Wikipedia:Contentious topics/COVID-19

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 COVID-19, broadly construed (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Last modified 14 December 2022

The community COVID-19 general sanctions are hereby rescinded and COVID-19, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.

Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:

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

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

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|covid}}

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

• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|covid}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|covid}}
• {{subst: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}}