Wikipedia:Article probation

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Articles which are the focus of dispute that comes before the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee may be placed on article probation. The usual reason is the dispute in question involves point of view editing, sustained edit warring, or other quality and policy issues. The Committee may continue to exercise jurisdiction over such articles until the major problems with the articles have been resolved by the Wikipedia editing process. Article probation basically means that any editor who makes disruptive edits to articles on probation may be banned by an administrator from that article or other reasonably related pages.

Dispute resolution
Negotiation
Requests for comment Third opinion
Mediation
Mediation Committee Requests for mediation Community enforceable mediation
Arbitration
Arbitration Committee Requests for arbitration
Probation
Article probation Mentorship
Member groups
Members' Advocates Mediation Cabal Guerrilla Mediation Network v • d • e

This remedy permits more flexibility with legitimate articles which have serious problems, and allows more effective resolution of disputes where the article is more in need of improvement than the disputants are in need of sanctions. The Arbitration Committee may make recommendations regarding improvement of articles but shall not involve themselves with content issues.

Continuing jurisdiction may involve monitoring of the editing of articles over a period of time and the application of restrictions on editing by users who engage in edit warring or other disruptive behavior. This gives an opportunity for users who have edit warred or disrupted the article in the past by tendentious editing to change their behavior to more productive modes.

When the Committee believes that the article is no longer subject to the disputes which lead to the probation, it may revoke probation by passing a "motion in a prior case".

[edit] Template

The template {{article probation}} is normally placed on the talk page of the article under probation. It may alternatively be used on the article page itself.

[edit] Articles under probation

• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Election
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, exit polls
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, vote suppression
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, voting machines
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election recounts and legal challenges
  • 2004 U.S. election voting controversies, Florida
  • 2004 U.S. election voting controversies, Ohio
  • Moss v. Bush
  • Timeline of the 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Francis Schuckardt
  • Francis Schuckardt
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kosovo
  • All articles related to Kosovo.
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Vivaldi
  • Preying from the Pulpit
  • First Baptist Church of Hammond
  • Jack Hyles
  • Hyles-Anderson College
  • Any related article.
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education
  • Waldorf education
  • Rudolf Steiner
  • Anthroposophy
  • The extended family of related articles, such as Social Threefolding.
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Brahma Kumaris
  • Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Occupation of Latvia
  • Occupation of Latvia 1940–1945
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Free Republic
  • Free Republic
  • Democratic Underground

See also: Category:Articles on probation