Wikipedia:Arbitration/Active sanctions

This page lists the currently active sanctions imposed through the arbitration process. It transcludes portions of the main general sanctions and personal sanctions listings; all changes should be made to those pages instead of this one.

Types of sanctions[edit]

The following is a list of the most common types of restrictions. More unique restrictions which have been imposed in unusual circumstances are not listed.

Account restriction: The user is limited to editing with a single account.

Civility restriction: The user may be blocked if they make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith.

Probation: Generally, editors on probation may be banned from pages they edit disruptively, either for a set period of time or indefinitely, by action of an uninvolved administrator. (Although the wording of probation remedies sometimes varies, so be sure to check the specific case.) Probation is used as an alternative to an outright topic ban in cases where the editor shows some promise of learning better behavior.

Revert limitation: The user is limited to one revert per page per week (excepting obvious vandalism), and is required to discuss any content reversions on the page's talk page. They may be blocked if they exceed this limit or fail to discuss a content reversion.

Topic ban: The user is prohibited from editing any page related to a particular topic, and may be blocked if they do so.

General restriction: Administrators may impose one or more specific restrictions (as listed in each individual case) on editors.

Discretionary sanctions: Administrators may impose any sanctions which they believe are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.

General sanctions[edit]

This section is transcluded from Wikipedia:General sanctions.

^ All primary articles will be subject to the ARBPIA General Sanctions. {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli enforcement}} should be added to the talk page of affected pages, and {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice}} should be added as an editnotice to affected pages. The presence of the templates is required before the General Sanctions can be enforced on primary articles. The templates may be added to primary articles by any user, but may only be removed by an uninvolved administrator. Users who lack the appropriate permissions to create an editnotice should place the talk page template as normal, then make an edit request for someone with permissions to create the edit notice. All edits made to related content (i.e. pages not otherwise related to the area of conflict) will be subject to ARBPIA General Sanctions. When disruptive edits are being made to such content, any editor may invoke ARBPIA General Sanctions for that content. They must place {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli enforcement}} on the talk page and {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice}} in the editnotice to do so. If there is confusion about which content is considered related, the content in question may be marked in the wiki source with an invisible comment. The presence of the templates is required before the General Sanctions can be enforced on related content. Once added by any editor, any marking, template, or editnotice may be removed only by an uninvolved administrator. Users who lack the appropriate permissions to create an editnotice should place the talk page template as normal, then make an edit request for someone with permissions to create the edit notice. Editors should apply the ARBPIA General Sanctions templates to related content only when disruption creates a need for additional administrative tools. Administrators should only utilize the ARBPIA General Sanctions to reduce disruption caused by edits related to the conflict area. Problematic edits made to unrelated content on the same page should be handled by normal administrative means. In the case of disputes regarding whether or not an article is a primary article, or whether a portion of content is related to ARBPIA, editors should use normal dispute resolution methods to come to a consensus.

[1] All primary articles will be subject to the ARBPIA General Sanctions. {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli enforcement}} should be added to the talk page of affected pages, and {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice}} should be added as an editnotice to affected pages. The presence of the templates is required before the General Sanctions can be enforced on primary articles. The templates may be added to primary articles by any user, but may only be removed by an uninvolved administrator. Users who lack the appropriate permissions to create an editnotice should place the talk page template as normal, then make an edit request for someone with permissions to create the edit notice. All edits made to related content (i.e. pages not otherwise related to the area of conflict) will be subject to ARBPIA General Sanctions. When disruptive edits are being made to such content, any editor may invoke ARBPIA General Sanctions for that content. They must place {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli enforcement}} on the talk page and {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice}} in the editnotice to do so. If there is confusion about which content is considered related, the content in question may be marked in the wiki source with an invisible comment. The presence of the templates is required before the General Sanctions can be enforced on related content. Once added by any editor, any marking, template, or editnotice may be removed only by an uninvolved administrator. Users who lack the appropriate permissions to create an editnotice should place the talk page template as normal, then make an edit request for someone with permissions to create the edit notice. Editors should apply the ARBPIA General Sanctions templates to related content only when disruption creates a need for additional administrative tools. Administrators should only utilize the ARBPIA General Sanctions to reduce disruption caused by edits related to the conflict area. Problematic edits made to unrelated content on the same page should be handled by normal administrative means. In the case of disputes regarding whether or not an article is a primary article, or whether a portion of content is related to ARBPIA, editors should use normal dispute resolution methods to come to a consensus.

