Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Declined requests

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This is an archive of requests for an arbitration case declined by the Arbitration Committee or withdrawn by the initiating user.

Disputes being declined by the committee does not necessarily reflect the merits of a case request or the article(s) or user(s) involved. A case may be rejected because the dispute has been resolved through other means, because other dispute resolution has not yet been pursued, because the issues have become moot, or for any other reason that led the arbitrators to conclude they should not take the case. The arbitrators' comments in voting not to hear a case often briefly indicate their reasons and can be checked by opening the declined case request and checking the Arbitrators' opinion on hearing this matter sections, which come near the end and after all statements by non-arbitrators.

The term "rejected" is sometimes used by arbitrators instead of "declined." In this context, the terms are synonymous. Case requests accepted by the committee are listed instead at the accepted cases index.