Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2016

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This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2016 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2016.

The required information is the user or page the sanction is being applied to, enforcing administrator, date, nature of sanction, including expiry date (if applicable), basis or context (such as link to AE request), and a diff of the user notification (if applicable).

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All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log. Whenever a sanction or page restriction is appealed or modified, the administrator amending it must append a note recording the amendment to the original log entry.

To be valid, sanctions must be clearly and unambiguously labelled as an arbitration enforcement action (such as with "arbitration enforcement", "arb enforcement", "AE" or "WP:AE" in the Wikipedia log entry or the edit summary). If a sanction has been logged as an arbitration enforcement action but has not been clearly labelled as an arbitration enforcement action any uninvolved administrator may amend the sanction (for example, a null edit or reblocking with the same settings) on behalf of the original administrator. Labelling a sanction which has been logged does not make the administrator who added the label the "enforcing administrator" unless there is confusion as to who intended the sanction be arbitration enforcement.

A central log of all page restrictions and sanctions (including blocks, bans, page protections or other restrictions) placed as arbitration enforcement (including contentious topic restrictions) is to be maintained by the Committee and its clerks at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log.

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2016

American politics 2

HughD is blocked one week for violation of his topic ban from US politics since 2009, as notified here per an AE request. EdJohnston (talk) 19:28, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sir Joseph is topic banned from editing any page relating to Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 17:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Sir Joseph (talk · contribs)'s AE appeal of the Bernie Sanders ban was declined. EdJohnston (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sir Joseph (talk · contribs)'s one-week topic ban from Bernie Sanders and related pages has been extended to six months for reasons explained here. Bishonen | talk 09:09, 6 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
    - Sir Joseph's appeal, at WP:ARCA, of the 6 month topic ban was declined by the Arbitration Committee. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:52, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Sir Joseph is blocked for 31 hours for violating his topic ban at WP:AE (edit in violation). — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kendrick7 is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:50, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
MXfurry is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 month, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
~~Volunteer Marek is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice.~~ — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- This action reversed per uninvolved administrator consensus. --Laser brain (talk) 15:13, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
74.62.192.83 blocked for one week for edits to Talk:Hillary Clinton email controversy Acroterion (talk) 01:24, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
HughD has his topic ban expanded to cover any edit regarding conservative American politics from 2009 onwards in any article, and extended until Jan 1, 2017. [1] per AE discussion. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
HughD (talk · contribs) Blocked one month and topic ban extended to indefinite and expanded to post-1932 American politics for multiple topic ban violations per AE discussion: [2] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The following pages have had page restrictions applied to them, due to their high visibility: Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016, Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016, United States presidential election, 2016, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:43, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Additionally Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 and Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016 have also had the same restrictions applied. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 10:47, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Following this ARCA, all of the above page restrictions have been updated: ([3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]) — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:37, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands has had the same restrictions imposed as well for being a high-risk topic. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 19:40, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Clinton Foundation and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have both had the same restrictions imposed for being high-risk topics. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 13:16, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    - For the above restrictions, "firm consensus" has been changed to read just "consensus", per the consensus of an AE discussion: [12] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 16:45, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hillary Clinton email controversy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) semied 1 year — edit warring, vandalism. --slakr^\ talk / 07:12, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
ThiefOfBagdad (talk · contribs) topic banned from pages related to 2016 US Presidential election for a period of 6 months per [13] ~Awilley (talk) 22:15, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- ThiefOfBagdad blocked one week for violation of his topic ban as notified by Awilley in the diff above. Katie^talk 14:51, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
JoeM (talk · contribs) topic banned from all pages related to Hilary Clinton for six months. [14] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 04:52, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
HappyWaldo (talk · contribs) is topic banned for one month from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed. Done as a result of edit warring on Milo Yiannopoulos. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 05:15, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked for three days for violating topic ban only day after imposed. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 00:36, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Doc9871 (talk · contribs) is topic banned from all pages related to Donald Trump for one month.[15] Bishonen | talk 11:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Ihardlythinkso (talk · contribs) is banned from the Donald Trump page, and related pages, broadly construed for one month. Done as a result of disrupting editing like this. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 03:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
ApolloFirenze (talk · contribs) is topic banned from all pages related to Donald Trump for one month.[16] Bishonen | talk 14:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Jensbest (talk · contribs) blocked for two days [17] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:05, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Gouncbeatduke (talk · contribs) is topic banned from all pages related to Donald Trump for one month. [18] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:47, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Jensbest (talk · contribs) blocked for one week [19] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 04:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
JGabbard (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed, for six months. Done as a result of this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 23:46, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