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Case	Applicable area	Type	Sanction (quoted from case)	Notes
Abortion (November 2011)	All pages related to abortion, broadly construed	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to abortion, broadly construed.	September 2020 motion vacating the general 1RR rule
Acupuncture (January 2015)	Any edit about, and for all pages relating to Complementary and Alternative Medicine	Discretionary sanctions	In lieu of a full case, the Arbitration Committee authorises standard discretionary sanctions for any edit about, and for all pages relating to Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Any sanctions that may be imposed should be logged at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Acupuncture. The Committee urges interested editors to pursue alternative means of dispute resolution such as RFCs or requests for mediation on the underlying issues. If necessary, further requests concerning this matter should be filed at the requests for clarification and amendment page.	Passed by motion
American politics 2 (June 2015)	All edits about, and all pages related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people	Discretionary sanctions	Remedy 1 of the American Politics case is rescinded. In its place, the following is adopted: standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people.	Amended by motion
Antisemitism in Poland	Polish history during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland	Special DS; Extended confirmed restriction	The Arbitration Committee advises that administrators may impose "reliable-source consensus required" as a discretionary sanction on all articles on the topic of Polish history during World War II (1933-45), including the Holocaust in Poland. On articles where "reliable-source consensus required" is in effect, when a source that is not a high-quality source (an article in a peer-reviewed scholarly journals, an academically focused book by a reputable publisher, and/or an article published by a reputable institution) is added and subsequently challenged by reversion, no editor may reinstate the source without first obtaining consensus on the talk page of the article in question or consensus about the reliability of the source in a discussion at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. The extended confirmed restriction is imposed on edits and pages related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland, broadly construed.	May 2020 motion imposing 500/30 rule; May 2021 motion amending sourcing remedy September 2021 motion replacing 500/30 rule with standard extended confirmed restriction
Armenia-Azerbaijan 2	Topics related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and related ethnic conflicts, broadly defined	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted.
Article titles and capitalisation (March 2012)	Manual of Style and article titles policy	Discretionary sanctions	"Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy, broadly construed."
Civility in infobox discussions (March 2018)	Discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes.	Discretionary sanctions and infobox probation	1.1) Any uninvolved administrator may apply infobox probation as a discretionary sanction per remedy 2. That user will be indefinitely restricted from: adding, deleting or collapsing infoboxes; restoring an infobox that has been deleted; or making more than one comment in discussing the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article. For clarity, an editor under probation is permitted to edit an already existing infobox, but should be cautious of giving the appearance that they are attempting to game their probation as this may lead to more severe discretionary sanctions. They may, if they wish, add an infobox in the same edit or series of edits when they: create a new article; or convert an article from a redirect. The user under probation may also participate in wider policy discussions regarding infoboxes with no restriction. 2) Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes.
COVID-19 (June 2021)	For all edits about, and all articles related to, COVID-19, broadly construed.	Standard discretionary sanctions	The community COVID-19 general sanctions are hereby rescinded and are replaced by standard discretionary sanctions, which are authorized for all edits about, and all articles related to, COVID-19, broadly construed.	Case created and closed with these discretionary sanctions by motion
Eastern Europe	Topics related to Eastern Europe or the Balkans, broadly defined	Discretionary sanctions	Articles which relate to Eastern Europe or the Balkans, broadly interpreted, are placed under discretionary sanctions. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.	Passed by motion, 27 July 2008 Amended by motion to incorporate Balkans sanctions, 17 February 2019
Editing of Biographies of Living Persons (May 2014)	Articles with biographical content relating to living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles	Discretionary sanctions	Standard Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions are authorised for the area of conflict, namely any edit in any article with biographical content relating to living or recently deceased people or any edit relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles on any page in any namespace
Electronic cigarettes	Electronic cigarette topic area, broadly construed	Discretionary sanctions	Community general sanctions for the electronic cigarette topic area are rescinded. In its place, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for the electronic cigarette topic area, broadly construed.
Falun Gong	Falun Gong and all closely related articles	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for "Falun Gong" and all closely related articles.
Gender and sexuality	All edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.	Case created and closed with these discretionary sanctions by motion
Genetically modified organisms	Genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them	Discretionary sanctions, 1RR	The Discretionary Sanctions remedy which says that "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to genetically modified organisms, agricultural biotechnology, and agricultural chemicals, broadly construed" is replaced with "Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them, broadly construed." Editors are prohibited from making more than one revert per page per day on any page relating to genetically modified organisms, agricultural biotechnology, and agricultural chemicals, broadly construed and subject to the usual exemptions.	Editnotice GMO 1RR; amended by motion 19 January 2016; scope of 1RR and DS matched by motion August 2020
Gun control	Governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues	Standard discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for any edit about, and for all pages relating to, gun control.
Horn of Africa	All pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes).	Enacted for a three-month trial period by motion. Made permanent by motion.
