aye" on this if it wasn't obviously extreme. The last one particularly qualifies.
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Sockpuppet accounts
2) It can be assumed that the accounts User:Cheesedreams, User:Cheese Dreams, User:Cheese dreams, User:Cheese-Dreams, User:Cheese-dreams and User:Cheese -dreams and User:Cheese- dreams are sockpuppet accounts of User:CheeseDreams.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 18:02, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe (some of) these accounts shared passwords? -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:21, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * all of, yes -- sannse (talk) 21:19, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:24, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) (Due to the shared passwords especially.)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Impersonation accounts
3) The accounts User:CheeseDreems, User:CheeseyDreams, User:Cheesydreams, User:CheezDreams and User:CHEESEdreams may be impersonations of User:CheeseDreams intended to cause disruption.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 18:02, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ...whereas these accounts did not share passwords with User:CheeseDreams. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:21, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * yep - these were not accessable with the password CheeseDreams posted, we should add that perhaps? -- sannse (talk) 21:19, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:30, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Deliberate release of password
4) CheeseDreams deliberately released her password for several accounts, either to cause disruption, to encourage others to cause disruption, or to disclaim responsibility for her edits

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 18:21, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:26, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Disruption of arbitration process
5) CheeseDreams, or someone editing from that account, has attempted to disrupt the arbitration process by repeatedly blanking several case pages, , ,.

 * Aye:
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 18:21, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:47, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 19:27, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 22:30, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Violation of previous arbcom rulings
6) Prior to releasing her password, CheeseDreams engaged in edits that violated the Arbitration Committee's previously issued ban on editing all Christianity-related articles for the period of one year, , ,.

 * Aye:
 * (I'll dig up the examples later) -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:53, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 18:57, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 17:19, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) but note that, as far as I can see, only the four edits above were violations that can be traced definitely to CheeseDreams (added diffs)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:34, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Abuse of sockpuppet accounts
7) CheeseDreams has used sockpuppet accounts to avoid blocks given for violations of arbitration committee rulings (Edit to Christianity related article resulting in block of 5 days from 01:38, 31 Jan 2005:. Repeat of edit using a different account while blocked:. Other edits during the block period:, , )

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 19:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) (diffs to follow)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 00:55, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 06:47, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:36, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

"Proxy" editing to violate an arbitration ruling
8) User:Tigermoon has made "proxy" edits on behalf of User:CheeseDreams, , .  This continued despite Tigermoon being informed that proxy edits for CheeseDreams were not acceptable (warning: , a comparison of the first proxy edit and one of those after Mirv's warning: )

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 19:26, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 00:55, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) This one seems little-known, but Tigermoon should have got it after one warning.
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:43, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Disruption involving Rienzo
9) Much of the disruption caused by CheeseDreams has been centred on her dispute with User:Rienzo.  While there is no technical evidence to verify this, an overall view of the editing patterns of the accounts suggests that it is likely that Rienzo is responsible for some or all of the impersonations and the resulting disruption.  Many of the edits presumed to be violations of previous arbitration rulings by CheeseDreams are likely to have been made by Rienzo using impersonation accounts.  CheeseDreams reaction to these impersonations has also been disruptive.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 16:56, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 17:12, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 01:51, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) I doubt it's "all", but CD's wild accusations that large numbers of people she conflicted with were Rienzo socks ...
 * ➥the Epopt 16:01, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Ban for disregard of previous rulings
1) For a complete disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for one month.

 * Aye:
 * As preceeded by Chuck F. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:54, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * Too short. Neutralitytalk 18:57, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * too short ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Too short.
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

1.1) For a complete disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for three months.

 * Aye:
 * I think this deserves longer. Ambi 23:44, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 00:55, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)
 * not long enough ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Only if one year or six months fails
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) (note that this relates to violations of the injunction, the proxy editor incidents and editing while banned - ideally, I'd like to see this included in the wording)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * too short Theresa Knott  (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Prefer 1.2 to this. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:32, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

1.2) For a complete disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for six months.

 * Aye:
 * If Epopt and Ambi think three months is not long enough, I'll pitch this. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:15, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) I prefer a year.
 * Neutralitytalk 17:24, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 16:05, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * My second choice Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * sannse (talk) 18:12, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) Unless 1.1 does't pass - I think three months is right, especially with consecutive bans
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) (Agree with sannse.)

 * Abstain:

1.3) For a complete disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for one year.

 * Aye:
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) I see no prospect of CheeseDreams becoming a good editor any sooner.
 * Neutralitytalk 17:24, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 16:05, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * disregarding AC rulings is a serious matter and deserves a serious censure. Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * If Epopt and Ambi thinks three months is not long enough, I'll pitch this even though I think it's too long. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:06, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) too long
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) (Too long.)

 * Abstain:

Ban for disregard of Wikipedia procedure
2) For abuse of Wikipedia processes and procedures including arbitration requests and requests for comment, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for three months.

 * Aye:
 * Not sure about the length, but ok. Grunt 🇪🇺 18:54, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 17:22, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) too long
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC) (Too long for just making complaints.)

 * Abstain:

2.1) For abuse of Wikipedia processes and procedures including arbitration requests and requests for comment, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for one month.

 * Aye:
 * Not sure about the length, but ok. Grunt 🇪🇺 18:54, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) as part of the consecutive bans, this seems right
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * only if a three month ban does not pass Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * Too short. Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Too short. ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Too short. David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Too short. Neutralitytalk 17:22, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

Ban for sockpuppet abuse
3) For abuse of sockpuppet accounts to further the above disputes, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for three months.

 * Aye:
 * Not sure about the length, but ok. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:58, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * I think this is fitting. Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Yep.
 * Neutralitytalk 17:20, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) too long
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

3.1) For abuse of sockpuppet accounts to further the above disputes, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for one month.

 * Aye:
 * Not sure about the length, but ok. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:58, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:19, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) in comparison with other cases, this seems enough for this aspect

 * Nay:
 * Too short. ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Too short. David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Too short. Neutralitytalk 17:20, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * ' Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

Account restriction
4) CheeseDreams is restricted to editing from the account User:CheeseDreams.

 * Aye:
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 18:59, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:30, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 16:32, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) I would consider changing this to allow a different account name - but only with agreement of the committee
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Bar on starting RfCs/RfArs
5) CheeseDreams cannot initiate any requests for comment or requests for arbitration. Should CheeseDreams initiate any RfCs or RfArs, CheeseDreams may be blocked by any administrator for a period of time up onto and including one week. Any RfCs or RfArs initiated by CheeseDreams may be removed by any user.

 * Aye:
 * Neutralitytalk 06:51, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) This is OK by me.

 * Nay:
 * Completely removing this ability is unacceptable; how would CD be able to resolve disputes? See below. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:05, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 14:12, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

5.1) CheeseDreams shall not initiate any frivolous requests for comment or requests for arbitration. Should CheeseDreams initiate any RfCs or RfArs deemed by administrators to be frivolous, CheeseDreams may be blocked by any administrator for a period of time up onto and including one week. Any RfCs or RfArs initiated by CheeseDreams of this nature may be removed by any user.