SashiRolls (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Jill Stein and related articles for six months.[20] Done as a result of this AE request. NW (Talk) 19:25, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Appeal to the Arbitration Committee has been declined. The user may only now appeal to ArbCom. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:30, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
CFredkin (talk · contribs) is banned from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed, for three months. Done as a closure of this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 21:03, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Blue Eagle 21063 (talk · contribs) prohibited for six months from editing any pages relating to or making any edit about Alicia Machado anywhere on Wikipedia for continued violations of the biographies of living people policy at Talk:Alicia Machado and now on my talk page. Notification Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:47, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
WaunaKeegan11 (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours for violating the 1RR restriction on United States presidential election, 2016. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:42, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Appeal to AE denied here [21]. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 22:33, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours for violating the 1RR restriction on United States presidential election, 2016. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:42, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations tagged under US Election 1RR restriction. Drmies (talk) 01:44, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anythingyouwant (talk · contribs) is banned from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed, until the 2016 US presidential election is complete and the losing candidate has conceded, or until 1 December, whichever is earlier. Ban enacted as a closure of this AE request. Vanamonde (talk) 10:49, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
LuckyLag360 (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours for violating the 1RR restriction on United States presidential election, 2016. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 04:24, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin is blocked for one week for violation of 1RR restriction placed by ArbCom on United States presidential election, 2016. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:27, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
74tyhegf is blocked 72 hours for violating the 1RR restriction on Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016. Should the general battleground mentality and POV-pushing displayed by this editor resume after this block, an indefinite block is in order. See also WP:ANI#Insults, trolling, and vandalism by User:74tyhegf De728631 (talk) 08:52, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
KINGOFTO is topic banned indefinitely from Donald Trump and all related pages, broadly construed.[22] Bishonen | talk 23:44, 1 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Ihardlythinkso is banned from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed, until the 2016 US presidential election is complete and the losing candidate has conceded, or until 1 December, whichever is earlier. Ban resulting from a consensus at this AE discussion. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 10:19, 7 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Political positions of Donald Trump tagged under 2016 US Election 1RR/consensus restriction. --Laser brain (talk) 12:41, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Maslowsneeds is indefinitely banned from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed.[23] Bishonen | talk 23:32, 7 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
DaltonCastle (talk · contribs) blocked 48 hours for violating 1RR restriction on Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016‎. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 02:01, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Portal:Current Events daily subpages for November 9th through 16th are placed under 2016 US Election 1RR/consensus restriction. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 10:09, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
98.167.185.72 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) blocked 48 hours for 1RR violation on Portal:Current events/2016 November 9‎‎. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 17:07, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TweedVest is indefinitely topic banned from all pages (including but not limited to articles, talk pages, and Wikipedia pages) related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed. Notified here. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:47, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User blocked for trolling and violating topic ban. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:38, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Myron Ebell tagged under 2016 US Election 1RR/consensus restriction. Doug Weller talk 12:09, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Steve Bannon tagged under 2016 US Election 1RR/consensus restriction. Doug Weller talk 15:55, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
David Malpass tagged under 2016 US Election 1RR/consensus restriction. Doug Weller talk 17:41, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Bloodofox is banned for one year from the topic of the Clintons and from people and organizations related to the Clintons on all pages of Wikipedia, per this notice, after a discussion at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 05:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Malerooster — 1RR for 1 month due to edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 22:27, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hidden Tempo is banned for six months from the topic of post-1932 politics of the United States, and closely related people, broadly construed.[24] Bishonen | talk 16:40, 2 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Hidden Tempo's appeal at AE was declined. EdJohnston (talk) 04:20, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Breitbart News placed under 1RR and consensus required as indicated with {{2016 US Election AE}}. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 05:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
YahwehSaves is banned for one month from the topic of Donald Trump, broadly construed. per this notice, after this WP:AE discussion. Bishonen | talk 10:16, 11 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- Changed to a one month block when they continued to violate topic ban. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 14:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Doc9871 is indefinitely topic-banned from all pages and edits related to post-1932 American politics and related people, pursuant to this enforcement request. MastCell ^Talk 17:36, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2016 United States election interference by Russia has been placed under 1RR and consensus required as indicated with {{2016 US Election AE}}. Bishonen | talk 21:18, 13 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]

I removed these restrictions on 22 February 2017.[25][26] The article had then been moved to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. User:NeilN replaced them with a 1RR restriction. on the same day, see the 2017 log. Bishonen | talk 14:54, 3 April 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Tlroche (talk · contribs) blocked 60 hours for violation of 1RR on 2016 United States election interference by Russia. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:39, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Per AE thread:

Tlroche (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed across all namespaces.
~~SashiRolls (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from commenting on AE requests to which they are not a party. T. Canens (talk) 21:40, 16 December 2016 (UTC)~~[reply]

Appeal by SashiRolls declined at AE. Sandstein 09:08, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Appeal by SashiRolls accepted at AE. Barkeep49 (talk) 21:22, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

