Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Manual of Style and article titles

Arbitration​Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy (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 14 December 2022

Contentious topic restrictions are authorized for all pages related to the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy, broadly construed. The scope of this remedy refers to discussions about the policies and guidelines mentioned, and does not extend to individual move requests, move reviews, article talk pages, or other venues at which individual article names may be discussed. Disruption in those areas should be handled by normal administrative means.

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|mos}}

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

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

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

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

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|mos}}

Talk page notices

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