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This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2023 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2023.

The required information is the user or page the sanction is being applied to, enforcing administrator, date, nature of sanction, including expiry date (if applicable), basis or context (such as link to AE request), and a diff of the user notification (if applicable).

Abortion

• User:Wes sideman topic-banned from abortion for one week or 100 edits (whichever comes last). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:50, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Wes sideman (talk · contribs) blocked for one week for violating their topic ban. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:31, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Unblocked after consultation with HJ Mitchell. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:25, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Sebastienostertag indefinitely topic banned from all pages and discussions related to abortion. Special:Diff/1143196093. Bishonen | tålk 11:40, 6 March 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Acupuncture

American politics 2

• Talk:Marjorie Taylor Greene semi-protected for 6 months. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:52, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Hunter Biden laptop controversy subject to consensus required restriction. In addition to 1RR which was applied by User:El C in December 2022. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:16, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Zaathras (talk · contribs) page ban from the Hunter Biden laptop controversy article (not the talk page) until 00:01, 18 February 2023 (UTC) for breaching the consensus required restriction. Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:47, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Talk:Libs of TikTok semi-protected for a year. Daniel Case (talk) 03:59, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Paul Vallas 3 months ECP. El_C 19:54, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Antisemitism in Poland

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

• Massacres of Azerbaijanis in Armenia (1917–1921) semi-protected for 3 months--Ymblanter (talk) 22:52, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Dallavid (talk · contribs) warned for edit warring and battleground behaviour in response to this AE thread. Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:48, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article titles and capitalisation

Biographies of Living Persons

• Sanae Takaichi is semi-protected for 1 year. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:14, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Murder of Don Banfield is semi-protected for 1 year. Can be changed to ECP, if necessary, without consulting me. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:35, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Angela Cappetta is semi-protected for 1 year. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:08, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Cher Scarlett and Ashley Gjøvik are ECP'd for one year. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Killing of Brianna Ghey is placed under 1RR for one month. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 00:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Lifted early Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 00:45, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• WWGB (talk · contribs) formally warned for breaking the 1RR imposed on Killing of Brianna Ghey in the diffs 3, 2 and 1 (number 3 being made after 1RR was imposed which was a violation due to the two other reverts on that page within 24 hours). Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 10:52, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting this: "An imposed rule does not apply retroactively. That is, if an editor has reverted in the past 24 hours before a 1RR has been applied, their first subsequent revert is not a violation." WWGB (talk) 11:15, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Striking this logged warning based on the above. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 11:18, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Killing of Brianna Ghey is placed under semi-protection for one month. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 16:35, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Vladimir Putin extended-confirmed protected indefinitely. Favonian (talk) 22:37, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Karl A. Brabenec is semi-protected for 3 months. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Alaa Abd-El-Aziz is semi-protected for 3 months. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:28, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Proxima Centauri (talk · contribs) is banned "from restoring any text to a biography of a living person, or text which relates to a living person to any other article, that has been reverted by another editor" for reasons given at that diff. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:43, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Civility in infobox discussions

Climate change

Conduct in deletion-related editing

• 7&6=thirteen given only warning that his TBAN extends to comments about the deletion process, not just participation therein. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 14:56, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

COVID-19

Log of individual sanctions

Log of page-level restrictions

• Aseem Malhotra semiprotected for 1 year. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:33, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Heather Heying is semi-protected for 1 year. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:39, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Great Barrington Declaration is semiprotected indefinitely. EdJohnston (talk) 23:39, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Europe

• Soledar semi-protected indefinitely--Ymblanter (talk) 19:29, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Elinruby (talk · contribs) warned regarding personal attacks, civility, casting aspersions and battleground behaviour. See here for more details and notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:38, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Gitz6666 (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from the Russo-Ukrainian War following this ANI thread. Notification diff. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:38, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Michael60634 (talk · contribs) topic banned from Crimea for six months (expiring at 00:01, 15 July 2023 (UTC)) and warned about edit warring. See this AE thread, notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:04, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Volunteer Marek (talk · contribs) given restriction on making personal comments to other editors on article and article talk pages and warned not to cast aspersions elsewhere. See here for notification and wording of the restriction. Editors wishing to report potential violations are encouraged to follow the process here. This was imposed in response to this AE thread. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:04, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• TimothyBlue (talk · contribs) warned for edit warring and editing with a battleground mentality. See here for notification and details. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:23, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Jargo Nautilus (talk · contribs) indefinite topic banned from modern armed conflicts in Eastern Europe including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:47, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked for 24 hours for breaching topic ban after a warning - notification and explanation. Just noting that the diff linked in the block notice was the wrong one, it should have been this Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:30, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Товболатов (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from editing content related to ethnic minority groups in the former Soviet Union, broadly construed _signed, Rosguill ^talk 15:58, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Tsans2's topic ban of April 2, 2022 is lifted with immediate effect per request and review. -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:55, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Coldtrack was page blocked from Srebrenica massacre pas an authorized Wikipedia:Contentious topics restriction, for tendentious editing and personal attacks in edit summaries. They were also warned that further disruption in the area could lead to a topic ban.--Jayron32 16:47, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Following this AE thread:

