QUOTE(Silver seren @ Sat 23rd April 2011, 12:40am)
It's not going to go through, it's been too long since the big arguments before. If this had been started then, it would have been much more likely to be accepted, but not now.
I think over the past couple of years the ArbCom has sent some mixed messages about how seriously it really is taking protecting BLPs in Wikipedia. The quick dismissal of this case, as well as the reluctance to ban all the climate change activist editors who were clearly trying to use Wikipedia to discredit and defame global warming contrarians are two examples.
The next case I bring to ArbCom may be the Intelligent Design mob. They have, wisely, greatly backed-off trying to impugn all the signers of that ID petition, but from what I've seen they still are at it to some degree.