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This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2017 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2017.

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).


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2017[edit]

Abortion[edit]

American politics 2[edit]

  • TheTimesAreAChanging (talk · contribs) is, per an AE request, indefinitely topic-banned from all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. They may appeal this restriction after six months have passed.  Sandstein  10:13, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Edit: modified to apply to apply to just the Russian interference article for three days. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:27, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • SPECIFICO restricted to only using WP:AE or an uninvolved administrator's talk page to request discretionary sanctions be levied against another editor. [12] --NeilN talk to me 15:20, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restriction lifted with the understanding the editor will use appropriate venues. [13] --NeilN talk to me 20:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per THAAC's filing, it is lifted for both parties. Dennis Brown - 22:42, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2[edit]

Climate change[edit]

Eastern Europe[edit]

  • SaintAviator (talk · contribs) is topic banned for three months from articles related to Russia and Vladimir Putin, both broadly construed. ~ Rob13Talk 14:13, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • SaintAviator (talk · contribs) is blocked 72 hours for violating their topic ban after being warned that continued talk page messages about Russia would violate the ban. ~ Rob13Talk 03:54, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing of Biographies of Living Persons[edit]

  • Holanthony (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from editing in the BLP topic area, specifically "any edit in any article with biographical content relating to living or recently deceased people, or any edit relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles of any page in any namespace". [22] BethNaught (talk) 14:36, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GamerGate (superseded by Gender and sexuality)[edit]

  • Neptune's Trident (talk · contribs) blocked for 2 months for topic ban violations per AE request.  Sandstein  17:32, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ranze (talk · contribs) blocked for 3 months for POV editing in the gender-based controversy topic area after being warned. --Laser brain (talk) 13:16, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • An appeal of the block was submitted by Ranze to the AE noticeboard and was declined. Furthermore, Ranze was indefinitely banned from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. Coffee // have a cup // beans // 11:37, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • MarkBernstein blocked 1 year for fourth violation of his topic ban.[27] The WordsmithTalk to me 00:45, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Genetically modified organisms[edit]

  • User:Wuerzele blocked 1 week for TBAN violations (see request). GoldenRing (talk) 09:27, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Groupuscule (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from from genetically modified organisms, per AE request. They are invited to appeal the ban after three months and explain how they intend to change their approach to editing in this topic area.  Sandstein  08:29, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

India-Pakistan[edit]

Article/topic level restrictions[edit]

Gilgit-Baltistan: 1RR restriction imposed by User:El C[37]. --regentspark (comment) 17:58, 26 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Liancourt Rocks[edit]

  • Jangg8962 (talk · contribs) is blocked blocked one week for lame name order changes specifically warned against - "All edits that consist merely of changing around the order of mentioning the two countries ("Japanese-Korean" vs. "Korean-Japanese", etc.), or edits that mess with the naming of "Japan Sea"/"East Sea", "Liancourt Rocks"/"Dokdo", etc., are strictly forbidden, unless they have been discussed and reached consensus in advance." --NeilN talk to me 11:39, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia[edit]

Palestine-Israel articles[edit]

  • Winsocker is also indefinitely topic-banned from everything related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, per AE thread.  Sandstein  09:36, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protections[edit]

- Samsara 01:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
EC protection and 1RR edit notices have been removed from Lebanon per consensus at WP:AN (see diff). ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 20:34, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudoscience[edit]

Shakespeare authorship question[edit]

The Rambling Man[edit]

Arthur_Rubin[edit]

  • Administrator permissions for Arthur Rubin were removed per the above on 2017-10-16T17:35:57. — xaosflux Talk 17:42, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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