Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Manual of Style and article titles
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy (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]Contentious topic restrictions are authorized for all pages related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy, broadly construed. The scope of this remedy refers to discussions about the policies and guidelines mentioned, and does not extend to individual move requests, move reviews, article talk pages, or other venues at which individual article names may be discussed. Disruption in those areas should be handled by normal administrative means.
Guidance for administrators
[edit]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:
{{Contentious topics/alert/first|mos}}
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|mos}}{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|mos}}
- No page restrictions editnotice
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|mos}}
- Talk page notices