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Articles which are the focus of dispute that comes before the Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee may be placed on '''article probation'''. The usual reason is the dispute in question involves point of view editing, sustained edit warring, or other quality and policy issues. The Committee may continue to exercise jurisdiction over such articles until the major problems with the articles have been resolved by the Wikipedia editing process.
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This remedy permits more flexibility with legitimate articles which have serious problems, and allows more effective resolution of disputes where the article is more in need of improvement then the disputants are in need of sanctions. The Arbitration Committee may make recommendations regarding improvement of articles but shall not involve themselves with content issues.
Continuing jurisdiction may involve monitoring of the editing of articles over a period of time and the application of restrictions on editing by users who engage in edit warring or other disruptive behavior. This gives an opportunity for users who have edit warred or disrupted the article in the past by tendentious editing to change their behavior to more productive modes.
When the Committee believes that the article is no longer subject to the disputes which lead to the probation, it may revoke probation by passing a "motion in a prior case".
==Template==
The template {{tl|article probation}} is normally placed on the talk page of the article under probation. It may alternatively be used on the article page itself.
== Arbitration cases ordering probation ==
* Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Election
* Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Francis_Schuckardt
* Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Kosovo
== Pages under probation ==
Can be seen at Category:Articles_on_probation
Category:Wikipedia_dispute_resolution