 * Aye:
 * The wording might need a little bit of work, but the idea behind it is better, I think. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 18:05, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) This is OK by me too.
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * I disagree. CD is going to use this a loophole. She has already demonstrated an inability to effectively resolve disputes and has abused the system in multiple ways. If CheeseDreams has a serious problem with a user after she comes back from the ban, she can get someone else to file a RfC/RfAr. Neutralitytalk 01:35, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * If she abuses this she will find herself blocked for a week. The wording should be aimed at the wikicommunity to interpret rather than cheesedreams Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 14:12, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

5.2) CheeseDreams is a vexatious litigant. As such she is prohibited from initiating any requests for comment or requests for arbitration. Should she initiate an RfC or RfAr, she may be blocked for up to one week. Any RfCs or RfArs initiated by CheeseDreams may be removed by any user.  Should CheeseDreams feel she has valid grounds for initiating an RfC or RfAr, she may submit those grounds to one member (her choice) of the Arbitration Committee.  That individual arbiter will judge her grounds and decide whether she will be permitted to initiate that particular RfCs or RfAr.  If she attempts to resubmit an identical RfC or RfAr, she will be blocked for up to one week.

 * Aye:
 * ➥the Epopt 14:12, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Fine by me.
 * Neutralitytalk 17:16, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * This demonstrates a different problem - it does not prevent arbitrators from being deluged with frivolous cases. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 15:30, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)
 * It will be a lot less disruptive for one person to delete her frivolous e-mail messages than to deal with her bombardment of the wiki. ➥the Epopt 17:17, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I would consider it to be more harrassing and more difficult to have to deal with frivolous requests by oneself than on the wiki (where there are more people to deal with these problems) - a situation which I'm sure none of us would want to endure. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 19:20, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)
 * Okay, so we allow individual arbiters to refuse to hear her, so long as one (me) is willing. ➥the Epopt 04:49, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

5.3) CheeseDreams is a vexatious litigant. As such she is prohibited from initiating any requests for comment or requests for arbitration. Should she initiate an RfC or RfAr, she may be blocked for up to one week. Any RfCs or RfArs initiated by CheeseDreams may be removed by any user.  Should CheeseDreams feel she has valid grounds for initiating an RfC or RfAr, she may submit those grounds to the Epopt or sannse.  That individual arbiter will judge her grounds and decide whether she will be permitted to initiate that particular RfC or RfAr.  If she attempts to resubmit an identical RfC or RfAr, she will be blocked for up to one week.

 * Aye:
 * I'll go for this if Epopt is demonstrating a willingness to hear these requests. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 17:42, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC) I suggest we also add an alternative name (and having suggested it, I will also volunteer for it)
 * Added. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 19:12, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 20:17, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 01:51, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) Ideal.
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Ban for disruption
6) For significant disruption, relating to a dispute between CheeseDreams and Rienzo, both users are banned for 6 months. Edits by either that attempt to implicate the other, and so to extend this or other bans, will result in this ban being reset for both users.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 17:00, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 17:12, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 17:18, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 01:51, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 16:05, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * This looks unfair to me. How can we extend a ban on one person becasue of the behaviour of another? Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not perfectly fair to the two of them - but it is, I think, a necessary step to stop these games and remove this damaging dispute from Wikipedia. In that respect it's fair to Wikipedia, and at this stage I think that's what's needed. -- sannse (talk) 02:46, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

Consecutivity of bans
7) All bans of definite length above shall run consecutively (not concurrently).

 * Aye:
 * This needs to be done. Grunt 🇪🇺 22:13, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 15:05, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 17:19, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:14, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Proxy editing
8) User:Tigermoon is reminded that it is not acceptable to "proxy" for a banned or restricted user. While editors can of course make judgements as to whether edits suggested by a restricted user are valid, simply editing for such a user is is regarded as the equivalent of the user making the edits herself.

 * Aye:
 * sannse (talk) 18:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 21:40, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ambi 01:20, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 01:51, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 16:05, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Theresa Knott (ask the rotten) 04:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

Account restriction
1) If CheeseDreams is found to be editing from any account or IP other than User:CheeseDreams, that account shall be blocked indefinitely and CheeseDreams shall be subjected to a ban of up to one week cumulative with any currently-running bans.

 * Aye:
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 19:01, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)

 * Nay:
 * Prefer 1.1. Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 00:55, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:26, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 16:14, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 18:16, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain:

1.1) If CheeseDreams is found to be editing from any account or IP other than User:CheeseDreams, that account shall be blocked indefinitely and CheeseDreams shall be subjected to a ban of up to one week cumulative with any currently-running bans. If sockpuppets are used to avoid a ban, then that ban shall be reset. IP blocks should be handled as per Blocking policy. Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Aye:
 * Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Grunt 🇪🇺 00:55, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 05:26, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 06:52, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 23:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) I added the text "IP blocks should be handled as per Blocking policy."
 * sannse (talk) 18:16, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delirium 23:36, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nay:

 * Abstain:

=Discussion by Arbitrators=

Motion to close
Four net Aye votes needed to close case (each Nay vote subtracts an Aye) 24 hours from the first motion is normally the fastest a case will close.

 * I move to close; we've passed all principles and FoFs, a subsection (1.2, 2, 3, 4, 5.3, 6, 7) of each remedy, and the associated enforcements. This adds up to a year in plain bans plus the six month CD/Rienzo resetting ban (however we want to count it). -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:35, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)
 * David Gerard 16:13, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) (effective 14:35, 3 March 2005)
 * →Raul654 22:20, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * ➥the Epopt 00:05, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * sannse (talk) 02:47, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) (effective 14:35, 3 March 2005)
 * Neutralitytalk 22:16, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams 2/Evidence

Anyone, whether directly involved or not, may add evidence to this page. Please make a header for your evidence and sign your comments with your name.

When placing evidence here, please be considerate of the arbitrators and be concise. Long, rambling, or stream-of-conciousness rants are not helpful.

As such, it is extremely important that you use the prescribed format. Submitted evidence should include a link to the actual page diff; links to the page itself are not sufficient. For example, to cite the edit by Mennonot to the article Anomalous phenomenon adding a link to Hundredth Monkey use this form:.

This page is not for general discussion - for that, see talk page.

Please make a section for your evidence and add evidence only in your own section. Please limit your evidence to a maximum 1000 words and 100 diffs, a much shorter, concise presentation is more likely to be effective. Please focus on the issues raised in the complaint and answer and on diffs which illustrate behavior which relates to the issues.

If you disagree with some evidence you see here, please cite the evidence in your own section and provide counter-evidence, or an explanation of why the evidence is misleading. Do not edit within the evidence section of any other user.

Be aware that the Arbitrators may at times rework this page to try to make it more coherent. If you are a participant in the case or a third party, please don't try to refactor the page, let the Arbitrators do it. If you object to evidence which is inserted by other participants or third parties please cite the evidence and voice your objections within your own section of the page. It is especially important to not remove evidence presented by others. If something is put in the wrong place, please leave it for the arbitrators to move.

Trolling and vandalizing user pages on Swedish Wikipedia
User:CheeseDreams has used several IP's to vandalize user pages on Swedish Wikipedia, e.g. from 81.156.183.69, 81.156.92.59 and 81.156.180.239, see evidence. See also discussion about this.

Sandor 17:32, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

CheeseDreams continues to troll user pages

Sandor 14:18, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[comments moved to talk by sannse (talk) 11:56, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)]

Apparently CheeseDreams sees sock puppets everywhere. CD vandalized my user and talk page repeatedly on February 13th. He has also removed or edited my comments on other talk pages. This has got to stop, people! Sandor 02:36, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

29 January - ArbCom request against Slrubenstein

 * 08:18, 29 Jan 2005
 * CheeseDreams submitted a request for arbitration.

 * 5:32, 30 Jan 2005
 * Rejected by all arbitrators. This includes Grunt, Ambi, Neutrality, mav, Sannse, David Gerard and The Epopt.

