Injunction – preliminary protection levels for BLP articles when removing PC

The Arbitration Committee opened no new cases. Two cases are currently open.

During the week, drafter PhilKnight submitted a proposed decision for arbitrators to vote on.

During the week, further comments were submitted in the workshop. Drafter Elen of the Roads is currently expected to submit a proposed decision.

A request for arbitration was filed during the week regarding biography of living persons (BLP) articles and implementing the shutdown of pending changes (PC) on those articles. The Committee passed a preliminary injunction, applying to all administrators (admins), which is effective immediately:

When an admin removes PC protection from a BLP flagged article, that admin shall

1. replace level 1 PC with semi-protection of an equivalent duration, and
2. replace level 2 PC with full protection of an equivalent duration.

Admins who have recently removed PC from BLP articles are expected to assure that these protection levels have been applied to those articles.

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• Seems to me that a bot would be able to easily do what the arbs are demanding. Perhaps they could just request a bot be tasked with that (removing PC and adding the appropriate level of protection). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 06:41, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • I believe that issue is moot at this time, as all Pending Changes protection has been removed. Powers ^T 19:58, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]