Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2018

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This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2018 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2018.

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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2018[edit]

Abortion[edit]

Acupuncture[edit]

American politics 2[edit]

  • DHeyward is banned for one month from all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:23, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked 24 hours by Bishonen for violating topic ban and topic ban reset to three months starting today by me. --NeilN talk to me 19:21, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Andrevan is topic banned for three months from edits about, and all pages related to, post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed. The only exception to this is commenting at any potential ArbCom case or case request in which they are a named party. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:08, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • TBAN is reset and extended to 6 months from today because of CheckUser confirmed evasion of this topic ban [24] [25]. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:35, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • {{user|Sir Joseph}} warned not to open frivolous AE requests. --NeilN talk to me 14:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
List of articles on which I replaced the templates

Talk:Roy Moore Talk:Donna Brazile Talk:Debbie Wasserman Schultz Talk:Myron Ebell Talk:Melania Trump Talk:Jill Stein Talk:Andrew Napolitano Talk:Mike Pence Talk:Tim Kaine Talk:Jeff Sessions Talk:Ted Cruz Talk:Clinton Foundation Talk:Betsy DeVos Talk:Ivanka Trump Talk:Kellyanne Conway Talk:Frank Gaffney Talk:Jared Kushner Talk:Van Jones Talk:Neil Gorsuch Talk:National Policy Institute Talk:Michael Flynn Talk:David Malpass Talk:Mick Mulvaney Talk:Breitbart News Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos Talk:2016 Democratic National Convention Talk:2016 Republican National Convention Talk:Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 Talk:Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 Talk:Kelli Ward Talk:Steve Bannon Talk:Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016 Talk:Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 Talk:List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 Talk:United States presidential election, 2020 Talk:Results of the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016 Talk:Results of the Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016 Talk:Political positions of Donald Trump Talk:List of Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements, 2016 Talk:Tim Canova Talk:Protests against Donald Trump Talk:Stop Trump movement Talk:Deep state in the United States Talk:Legal affairs of Donald Trump Talk:Clinton Foundation–State Department controversy User:K.e.coffman/Sandbox/Conspiracy Talk:Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations Talk:Presidency of Donald Trump Talk:First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency Talk:Foreign policy of Donald Trump Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 9 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 10 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 11 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 12 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 13 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 14 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 15 Portal talk:Current events/2016 November 16 Talk:Family of Donald Trump Talk:Sean Spicer Talk:Republican Party presidential primaries, 2020 Talk:List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign political endorsements, 2016 Talk:List of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign non-political endorsements, 2016 Talk:Fake news websites in the United States Talk:Trump–Russia dossier Talk:Efforts to impeach Donald Trump Talk:Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia Talk:List of executive actions by Donald Trump Talk:CREW v. Trump Talk:Social policy of Donald Trump Talk:Immigration policy of Donald Trump Talk:Executive Order 13769 Talk:List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump Talk:President Trump's immigration bans Talk:Aziz v. Trump Talk:Tootkaboni v. Trump Talk:Doe v. Trump Talk:Executive Order 13767 Talk:Legal challenges to the Trump travel ban Talk:Dismissal of Sally Yates Talk:Reactions to Executive Order 13769 Talk:Executive Order 13768 Talk:Cannabis policy of the Donald Trump administration Talk:Marijuana policy of the Donald Trump administration Talk:Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Talk:Executive Order 13780 Talk:Open space accessibility in California Talk:Trump Tower wiretapping allegations Talk:Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration Talk:2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys Talk:Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration Talk:LGBT protests against Donald Trump Talk:Gays for Trump Talk:United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement Talk:D.C. and Maryland v. Trump Talk:Blumenthal v. Trump Talk:Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump Talk:Stone v. Trump Template:Editnotices/Group/Talk:Roy Moore Talk:List of proclamations by Donald Trump Talk:CNN v. Trump

~Awilley (talk) 02:39, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The following list of articles have talk page sanctions templates and edit notices with the 1RR and Consensus-required restrictions, but I could not find corresponding entries in this log (searched back to 2015). I am assuming the administrators who placed the sanctions and created the edit notice templates simply forgot to make a log entry here. (Easy to forget, done it myself.) I am linking the pages here for reference, along with the name of the admin who created the edit notice.
~Awilley (talk) 17:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~Awilley (talk) 01:40, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Discretionary sanctions (1RR and Consensus Required) are removed from the following 26 pages. Sanctions were originally placed by User:Coffee (now retired). These pages for the most part have low edit volume and no recent disputes.
Note that this is allowed per Special:Permalink/873620431#Amendment to the standard provision for appeals and modifications ~Awilley (talk) 20:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ryan Zinke is placed under 1RR and consensus required. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:16, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Discretionary sanctions have been lightened on 53 articles originally sanctioned by User:Coffee. The rule known as "Consensus required" has been replaced by an original rule called "Enforced BRD". The current text of the new rule is as follows: Enforced BRD: If an edit you make is challenged by reversion you must discuss the issue on the article talk page and wait 24 hours (from the time of the original edit) before reinstating your edit. Partial reverts/reinstatements that reasonably address objections of other editors are preferable to wholesale reverts." This sanction is in addition to the WP:1RR already in place on the articles. Articles affected by this change are:
Note that because this is a new sanction that has never been used before I will be closely monitoring the above articles and will modify/remove the sanction or replace consensus required to articles if I see that things aren't working. ~Awilley (talk) 02:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Article titles and capitalisation[edit]

  • EEng (talk · contribs) paged banned from editing Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images for a period of one week for continuing to edit war after a warning to stop. Callanecc (talkcontribslogs) 22:17, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Darkfrog24 (talk · contribs) Appeal to lift existing topic ban declined. Blocked one month. Another appeal may not be launched sooner than one year from today. Any future appeal that does not exclusively address why the topic ban is not currently needed should be declined with a block imposed. An indefinite one-way interaction ban with SMcCandlish is also imposed - Darkfrog24 is banned from interacting with and/or commenting on or about SMcCandlish. The interaction ban sanction may not be appealed until after a successful topic ban appeal has taken place. [43] --NeilN talk to me 16:59, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked indefinitely (first year under discretionary sanctions) for violating editing restrictions. Any topic ban appeal may now not be launched sooner than one year after any unblock occurs. [44] --NeilN talk to me 20:42, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Balkans[edit]

  • Origin of the Romanians placed under "only revert once previously changed content is allowed for all editors (not one per editor) in the period of one month before the edit". It expires 3 months from now. This is to curb the continuous edit warring. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 00:41, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Civility in infobox discussions[edit]

  • Frank Sinatra - Editors may not uncollapse the lead infobox without first getting consensus on the talk page. --NeilN talk to me 22:21, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ezra Pound - Editors must not start another infobox discussion here, nor add or remove an infobox to the article, before one year has passed from a formal close of an infobox discussion. --NeilN talk to me 15:48, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Climate change[edit]

Eastern Europe[edit]

Users[edit]

Pages[edit]

  • Removed original author, added consensus required. --NeilN talk to me 23:21, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Add high quality sources needed, misrepresentation will result in topic bans. --NeilN talk to me 15:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Editing of Biographies of Living Persons[edit]

  • Lifted in favor of the below page restrictions. Swarm 08:55, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Block lifted in exchange for a 3 month 1RR editing restriction. Swarm 02:30, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Balazs38 is subject to 1. a three months' topic ban from all edits concerning living people that profess Buddhism or that belong to any Buddhist community, congregation, or organisation, whatever its nature may be and 2. an indefinite one-way interaction ban in respect of MacPraughan. Salvio Let's talk about it! 16:48, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Vcuttolo: topic banned for 1 month from all edits concerning recently deceased or living people. [64] Doug Weller talk 10:02, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dig deeper is indefinitely banned from editing anything related to Lauren Southern, broadly interpreted.[65] Bishonen | talk 16:04, 25 November 2018 (UTC).[reply]
  • Das osmnezz may not directly create any article about a living or recently deceased person as defined by BLP in the mainspace of the project. Any proposed new pages must be submitted as a WP:DRAFT to WP:AFC for review and approval. Further he may not make any edit to any article about a living or recently deceased soccer/football player without first having the edit proposed on the talk page of the article and then reviewed and approved by at least one editor with extended confirmed rights. When making an edit to a BLP article subject to this restriction he will name the editor who reviewed and approved the edit in the edit summary. These restrictions are for one year when they will again be reviewed. -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:31, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Miki_Filigranski is topic banned from Jordan Peterson for one month after edit warring and violating the 1RR sanction on the page. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 05:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tim Blair is placed under BLP restrictions and enforced BRD (as worded here) indefinitely. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 06:41, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sarah Rose Summers is placed under extended confirmed protection for 1 month. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:44, 23 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

GamerGate (superseded by Gender and sexuality)[edit]

Genetically modified organisms[edit]

Gun control[edit]

  • not to personalize disputes or to use inflammatory language ("comment on the content, not the contributor");
  • not to impede the formation of consensus by being too bold with talk page actions (specifically, they should not take it upon themselves to maintain or "clerk" any discussions);
  • not to impede the formation of consensus by repeatedly making the same points;
  • to acknowledge consensus can change and having external events bring increased scrutiny and change to potential walled gardens of articles can be beneficial and should not be ridiculed. [68] --NeilN talk to me 23:46, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • PatLaffan (talk · contribs) is topic banned for the period of one week from making any edit about, and any edit to all pages relating to, the governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues. [69] GorillaWarfare (talk) 04:57, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Factfindingmission (talk · contribs) is topic banned for three months from editing any page related to Smith & Wesson, broadly construed. --NeilN talk to me 13:13, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • 72bikers (talk · contribs) is banned for three months from making more than one revert per 24 hours (WP:1RR) on any page related to "gun control" including governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues. [70] --NeilN talk to me 19:07, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thewolfchild (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages, material, and discussion related to gun control, broadly construed. He may appeal this topic ban no sooner than 3 months from its imposition. (AE thread). MastCell Talk 16:55, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • AR-15 style rifle placed under indefinite 1RR/consensus/civility required restrictions. --NeilN talk to me 14:06, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • 72bikers (talk · contribs) is topic-banned indefinitely from all pages and discussions related to gun control, following community consensus here. MastCell Talk 00:21, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Blocked for one month following re-posting the same question which led to the ban in a new AN/I thread here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:10, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

India-Pakistan[edit]

  • Topic ban changed to following restrictions: 1) Not remove any WP:G5 tags from WP:ARBIPA articles 2) Observe WP:1RR with autoconfirmed editors on WP:ARBIPA topics 3) Ensure the sources he's using fully and accurately back up the content he's proposing. He will be required to produce the necessary excerpts from sources if challenged by an experienced editor 4) Take care not to misrepresent the validity or reliability of a source. Failure to abide by any one or more of these conditions may result in an immediate topic ban or block. [72] --NeilN talk to me 01:16, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Restrictions reduced to not removing any WP:G5 tags from WP:ARBIPA articles for remainder of sanctions (six months from original change). --NeilN talk to me 16:06, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Amended / clarified as applying to intersectional articles only. Guy (Help!) 23:16, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User was blocked for one month, on 2018-02-06. This was initially a longer block, but discussion at WP:ANI (currently, here) showed a consensus to shorten the block. The 1 year topic ban restarts on completion of the block and thus, ends on 2019-03-06. --Yamla (talk) 20:06, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Article/topic level restrictions[edit]

Longevity[edit]

  • I'm lifting my own block on appeal: The edit-warring situation was resolved prior to the AE request. Sandstein 16:33, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked for one week for repeated topic ban violation. Tiderolls 21:34, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked for one month. Returned from block to immediately violate ban. Tiderolls 19:36, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked for three months. Tiderolls 22:07, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia[edit]

Palestine-Israel articles[edit]

  • Blocked for two weeks per AE request for topic ban violations, incivility and personal attacks. Sandstein 09:08, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protections[edit]

BLP issues on British politics articles[edit]

Pseudoscience[edit]

Shakespeare authorship question[edit]

Scientology[edit]

The Troubles[edit]

Miscellaneous decisions[edit]

Use this section to record the enforcement of ArbCom decisions not made as part of a case. For example, unblock conditions where the editor wasn't banned in a case.