Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Historical elections

Arbitration​Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the results of any national or sub-national election (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last modified 13 September 2024

The results of any national or sub-national election are a Contentious Topic. Starting in 2026 and checked yearly afterwards, this designation expires on 1 January if no sanctions have been logged in the preceding 2 years.

Standard set of restrictions

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

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction

Templates

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|rne}}

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

• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|rne}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{Contentious topics/alert|rne}}
• {{Contentious topics/alert/DS|rne}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|rne}}

Talk page notices

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|rne}}
• {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|rne}}