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that will be, several people have taken the opportunity to make statements as well as take part in the threaded discussion. The actual discussion section does lack structure - I had considered replicating the workshop structure to encourage specific comments, but the discussions I started about that didn't get many comments. JohnWBarber did set up a more structured discussion, and I've recently posted to the talk page encouraging the participants to self-organise the page to keep discussion more focused and easier to follow (this would normally be the role of the clerks and arbitrators, but with the volume of discussion seen here, some self-organisation by the participants is needed). (2) The period of comment for the CU and OS appointments has closed now. I'd like to thank all those that commented, either on-wiki or by e-mail. I'll try and post an update on this at the arbitration noticeboard tomorrow, though the schedule is still currently as given in previous notices.
205:). The case has been technically open: although the evidence and workshop pages have remained closed, no proposals were posted on the proposed decision page and participants were prevented from further discussing their case on the case pages. Up until last week, participants were discussing the case on the proposed decision talk page, but an arbitrator stated that further discussion should not take place on this page until a proposed decision was posted. Instead, general discussion was directed to a 449: 117: 107: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 548:
A brief comment on two points here: (1) the climate change case proposed decision talk page is not a completely unstructured discussion. The page in fact includes an innovation not seen in previous cases, namely a separate section for statements to be made. Though it remains to be seen how successful
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To add to that, for those who are curious, as of the report date, there were about 2680 words in statements while there was 17,236 words in unstructured discussion. As of this timestamp, the figure for statements has less than doubled to :
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on July 19 (five weeks ago), arbitrators have not formally set any specific target date to post a proposed decision. However, requests for updates from arbitrators have received several responses (see previous
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This case resulted from the merging of several Arbitration requests on the same topic matter into a single case, and the failure of a related
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requiring all named parties to make no more than half of their total number of edits to the race and intelligence topic.
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Several proposals by other arbitrators are being voted on; a number of these proposals, most of which were drafted by
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and a remedy concerning evidence sub-pages have each also received a similar level of support from the Committee. A
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from all physics-related pages, topics and discussions. The topic ban is set to expire in August 2011.
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which required all sources used in race and intelligence articles to be independent, secondary, and
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on articles related to race and intelligence. Following a number of delays (see
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were put in place when this arbitration commenced. Since the workshop phase was
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for the Community to submit their comments during this commenting period.
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