Wikipedia:General sanctions
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- This page lists general sanctions that apply to all editors working in particular areas. Individual editors subject to editing restrictions are listed at Wikipedia:Editing restrictions. See also Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Admin enforcement requested.
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 in 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.
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[edit] 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 (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.
[edit] Active sanctions
[edit] Imposed by the Committee
| Case & Log | Applicable area | Type | Sanction (quoted from case) |
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| Prem Rawat (Log) |
Prem Rawat and related articles | Article probation | Prem Rawat and related articles, including their talk pages, are subject to article probation. Any editor may be banned from any or all of the articles, or other reasonably related pages, by an uninvolved administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, personal attacks and incivility.
This remedy supersedes the existing community based one-revert rule restriction. |
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| Mantanmoreland (Log) |
Naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or any related page or discussion | Article probation | Any current or future editor who, after this decision is announced, makes substantial edits to naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or closely related pages or discussions on any page is directed:
A note concerning these restrictions shall be placed on the talkpage of each of the affected articles. In case of any doubt concerning application or interpretation of these restrictions, the Arbitration Committee may be consulted for guidance. Any uninvolved administrator may impose a reasonable restriction (e.g., a revert or civility limitation) or page-ban against any editor who, after receiving a warning containing a link to this decision, edits naked short selling, Overstock.com, Patrick M. Byrne, Gary Weiss, or any related page or discussion in a disruptive or uncivil fashion, who edits them in contravention of site policies and guidelines, or who attempts to reintroduce subtle or overt partisan advocacy regarding any external dispute concerning these subjects into Wikipedia. |
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| Bluemarine (Log) |
Matt Sanchez | Article probation | The article on Matt Sanchez is placed on article probation. | |
| Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 (Log) |
Topics related to Armenia-Azerbaijan and related ethnic conflicts, broadly defined | 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). | 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. Amended by motion Additionally, any uninvolved administrator may impose a reasonable editing restriction (for example, 1RR) or page ban upon any editor who repeatedly engages in disruptive or uncivil editing of Free Republic or any closely related page. Prior to imposing such a ban or restriction, a warning should be given on the affected user's talkpage. All bans and restrictions shall be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Free Republic#Log of blocks and bans |
Amended by motion, 16:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC) |
| 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) |
| Macedonia (Log) |
Topics related to the Balkans, broadly defined | Discretionary sanctions | Any uninvolved administrator may 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 (full text). | 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. | |
| Palestine-Israel articles (Log) |
The entire set of Arab-Israeli conflict-related articles, 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). | |
| September 11 conspiracy theories (log) |
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). | |
| 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: and related articles remain on Wikipedia:Article probation. |
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| Waterboarding (Log) |
Waterboarding | Article probation | The article on Waterboarding, and related pages, are placed on article probation. |
[edit] Placed by the Wikipedia community
| Decision & Log | Applicable area | Type | Sanction (quoted from discussion) |
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| Homeopathy/Article probation (Log) |
Homeopathy and related articles | Article probation | Editors making disruptive edits may be banned by an administrator from homeopathy 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. Editors must be individually notified of article probation before being banned. All resulting blocks and bans shall be logged at Talk:Homeopathy/Article probation#Log of blocks and bans, and may be appealed to the Administrators' noticeboard. | Template |
[edit] Superseded sanctions
| Case & Log | Applicable area | Type | Sanction (quoted from case) |
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| Israel-Lebanon (Log) |
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict | Article probation | Any user, particularly Tasc, who engages in edit warring with respect to 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict may be banned from the article for an appropriate period. All bans are to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Israel-Lebanon#Log of blocks and bans. | Superseded by the discretionary sanctions in the Palestine-Israel articles case |
| 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 |
[edit] Revoked sanctions
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