Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Balkans or Eastern Europe
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the Balkans or Eastern Europe (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
Arbitration Committee decisions
[edit]Contentious topics
[edit]Eastern Europe and the Balkans, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.
Guidance for administrators
[edit]- Administrators should ensure that an appropriate warning has left before applying restrictions.
Standard set of restrictions
[edit]Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:
Individual restrictions
[edit]- 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
[edit]- page protection,
- revert restrictions,
- the "consensus required" restriction,
- the "enforced BRD" restriction
Clarifications and amendments
[edit]Templates
[edit]When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:
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|ee}}{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|ee}}
- No page restrictions editnotice
- Talk page notices