 * 08:54, 31 Jan 2005
 * mav rejects the request for arbitration formally and blanks it.

 * 09:34, 1 Feb 2005
 * CheeseDreams resubmits the request that was rejected.

 * 14:47, 1 Feb 2005
 * Arbitrator Ambi rejects request and notes that she "condemn[s] what is becoming a blatant misuse of this page."

 * 14:48, 1 Feb 2005
 * Rejected by Grunt.

 * 14:53, 1 Feb 2005
 * Rejected by mav, who states that "This is starting to look a lot like harassment against Sl."

 * 14:58, 1 Feb 2005
 * Rejected by Neutrality.

 * 14:59, 1 Feb 2005
 * Rejected by Raul654. He agrees with Ambi.

 * 15:39, 1 Feb 2005
 * Ambi formally rejects the ArbCom request again.

1 February - harassing Ta bu shi da yu

 * 10:14, 1 Feb 2005
 * Asks Dante Alighieri whether "Can you check to see whether 67.15.54.16 is a viable IP used by user User:Ta bu shi da yu. I know this is a strange idea, but 67.15.54.16 is based in melbourne, Australia."

 * 09:34, 1 Feb 2005
 * Posts a message to Ta bu shi da yu's talk page stating that Ta bu shi da yu is a "literalist christian" (unsure what that means) and a "fundamentalist". Evidently did not recieve a reply that satisfied her from User:Dante Alighieri as she asks Ta bu shi da yu "Curiously, the IP address 67.15.54.16 is based in Melbourne, Australia, and I remember TBSDY claiming that they were in Australia. I wonder, TBSDY, do you speak Swedish?". The accusation is that TBSDY is using Rienzo as a sockpuppet. For the record, TBSDY neither speaks Swedish nor lives in Melbourne.

[comments moved to talk by sannse (talk) 11:56, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)]

Please note: without a developer I cannot be certain that the posts from Special:Contributions/81.156.182.159 is CheeseDreams. I am presenting this as evidence because I strongly suspect that this is CheeseDreams, mainly because I've seen her post from this netblock before (it's is a BT cable IP address) and because of the response at.

 * 06:41, 3 Feb 2005
 * Sends a message to Rd232 stating that Ta bu shi da yu is performing POV edits. States (with regards to The Jesus Mysteries that "Also note that Freke & Gandy's book was regarded by the Daily Telegraph as "an erudite and well researched book stuffed with controversial ideas", and so inserting only the CNN viewpoint is a heavy and POV attempt to discredit it." - however, Ta bu shi da yu did not remove this material. (Ta bu shi da yu did remove unsourced books, however, from Historicity of Jesus due to significant POV bias and no real evidence of them being used in the article - no sources were cited! Those inline sources that are now in the text were mostly put in by Ta bu shi da yu.)

 * 06:56, 3 Feb 2005
 * Sends exactly the same message to Sunborn's talk page.

 * 07:00, 3 Feb 2005
 * Sends same message to Bensaccount's talk page.

 * 07:00, 3 Feb 2005
 * Sends same message to FeloniousMonk's talk page.

 * 07:01, 3 Feb 2005
 * Sends the same message to Ben Standeven's talk page.

1 February - harasses Bacchiad

 * 10:15, 1 Feb 2005
 * From her sock-puppet account (User:Cheese -dreams, CheeseDreams states "So, whose sock puppet are you? CheeseDreams 00:15, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)" (she had a disagreement with this user over an article).

[comments moved to talk by sannse (talk) 11:56, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)]

 * 15:57, 1 Feb 2005
 * Ta bu shi da yu requests (on Bacchiad and on CheeseDreams page) that "This is the second time I've seen you imply that someone is a sockpuppet. The first time you did it for me. I count this as harassment. Will you please stop?"

 * 14:04, 10 Feb 2005
 * Her answer, on User:Bacchiad's talk page, is "No." Clear evidence of willingness to harass people through accusations they are sock puppets.

Katoomba Christian Convention

 * 14 Feb 2005
 * CheeseDreams removed a copyvio from the article and made a personal attack against myself: "TBSDY, you have been working on this article for months, and invited people to assist you. Strange how there is nothing here then." For the record, I don't actually have to work on my focus article if I don't wish to. - Ta bu shi da yu 01:50, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[comment moved to talk by sannse (talk) 11:56, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)]

Feburary 25

 * 01:17, 25 Feb 2005
 * User:CheezeDreams adds the text "This user is a sock puppet of User:Rienzo." to the userpage of User:Ta bu shi da yu.

17 Feb 2005 - Page blanking in this RFAr

 * 07:31
 * User:CheeseDreams blanks this evidence page.
 * This is reverted by User:Curps at 07:34

 * 07:32
 * User:CheeseDreams blanks the main page of this RFAr
 * This is reverted by User:Curps at 07:33

19 Feb 2005 - Accusations of sockpuppetry

 * 09:49
 * User:65.161.54.104 edits this page to comment on the evidence I presented relating to the 17 Feb 2005. . In this edit I am accused of being a sockpuppet of User:Rienzo. This edit is signed CheeseDreams.

 * 09:52
 * User:65.161.65.104 puts a note on my talk page that implicitly accuses me of being a sockpuppet of User:Rienzo (confirmed by the 09:49 edit to this page, above). . The edit was signed CheeseDreams.

 * 10:16
 * I responded to the comments on my talk page and this page, and added the 09:52 evidence above. I also denied the accusation and invited the Arbitration committee to examine the claim and provided links to the contribution histories of myself (Thryduulf) and Rienzo..

 * 10:17 - 10:19
 * I made a succession of minor ammendments to the layout and phrasing of my above response:,   &.

 * 10:35
 * User:65.161.65.104 reponds to my response above by giving an explanation in more detail of why they beleive I am a sockpuppet of User:Rienzo and signs the edit User:CheeseDreams . The allegations can be summarised as:
 * I made my first edit around the time User:CheeseDreams first accused user:Rienzo of sockpuppetry.
 * I have the same behaviour as Rienzo, specifically I have a high anger level and am in persuit of user:CheeseDreams.
 * That it is easy for her to tell I'm a sockpuppet because she is skilled in analysing text sources.
 * That my having a Scandinavian username is telling (because user:Rienzo is Sweedish).
 * She also commented that it would be interesting to know what my IP was.

 * 11:17
 * I provided detailed responses to her above points

 * 11:25
 * I made a minor formatting error to the above

 * 12:27
 * following user:Sannse's comments on the talk page I refactored my side of the discussion to how it appears above, and moved the comments to the talk page. Edit to this page, edit to talk page

24 Feb 2005

 * 15:11
 * user:CheezeDreams, who may be a CheeseDreams sockpuppet or impersonator, insterts an accusation of sockpuppetry on the user page of User:Grillo, a sys-op on sv.

24th & 25th Feb 2005 - more responses and my request

 * 23:30
 * user:218.22.44.244 adds responses to my comments on the talk page. Written in the first person as if they are CD

 * 00:22
 * I respond on the talk page. I also changed my previous bulleted format to a heading level one for clarity, and added user:218.22.44.244 to the end of all the comments made by that user for clarity.

 * 00:34
 * completley fed up with the (imho) baseless accusations of sockpuppetry I asked at WP:AN/I for my IPs etc, to be investigated to see if they are open proxies, and whether or not I am a sockpuppet of user:Rienzo or anyone else.

