Wikipedia:Community sanction
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- See also Wikipedia:Community sanction/Log, which does not endorse or disendorse such sanctions but lists a few that were apparently decided on WP:AN.
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Sometimes, an otherwise good contributor loses his or her cool and judgment related to a single article or topic. In such a case, it may be best for the encyclopedia if said person ceases editing said topic for a while. To that end, users may be placed under probation, or instructed to refrain from editing a particular article or subject area. Such a sanction may be imposed by the Arbitration Committee. Pursuant to the power of administrators to impose community bans on users, a consensus of administrators may also impose topic bans or probation upon users; both of which are lesser sanctions than a complete ban from Wikipedia. This power is hereby named community sanction.
Community sanctions, like ArbCom-imposed probations, generally have a time limit. As Wikipedia currently has no mechanism to block a particular user from a particular article; community sanctions are not enforced by technical means. Instead, it is enforced by policy. As with ArbCom-imposed remedies, any administrator shall have the power to block a user who violates the terms of community sanction.
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[edit] Types of community sanctions
- Article bans
Users may be banned for a appropriate period of time from an article or set of articles which they have edited disruptively. Editors who violate article bans may be blocked for an appropriate period of time. Suggested article ban lengths are a few days up to a month, depending on the circumstances. Blocks for violating article bans should start at 24 hours or less, increasing with repeated violations.
- Revert parole
Revert parole limits an editor to one content revert per article per day, rather than the general 3 revert rule. This may be more useful than article probation in cases involving editors who revert war across multiple articles and topics. As in the case of the 3 revert rule, reversions of obvious vandalism and violations of the Biographies of living persons policy are not counted. Blocks for violating revert parole should start at 24 hours or less, increasing with repeated violations.
- Personal attack parole
Editors under personal attack parole may be briefly blocked for making personal attacks. While this remedy is always available to admins, imposing personal attack parole as a community sanction places the editor on notice that further attacks may be met with immediate blocks, avoiding the usual series of carefully calibrated escalating warnings.
[edit] Imposing community sanctions
Community sanctions, like community bans, should be proposed and discussed on the admin noticeboard. Any actions taken shall be logged in an appropriate place (currently Wikipedia:Community sanction/Log), and the user informed of the sanction on his/her talk page. In the case of article bans, a notice should be posted on the article talk page. {{User article ban}} or a similar notice may be used. Any blocks placed by administators for violations of a community sanction should also be logged. Blocks longer than a week should be reviewed on the adminstrators' noticeboard.
[edit] Appealing community sanctions
Community sanctions may be appealed to the admin noticeboard, or to the Arbitration Committee.
