In several cases, the Arbitration Committee has permitted the use of general sanctions on all editors working in a particular area. Administrators employing these sanctions are reminded of the need to issue appropriate notifications and to log all sanctions as specified for each case.
When the Committee believes that a sanction is no longer necessary, it may revoke it by passing a "motion in a prior case".
Note that General sanctions apply to articles. Editors placed on editing restriction are listed at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions.
Types of sanctions
- Article probation
- Editors making disruptive edits may be banned by an administrator from articles on probation and related articles or project pages. Editors of such articles should be especially mindful of content policies, such as WP:NPOV, and interaction policies, such as WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, WP:3RR, and WP:POINT. See Category:Articles on probation.
- General restriction
- Administrators may impose one or more specific restrictions on editors.
- Discretionary sanctions
- Administrators may impose any sanctions which they believe are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.
Active sanctions
Case & Log | Applicable area | Type | Sanction (quoted from case) |
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Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 (Log) |
Topics related to Armenia-Azerbaijan and related ethnic conflicts, broadly defined | General restriction | The remedies of revert limitations (formerly revert parole), including the limitation of 1 revert per week, civility supervision (formerly civility parole) and supervised editing (formerly probation) that were put in place at Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan shall apply to any editor who edits articles which relate to Armenia-Azerbaijan and related ethnic conflicts in an aggressive point of view manner marked by incivility. Before any penalty is applied, a warning placed on the editor's user talk page by an administrator shall serve as notice to the user that these remedies apply to them. | Template |
Brahma Kumaris (Log) |
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University | Article probation | The principals in this matter are expected to convert the article from its present state based on original research and BK publications to an article containing verifiable information based on reliable third party sources. After a suitable grace period, the state of the article may be evaluated on the motion of any member of the Arbitration Committee and further remedies applied to those editors who continue to edit in an inappropriate manner. Any user may request review by members of the Arbitration Committee. | |
COFS (Log) |
All Scientology related articles | Article probation | All Scientology-related articles are placed on article probation. | |
Digwuren (Log) |
Topics related to Eastern Europe, broadly defined | General restriction | Any editor working on topics related to Eastern Europe, broadly defined, may be made subject to an editing restriction at the discretion of any uninvolved administrator. The restriction shall specify that, should the editor make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, he may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below. Before the restriction shall come into effect for a particular editor, that editor shall be given an official notice of it with a link to this decision. | Template |
Election (Log) |
2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities and its sub-articles:
2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, exit polls, 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, vote suppression, 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, voting machines, 2004 U.S. presidential election recounts and legal challenges, Moss v. Bush, Timeline of the 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities (AFD), 2004 U.S. election voting controversies, Florida, 2004 U.S. election voting controversies, Ohio. Also 2004 United States election voting controversies |
Article probation | Articles which are the locus of dispute, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Election/Proposed decision#Locus of dispute, are placed on probation. Any editor may be banned from any or all of the articles, or other reasonably related pages, by an administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, incivilty, and original research. The Arbitration Committee reserves the right to appoint one or more mentors at any time, and will review the situation in one year. | |
Falun Gong (Log) |
Falun Gong and all closely related articles | Article probation | It is expected that the articles will be improved to conform with Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and that information contained in them will be supported by verifiable information from reliable sources. The articles may be reviewed on the motion of any arbitrator, or upon acceptance by the Arbitration Committee of a motion made by any user. Users whose editing is disruptive may be banned or their editing restricted as the result of a review. | |
Free Republic (Log) |
Free Republic and Democratic Underground | Article probation | It is expected that the article will be improved to conform with Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, that information contained in it will be supported by verifiable information from reliable sources. The article may be reviewed on the motion of any arbitrator, or upon acceptance by the Arbitration Committee of a motion made by any user. Users whose editing is disruptive may be banned or their editing restricted as the result of a review. | |
Great Irish Famine (Log) |