Jaqeli is indefinitely topic banned from everything related to both Armenia and Georgia, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 20:19, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Gala19000 is indefinitely banned from wars and conflicts involving Turkey and from anything to do with Armenia, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 17:15, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Abbatai is topic banned from all pages related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted, for 30 days. AE discussion Notification — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:19, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- After violating his topic ban with this edit, Abbatai was blocked for 1 month. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 09:09, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Abbatai's previous topic ban was extended for 6 months as a result of the block. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 10:04, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Gala19000 is blocked one week for violation of his topic ban and abusing multiple accounts, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 14:18, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Gala19000 is blocked one year for continued violation of his topic ban from Turkish wars, after the previous block expired, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 19:49, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
DavidThomson1997 is indefinitely topic banned from articles relating to the Nagorno-Karabakh War and restricted to 1rr on any other page relating to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, or Turkey, per notice. Ian.thomson (talk) 12:11, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DavidThomson1997 has been blocked indefinitely for violating the topic ban by editing the article about one of the war's catalysts. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:50, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Abbatai is warned per a complaint at AE. Both he and the other party are ''admonished and warned against battleground behaviour and failure to edit neutrally. Future examples of these behaviours are likely to result in a topic ban". EdJohnston (talk) 15:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
EtienneDolet is warned per a complaint at AE. Both he and the other party are ''admonished and warned against battleground behaviour and failure to edit neutrally. Future examples of these behaviours are likely to result in a topic ban". EdJohnston (talk) 15:36, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Green Cow is blocked for a week per this notice for editwarring after the DS notification. Doug Weller talk 16:21, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Article titles and capitalisation

Darkfrog24 is indefinitely topic banned from articles, discussions, and guidelines, explicitly including the manual of style, related to quotation marks and quotation styles, broadly interpreted. They may use quotes and quotation marks, and edit pages that include them, subject to normal editing rules (e.g. regarding edit warring). This ban may be appealed no sooner than 6 months after it is placed. Thryduulf (talk) 14:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- That topic ban replaced with: Darkfrog24 is indefinitely topic banned from the manual of style, and manual of style-related topics, specifically including quotation marks and quotation styles. This applies on all pages, including his and other's user talk pages. This may be appealed no sooner than 12 months from today (4 February 2016). Thryduulf (talk) 13:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Institited an indefinate ban as Darkfrog24 appears to be incapable of understanding the terms of the TBAN. See discussion at Arbitration Enforcement. No object to an unblock in a couple of weeks if Darkfrog24 confirms they now get it and will stop relitigating their case through TBAN clarifications. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Climate change

HughD (talk · contribs) topic banned from climate change, broadly construed. AE discussion: [27] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:14, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
HughD (talk · contribs) blocked 6 months for blatant violations of his ban, then continuing to make new violations while AE discussion was open. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 04:52, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Poodleboy (talk · contribs) blocked two weeks. [28] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:39, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Poodleboy (talk · contribs) has been indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Climate change for persistent disruptive editing, compare community consensus here. Notification of topic ban is here. Bishonen | talk 09:25, 27 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Zigzig20s (talk · contribs) has been indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Climate change for persistent disruptive editing on Myron Ebell and its talkpage.[29] Bishonen | talk 16:39, 10 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Electronic Cigarettes

Mystery Wolff is indefinitely banned from the topic of electronic cigarettes on all pages of Wikipedia, with right of appeal after six months per this AE closure. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 01:21, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Europe

User:Solntsa90 is topic banned from RT (TV network) and Talk:RT (TV network) for six months, for disruptive behavior specifically in the discussion of reliable sources. Drmies (talk) 17:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Doctor Franklin (talk · contribs) is subject to a WP:0RR ban for 1 year, for a pattern of continuously disruptive EW behavior (after being warned several times, and previously blocked). — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 13:39, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Solntsa90 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the topic of Vladimir Putin on all pages of Wikipedia including talk, for long-term edit warring on a troublesome article (14 reverts of the Putin article during February). EdJohnston (talk) 05:08, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Monochrome Monitor (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the topic of the Khazars on all pages of Wikipedia, per a complaint at WP:AN3. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 13:40, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Galassi (talk · contribs) is advised that their existing Ukraine ban (imposed in 2013) excludes them from editing about the Khazars on any page of Wikipedia, per an AE thread. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 14:13, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Human rights in Ukraine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) WP:1RR + semi for 1 month (July 17, 2016); edit warring, likely socking. --slakr^\ talk / 07:48, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Doctor Franklin (talk · contribs) is blocked for 1 month, for abusively using multiple accounts to violate his WP:0RR restriction. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Doctor Franklin. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 18:46, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Solntsa90 (talk · contribs) is blocked for 3 months for failing to adhere to community standards on the topic of ARBEE, per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 20:06, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Editing of Biographies of Living Persons

