The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to COVID-19, broadly construed (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
Arbitration Committee decisions
[edit]Contentious topics
[edit]The community COVID-19 general sanctions are hereby rescinded and COVID-19, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.
Standard set of restrictions
[edit]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
Clarifications and amendments
[edit]Templates
[edit]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|covid}}
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
{{Contentious topics/alert|covid}}
{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|covid}}
- No page restrictions editnotice
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|covid}}
- Talk page notices
{{Contentious topics/talk notice|covid}}
{{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|covid}}