Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Kurds and Kurdistan
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
 | This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic. |
Note that the community has separately authorized general sanctions for Kurds and Kurdistan, including by imposing an extended-confirmed restriction on the topic area.
Arbitration Committee decisions
Contentious topics
The topics of Kurds and Kurdistan are 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
Templates
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
User notifications
{{subst:Contentious topics/welcome|kurd}}{{subst:Contentious topics/alert|kurd}}
Editnotices
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|kurd}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|kurd}}– mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection
Talk page notice
{{Contentious topics/talk notice|kurd}}