Sfarney (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from Rick Alan Ross and all related pages and content per rationale here. Bishonen | talk 10:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Sammy1339 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from Michael Greger and related pages, broadly construed.[30] Bishonen | talk 19:34, 2 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Froglich (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Barack Obama, broadly construed.[31] Bishonen | talk 09:37, 1 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Ocdgrammarian (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Frank Gaffney, broadly construed.[32] Bishonen | talk 22:31, 4 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Simon Mugava (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Uebert Angel, broadly construed.[33] Bishonen | talk 21:14, 17 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- Simon Mugava (talk · contribs) has been blocked for 48 hours for violating their topic ban.[34] Bishonen | talk 09:34, 18 November 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- Simon Mugava (talk · contribs) has been blocked for 1 week for violating their topic ban as soon as the previous block expired. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 20:34, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

Zakir Naik - under WP:1RR --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:26, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thomas Woods - 1 week full prot; might be good to indef semi afterward, as it reeks of socks. Could also be duplicated under American Politics and Austrian economics for a hat trick. --slakr^\ talk / 01:00, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Falun Gong

Sinceouch2422 indefinately blocked per this AE discussion, Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:17, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
STSC (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from editing and/or discussing topics related to the Falun Gong movement and/or the persecution thereof, broadly construed, across all namespaces, per this discussion. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 19:38, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An appeal to this sanction was declined at WP:AE per this discussion. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 10:25, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GamerGate (superseded by Gender and sexuality)

MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 01:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MarkBernstein was blocked for 1 week for violating the discretionary sanction. Mike V • Talk 00:37, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 6 weeks for another breech of that topic ban. Courcelles (talk) 21:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 6 months for third violation of topic ban. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 04:17, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked indefinitely for violating the topic ban.

Salvio

^{Let's talk about it!} 19:20, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Org.aidepikiw is subject to the standard GamerGate topic-ban--this means that they are indefinitely topic-banned from the subjects of: (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. Zad68 12:28, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinitely blocked after obviously intentional breach of sanctions. Acroterion (talk) 11:38, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

24.84.155.22 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Editor using this IP was blocked for three days, now a month for socking. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 22:29, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

Brianna Wu: 500/30 restriction- editing prohibited to accounts newer than 30 days and/or with less than 500 edits. Gamaliel (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anita Sarkeesian: 500/30 restriction- editing prohibited to accounts newer than 30 days and/or with less than 500 edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:59, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Crash Override Network placed under 1RR. This restriction was previously put on the talkpage by Dreadstar, but may have been unintentional due to copy/paste issues and was not logged or discussed. Due to the unusual circumstance of the imposing administrator being deceased, I take ownership and endorse this restriction. I advise against sanctioning editors for any reverts that occurred prior to this logging due to ambiguity. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 00:19, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Genetically modified organisms

Prokaryotes (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages and content related to genetically modified organisms, broadly construed, as the outcome of this enforcement request. MastCell ^Talk 19:56, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Topic-ban appealed at WP:AN; appeal closed as unsuccessful.
- Prokaryotes reverted the closure of his appeal and continued to dispute the sanction; again closed as unsuccessful.
- Topic-ban appealed to WP:AE ([35]); closed as duplicative.
- Topic-ban appealed to WP:ARCA; appeal closed as unsuccessful.
Semitransgenic (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages and content related to genetically modified organisms, broadly construed, as the outcome of this AE discussion. Spartaz ^Humbug! 11:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
A moderated RfC is being held at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Genetically modified organisms to determine how to phrase the safety of GM foods across all relevant articles. Whatever consensus is decided shall not be modified or overturned without an equivalent RfC. Additionally, the RFC is under further restrictions listed on that page and in the editnotice, including WP:0RR. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 14:22, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
SageRad (talk · contribs) is blocked for five days for violation of their topic ban. Done pursuant to AE request here. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 11:19, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- SageRad (talk · contribs) blocked for a month for violation of their topic ban at User talk:Jimbo Wales [36] and User talk:SageRad [37] --Laser brain (talk) 19:23, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
AE request: [38] closed with the following:

~~David Tornheim is topic banned from the topic of genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them, broadly construed.~~

David Tornheim's topic ban from topic of genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them, broadly construed is reduced to be a topic-ban from glyphosate, broadly construed. David Tornheim is further warned that any disruption in the GMO topic area after this appeal will likely result in additional sanctions, including but not limited to the restoration of the original topic ban as a new sanction. Based on appeal at AE: [39]. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that: David Tornheim's topic ban from glyphosate, imposed as a discretionary sanction on 28 July 2016 and amended on 23 April 2019, is rescinded. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 16:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

EllenCT is indefinitely prohibited from discussing the potential motivations of Wikipedia editors, as well as the actions of corporations or persons related to genetically modified organisms, agricultural biotechnology and agricultural chemicals, broadly construed.
Jusdafax is warned that making future accusations not supported by evidence is likely to lead to sanctions. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 17:32, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

