Vordrak

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Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Vordrak, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz Read! Talk! 23:22, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

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This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Gamaliel (talk) 13:52, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement sanction

The following sanction now applies to you:

You are banned indefinitely from interacting with User:MarkBernstein, as a one-way WP:IBAN, with the exception that you may start standard noticeboard discussions (such as at WP:ANI or WP:COIN) regarding Mark and participate in the discussions you start. In particular, you may not participate in discussions regarding Mark that you did not start, nor may you bring up the topic of Mark in other locations such as Talk pages, and you may not discuss any off-Wikipedia content regarding Mark.

You have been sanctioned due to your hounding behavior in inappropriate venues.

This sanction is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. If the sanction includes a ban, please read the banning policy to ensure you understand what this means. If you do not comply with this sanction, you may be blocked for an extended period, by way of enforcement of this sanction—and you may also be made subject to further sanctions.

You may appeal this sanction using the process described here. I recommend that you use the arbitration enforcement appeals template if you wish to submit an appeal to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. You may also appeal directly to me (on my talk page), before or instead of appealing to the noticeboard. Even if you appeal this sanction, you remain bound by it until you are notified by an uninvolved administrator that the appeal has been successful. You are also free to contact me on my talk page if anything of the above is unclear to you. Zad68 23:34, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

To answer your question on AE

Actions taken by administrators under WP:AC/DS don't require consensus, only appeals which require clear consensus to overturn. Statements by editors are not meant to be votes, but instead are to provide context and evidence for enforcing admins. Also, the {{reply to}} template can take multiple users so you can combine multiple {{reply to}}s into on (e.g. {{reply to|Strongjam|Vordrak}}.) — Strongjam (talk) 12:42, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Vordrak, I was coming here to leave roughly the same message as Strongjam, above. They are entirely correct when they say that statements are "not votes"; for additional reading on this I suggest the essay here. On the other concern, there is currently an active Arbitration Committee case which, from my cursory reading, might in part address the question of WP:AC/DS sanctions applied at the discretion of an individual administrators and contemporaneous WP:AE consensus to not sanction. Hope this helps. - Ryk72 ^'c.s.n.s.' 12:55, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

@Strongjam and Ryk72: thank you gentlemen. I shall amend my comments on AE. Vordrak (talk) 13:05, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Blocked

Shaving off a day or two (it appears Gamaliel was going to do this soon anyway), just so you have less opportunity to make statements like this: [1]. Can be appealed to the Committee; I've removed talk page access so you can't threaten anyone else on wiki. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:38, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Mark Bernstein case request declined

Hi, Vordrak,
You were recently named as an involved party in an arbitration case request. This is a notice to let you know that the case request has been declined by the arbitration committee. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:39, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Arbitration request

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Ethics in journalism and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted in most arbitration pages please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

Thanks,Rhoark (talk) 18:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)