 | This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic. |
The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles (the "contentious topic"). The contentious 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 a contentious topic.
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 template must be used to alert them:
{{Contentious topics/alert/first|blp}}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:
{{Contentious topics/alert|blp}}{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|blp}}{{Contentious topics/editnotice|blp}}