Explanation of above by CheeseDreams
On 14th February 2005, I (CheeseDreams), gave Rienzo my password, doing so on Rienzo's talk page. Any edit claiming to be by me (CheeseDreams) since then is likely to be Rienzo, or someone else.

In particular, due to the speed of reversion of the above, I note that the only person who would really know about the page blanking apart from Curps would be Rienzo (or whoever logged in to my account if it was not Rienzo). Since Thryduulf presents the evidence, then this leads to the conclusion that Thryduulf is a Rienzo sockpuppet.

Reponse by Thryduulf
(moved to talk page Thryduulf 13:17, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC))

Response to the response by CheeseDreams
If you are not Rienzo, then how come your first edit was around the same time that I discovered Rienzo's sockpuppets, and brought arbitration against Rienzo with the inevitable consequence of his being banned, and thus needing some other account to perform edits?

You also have a behavioural pattern identical to Reinzo, in particular, pursuit of CheeseDreams, as well as the anger level you exhibit (see your comment on the RFAR page on 14th of February), and also the immediacy and urgency with which you seem to react to my accusation of sockpuppetry (e.g. see the User:Sandor sock puppet for an example of this).

Remember, the skill of textual criticism to tell sources apart, and identify others, is something that is characteristic of the contributions to articles about sources that I have been editing. It is very easy for me to spot sockpuppetry.

It would be interesting to know what your IP address was. And also why you have a scandinavian username (remember, Rienzo is from Sweden).

CheeseDreams

Thryduulf's response to CheeseDreams' Response
(moved to talk page Thryduulf 13:17, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC))

19 February

 * I noted this afternoon that CheeseDreams had given her password away on the 14 February. I note that the evidence above also refers to this, As a precaution, I have changed all the passwords of the User:CheeseDreams, User:Cheesedreams, User:Cheese Dreams, User:Cheese dreams, User:Cheese-Dreams, User:Cheese-dreams and User:Cheese -dreams accounts, so only I have access. The other accounts listed on the complaint as possible sockpuppets did not share the same password. If the ArbCom or Jimbo so wishes, I will give the password to them. Apart from one edit as "CheeseDreams" on WP:AN/I to prove I had access, I have made, and will not make, any further edits under that name, jguk           14:39, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I missed User:Cheese- dreams. I have now changed the password of that account too. All the accounts referred to above shared the same password, jguk 18:44, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

19 February
CheeseDreams wrote on my user page that

Mind you, this is a sock puppet of User:Rienzo. CheeseDreams 13:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

which is quite ridiculous, especially since I gave evidence in the case against Rienzo (Requests for arbitration/Rienzo/Evidence). His/her reason for do so may have something to do with me reverting vandalism of a user page on the Swedish Wikipedia. Thuresson 18:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Response to Thuresson by CheeseDreams
You will note that the above referred to edit was on the 19th, we I gave Rienzo my account on 14th. You can get a developer to confirm that the above use of the CheeseDreams account was from Rienzo's swedish/proxy block of IP addresses, rather than a UK one.
 * There is a big problem with your defense here. It is your fault that this was used by Rienzo (if at all!) because you tried to cause disruption by posting your password for all to use. Don't expect any sympathy. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:57, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/CheeseDreams 2

Case Opened on 12 February 2005

Case Closed on 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this case; editing this page implicitly authorizes the other participants to enter a complaint against you which may be considered by the Arbitrators as may your behavior. Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read, in full. Evidence, no matter who can provide it, is very welcome at /Evidence. Evidence is more useful than comments.

Arbitrators will be working on a proposed decision at /Proposed decision.

The parties
Ta bu shi da yu

v.

CheeseDreams

The actions of User:Rienzo and User:Tigermoon relating to this case will also be considered

Statement of complaint
Please limit your statement to 500 words

I am concerned by the recent behaviour of CheeseDreams. She has caused various problems: she edited Osiris-Dionysus, in violation of her ArbCom order not to edit articles relating to Christianity. She submitted an RFAr against Slrubenstein, when this was universally rejected by all arbitrators. This was then immediately resubmitted and then immediately cleared by Ambi. I find this to be harassment and would like some way of stopping CheeseDreams from making frivilous RFCs and RFArs. Mav has suggested that a good way of resolving this issue is to create a class of editors called "vexation litigants" (see Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive5), and I think this is a good idea. The idea is that people who are deemed vexatious litigators are put under restrictions where they cannot file a suit without approval from a judge and that we do something similar: those editors can only file RFCs and RFArs with the pre-approval of an arbitrator (not selected by the vexation litigant, it should be chosen by the Arbitration Committee to stop disputes).

My complaint also involves further harassment via an anoymous IP address. CheeseDreams under an IP address (Special:Contributions/81.156.182.159 even though she was blocked for a week), posted to User talk:Ben Standeven, User talk:FeloniousMonk, User talk:Bensaccount, User talk:Sunborn and User talk:Rd232 the following:

Could you add these two pages to your to do list, there is some extremely POV editing going on by TBSDY *1 - and evidence of TBSDY's extreme POV editing there -  *2 - and evidence of TBSDY's extreme POV editing there - , , and most of all  Also note that the critical books removed are the more respected of the group, but the ones left in more dubious. The same goes for trying to tie all of the aspects to people like Hislop, Freke, and Gandy. Also note that Freke & Gandy's book was regarded by the Daily Telegraph as "an erudite and well researched book stuffed with controversial ideas", and so inserting only the CNN viewpoint is a heavy and POV attempt to discredit it. Here are some links you might find useful for commenting on TBSDY *WP:RFC *WP:RFM *WP:RFAR Thanks. Good luck. And don't give in. And just to check what is going on *WP:AN

This is harassment, pure and simple. I never got a message on my talk page from CheeseDreams, except for the following:, where CheeseDreams accused me of a) being a sockpuppet of User:Rienzo merely because I live in Australia. She states that I live in Melbourne, of being a "literalist christian" (whatever that is) and speak Swedish! This is, to be frank, bizarre behaviour.

I have further concerns with the amount of accounts she has created. She has the accounts User:CheeseDreams, User:Cheesedreams, User:Cheese Dreams, User:Cheese dreams, User:Cheese-Dreams, User:Cheese-dreams and User:Cheese -dreams. She has the possible accounts User:CheeseyDreams, User:CheezDreams and User:CHEESEdreams though I can't be sure. User:Jayjg says that there are many more sockpuppets than that, including User:Acidmonkey, User:Neutra¦ity, User:Fish lizard, and User:To register select a username, though without a developer checking we can't be sure. My point here: I would like all verified sock-puppets blocked indefinitely. A good-fath editor should not normally need more than one account!

Lastly, I am extremely unimpressed by the fact that CheeseDreams tried to do editing by proxy via her friend User:Tigermoon. See Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive5 - many admins feel that this was done to bypass her block. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:05, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Note, it is not clear to me whether User:Acidmonkey, User:Neutra¦ity, User:Fish lizard, and User:To register select a username are direct sockpuppets of User:CheeseDreams, or of User:Tigermoon acting on her behalf. It has also been speculated that User:Tigermoon may, in fact, be a sockpuppet of CheeseDreams, and not just a friend acting on her behalf. Jayjg (talk) 23:12, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Apologies if I misrepresented your comments, Jayjg. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:50, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. Note User:Red before blue is another of these sockpuppets. Jayjg (talk)  00:13, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Can we please have a developer check whether CheeseDreams sends from 81.156.180.239? This is for two reasons: someone has been annoying the Swedish users (see ) and for the harrassment done from Special:Contributions/81.156.182.159. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:06, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Addendum

Also, please check whether User:Tigermoon is a sockpuppet of CheeseDreams. OneGuy 05:24, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Statement by affected party
Please limit your statement to 500 words

Comments and votes by Arbitrators (5/0/0/0)

 * Accept. Neutralitytalk 23:43, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Accept for investigation of sockpuppet abuse. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 23:46, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)
 * Accept -- sannse (talk) 13:07, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Accept ➥the Epopt 13:48, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Accept Nohat 07:35, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Template
1) User:CheeseDreams is banned from editing Wikipedia for the duration of this case except for the pages User:CheeseDreams, User talk:CheeseDreams and the arbitration case pages relating to her.

