Up before the beak again

It is most of a year since my last pointless pointless arbcomm case so it was about time for another, and here it is (that's the current state, which may not work in a year or a day's time. Permalink to current state).

I don't think it will be very exciting, but I've been known to be wrong about these things before.

The troubled career of the Advisory Council on Project Development might be more interesting though, in conjunction with its inevitable RFC. This too.

[Update: it has got a bit more exciting: [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William M. Connolley]] is now open -W]

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