User:2over0/Climate change arbitration proposals

This page presents the proposals at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop organized by topic instead of by proposing editor. We are coming up on the proposed decision phase of this case, and I wanted to be sure that there are at least no glaring holes in the proposals. This is an open subpage - if the organization can be improved, please do so. I have avoided commentary here other than a brief neutral summary where the heading is not sufficient to the purpose, and I request that anyone else who edits this page do the same. Some proposals are included in more than one section. Ordering within a topic is vaguely straight down the /Workshop table of contents within each sub-sub-topic. - 2/0 (cont.) 22:12, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed principles

NPOV presentation of science

Focus on reliable sources

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#When the science is settled - basic science is settled and should be presented as such
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The scientific consensus on Climate Change is relatively settled
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Reliable sources - follow the most reliable sources, such as IPCC
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Citations - weight by source reliability and prominence
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Neutral point of view and sourcing - most reliable sources, not just WP:POLE
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Undue weight - fairly represent weight of authority for each point of view
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Unreliable sources - reliability evaluated per statement, no source universally reliable
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Importance of identifying unreliable sources
9. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Reliable sources 2 - evaluate reputation of source itself, author, and publisher
10. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Use of blogs as sources
11. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Questionable sources - poor reputation for fact-checking or overly promotional → only for self-sourcing

Accurate presentation

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Wikipedia is a General Purpose reference work - notable, referenced, and accurate
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Wikipedia readers expect to get accurate information
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Encyclopedic coverage of science - science presented in line with current mainstream scientific thought
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Scientific focus
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Accuracy of sourcing - reflect sources accurately

Intended audience

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The purpose of a General Purpose Encyclopedia is to educate the general public - lay audience
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Articles may be more than a definition of a subject - technical description + significant attitudes & opinions
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The determination of the primary genre of a topic is guided by general public perception
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Scope - admit complexity and create introductory articles where necessary
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Avoiding article bloat - hierarchical organization

On verifiability and appropriate weight

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:NPOV is a distillation of all notable viewpoints, per WP:Due weight - expert consensus prominent, but also others
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Social, political and economic views on science - cover without giving "equal validity"
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Necessary context - context of how a view has been received is part of complete coverage
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Articles presenting minority or non-scientific views on science - include context
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Topic area for original research - context is part of presenting a topic
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Science and NPOV - due weight in coverage and context
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Neutrality, verifiability and appropriate weight
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Neutral point of view - all reasonably significant views in line with authority of each
9. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:UNDUE and WP:VALID are integral parts of WP:NPOV
10. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:V defines necessary conditions - verifiability is necessary but not sufficient
11. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:OR, WP:V, and WP:NPOV entail that the factual status of a proposition cannot determine its assertability on Wikipedia
12. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#NPOV is not negotiable
13. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:NPOV
14. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Scope of the topic area - scientific and sociopolitical emphasis

Scientific point of view

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:SPOV - scientific point of view
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#NPOV vs. SPOV
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#"Truth" is not superior to NPOV
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#"SPOV" is not superior to NPOV
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#For the purposes of WP:RS and WP:UNDUE, a fruitful distinction can be made between scientific research and its findings
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Wikipedia and the wider world - impact
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Uundue weight is likely if NPOV is used - role of lay press

Civility

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The basic foundation for civil editors to create a free and open NPOV encyclopedia - assume good faith, be civil, do not make personal attacks
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Defend each other - meatball:DefendEachOther
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Spades and civility - robust discussion is not uncivil
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Collegiality
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Incivility
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Assume Good Faith
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#AGF also applies within the Arbitration procedures
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Harassment and threats - just say no

Substantiate accusations

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Assuming good faith - substantiate statements if doubted
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Personal attacks - substantiate negative descriptions of fellow volunteer editors
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Casting aspersions - substantiate accusations and follow dispute resolution

Broad applicability of behavioral standards

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Assertion of Expertise does not make some editors more equal than others
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#No free passes - content creation does not excuse behaviour outside community norms
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Consistent standards - behavioural standards apply to everyone
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Evaluating user conduct - no vested contributors, no only responding in kind exception
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrators' discussions are bound by behavioral policies

The party and the faction

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Civility - toxic atmosphere
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Battleground behavior is destructive
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Editors should not promote factionalism
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Battleground behavior vs. consensus achieved through reasonable discussion

Dispute resolution

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Dispute resolution - is not a weapon
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The basic foundation for civil editors to create a free and open NPOV encyclopedia - seek and follow consensus, avoid edit warring, avoid article ownership
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Feuds and quarrels - avoiding is better than fighting
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Bureaucracy should not exist unless clearly beneficial on balance
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The only way to win is not to play - WP:GAME

Role of arbitration

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Timeliness - ArbCom for current rather than ancient issues
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Role of the Arbitration Committee - not for content
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#What Arbitration is not - not for content

Building consensus

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Editorial process - build consensus, avoid edit warring in the meantime
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Improper consensus - should not be skewed by an influx of partisans
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Co-ordination to achieve improper consensus - is improper regardless of means
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Factionalism should be discouraged

Use of talkpages

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Appropriate use of talk pages - discuss coverage, not the topic itself
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Reliability and discussion - discuss, but stay on topic
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Advocacy - stay on topic
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Purpose - here to build an encyclopedia
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Purpose of Wikipedia - encyclopedia, not advocacy
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Activism is contrary to the Wikipedia philosophy

Administrative conduct

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Obligations of administrators in discussing editor conduct - transparency

Standards and expectations concerning involvement

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Article content influence - content from editors, not admins
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrators should not act where they have conflicts or strong feelings
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrator conduct - WP:INVOLVED per editor as well as per topic
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrator judgment on issue selection - proactively seek advice from colleagues, provide positive example

