 | This page documents and supplementsdecisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning acontentious topic. |
The Arbitration Committee hasenacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related toarticles aboutliving or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles (the "contentious topic"). Thecontentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
All living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Wikipedia articles are designated as acontentious topic.
The topic of Zak Smith is placed under theextended-confirmed restriction. This restriction is set to lapse automatically one year after the enactment of this motion. If an editor believes this restriction should be extended, they may request the Committee consider an extension by posting an amendment request atWikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment in the final month of the restriction's timeframe.
Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:
When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following templatemust be used to alert them:
When a page has active page restrictions (other than page protection), the following templatemust be used as an editnotice:
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
Alerting editors after their first alert
{{subst:Contentious topics/alert|blp}}{{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|blp}}No page restrictions editnotice
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|blp}}Talk page notice
{{Contentious topics/talk notice|blp}}{{Contentious topics/talk notice|zs}} – to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic ofZak Smith