Great Irish Famine | General restriction | The article Great Irish Famine is placed under the mentorship of three to five administrators to be named later. All content reversions on this page must be discussed on the article talk page. The mentors are to have a free hand, do not have veto over each other's actions, will be communicating closely and will generally trust each other's judgement. Any mentor, upon good cause shown, may ban any user from editing Great Irish Famine or a related page. All bans shall be posted on the affected user's talk page and at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Great Irish Famine#Documentation of bans. When possible, mentors should favor article bans over page protection. The Committee will review the mentorship arrangement in approximately one month upon request of any involved editor and again at future points if warranted. If a review reveals that the mentors agree that the article has demonstrated the ability to grow without strife, the mentorship may be ended. Otherwise, the mentorship will continue for one year. | Mentors named: Daniel, Ryan Postlethwaite, Angusmclellan |
Liancourt Rocks Log |
Liancourt Rocks | Article Probation | The Liancourt Rocks article is placed on article probation. Editors making disruptive edits may be banned from the article and its talk page by any uninvolved administrator. Any editor that continues to edit in violation of such a ban may be blocked, for up to a year in the event of repeated violations. All blocks are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Liancourt Rocks#Log of blocks and bans. | Passed a posteriori on 00:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC) |
Kosovo (Log) |
All articles related to Kosovo | Article probation | All articles related to Kosovo are put on Article probation to allow more swift dealing with disruption. | Superseded by the discretionary sanctions in the Macedonia case |
Macedonia (Log) |
Topics related to the Balkans, broadly defined | Discretionary sanctions | Any uninvolved administrator may, on their own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict if that editor fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, the expected standards of behavior, or the 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; restrictions on reverts; or any other measures which the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project. Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to this decision. | Template |
Occupation of Latvia (Log) |
Occupation of Latvia 1940-1945 | Article probation | The article at the locus of this dispute is placed on probation. Any editor may be banned from it, or from other reasonably related pages, by an uninvolved administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, incivilty, and original research. The Arbitration Committee reserves the right to appoint one or more mentors at any time, and the right to review the situation in one year, if appropriate. If the article is not substantially improved by continued editing the Arbitration Committee may impose editing restrictions on users whose editing is counterproductive or disruptive. | |
The Troubles (Log) |
Articles relating to The Troubles, as well as the Ulster banner and British baronets | General restriction | To address the extensive edit-warring that has taken place on articles relating to The Troubles, as well as the Ulster banner and British baronets, any user who hereafter engages in edit-warring or disruptive editing on these or related articles may be placed on Wikipedia:Probation by any uninvolved administrator. This may include any user who was a party to this case, or any other user after a warning has been given. The administrator shall notify the user on his or her talkpage and make an entry on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles#Log of blocks, bans, and probations. The terms of probation, if imposed on any editor, are set forth in the enforcement ruling below. | |
Vivaldi (Log) |
Preying from the Pulpit, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Jack Hyles, Hyles-Anderson College, and any related article which contains poorly sourced controversial material | Article probation | Preying from the Pulpit, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Jack Hyles, Hyles-Anderson College, and any related article which contains poorly sourced controversial material are placed on article probation. The expectation is that Vivaldi, Arbustoo, and other editors of these articles will in the course of editing remove poorly sourced controversial material. | |
Waldorf education (Log) |
Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and the extended family of related articles, such as Social Threefolding | Article probation | Original decision: Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy and the extended family of related articles such as Social Threefolding are placed on article probation. Editors of these articles are expected to remove all original research and other unverifiable information, including all controversial information sourced in Anthroposophy related publications. It is anticipated that this process may result in deletion or merger of some articles due to failure of verification by third party peer reviewed sources. If it is found, upon review by the Arbitration Committee, that any of the principals in this arbitration continue to edit in an inappropriate and disruptive way editing restrictions may be imposed. Review may be at the initiative of any member of the Arbitration Committee on their own motion or upon petition by any user to them.
Review: Waldorf education (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and related articles remain on Wikipedia:Article probation. |
Revoked sanctions
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