This page documents and supplementsdecisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning acontentious topic.

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The Arbitration Committee hasenacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related toArmenia,Azerbaijan, or related conflicts (the "contentious topic"). Thecontentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Note that the community has separately authorizedgeneral sanctions for Armenia-Azerbaijan, including by imposing anextended-confirmed restriction on a subset of the topic area:Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involvingArmenia,Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including theArmenian genocide.

Last modified 14 December 2022

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and related ethnic conflicts, broadly construed, are designated as acontentious topic.

Last modified 8 September 2023

• Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involvingArmenia,Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including theArmenian genocide—are placed under an extended confirmed restriction.
• In the rest of theArmenia–Azerbaijan topic area, the community endorses administrators making liberal use ofextended confirmed protection as anarbitration enforcement action.

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,
• word limits per discussion

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction,
• word limits for all participants in a specific discussion

The Arbitration Committee has resolved requests for clarification and amendment for this contentious topic on the following occasions:

• April 2008: Clarification on the area of conflict, specifically whether it includes Iran and Turkey (Archived request)
• May 2010: Whether the authority of uninvolved administrators included applying restrictions to articles (Archived request)
• April 2012: Clarification on the area of conflict as it relates to imposed page restrictions (Archived request)
• February 2013: Clarification on the scope of title requiring a page be about both Armenia and Azerbaijan, or just one. (Archived request)

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

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|a-a}}

When a page has active page restrictions (other than page protection), the following templatemust be used as an editnotice:

• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|a-a}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|a-a}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|a-a}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|a-a}}

Talk page notice

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|a-a}}
• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|gsaa}} – to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic ofpolitics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide

{{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|a-a}} supports the additional use of|ECR=yes, which signifies that the page falls under thecommunity's authorization of theextended-confirmed restriction forPolitics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involvingArmenia,Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including theArmenian genocide.

• Contentious topic summary pages