India-Pakistan	All pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed.	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed.	Passed by motion
Iranian politics	All edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.	Discretionary sanctions	(i) The community-authorized general sanctions for post-1978 Iranian politics are hereby superseded and replaced by standard discretionary sanctions, which are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed. (ii) All sanctions in force when this remedy is enacted are endorsed and will become standard discretionary sanctions governed by the standard procedure from the moment of enactment. (iii) Notifications issued under Post-1978 Iranian politics general sanctions become alerts for twelve months from their date of issue, then expire. (iv) All existing and past sanctions and restrictions placed under post-1978 Iranian politics general sanctions will be transcribed by the arbitration clerks in the arbitration enforcement log. (v) Any requests for enforcement that may be open when this remedy is enacted shall proceed, but any remedy that is enacted should be enacted as a discretionary sanction. (vi) Administrators who have enforced the Post-1978 Iranian politics general sanctions are thanked for their work and asked to continue providing administrative assistance enforcing discretionary sanctions and at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Kurds and Kurdistan	The topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
Liancourt Rocks	The topic of Liancourt Rocks, broadly construed	Discretionary sanctions	"In [article probation's] place, Standard Discretionary sanctions are authorised with immediate effect for all pages relating to the Liancourt Rocks."	Added by motion, 10:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
Longevity	All articles relating to Longevity	Discretionary sanctions	"Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all articles related to longevity, broadly interpreted."	Rescinded by motion, 11:22, 30 November 2014 (UTC), re-authorized by motion 30 August 2015.
Macedonia 2 (Log)	All articles related to Macedonia (both North Macedonia and Greek Macedonia, as well as historical Macedon)	Editing restriction	"All articles related to Macedonia (defined as any article that could be reasonably construed as being related to Macedonia, Macedonia nationalism, Greece-related articles that mention Macedonia, and other articles in which how Macedonia will be referred to is an issue) fall under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned. Editors enforcing a case where a binding Stalemate resolution has been found are exempt from 1RR."	See case for definition of Stalemate resolution
Medicine (June 2020)	All discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.	Standard discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles. Any uninvolved administrator may apply sanctions as an arbitration enforcement action to users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.
Palestine-Israel articles 4	(a) The entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted ("primary articles"), and (b) edits relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict, to pages and discussions in all namespaces with the exception of userspace ("related content").	Discretionary sanctions, extended confirmed restriction, and 1RR	Discretionary sanctions: Standard discretionary sanctions are activated for the area of conflict. Any uninvolved administrator may apply sanctions as an arbitration enforcement action to users editing the area of conflict whilst aware. The extended confirmed restriction is imposed on the area of conflict. One Revert Restriction (1RR): Each editor is limited to one revert per page per 24 hours on any edits made to content within the area of conflict. Reverts made to enforce the 500/30 Rule are exempt from the provisions of this motion. Also, the normal exemptions apply. Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked by any uninvolved administrator.	September 2021 motion replacing 500/30 rule with standard extended confirmed restriction Explanatory note^{[note 1]}
Prem Rawat	Prem Rawat, broadly construed	Standard discretionary sanctions	An amendment to the case in December 2012 superseded the previously imposed article probation with standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to Prem Rawat, broadly construed . All previously imposed sanctions under article probation should be considered discretionary sanctions. See the list of Prem Rawat-related topics for articles which will be included (note the discretionary sanctions are not necessarily limited to these articles). This remedy supersedes the existing community based one-revert rule restriction.
Pseudoscience	All pages relating to pseudoscience and fringe science, broadly interpreted	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to pseudoscience and fringe science, broadly interpreted. Any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in this topic area, after an initial warning.	Version current as of this motion, 11:22, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Race and intelligence	"Race and intelligence" and all closely related articles.	Discretionary sanctions	"Any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working on an article within the area of conflict (or for whom discretionary sanctions have otherwise been authorized) if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. The sanctions imposed may include blocks of up to one year in length; bans from editing any page or set of pages within the area of conflict; bans on any editing related to a topic within the area of conflict or its closely related topics; restrictions on reverts or other specified behaviors; or any other measures which the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project."	Amended by motion on 15 April 2011
September 11 conspiracy theories	Articles which relate to the events of September 11, broadly interpreted	Discretionary sanctions	Any uninvolved administrator may impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process (full text).
Shakespeare authorship question	All pages relating to the Shakespeare authorship question	Discretionary sanctions	"Standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all pages related to the Shakespeare authorship question. The sanctions should be administered in such a fashion as to treat all contributors fairly while ensuring that future editing of these pages adheres to high standards of both Wikipedia behavior and Shakespearean scholarship."
The Troubles	Pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed.	Discretionary sanctions	Standard discretionary sanctions are authorised for all pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed. As a standard discretionary sanction, a one revert restriction (1RR) is applied to all pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed. This restriction may be appealed at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Enforcement, with notifications to be posted, at a minimum, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland and Talk:The Troubles.	Amended by motion 02:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)