 * ''Passed with four votes at 15:44, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)

2) User:CheeseDreams is limited to one account.  The following accounts are presumed to be either sockpuppet accounts of CheeseDreams or impersonations of Cheesedreams and are therefore to be blocked:  User:Cheesedreams, User:Cheese Dreams, User:Cheese dreams, User:Cheese-Dreams, User:Cheese-dreams, User:Cheese -dreams, User:CheeseyDreams, User:CheezDreams and User:CHEESEdreams.  All other sockpuppet or impersonation accounts identified can also be blocked.  The password for User:CheeseDreams has been changed for security reasons and will be released to CheeseDreams if she is able to prove her identity.  Otherwise the account will remain unavailable and CheeseDreams should mail any evidence she wants considered in her case to User:Sannse

 * ''Passed with four votes at 15:44, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)

=Final decision = All numbering based on /Proposed decision (vote counts and comments are there as well)

Pointless RfCs/RfAs
2) Requests for comment and requests for arbitration should be used appropriately within the guidelines on that page. They should not be used for frivolous or pointless disputes and should not be used as a forum for personal attacks, harassment, and abuse.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppet abuse
3) The use of sockpuppet accounts, while not generally forbidden, is discouraged. Abuse of sockpuppet accounts, such as using them to evade blocks and bans, make personal attacks or reverts, or vandalize, is strictly forbidden.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

One user or several?
4) For the purpose of dispute resolution when there is uncertainty whether a party is one user with sockpuppets or several users with similar editing habits they may be treated as one user with sockpuppets.

 * ''Passed 7 to 0 with 1 abstention at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Impersonation accounts
5) Accounts designed to impersonate other contributors are not permitted (see Blocking policy). Accounts designed to impersonate may be immediately blocked indefinitely by any administrator.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Security of accounts.
6) Contributors are responsible for the security of their password. While accidental breaches are understandable and sometimes unavoidable, a contributor who deliberately releases their password should expect to be held responsible for any malicious edits made as a result.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration rulings
7) Arbitration rulings on the English Wikipedia are binding on contributors to the project and violations will be regarded seriously.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Proxy edits
8) "Proxy" edits on behalf of a banned user, or that assist a user in violating an arbitration injunction, are not permitted.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Reasonableness and disruption
9) Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably with respect to editing and relating to other users. Editing practices that cause disruption to the normal functioning of Wikipedia will not be tolerated.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

RfCs/RfAs
1) CheeseDreams has made repeated and unreasonable requests for comment and requests for arbitration, outside of the guidelines for these actions ...

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sockpuppet accounts
2) It can be assumed that the accounts User:Cheesedreams, User:Cheese Dreams, User:Cheese dreams, User:Cheese-Dreams, User:Cheese-dreams and User:Cheese -dreams and User:Cheese- dreams are sockpuppet accounts of User:CheeseDreams.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Impersonation accounts
3) The accounts User:CheeseDreems, User:CheeseyDreams, User:Cheesydreams, User:CheezDreams and User:CHEESEdreams may be impersonations of User:CheeseDreams intended to cause disruption.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Deliberate release of password
4) CheeseDreams deliberately released her password for several accounts, either to cause disruption, to encourage others to cause disruption, or to disclaim responsibility for her edits

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Disruption of arbitration process
5) CheeseDreams, or someone editing from that account, has attempted to disrupt the arbitration process by repeatedly blanking several case pages, , ,.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Violation of previous arbcom rulings
6) Prior to releasing her password, CheeseDreams engaged in edits that violated the Arbitration Committee's previously issued ban on editing all Christianity-related articles for the period of one year, , ,.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Abuse of sockpuppet accounts
7) CheeseDreams has used sockpuppet accounts to avoid blocks given for violations of arbitration committee rulings (Edit to Christianity related article resulting in block of 5 days from 01:38, 31 Jan 2005:. Repeat of edit using a different account while blocked:. Other edits during the block period:, , )

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Proxy" editing to violate an arbitration ruling
8) User:Tigermoon has made "proxy" edits on behalf of User:CheeseDreams, , .  This continued despite Tigermoon being informed that proxy edits for CheeseDreams were not acceptable (warning: , a comparison of the first proxy edit and one of those after Mirv's warning: )

 * Passed 7 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

9) Much of the disruption caused by CheeseDreams has been centred on her dispute with User:Rienzo.  While there is no technical evidence to verify this, an overall view of the editing patterns of the accounts suggests that it is likely that Rienzo is responsible for some or all of the impersonations and the resulting disruption.  Many of the edits presumed to be violations of previous arbitration rulings by CheeseDreams are likely to have been made by Rienzo using impersonation accounts.  CheeseDreams reaction to these impersonations has also been disruptive.

 * Passed 6 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ban for disregard of previous rulings
1.2) For a complete disregard for previous rulings by the arbitration committee, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for six months.

 * Passed 6 to 2 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ban for disregard of Wikipedia procedure
2) For abuse of Wikipedia processes and procedures including arbitration requests and requests for comment, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for three months.

 * Passed 6 to 2 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ban for sockpuppet abuse
3) For abuse of sockpuppet accounts to further the above disputes, CheeseDreams (under whatever account) is banned for three months.

 * Passed 6 to 2 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Account restriction
4) CheeseDreams is restricted to editing from the account User:CheeseDreams.

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Restrictions on starting RfCs/RfArs
5.3) CheeseDreams is a vexatious litigant. As such she is prohibited from initiating any requests for comment or requests for arbitration. Should she initiate an RfC or RfAr, she may be blocked for up to one week. Any RfCs or RfArs initiated by CheeseDreams may be removed by any user.  Should CheeseDreams feel she has valid grounds for initiating an RfC or RfAr, she may submit those grounds to the Epopt or sannse.  That individual arbiter will judge her grounds and decide whether she will be permitted to initiate that particular RfC or RfAr.  If she attempts to resubmit an identical RfC or RfAr, she will be blocked for up to one week.

 * Passed 7 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ban for disruption
6) For significant disruption, relating to a dispute between CheeseDreams and Rienzo, both users are banned for 6 months. Edits by either that attempt to implicate the other, and so to extend this or other bans, will result in this ban being reset for both users.

 * Passed 7 to 1 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Consecutivity of bans
7) All bans of definite length above shall run consecutively (not concurrently).

 * Passed 8 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(note: arbitration rulings are caped at one year maximum for bans)

Proxy editing
8) User:Tigermoon is reminded that it is not acceptable to "proxy" for a banned or restricted user. While editors can of course make judgements as to whether edits suggested by a restricted user are valid, simply editing for such a user is is regarded as the equivalent of the user making the edits herself.

