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Template:Contentious topics/talk notice

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, which is a contentious topic. Please consult the procedures and edit carefully.

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, which has been designated as a contentious topic. Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

This template should notbesubstituted.

This template is used on the talk pages of pages covered under a contentious topic to notify editors to take care editing the page.

The template requires you to declare what contentious topic the page is covered under, by specifying a #decision code. If the page is covered by more than one contentious topic, you can use multiple calls to this template.

You should place the template at the top of the talk page, below the header (if used) but above all other templates.

Anyone may place a contentious topics talk page notice.^[1]

The page it is placed on must be within the topic area of the contentious topic. Keep in mind that many topic areas are "broadly construed". Clarification of whether a page is in a topic area can be requested at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment.

You may use this on the article talk page.

{{Contentious topics/talk notice|code}}

{{Contentious topics/talk notice|code|brief or long}}

The default is a wordy and detailed message:

{{Contentious topics/talk notice|tpm|long}} gives:

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, which has been designated as a contentious topic. Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

Alternatively there is a more concise, bold-print message:

{{Contentious topics/talk notice|tpm|brief}} gives:

The contentious topics procedure applies to this page. This page is related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, which is a contentious topic. Please consult the procedures and edit carefully.

Note that the ap and tpm topic codes are interchangeable. tpm is preferred.

If an article has sanctions but doesn't fit into one of the above topic areas, this template is unsuitable. Use {{Gs/talk notice}} instead.

The template places the page into Category:Wikipedia pages about contentious topics unless nocat=yes is included.

• {{Gs/talk notice}}: an equivalent for when any general sanction is in use (for instance, Wikipedia community general sanctions).

This section transcluded from: Template:Contentious topics/list/single notice [edit] [Contentious topics template subpages]

Enforcement

• Individual restrictions
  • {{AE sanction}}, for telling a user they have been sanctioned (under CT or otherwise)
  • {{AE sanction/topicban}}, specifically for an AE topic ban
  • {{Uw-aeblock}}, for notifying users of arbitration enforcement blocks
  • {{Uw-aepblock}}, for notifying users of arbitration enforcement partial blocks
• Page restrictions
  • {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice}}, editnotice that must be used for announcing active page restrictions (except page protection)
  • {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice}}, talk page messagebox that should be used for announcing active page restrictions
• {{Contentious topics/list}} & {{Contentious topics/table}}, the lists of contentious topics
• Contentious topics enforcement templates, the category for all enforcement-related templates created for the current contentious topics template
• Case/decision specific enforcement templates
• {{Contentious topics/log}}, to display links for searching whether a user has ever been alerted; use like/alongside {{user}}.

Whenever contentious topics are (de)authorised for a topic, update these: {{Contentious topics/list}} (edit), WP:GS §3.1 (edit), and {{Contentious topics/table}} (edit).