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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

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Contentious topics

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Last modified 14 December 2022

Both experienced and new editors contributing to articles relating to the area of conflict (namely, the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed) are reminded that this is a highly contentious subject and are cautioned that to avoid disruption they must adhere strictly to fundamental Wikipedia policies, including but not limited to: maintaining a neutral point of view; avoiding undue weight; carefully citing disputed statements to reliable sources; and avoiding edit-warring and incivility.

To enforce the foregoing, the area of conflict is designated as a contentious topic.

All sanctions imposed under the original remedies shall continue in full force.

Guidance for administrators

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Standard set of restrictions

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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
Page restrictions

Clarifications and amendments

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Templates

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When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:

When a page has active page restrictions, the following template must be used as an editnotice:

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert
No page restrictions editnotice
Talk page notices