NSWiki:Arbitration/Syskeyia/Proposed decision

all proposed

ADministrators should vote for or against each point or vote to 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 Administrators if he so chooses. After the amendment process is complete, the item will be voted on one last time.
• Items that receive a majority abstentions will need to go through an amendment process and be re-voted on once.

Conditional votes for, against, or to abstain should be explained by the Administrators in parenthesis after his time-stamped signature. For example, an Administrator can state that he would only favor a particular remedy based on whether or not another remedy/remedies were enacted.

Proposed principles

proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on

1) Players have the right to determine the backstory of their own nations, and other players attempting to alter the backstory of nations that they do not control are engaging in godmoddery.

Honest attempts to update another nation's backstory should still be permitted, as this is in the spirit of NSwiki, but substantive changes should be discussed beforehand on that article's Talk page, and the decision of the Nation owner should be considered final.

Note: This should not be used to establish precedent for Regions, Alliances, Wars, or other shared roleplay where there is no clear owner.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 21:01, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 21:14, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

2) NSwiki, insomuch as it provides a resource for NationStates RolePlay, should not accept edits that promote godmoddery.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 21:01, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 21:14, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

3) Nations in NationStates have no direct correspondence to real-world nations unless the players behind them specifically say that they do.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 21:01, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 21:14, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

Proposed findings of fact

proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on

1) User:Syskeyia has used the IP address of 192.91.253.52 to edit NSwiki and the edits of User:192.91.253.52 are by the same person as the edits of User:Syskeyia.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 21:01, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 21:14, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

2) User:Syskeyia's edit at ([1] has altered User:Knootoss's account of his nation's backstory, which promotes godmoddery and is against NSwiki policy.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 21:01, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 21:14, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

3) User:Syskeyia's edit at [2] conflates the NationStates nations Lavenrunz and Knootoss with the real-life nations of Spain and Holland despite the opinions of the players behind the nations to the contrary.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 21:01, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 21:14, 23 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

Proposed remedies

proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on

1) User:Syskeyia shall be prohibited from editing the articles Knootian independence and Utrecht for a period of six months unless explicit permission is granted by User:Knootoss for the edits in question.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 19:49, 24 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 22:58, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

2) User:Syskeyia shall be prohibited from editing the article Der Angst for a period of six months unless explicit permission is granted by User:Rezo for the edits in question.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 19:49, 24 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 22:58, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

3) User:Syskeyia shall be prohibited from editing any article: describing the history of a nation or the nation itself in such a fashion as to suggest that the nation in question is related to any real-life nation, or the history of the nation in question is related to any real-life event or events, without the permission of the player behind the nation, for an indefinite period of time.

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 23:54, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 00:04, 26 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

Proposed enforcement

proposed wording to be modified by Arbitrators and then voted on

1) A violation of any of the terms of the remedy ordered by Arbitration shall result in a 24-hour ban of the IP 192.91.253.52 and a reversion of the edits in question. Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 19:54, 24 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 22:58, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Nay:

Abstain:

Public discussion by arbitrators

I've added a couple specific injunctions against Syskeyia in the Remedies section, with a 24-hour ban to enforce them. However, I think there has to be a more general injuction againt real-life edits in this case - not sure how to word it, though. --Goobergunch|? 19:54, 24 Oct 2004 (GMT)

I just posted this to User talk:Syskeyia and posted evidence to NSwiki:Arbitration/Syskeyia

I am amazed to discover that you continue to edit Knootian pages while an arbitration case is open with you as a respondant. Your alterations to Knootian independence have been noted in the arbitration pages above. I strongly advise that you cease and desist editing Knootian pages while this arbitration is ongoing. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 00:47, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)

I'm not sure what sort of injunctions we should be recommending, but it is obvious to me that this user does not intend to be influenced by voluntary sanctions. Given the fact that this arbitration has not been decided, I did not roll back the changes, but it seems to me that they were intended to be vandalism. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 00:58, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)

I reverted on ground of blatant vandalism. --Goobergunch|? 02:01, 25 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Motion to close

Two Aye votes needed to close case

I don't think there's anything else we need here. I move to close. --Goobergunch|? 00:09, 26 Oct 2004 (GMT)

Aye:

1. Goobergunch|? 00:09, 26 Oct 2004 (GMT)
2. → Frisbeeteria Θtalk 00:10, 26 Oct 2004 (GMT) (closed)