Arbitration​Committee

This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic.

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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related conflicts (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Contentious topics

Last modified 14 December 2022

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and related ethnic conflicts, broadly construed, are designated as a contentious topic.

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

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the " consensus required" restriction,
• the " enforced BRD" restriction

The Arbitration Committee has resolved requests for clarification and amendment for this contentious topic on the following occasions:

• April 2008: Clarification on the area of conflict, specifically whether it includes Iran and Turkey ( Archived request)
• May 2010: Whether the authority of uninvolved administrators included applying restrictions to articles ( Archived request)
• April 2012: Clarification on the area of conflict as it relates to imposed page restrictions ( Archived request)
• February 2013: Clarification on the scope of title requiring a page be about both Armenia and Azerbaijan, or just one. ( Archived request)

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

• {{ Contentious topics/alert/first|a-a}}

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

• {{ Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|a-a}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{ Contentious topics/alert|a-a}}
• {{ Contentious topics/alert/DS|a-a}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{ Contentious topics/editnotice|a-a}}

Talk page notices

• {{ Contentious topics/talk notice|a-a}}
• {{ Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|a-a}}