Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Article titles and capitalisation
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to article titles and capitalisation (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. |
Arbitration Committee decisions
Contentious topics
Contentious topic restrictions are authorized for all pages and discussions related to article titles and capitalisation, broadly construed. The scope of this remedy includes:
- discussions about the policies and guidelines mentioned
- changing the capitalisation of a phrase when editing a page
- changing the capitalisation of a page title by moving or renaming a page
- individual requests for comment, move requests, move reviews, as well as discussions on article talk pages, user talk pages, or other venues, where the discussion directly relates to article titles and/or capitalisation.
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:
Alerting editors
{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|at}}– mandatory for an editor's first alert{{subst:Contentious topics/alert|at}}{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|at}}
Editnotices
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|at}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|at}}– mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection
Talk page notice