Wikipedia:General sanctions/Blockchain and cryptocurrencies

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Community discussion

A community discussion at the administrators' noticeboard has placed all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, under indefinite general sanctions, effective 14:43, 22 May 2018 (UTC).

Contentious topic (2025)

A November 2025 RfC converted the prior community-imposed discretionary sanctions into a community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025.


Remedies

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In addition, a one-revert rule, which does not require notice, with the following specifications is imposed:

  • All articles related to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are placed under WP:1RR (one revert per editor per article per 24 hour period). When in doubt, assume an edit is related and so is a revert.
    • Clear vandalism of whatever origin may be reverted without restriction. Reverts of edits made by anonymous IP editors that are not vandalism are exempt from 1RR but are subject to the usual rules on edit warring.
    • Editors who otherwise violate this 1RR restriction may be blocked without warning by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offence.

Templates

Pages may be tagged with {{Gs/talk notice|cry}}, and {{Gs/editnotice|topic=cry}} may be used to indicate that articles fall within this contentious topic.

Enforcement

In addition to community venues (such as WP:AN or WP:ANI as appropriate), enforcement requests and appeals arising from these remedies may be submitted to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE).[1]

Log of notifications

More information Manually logging notifications is no longer required when using {{subst:Gs/alert|cry}}. This section is retained for historical purposes., Archive of 2019 notices ...
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Log of blocks and bans

Log any block, ban or extension under any remedy here. Minimum information includes name of administrator, date and time, what was done and the basis for doing it.

2023 blocks and bans

2021 blocks and bans

2020 blocks and bans

2019 blocks and bans

2018 blocks and bans

  • Demohere (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:51, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
  • Davidswiki (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:14, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
  • Malkavian (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 14:44, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
  • SotaWatanabe (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 19:25, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
    Blocked indefinitely for breaching topic ban and advertising. The first week of this block is under GS, the remainder as a normal admin action. MER-C 20:44, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
  • OrixaOKO (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
  • OSNF2P (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 14:35, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
    Blocked for 1 week for immediately breaching topic ban. MER-C 14:50, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Benwhale1 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 10:48, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Obaid123456 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 18:52, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
    Blocked indefinitely for breaching topic ban and advertising. The first week of this block is under GS, the remainder as a normal admin action. MER-C 12:04, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Arashrahimiardkapan (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year with talk page access disabled and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:40, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Abbas888 (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:22, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Fireice (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 08:17, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Glerant (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 19:46, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Mykanah (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 08:42, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
  • Themainexchange (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 12:21, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
    Blocked for 48 hours for breaching topic ban. MER-C 13:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Oliyarnyk (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 16:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
  • TheMorningBell (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:41, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Itency (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed (spam only block is a normal admin action). MER-C 14:14, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Shuwun (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 11:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Xqminand08 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. User occasionally edits logged out as 128.1.83.165. MER-C 14:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Peak Debt (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 21:23, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
  • SouthernWolf95 (talk · contribs) is blocked for 48 hours for edit warring on Steem to restore unsourced, promotional content. MER-C 19:04, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Omegshi147 (talk · contribs)/08adamsm (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:40, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Ilee200000 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 20:07, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Arnegiske11 (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 05:21, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
  • AoNQPBstout (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 16:20, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
  • Jovan92 (talk · contribs) is blocked for a year and indefinitely topic banned from blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed. MER-C 05:50, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Page level sanctions

  • Redeleted and salted following a repost. MER-C 15:31, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
  • Protection upgraded to indef WP:ECP. El_C 16:51, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
  • Indef semi. El_C 17:30, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Other sanctions

  • icochamps.com added to the spam blacklist (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ugur none). MER-C 19:27, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
  • .*counos.* added to the title blacklist and counos.io added to the spam blacklist (see Draft:Counos, Draft:Counos Cash, Counos, Draft:Counos digital currencies, Draft:Counos Currency, User:Conuos/sandbox). MER-C 14:33, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
    • .*conous.* added to the title blacklist for the same reason (User:Conous). MER-C 19:12, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
    • Counos indefinitely full protected for the same reason. MER-C 16:53, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

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