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.
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Arbitration Committee decisions
Contentious topics
Eastern Europe and the Balkans, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.
Subtopic of Lithuania
Reliable source consensus-required restriction (Lithuania)
All articles and edits in the topic area of Lithuania history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Lithuania are subject to a "reliable source consensus-required restriction."
Subtopic of Poland
Reliable source consensus-required restriction (Poland)
5) All articles and edits in the topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland are subject to a "reliable source consensus-required restriction."
Extended confirmed restriction (Poland)
7) The extended confirmed restriction is imposed on edits and pages related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland, broadly construed. As designated by the Eastern Europe arbitration case, the area also remains a contentious topic.
Guidance for administrators
- Administrators should ensure that an appropriate warning has left before applying restrictions.
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
Templates
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
Alerting editors
{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|ee}}– mandatory for an editor's first alert{{subst:Contentious topics/alert|ee}}{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|ee}}
Editnotices
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|ee}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|ee}}– mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection
Talk page notice
{{Contentious topics/talk notice|ee}}{{Contentious topics/talk notice|apl}}– to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic of Polish history during World War II (1933–1945) and the history of Jews in Poland{{Contentious topics/talk notice|ali}}– to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic of Lithuanian history during World War II (1933–1945) and the history of Jews in Lithuania