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Wikipedia:Contentious topics/The Troubles

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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the Troubles (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Additionally, the following arbitration remedies apply in the contentious topic area:

  • 1RR – subject to the normal exceptions, editors may not make more than one revert per page in the contentious topic area per 24 hours.

Arbitration Committee decisions

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Contentious topics

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Last modified 19 October 2023

All pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed, are designated as a contentious topic.

A one revert restriction (1RR), subject to the usual exceptions, is applied to all pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland, broadly construed.

Guidance for administrators

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Standard set of restrictions

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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

Clarifications and amendments

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Templates

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

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

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert
No page restrictions editnotice
Talk page notices