David Tornheim (talk · contribs) blocked 1 month for violation of topic ban at User talk:Jimbo Wales [40]. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 18:56, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Anonywiki (talk · contribs) is banned for one year from the topic of GMOs on all pages of Wikipedia, per this notice, after a request at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 16:08, 27 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An appeal of this sanction on WP:AN has been declined on December 5th, 2016, and the user notified. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:31, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gun control

PrivateThoughts (talk · contribs) is topic banned from AR-15 and Talk:AR-15 for a month, starting...NOW. Notification. Drmies (talk) 14:45, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Correction made; incorrectly topic banned user under Pakistan-India case. Drmies (talk) 02:01, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- PrivateThoughts (talk · contribs) blocked for 31 hours for violating their topic ban from AR-15. Bishonen | talk 03:03, 24 June 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Sahrin (talk · contribs) is warned for personal attacks and reminded that his edits about gun control are expected to be neutral, per this notice, after a complaint at AE. EdJohnston (talk) 20:46, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

India-Pakistan

MBlaze Lightning — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
FreeatlastChitchat — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked for a week for violation per discussion here Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TalhaZubairButt — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Truth should trump indefinitely topic banned from all pages and discussions relating to castes.[41] Bishonen | talk 17:47, 25 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
MBlaze Lightning blocked 72 hours due to personal WP:1RR-restriction violation @ Research and Analysis Wing --slakr^\ talk / 04:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kashmir conflict and all articles related to the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir (initially posted here. Modified Sept 2016: 1RR restriction removed and a first revert does not need to be explained on the talk page.): Modified January 2018: Civility restriction removed though editors are reminded that WP:CIVIL is a core policy on Wikipedia:
A 1 RR restriction. Any attempt, even if made in good faith, to do more than one revert in a 24 hour period will lead to an immediate block.

A second revert without discussion restriction. A second revert of any edit, however minor, that is done without an explanation on the talk page will lead to an immediate block.

A civility restriction. Any suggestion that any editor is not editing in good faith will lead to an immediate block.

An ethnicity claim restriction Any attempt to bring the purported or deduced or imagined ethnic or nationality identities of any users will lead to an immediate block. This includes an editor's own stated ethnic identity or nationality. Wikipedia uses reliable sources and the weighting of those sources to decide what to include, what not to include, and how the content should be stated in an article. Please stick to arguments based on those factors.

--regentspark (comment) 13:10, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Towns Hill (talk · contribs) (formerly User:TalhaZubairButt) – Banned from the topic of conflicts between India and Pakistan and from anything to do with Bangladesh. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 15:18, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked 72 hours for violation, see [42]. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 01:07, 1 October 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Towns Hill (talk · contribs) is blocked one week for violation of his topic ban, per this notice. There was a discussion at AE. EdJohnston (talk) 16:53, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Appeal of topic ban declined at AE on 25 November, per this edit. EdJohnston (talk) 05:18, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
FreeatlastChitchat indefinitely prohibited from all edits and pages related to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, broadly construed. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 14:23, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Axtramedium is indefinitely topic banned from Gurjara-Pratihara and related pages.[43] Bishonen | talk 14:31, 25 May 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- Axtramedium is now indefinitely blocked for using sockpuppets to evade the above topic ban.—SpacemanSpiff 03:11, 8 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Giridharmurthy100 is topic banned for one month from Kapu (caste) and all related pages.[44] Bishonen | talk 20:00, 4 June 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- Blocked 72 hours for violation. Katie^talk 18:00, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Rajput-Naru is topic banned indefinitely from Naroo and all related pages.[45] Bishonen | talk 13:42, 16 June 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Saladin1987 is topic banned from all pages related to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, broadly construed, for six months.[46][47] Bishonen | talk 10:35, 8 July 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Exciting2015 Blocked one week. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 22:50, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TripWire (talk · contribs) is topic banned from all Balochistan related articles, broadly construed, for three months. Both TripWire and Kautilya3 (talk · contribs) are placed on a 'casting aspersions' restriction (described in detail on their talk). This same restriction is applied to all articles in the India-Pakistan area, broadly construed. Further, any edit made by an IP or new editor alleging socking or meatpuppetry may be freely reverted and any accusations ignored on article or user talk pages. SPI is the only place for such allegations. Finally, editors are warned from gaming the process by canvassing or other means; future disruption of this nature may result in a block. Done pursuant to this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 11:59, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Bhumihar semi protected for three months due to constant disruption. —SpacemanSpiff 07:02, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Trinity4156 topic banned for one month due to continued nationalistic editing after two alerts and a block. [48] Doug Weller talk 10:46, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Trinity4156 (talk · contribs) blocked by NeilN for 72 hours for topic ban violation and then blocked for one week by SpacemanSpiff for the next topic ban violation. —SpacemanSpiff 04:20, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Trinity4156 (talk · contribs) blocked for 1 month by Doug Weller for more violations, and the topic ban is now for six months.[49] Doug Weller talk 20:22, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ashokharsana (talk · contribs) is topic banned for six months from any edits related to Gurjar, Rajput in particular and to anything related to caste and social groups as well as historical kingdoms. This sanction applies across all name spaces on the English Wikipedia. —SpacemanSpiff 08:55, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TalgoKL (talk · contribs) is topic banned for three months from Kachwaha and all related pages, broadly construed.[50] Bishonen | talk 02:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Rahul Kumar pandey (talk · contribs) is topic banned for one month from all pages related to castes, broadly construed.[51] Bishonen | talk 23:06, 26 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Peeta Singh (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from Sikh and Punjabi related articles, broadly construed.[52] Bishonen | talk 01:55, 3 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- Blocked for 48 hours for violating topic ban after a prior warning. —SpacemanSpiff 07:28, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Barthateslisa (talk · contribs) is banned for three months from the topics of social groups and religion (either separately or together) in relation to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as any policy or actions related to these topics.[53] Bishonen | talk 11:59, 10 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Mukkulathor placed under ECP 30/500 editing restrictions. —SpacemanSpiff 03:29, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kadathanadan chekavar (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from editing about social or ethnic groups of India as well as history of Kerala. —SpacemanSpiff 02:04, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kadathanadan chekavar Blocked for 48 hours for topic ban violation. —SpacemanSpiff 11:01, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agnostos Theos (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from editing about social or ethnic groups (including castes) and religion (related to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan). —SpacemanSpiff 10:42, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Soham321 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from editing all pages related to India, Pakistan, or Afghanistan, broadly construed. Black Kite (talk) 01:18, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Junosoon (talk · contribs) is topic banned for six months from content related to the economy of India, including taxation, currency and associated policy/practice. —SpacemanSpiff 00:02, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Junosoon's appeal of this ban at WP:AE was declined. EdJohnston (talk) 19:49, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peeta Singh (talk · contribs) is blocked for one year for violating, even after warnings, his topic ban from Sikh and Punjabi related articles, broadly construed. Doug Weller talk 15:08, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Longevity