 * Passed 7 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Account restriction
1.1) If CheeseDreams is found to be editing from any account or IP other than User:CheeseDreams, that account shall be blocked indefinitely and CheeseDreams shall be subjected to a ban of up to one week cumulative with any currently-running bans. If sockpuppets are used to avoid a ban, then that ban shall be reset. IP blocks should be handled as per Blocking policy. Ambi 23:43, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Passed 7 to 0 at 15:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Clerk's addendum
On 28 March, 2006, was determined by the arbitration committee to be CheeseDreams evading her ban.

 * Requests for arbitration/-Ril-
 * Requests for arbitration/-Ril- 2

The -Ril- account was ordered to be blocked indefinitely and the Cheesedreams ban was extended for a further year. --Tony Sidaway 22:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Random admin's addendum
Because User:CheeseDreams revealed her password in public, User:JRM felt forced to change it and, because she does not have an email address set, block her indefinitely. Stifle (talk) 00:37, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


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CNS 11643

The CNS 11643 character set (Chinese National Standard 11643), also officially known as the Chinese Standard Interchange Code or CSIC, is officially the standard character set of Taiwan (Republic of China). In practice, variants of the related Big5 character set are de facto standard.

CNS 11643 is designed to conform to ISO 2022. It contains 16 planes, so the maximum possible number of encodable characters is 16×94×94 = 141376. Planes 1 through 7 are defined by the standard; since 2007, planes 10 through 15 have also been defined by the standard. Prior to this, planes 12 to 15 (35344 code points) were specifically designated for user-defined characters. Unlike CCCII, the encoding of variant characters in CNS 11643 is not related.

EUC-TW is an encoded representation of CNS 11643 and ASCII in Extended Unix Code (EUC) form. Other encodings capable of representing certain CSIC planes include ISO-2022-CN (planes 1 and 2) and ISO-2022-CN-EXT (planes 1 through 7).

History
The first edition of the standard was published in 1986, and included planes 1 and 2, deriving from levels 1 and 2 of Big5, with some re-ordering due to corrected stroke counts, two duplicate characters being omitted, and the addition of 213 classical radicals in plane 1 (out of 214 Kangxi radicals, of which 210 are effectively duplicates of existing Big5 characters and the remaining three of HKSCS characters; see also Kangxi Radicals (Unicode block)). Extensions to the standard were subsequently published in 1988 (6319 characters, occupying plane 14) and 1990 (7169 characters, occupying plane 15).

Unicode 1.0.0, although it did not yet include hanzi, included characters for compatibility with CNS 11643: the CJK Compatibility Forms block was titled "CNS 11643 Compatibility" in Unicode 1.0.0. When the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs set was being compiled for Unicode 1.0.1, the national bodies submitted character sets to the CJK Joint Research Group for inclusion. The version of CNS 11643 submitted included the plane 14 extension, in addition to further desired characters appended to plane 14 (after 68–21, the last used code point in the standard version of the extension).

In the second edition of the standard, published in 1992, a much larger collection of hanzi was defined across seven planes. A subset of the 1988 plane 14 extension, including the 6148 code points 01-01 through 66–38, became plane 3 (with the remaining 171 characters, code points 66-39 through 68–21, being instead distributed amongst plane 4). The plane 15 extension was not included, although 338 of its characters were included amongst planes 4 through 7.

The third edition of the standard, published in 2007, added the Euro sign, ideographic zero, kana and extensions to the existing bopomofo and Roman alphabet support to plane 1. It introduced planes 10 through 14, containing additional hanzi, and incorporated the existing plane 15 extension into the standard itself (with gaps left where the characters already existed in planes 4 through 7). It also added 128 further hanzi to plane 3, starting at code point 68–40.

, there are several thousand CNS 11643 characters with no corresponding Unicode character, mostly in planes 10 through 14; these are mapped to the Unicode Supplementary Private Use Area.

Relationship to Big5
Levels 1 and 2 of the Big5 encoding correspond mostly to CNS 11643 planes 1 and 2, respectively, with occasional differences in order, and with two duplicate hanzi existing in Big5 but not in CNS 11643. They can be mapped using a list of ranges. However, the 213 classical radicals in CNS 11643 plane 1 are additional to the characters available in Big5 (although they can be lossily mapped to the corresponding hanzi characters in Big5 or HKSCS), and further additional characters were added to CNS 11643 plane 1 in 2007. The Big5-2003 variant of Big5 is defined as a partial encoding of CNS 11643.

Within the Big5 hanzi repertoire, only one plane 1 character is conventionally mapped to Unicode differently from the corresponding character from the first two CNS 11643 planes: to U+5F5D (彝), whereas its CNS plane 1 counterpart is mapped to a related variant at U+5F5E (彞); U+5F5D is separately included in CNS 11643 plane 3. However, some variant mappings for Big5, such as some defined by IBM, include U+5F5E rather than U+5F5D. Similarly, a single character from Big5 level 2 (including its IBM variant) is mapped to a different Unicode code point than its CNS 11643 plane 2 counterpart: to U+5284 (劄), while the Unihan database currently maps the CNS 11643 character to U+7B9A (箚); U+5284 appears in CNS 11643 plane 14.

title: CNS 11643


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Western Railway Corridor

The Western Railway Corridor is a term, used since c. 2003, for a partly disused railway line running through the west of Ireland. Currently two sections of the line, from Limerick via Ennis to Athenry and from Collooney to Sligo, see regular services, with other sections either closed or only technically classed as open.

West on Track
West on Track was established in 2003 with the aim of reopening the western rail corridor line, for the use of passenger and freight traffic. Its aim was to preserve the infrastructure already in place and to seek funding for the reopening of the railway line. People involved in West on Track include the sociologist Fr. Micheál MacGréil SJ.

Expert Working Group
In 2005 an Expert Working Group reported on the prospects for reopening all or part of the corridor. In September 2006 the preservation and reclamation from encroachment of the northern section began and the Government then announced funding to begin Phase 1 (Ennis-Athenry) of the re-opening of the corridor. The reopening of these sections was included in the Transport 21 infrastructural plan, and the National Development Plan 2007–2013 "Transforming Ireland – A Better Quality of Life for All". Transport 21 was the plan name given to long term public transport planning by the Irish government which fell from office in 2011. The plan was dropped by the Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar in 2011 and is no longer the blueprint for transport planning in Ireland.

Route and services
The Western Rail Corridor encompasses a series of railways built by various companies throughout the late 19th century, forming a south–north line from Limerick to Sligo. Towns along the WRC include Ennis, Gort, Athenry, Tuam and Claremorris. The route crosses the Dublin–Galway line at Athenry, the Dublin–Westport/Ballina line at Claremorris and joins the Dublin–Sligo line at Collooney. The route largely parallels the corridor served by the N17 and N18 roads.

Passenger services between Claremorris and Collooney ended in 1963, with the section being closed completely in 1975 (the track was left in situ but severed at Collooney). Passenger services between Limerick and Claremorris ceased in 1976, though freight services continued for some time afterwards.

In 1988, a new passenger service started between Limerick and Ennis operating on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This was expanded to Fridays and Saturdays in February 1993 and a six-day service in May 1994. In December 2003, a new seven train a day service started between Limerick and Ennis (connecting or continuing to/from Dublin or Limerick Junction). This was subsequently upgraded to up to 9 trains per day.

In October 2022, Iarnród Éireann and the Government, under the Department of Transport's Pathfinder Programme, announced a study for a train station to be built in Moyross, a suburb on the northside of Limerick City. As of May 2024, a public consultation on the location of the station is open and due to close on 14 June 2024.