• Marcelus (talk · contribs) subject to a 0RR restriction across the Eastern Europe topic area for edit warring,
• TrangaBellam (talk · contribs) is warned for edit warring and combative discussion style, and
• GizzyCatBella (talk · contribs) is warned for making off-topic or discussion-derailing comments on talk pages.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:14, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Electronic cigarettes

Falun Gong 2

Gender and sexuality

• Paddykumar (talk · contribs) is topic banned from any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated peoples, broadly construed, for twelve months, per this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 20:38, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked 1 week for violating TBAN shortly after imposed. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 04:30, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

    Blocked for 1 year for immediate recidivism re: TBAN (also indeffed as a regular admin action). firefly ( t · c ) 21:12, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Libs of Tiktok placed under indef 1RR due to persistent edit warring. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• TheTranarchist (talk · contribs) officially warned for conduct in the topic area. Special:Diff/1138784105 -- Amanda (she/her) 16:07, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Chloe Cole (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) semi protected for 3 months. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) subject to consensus required restriction. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:14, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) subject to consensus required restriction. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:14, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Bigdan201 (talk · contribs) is topic banned from any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated peoples, broadly construed, for twelve months per this ANI thread. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:34, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Genetically modified organisms

Gun control

Horn of Africa

• Begemder EC-protected for 1 year due to prolonged edit-warring and sockpuppetry. Favonian (talk) 11:29, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

India-Pakistan-Afghanistan

• PreserveOurHistory (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages and discussions concerning India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed, per this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 17:23, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked 1 week for violating topic ban shortly after imposed. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 16:12, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Maitrey M. Telang (talk · contribs) given a logged warning regarding sourcing their edits per this AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:28, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Minaro123 (talk · contribs) indefinitely partial-blocked from Aryan Valley and Talk:Aryan Valley for repeated edit warring and refusal to discuss. Daniel Case (talk) 20:12, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Minaro123 (talk · contribs) indefinitely limited to a maximum of one revert per 24 hours on all articles and limited to using articles for creation for creating new articles on any topic per this AE request. --RegentsPark (comment) 18:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• The page at Devendrakula Velalar is EC-protected indefinitely due to caste-related edit warring. EdJohnston (talk) 03:43, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Qamar Javed Bajwa EC-protected for six months due to edit warring and sockpuppetry. Daniel Case (talk) 08:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Allahabad protection raised to EC through April due to continued disruptive editing over city name and other things. Daniel Case (talk) 08:28, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing EC protected for 1 year, vandalism and disruptive editing. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 06:21, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Mar Thoma Syrian Church, EC protected indefinitely due to long term edit warring. EdJohnston (talk) 20:54, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Operation Blue Star indefinitely semi-protected for frequent POV pushing. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 08:50, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Hazaras – EC protected indef due to disruptive editing. EdJohnston (talk) 15:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Anubhavklal (talk · contribs) blocked for 48 hours for breaching 1RR at Bharatiya Janata Party--RegentsPark (comment) 17:01, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Sridhar Vembu semi-protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 20:41, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Ashraf Ghani indef semi. El_C 09:41, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes

Iranian politics

Kurds and Kurdistan

• Hamdi Ulukaya indef semi. El_C 18:58, 5 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia

Medicine

Palestine-Israel articles

• Dan Palraz (talk · contribs) topic banned from the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted, until 00:01, 4 August 2023 (UTC) (approximately 6 months) per this arbitration enforcement request. Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:58, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protections

• Yitzhak Shamir ecp indef--Ymblanter (talk) 17:45, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Masada al-Mujahideen ECP indef. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:49, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron ECP indef. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:21, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Route 4370 ECP indef. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:32, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• 2023 Jenin killings is extended-confirmed protected indefinitely. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:54, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023 ecp indef--Ymblanter (talk) 13:26, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Facts and Logic About the Middle East, Revava, Rehelim. El_C 11:01, 3 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudoscience

Race and intelligence

Scientology

Sexology

Shakespeare authorship question

September 11 conspiracy theories

The Troubles

• Twasonasummersmorn is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:03, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]