930310 Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:22, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
GreatGreen Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 10:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
BjörnBergman 1RR on Longevity broadly construed for six months from today's date per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 18:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sailor Haumea indefinitely topic banned from longevity, broadly construed. Per this AE discussion. Zad68 20:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia

Fez120 (talk · contribs) — WP:1RR for 3 months on all articles within the topic area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:02, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Crovata — WP:1RR for 3 months within area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:08, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Crovata — blocked 1 week due to violation of personal WP:1RR on Tribes of Old Montenegro, Brda, Old Herzegovina and Primorje. --slakr^\ talk / 01:33, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Crovata — blocked 1 month due to violation of personal WP:1RR on Statuta Valachorum --slakr^\ talk / 02:08, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Crovata — personal WP:1RR extended by 6 months. --slakr^\ talk / 02:08, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Zoupan — WP:1RR for 1 week within area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:08, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Νικόλας_Παπαποστόλου — given a 2 month topic ban from posting anywhere on Wikipedia about the topic of Macedonia or pages related to Macedonia broadly construed. DS alert[54]. HighInBC ^{Need help? {{ping|HighInBC}}} 12:52, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Νικόλας_Παπαποστόλου — blocked 1 month for violating topic ban. [55] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 18:34, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Serb1914 — blocked for 1 year after repeatedly breaching topic ban following the expiry of a previous 1 year ban (from 17 February 2015). Nick (talk) 14:17, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad images

User:SheriffIsInTown is topic banned from all pages related to Muhammad broadly construed for a period of 1 month. In response to a pattern of non-neutral edits contrary to consensus. HighInBC 20:25, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ttt74 (talk · contribs) is topic banned for six months from all editing related to Muhammad per these notices. Bishonen | talk 21:08, 28 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Palestine-Israel articles

