Two users unbanned and assigned mentors
In an unusual move, two banned users have been accepted back into the community. JarlaxleArtemis and MARMOT have been welcomed back to Wikipedia, under certain terms and conditions, crafted mostly by Linuxbeak.
Although theoretically even the most difficult editors are considered redeemable, including those who vandalize articles, rehabilitation of banned users is extremely rare. The last such instance (in August 2004) involved Michael, one of Wikipedia's most notorious vandals, who was allowed to resume editing as Mike Garcia.
In this situation, both users were originally banned by community consensus rather than the Arbitration Committee, although Jarlaxle had been the subject of an arbitration case at the time. Jarlaxle was banned after a CheckUser showed he created over 50 abusive usernames on Wikipedia, and even some on non-Wikipedia MediaWiki projects. Board member Anthere had banned JarlaxleArtemis Wikimedia wide. Jarlaxle has also been blocked from the Wikia project Uncyclopedia, a ban which has not been lifted as of press time.
MARMOT, meanwhile, was banned after writing the code for the Love Virus vandal bot. MARMOT also participated in creating inflammatory user names. It has been recommended that after a few months, a CheckUser is performed on the two to confirm no abusive names are created.