 | This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic. |
The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the results of any national or sub-national election (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
Arbitration Committee decisions
editContentious topics
editThe results of any national or sub-national election are a Contentious Topic. Starting in 2026 and checked yearly afterwards, this designation expires on 1 January if no sanctions have been logged in the preceding 2 years.
Guidance for administrators
editStandard set of restrictions
editAny uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:
- Individual restrictions
- sitewide and partial blocks,
- topic bans and page bans (from the entire contentious topic, a subtopic, or specified pages within the topic),
- interaction bans,
- revert restrictions
- Page restrictions
- page protection,
- revert restrictions,
- the "consensus required" restriction,
- the "enforced BRD" restriction
Clarifications and amendments
editTemplates
editWhen alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:
{{Contentious topics/alert/first|rne}}
When a page has active page restrictions, the following template must be used as an editnotice:
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
- Alerting editors after their first alert
{{Contentious topics/alert|rne}}{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|rne}}
- No page restrictions editnotice
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|rne}}
- Talk page notices