Rail freight services
Freight services ran regularly on the Limerick to Claremorris section until the mid-1990s. However, with the closure of the Asahi factory near Ballina, regular freight services north of Athenry ceased in 1997. Fertiliser trains from Foynes continued to use the line as far as Athenry until 2000 and bulk cement trains from the Irish Cements Ltd Castlemungret factory near Limerick until 2001, when the line ceased to have any regular traffic. The line from Claremorris to Athenry now carries no services and is classified by Iarnród Éireann as "engineering sidings". Work on clearing the line was undertaken by Iarnród Éireann from November 2015 onwards. Works included reinstating fencing and removal of vegetation.

Arguments
The reopening of the Western Rail Corridor has raised debate in parts of Ireland, with opinion divided on the benefits of the scheme.

Arguments in favour of reopening the corridor:

Arguments in favour have generally advocated a "balanced" development of the regions vis à vis Dublin and the importance of infrastructure in so doing. The lobby group WestOnTrack has led the campaign to reopen the corridor.

 * The Western Rail Corridor has been supported by all the main political parties and by the local and regional authorities of the counties through which it passes.
 * The case for its reopening has been articulated in an op-ed in the Irish Times,  in the Sunday Independent, by the Irish Hotels Federation, in the Irish Independent, in the Western People, and in the findings of a TG4 opinion poll.
 * Environmental benefits from reduced car usage including lower air pollution and smaller carbon footprint

Arguments against reopening the Corridor:

Arguments against the reopening are based on the cost of the restoration work and the annual subsidy required post capital expenditure, and some advocate using trackbed as a cycle path or Greenway instead.

 * Questions were raised about its viability in an editorial in the Irish Times, by an article in the Irish Independent, by the lobby group, Platform 11, and by the Strategic Rail Review, 2003.
 * In 2009, the McCarthy Report recommended cancelling future sections of the project and closing the Ballina-Manulla rail line.
 * Critics had said that southern sections of the scheme are more viable than those closer to Sligo. The idea of a greenway on any parts of the route, which may become surplus if a railway order process was undertaken, was suggested by Minister Eamon O'Cuiv at a West on Track conference in May 2009 in response to lobbying for this idea from Enniscrone resident Brendan Quinn and his colleague John Mulligan.

Report on transport budget underspend in the West of Ireland
A mid-term evaluation of the Irish government's National Development Plan by the economic consultant company INDECON, is cited by some parties as a reason to build the Western Rail Corridor. The report stated that only half the forecast NDP transport investment in the BMW region for the period 2000–2006 was spent or committed to be spent by 2002, a shortfall of €364 million. As Transport projects have long lead times this report indicated that the relative shortfall in transport expenditure would be maintained over the course of the planning period to 2006.

Frank Dawson detailed statistics breaking out the INDECON data, who is now the Roscommon County Manager.

Reliability of the McCann Expert Working Group report
Lobbyists for the project point to the recommendations of this report commissioned by the minister for transport as evidence that the project is justified. The report stated that if the case for Mayo rail freight could be proven, it would add to the case for rebuilding Athenry-Claremorris as one section.

Frank McDonald, in an article in the Irish Times based on information released under the Freedom of Information Act, indicated that the report was rewritten to exclude any negative assessment of the viability of the project including a forecast that it would 'attract only 750 passengers per day and could require an annual subvention of up to €10 million'. Passenger numbers for the first section of the line between Ennis-Limerick were reported at a mere 600 a day in March 2008.

Criticisms of the McCann Report have included the reliance on anecdotal testimony regarding freight demand and the absence of costings for rolling stock and operating expenses.

A cost-benefit analysis report prepared by Goodbody Economic Consultants for the Department of Transport in 2006 stated that passenger numbers on the soon to be opened Ennis-Athenry section of the WRC would be in the order of 200,000, requiring an annual subvention of €2.4m, with a negative Net Present Value of -€137m. The report concluded that even a doubling of patronage would not make the project viable on cost-benefit grounds, while the regional development benefits from the re-opening were viewed as 'unlikely to be significant.'

Effect of freight
The McCann Report suggests that the Ennis Claremorris Section could divert and grow Mayo to Waterford freight traffic via the Western Rail Corridor.

Opponents argue that rail freight volumes in the country have dropped near to zero in recent years and that indirect freight routes already exist from most large towns in the region. As of September 2015 nine trains serve this freight route in each direction each week.

Infrastructure before development
Advocates of the project argue that key transport infrastructure should be built prior to development and may actually encourage development to take place. Land use and settlement strategies are in place in all of the counties along the route of the WRC as a result of direct initiatives by the County Development Boards and County Councils concerned. In addition the WRC is specified as a key infrastructural objective in the County Development Plans of Clare, Galway, Mayo and Sligo as well as the Regional Planning Guidelines of the West Regional Authority.

Project opponents, however, argue that the local councils are not following land use policies that would create centres of population density around the railway stations along this route, but instead are continuing to permit isolated rural housing.

Expert Working Group Report
An Expert Working Group, headed by Pat McCann, CEO of Jurys Doyle Hotels, reported to the Minister for Transport regarding the prospects for reopening some or all of the route. The group was set up by Minister Séamus Brennan at the urging of West-on-Track in June 2004 and delivered its report to Minister Martin Cullen in May 2005.

The report recommended the reopening of most of the Corridor in three phases and the deferral of the reopening of the northernmost section:

Phase 1: Ennis to Athenry

58 km / 36 miles (€74.7 million)

Phase 2: Athenry to Tuam

25 km / 15.5 miles (€34.7 million)

Phase 3: Tuam to Claremorris

(subject to study of rail freight demand or in conjunction with phase 2) 27 km / 17 miles (€58.9 million)

Phase 4: Claremorris to Collooney

(subject to further feasibility studies and possibly justifiable on the grounds of balanced regional development) 74.43 km / 46.25 miles (€197.4 million)

Transport 21
On 1 November 2005 the Transport 21 plan was launched committing government expenditure of €34 billion between 2006 and 2015 on road, rail and light rail projects. The Western Railway Corridor commitments under this plan were largely those recommended by the McCann Report:

 * 2009 – Opening of Ennis-Athenry section
 * 2011 – Opening of Athenry-Tuam section
 * 2014 – Opening of Tuam-Claremorris section

Former Minister for Transport Martin Cullen also announced the undertaking of a feasibility study into a rail link for Shannon Airport in his speech at the launch. This study, undertaken by MVA Consultants, estimated the proposed link would cost €700m, while an Iarnród Éireann manager stated that 'the costs of the construction of the rail link are out of proportion to the benefits to be gained'.

Transport 21 also stated the section of line from Claremorris to Collooney, the northern section known as Section Four in the McCann Report should be subject to protection of the alignment.

Transport 21 was shelved by the current Irish Government in May 2011. There are no plans to re-open any more sections of the Western Rail Corridor. Former Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar TD is on record as saying the Government has no plans to re-open any further sections of the Western Rail corridor.

TEN-T Transport policy
In November 2013 the European Parliament approved European TEN-T Transport policy. In the most radical overhaul of EU infrastructure policy since its inception in the 1980s, the European Parliament on 19 November 2013 gave final approval to new maps showing the nine major corridors which will act as a backbone for transportation in Europe's single market and revolutionise East–West connections. To match this level of ambition, Parliament also voted to triple EU financing for transport infrastructure.

On the island of Ireland, the only rail route corridor that is included in the TEN-T Core network is the route Cork-Dublin-Belfast. The Limerick-Athenry section of the Western Rail Corridor is included in the TEN-T Comprehensive network.

