Wikipedia:Contentious topics/American politics
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
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Arbitration Committee decisions
Contentious topics
Post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.
Guidance for administrators
Standard set of restrictions
Any 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,
- word limits per discussion
Page restrictions
- page protection,
- revert restrictions,
- the "consensus required" restriction,
- the "enforced BRD" restriction,
- word limits for all participants in a specific discussion
Clarifications and amendments
- April 2017: Whether "politics" also includes events that had a political impact. (archived request)
- January 2021: Modification of cutoff date for the contentious topic designation from 1932 to 1992. (archived request)
- March 2021: Whether a user alerted for the 1932 cutoff could be considered aware for the 1992 cutoff. Result: They could be considered aware. (archived request)
- October 2022: Whether sanctions placed on articles that are from after 1932 but before 1992 still apply following the January 2021 amendment. Result: They do. (archived request)
Templates
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
Alerting editors
{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|ap}}– mandatory for an editor's first alert{{subst:Contentious topics/alert|ap}}{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|ap}}
Editnotices
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|ap}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|ap}}– mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection
Talk page notice