User:HistoryWrite has been blocked indefinitely for gaming the 500/30 restriction, see this discussion. Bishonen | talk 09:15, 3 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
- HistoryWrite has been unblocked after an e-mail appeal to me. Bishonen | talk 16:20, 27 October 2016 (UTC).[reply]
104.162.193.17 (talk · contribs) has been blocked three days under the 500/30 rule for editing pages related to the Arab-Israeli conflict with an IP. See this notice. This IPv4 is probably the same editor as the IPv6 reported at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 19:51, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Semiprotected Palestine for one year. IP editors are not allowed to edit this article per WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. EdJohnston (talk) 03:31, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
104.162.193.17 (talk · contribs) for three months under the 500/30 restriction for continuing to edit pages related to the Arab-Israeli conflict with an IP. See this message. EdJohnston (talk) 18:13, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
WwiikkiiPEDIA is blocked indefinitely from editing, for their primary purpose in editing clearly being disruption, shown by their repeated violation of WP:ARBPIA3#500/30, in direct violation of the sanctions already in effect on the page State of Palestine. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 15:28, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Mrbrklyn Blocked for 48 hours for violating WP:ARBPIA2#500/30 with this edit. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:55, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Chesdovi is topic banned from Zionism (broadly construed) and Western Wall or adding references to Palestine or Palestinians in articles that do not contain them. I have left out categories as they should be covered by the Zionism tban. Chesdovi is cautioned that high volumes of repetitive edits in sensitive areas that case disruption are to be avoided. Further controversy over such edits will result in long blocks. Per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:13, 25 March 2016 (UTC)(Prev topic ban from IP area still extant). Spartaz ^Humbug! 17:56, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Wikiwillkane (talk · contribs) is warned to observe the terms of the 500/30 general prohibition, per this notice. After a complaint at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 23:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
AmirSurfLera (talk · contribs) blocked three months for multiple topic ban violations. AE request: [56]. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 13:03, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
E.M.Gregory (talk · contribs) is topic banned from the entire Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly construed, for one month. This is in response to severe BLP issues as explained here. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Im Tirtzu extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. Nakon 04:37, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30, [57] Nakon 04:22, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
GHcool (talk · contribs) blocked 48 hours for 1RR violation at Tourism in the Palestinian territories, per a complaint at WP:AN3. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 19:35, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Arab Capital of Culture, Template:Arab Capital of Culture, 2009 Arab Capital of Culture extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 07:52, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Jerusalem is placed under the following page-level restriction: As the results of Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jerusalem regarding the article's lead represent the community's consensus at a well-attended discussion, a new request for comments must be undertaken and reach consensus prior to any changes being made to the article's lead section. AE: [58] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 13:25, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Khazen48 (talk · contribs) blocked two weeks for continuing violation of WP:ARBPIA3#500/30, as notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 14:10, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sepsis II (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the topic of the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly construed. Done pursuant to this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 20:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Debresser (talk · contribs) is banned from the topic of the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly construed, for three months. Done pursuant to this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 05:28, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Restriction changed to a 0RR probation until the end of the original topic ban period (i.e. 27 October 2016). Notified editor here. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 23:19, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
62.0.34.134 (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours for violating the 500/30 rule after repeated warnings. AE: [59] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 16:43, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kamel Tebaast (talk · contribs) is topic banned from the topic of the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly construed, for one month. Done pursuant to this AE request. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 20:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
AmirSurfLera (talk · contribs) blocked 6 months for a repeat topic ban violation. AE request: [60] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 21:14, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Fexlajahd (talk · contribs) is topic banned from the topic of the Arab-Israeli conflict until 500 non-trivial edits are made outside their user space. [61] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 23:22, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Makeandtoss (talk · contribs) is advised that marking places as being in the State of Palestine may expose him to ARBPIA sanctions unless he gets consensus. Warring about the scope of designations such as Israel, the West Bank, or Palestine is not recommended for anyone. See notice to the user. Per an enforcement request at AE. EdJohnston (talk) 01:01, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Kamel Tebaast (talk · contribs) is ~~indefinitely~~ blocked and ~~indefinitely~~ topic banned from the topic of the Arab-Israeli conflict.[62]. Block length reduced to time served after email appeal. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 18:40, 14 October 2016 (UTC) Editing restriction lifted by imposing admin as a result of this discussion. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 16:00, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Chas. Caltrop (talk · contribs) is blocked 24 hours for 1RR violation at Israel Shahak per this notice after a complaint at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Simert Ove (talk · contribs) is blocked 24 hours for 1RR violation at Israel Shahak per this notice after a complaint at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 17:27, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Shy Twinkling (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours and topic banned indefinitely from the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly construed, for repeated and blatant violation of the 500/30 restriction after multiple warnings. AE: [63] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 17:41, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
ה-זפר (talk · contribs), who signs as David Aaron, is blocked one year as an an AE block for continued violation of his topic ban from the Arab-Israeli conflict, per this notice after a discussion at ANI. EdJohnston (talk) 03:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Israelforlife (talk · contribs) blocked 31 hours for calling a specific editor and other unnamed editors antisemites after being informed of the 1RR restriction for new editors.[64] Doug Weller talk 19:14, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Maslowsneeds (talk · contribs) blocked 48 hours for violation of topic ban following WP:AE report. [65] Guy (Help!) 18:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Gilabrand (talk · contribs) blocked 3 months for violation of topic ban. [66]. Guy (Help!) 09:21, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Fexlajahd (talk · contribs) blocked one month for violating WP:ARBPIA3#500/30 despite numerous warnings. [67] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 22:33, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Eilabun massacre extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:25, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30.
Arab-Israeli peace projects extended confirmed protected under WP:ARBPIA3#500/30.