Progress of works
Following preliminary works in late 2005 and early 2006, official clearance work on the northern section of the line (Claremorris to Collooney) began on 18 September 2006. Renewal of track commenced in 2007 on the line between Ennis and Athenry was completed in 2009. After a gap of more than thirty years, train services between the cities of Galway and Limerick commenced on Tuesday 30 March 2010, on budget at a cost of €106.5m, a figure which included building new stations in Sixmilebridge and Oranmore. The service provides five trains per day between Galway and Limerick. It serves existing stations at Limerick, Ennis, Athenry and Galway, as well as new stations at Sixmilebridge, Gort, Ardrahan and Craughwell. The Limerick to Galway service also feeds into expanded intercity services between Limerick and Dublin and between Galway and Dublin. Iarnród Éireann planned for both routes to gain hourly services at peak and two hourly off-peak; however, recession has resulted in delay, with some services withdrawn.

The middle section of the western rail corridor, Athenry – Claremorris, has been programmed but not funded under Transport 21 while the Collooney – Claremorris northern section has not been programmed or funded bar some line clearance work in 2006. Transport 21 is no longer Irish government policy.

In comments by then Taoiseach Enda Kenny on 22 December 2014 on Midwest radio said the Western Rail corridor was "not going to happen in the foreseeable future" and said "this is not going to happen" when asked about the Western Rail Corridor.

Following those remarks, in January 2015 Kenny said at a press briefing in Lough Lannagh in Castlebar told local media in Mayo that he still sees the potential for developing freight services on the line stating, "I still see potential [on the Western Rail Corridor] from a freight point of view."

Patronage
In 2011, The Irish Examiner reported that passenger numbers were "still quite low" in 2010.

Four years after the opening of the route an online booking facility was introduced in December 2013. On 6 January 2015, Iarnród Éireann reported that following the introduction of online booking and new adult fares, passenger numbers on the Galway-Limerick railway (Western Rail Corridor) for 2014 were in excess of 220,000, including a 72.5 per cent increase in passenger journeys through the Ennis- Athenry section of the line, the largest annual growth on the rail network. The service was also being promoted through free car parking at Gort, Ardrahan and Craughwell; promotion of Taxsaver tickets, giving commuters full tax relief on the cost of monthly and annual season tickets purchased through employers and group travel promotions, including schools.

The Irish Times noted the 2015 figures as follows "Of particular note was the growth in passenger numbers on the western rail corridor, which saw a 72.5 per cent increase from 29,000 to 50,000 journeys through the Ennis-Athenry section of the line".

By 2017, the Ennis-Athenry section carried nearly 100,000 passengers.

Collooney-Claremorris section as a greenway
The idea of opening a greenway, on the Collooney-Claremorris section of the line, has been advocated by the campaign group Sligo-Mayo Greenway. This group has argued that the funding for a greenway on this section would be minimal in infrastructural terms and would not hinder the eventual reinstatement of the Railway should the funding for that ever become available. The campaigners for the greenway on this section of the track, point to the success of the Great Western Greenway, the first section of which opened in 2010.

In August 2011 this proposal was ruled out by the former Western Regional Authority but the proposal continues to be discussed. During 2013 the idea twice failed to get a seconder at Galway and Mayo Co. Councils and was also defeated (16-3) at Roscommon Co Council. The County Managers' reports in respect of the new Co Development Plans for both Galway and Mayo pointed to the strategic importance of protecting the railway infrastructure and to having proposed walking and cycling routes located elsewhere.

In July 2014 Sligo County Council passed a motion put to the council chamber by Cllr Dara Mulvey that Sligo County Council should seek funding for a feasibility study for a greenway on the route within County Sligo from Collooney to Bellaghy on the County Sligo/Mayo border. The motion was passed without a vote by Sligo county council and is now County Council policy.

In February 2015 a new campaign group the Sligo Greenway Co-op was formed as a shareholding co-op - with shares issued at €1 each and shares sold in blocks of ten. As of July 2015 the Sligo Greenway Co-op had 280 shareholders in County Sligo and had the support of two Sligo TDs, Tony McLoughlin and John Perry. Perry was not re-elected in 2016.

A 2014 study by the NWRA (Northern and Western Regional Assembly) of future recreational developments in the area of outdoor pursuits in Counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon rejected the idea that the Western Rail Corridor be turned into a walking or cycling route. The "Study of Outdoor Recreation in the West" (2014) stated: "The Regional Planning Guidelines (RPGs) for the West Region 2010-2022 seek the full reinstatement of the Western Rail Corridor as a long-term strategic sustainable transport route. Greenways are not mentioned in the RPGs, though the development of suitable long-distance walking and cycling routes (subject to environmental assessment) are supported. It is not the purpose of the Regional Planning Guidelines to see such routes provided at the expense of long-term strategic infrastructure so it is critical that the goals are not hampered even in the short term particularly when other more suitable greenway options could be explored taking account of environmental, social and economic considerations".

Supporters of the greenway state that use of a greenway will protect the trackbed from adverse possession claims and will not preclude reinstatement of the disused sections of line as a working railway in the future.

Sligo to Derry
The idea for the development of a North-Western Rail Corridor is the suggested construction of a railway connecting Sligo, Bundoran, Ballyshannon, Donegal Town, Letterkenny and Derry, where it would connect with the Belfast-Derry railway line. This proposal, however, is not included in the TEN-T European Transport policy. However, a study on future rail lines commissioned by Iarnród Éireann, by consultants AECOM, in 2011 found that an extension of the Belfast-Derry railway line to Letterkenny was one point away from being regarded as a viable prospect.

title: Western Railway Corridor


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Kindercore Vinyl

Kindercore Vinyl is a vinyl record pressing plant based in Athens, Georgia. It began as an independent record label, founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to help create a unified music scene of Athens. After the dissolution of the record label, Lewis and Geller partnered with Cash Carter and Bill Fortenberry to revive Kindercore as a vinyl pressing plant. Kindercore Vinyl is the only vinyl pressing plant in the state of Georgia. As of 2023, the plant operates as Classic City Vinyl Works under different ownership.

Record label
Kindercore Records began in the mid-1990s by musicians Lewis and Geller in response to the variety of musicians in Athens, but no unifying music culture. Early releases of the label include music by of Montreal and Kincaid (Geller's own band), singles from various Athens musicians, and bigger bands such as Japancakes.

Kindercore's scope grew from a regional to national level as their records could be heard on radio stations and their bands networked with other touring bands. In 1998, the label moved to New York and joined with Emperor Norton records, creating better finances and more national exposure for Kindercore. In 2000, Kindercore moved back to Athens.

Pressing plant
The idea of creating a record pressing plant began in 2015. Cash Carter suggested reviving the label, to which Lewis refused. Carter then suggested a pressing plant. Lewis at first rebuffed the idea, but soon agreed upon further consideration. They then partnered with Geller and Bill Fortenberry to begin plans for the plant.

After struggling to find financial backing, the group found a local investor interested in their idea to use plant-based PVC for the records. With a $1,000,000 investment, the plant acquired three brand new pressing machines, each costing $200,000, created by Canadian company Viryl Technologies. The presses, named “Warm Tone”, are fully automated, contrasting with former manual pressing machines; Kindercore was among the first factories to use such machines. Kindercore pressed its first record on Halloween of 2017 and presently can press up to 3,000 records in one day. As of 2023, the plant has been sold by Kindercore in a "friendly foreclosure" and now operates as Classic City Vinyl Works, and none of the Kindercore founders remain at the plant.

title: Kindercore Vinyl