Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Historical elections
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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the results of any national or sub-national election (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 results of any national or sub-national election are a Contentious Topic. Starting in 2026 and checked yearly afterwards, this designation expires on 1 January if no sanctions have been logged in the preceding 2 years.
Guidance for administrators
[edit]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|rne}}
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|rne}}{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|rne}}
- No page restrictions editnotice
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|rne}}
- Talk page notices