Makeandtoss (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from Mudar Zahran and its talk page, and from the topic of this person in any other article, broadly construed, for six months. Specific disruption: continued accusations of collusion (socking and meating) between the subject and a group of editors (including an administrator) via some Facebook group, the subject's Twitter page, and mysterious German and Canadian IPs. Drmies (talk) 04:28, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Ban lifted after appeal. Drmies (talk) 17:13, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Pbfreespace3 (talk · contribs) is unblocked and placed on discretionary sanctions. [68] Magog the Ogre (t • c) 23:35, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Orasis (talk · contribs) is topic banned from the ARBPIA topic area, broadly construed, for 6 months per AE. [69] The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:40, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Orasis (talk · contribs) indef blocked for blatant flaunting of topic ban, including abusive misuse of own and other's talk pages. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 07:42, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
ה-זפר (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from from the ARBPIA topic area per AE. [70] The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:09, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ה-זפר (talk · contribs) is blocked one year as an enforcement for continued violation of their ARBPIA topic ban. EdJohnston (talk) 12:35, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudoscience

Realskeptic Topic ban appeal dismissed. [71] Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:13, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TheBIHLover has been topic banned from Bosnian pyramid claims and all related pages and discussions for three months.[72] Bishonen | talk 12:13, 21 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Beautifulpeoplelikeyou is banned from the topic of electronic harassment and psychotronics, broadly construed. per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Askahrc is indefinitely banned from the topic of Deepak Chopra on all pages of Wikipedia including talk and noticeboards, per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 15:45, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Conzar is indefinitely banned from the topic of vaccination, broadly construed, on all pages of Wikipedia including talk and noticeboards per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 17:32, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
QuackGuru is topic banned from Vani Hari and its talk page, and is not to discuss the matter elsewhere on Wikipedia, for the next three months. [73] Drmies (talk) 23:47, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
TeeVeeed is indefinitely topic banned from editing Vaxxed and the topic area of vaccination.[74] Bishonen | talk 07:59, 22 April 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Fissure152 is indefinitely topic-banned from the topic area of vaccination and related articles [75]. Acroterion (talk) 01:08, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
49.177.182.43 (and 195.88.208.155, same user) is blocked one week for disruptive edits at Talk:Crop circle and eventually its article. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:54, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Poodleboy (talk · contribs) has been indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Intelligent design for persistent disruptive editing, compare community consensus here. Notification of topic ban is here. Bishonen | talk 09:25, 27 September 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Aerozeplyn is indefinitely topic banned from all pages (including but not limited to articles, talk pages, and Wikipedia pages) relating to pseudoscience (particularly including but not limited to medical pseudoscience), broadly construed. DS/Alert, notification of sanctions. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:03, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Afterwriting is warned for edit warring on the lead of Chiropractic per this notice after a discussion at AE. EdJohnston (talk) 16:23, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
SageRad is blocked for one year.[76] The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 19:52, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Race and intelligence

Landerman56 (talk · contribs) is topic-banned from James Watson for one month. Done as a result of continued edit warring on the article after repeated warnings. Sanction here. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 03:23, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Landerman56 (talk · contribs) blocked 1 week for immediately violating topic ban twice. [77] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:50, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Landerman56 (talk · contribs) blocked 1 month for violating topic ban again. [78] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 03:15, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Topic ban extended to a three-month ban ending on 6 October 2016. Due to disregard for restrictions after a block. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 23:27, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Tiny Dancer 48 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from all topics covered by WP:ARBR&I, per this closure at AE. Seems to be unable to edit neutrally. User notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 00:18, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Scientology

Sfarney prohibited from (i) from editing articles related to Scientology or Scientologists, broadly defined, as well as the respective article talk pages and (ii) from participating in any Wikipedia process relating to those articles, including as examples but not limited to, articles for deletion, reliable sources noticeboard, administrators' noticeboard and so forth, for a period of one year. [79] The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 15:34, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
~~15:34, 31 May 2016 (UTC) Sfarney topic banned for one year under Remedy 5.1. [80]The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 16:14, 31 May 2016 (UTC)~~[reply]

Voluntarily repealed during editor appeal. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 17:25, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Troubles

Jonniefood (talk · contribs) topic banned 90 days from The Troubles and Ulster Banner, broadly construed, for a 1RR violation at Flag of Northern Ireland (AE request: [81]). Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:13, 3 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Centuryofconfusion (talk · contribs) blocked 24 hours for persistent personalisation of a dispute at Talk:Flag of Northern Ireland. For example here and here, after a prior warning a week ago. --John (talk) 17:26, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Gob Lofa (talk · contribs) blocked for 1 month for disruptive editing on Talk:Flag of Northern Ireland. See for block message, and the following links for evidence of persistent disruption and confrontational editing here, here, here, here, here, and a few others. The complete talk page needs to be read for a complete picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddstretch (talk • contribs) 15:34, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Mooretwin (talk · contribs) had been banned from the Troubles, but the ban is lifted per an appeal to AE. EdJohnston (talk) 04:53, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]