Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Historical elections
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the results of any national or sub-national election (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
The results of any national or sub-national election are a Contentious Topic. Starting in 2026 and checked yearly afterwards, this designation expires on 1 January if no sanctions have been logged in the preceding 2 years.
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|rne}}– mandatory for an editor's first alert{{subst:Contentious topics/alert|rne}}{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|rne}}
Editnotices
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|rne}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|rne}}– mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection
Talk page notice
{{Contentious topics/talk notice|rne}}