Setting an example

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#The power of example - admins should set positive example
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Leading by example
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrator judgment on issue selection - proactively seek advice from colleagues, provide positive example
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrators should step aside rather than engage in poor conduct
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Consistent standards - the beam in your own eye ...
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Conduct becoming and unbecoming in an administrator - disruption or poor judgment

Proposed findings of fact

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Climate change probation is not working well
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Community probation - community probation of mixed effectiveness
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Ethics issues forums

Blame

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Editors with a political bias against the scientific facts relating to global warming - politically motivated editors have driven out others (c.f. Gresham's law)
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Locus of dispute - dispute imported to Wikipedia
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Locus of dispute 2 - climate change, contentious editing environment → intractable disputes
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Indoctrination by misleading news reporting on climate change in the mass media
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Climate sceptical Wiki-editors believe that the climate change articles are biased
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#New editors in Climate Change are treated well and WP:AGF applied
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Addressing sockpuppetry - rampant, needs novel approaches
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Sockpuppetry 2

Battleground mentality

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#TINC (narrowed) - terms such as "cabal" should be avoided
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Collegiality 2 - is lacking
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Factions are active in the topic area
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Thin Skins

Civility

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Treatment of others
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Activity within this proceeding

NPOV

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Presentation of skeptic or denialist viewpoints regarding AGW within related articles is deficient
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Presentation of minority viewpoints - is overweighted
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Presentation of the science regarding AGW within related articles is excellent
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Sources under dispute - such as blogs and partisan polemics
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Poor use of sources
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#AGW articles should use SPOV for the science related portions
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Climate change related articles are to be edited according to a scientific point of view
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WP:SPOV is in conflict with Wikipedia's core content policies

Cabal

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Collect's Wikistalk "results" lack significance
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Reasonable outside observer

Specific editors

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#General amnesty for banned editors
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WMC is uncivilly abusive to editors collaborating to produce a NPOV - William M. Connolley (talk · contribs)
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#WMC has a history of tendentious POV editing, particularly in BLPs
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Users who exhibit factional behavior - dave souza (talk · contribs), Guettarda (talk · contribs), KimDabelsteinPetersen (talk · contribs), Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk · contribs), Stephan Schulz (talk · contribs), and William M. Connolley (talk · contribs)
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Thegoodlocust
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Disruptive editing - Marknutley (talk · contribs), Heyitspeter (talk · contribs), ZuluPapa5 (talk · contribs), and WVBluefield (talk · contribs)
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Involved Administrator - Lar (talk · contribs) is involved
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#User:Lar has acted as an administrator despite prior conflicts with and strong feelings toward users
9. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#User:Lar has often failed to behave in a respectful, civil manner in his interactions with others
10. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#User:Lar has promoted factionalism
11. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Lar is not an uninvolved editor in the climate change articles
12. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Abuse of good faith in dispute resolution - Cla68 and accuracy of description of presented evidence
13. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Hipocrite and WP:CIV, WP:NPA, WP:BATTLEGROUND
14. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Users who exhibit unhelpful behavior - Hipocrite (talk · contribs), Polargeo (talk · contribs), and William M. Connolley (talk · contribs)
15. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo has made personal attacks on Lar
16. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo disrupting WP:GSCC Requests for enforcement page
17. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Wheel warring or disruption or both in commenting in a request-for-enforcement case - Polargeo (talk · contribs) and/or Lar (talk · contribs)
18. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo's personal attacks against editors other than Lar
19. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo's conduct unbecoming of an administrator
20. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#ATren has made unsubstantiated accusations of administrative involvement
21. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#ATren has edited disruptively

Proposed remedies

Systemic remedies

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Editors instructed - no socking, Open proxies, or advocacy in topic area
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Climate change probation and sanctions should be removed in their current form
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Editors are directed to use SPOV for science topics

Administrative conduct

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrators reminded and instructed - set a positive example

Specific editors

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Thegoodlocust banned
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Editors banned - Marknutley (talk · contribs), Heyitspeter (talk · contribs), ZuluPapa5 (talk · contribs), and WVBluefield (talk · contribs)
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Administrators Sanctioned - Lar (talk · contribs) admin-banned from climate change and climate change editors, and desysopped
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#William M. Connolley and Lar interaction banned
5. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Template 52 - Lar (talk · contribs) desysopped
6. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo desysopped 2
7. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo desysopped
8. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo topic banned from climate change articles
9. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Polargeo blocked for three months
10. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#ATren admonished to engage in civil discussion based on merit
11. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#ATren topic banned
12. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Faction topic banned - dave souza (talk · contribs), Guettarda (talk · contribs), KimDabelsteinPetersen (talk · contribs), Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk · contribs), and Stephan Schulz (talk · contribs)
13. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Faction administrators desysopped - dave souza (talk · contribs), Guettarda (talk · contribs), Stephan Schulz (talk · contribs), and Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk · contribs)
14. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#William M. Connolley banned from Wikipedia
15. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#William M. Connolley topic banned from climate change articles
16. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#William M. Connolley topic banned from BLPs
17. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Marknutley topic banned from climate change
18. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Hipocrite banned from Wikipedia
19. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Users banned from CC enforcement - Hipocrite (talk · contribs), William M. Connolley (talk · contribs), and Polargeo (talk · contribs)

Proposed enforcement

1. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Enforcement - administrator discretion
2. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Interpretation - construe towards minimizing disruption and improving reliability
3. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Monitoring by a rotating board of appointed administrators
4. Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Enforcement requests to be handled at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement