Wikipedia:Contentious topics/American politics

Arbitration​Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last amended 14 December 2022

Post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.

Standard set of restrictions

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

• April 2017: Whether "politics" also includes events that had a political impact. (archived request)
• January 2021: Modification of cutoff date for the contentious topic designation from 1932 to 1992. (archived request)
• March 2021: Whether a user alerted for the 1932 cutoff could be considered aware for the 1992 cutoff. Result: They could be considered aware. (archived request)
• October 2022: Whether sanctions placed on articles that are from after 1932 but before 1992 still apply following the January 2021 amendment. Result was that they do. (archived request)

Templates

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|ap}}

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

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

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|ap}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|ap}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|ap}}

Talk page notices

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|ap}}
• {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|ap}}