Template:COVID19 CT editnotice/Proposed

Proposal 1[edit]

WARNING: You will be blocked if you disrupt this page

Editors of this and all pages related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), broadly construed, are subject to discretionary sanctions. This means editors who vandalise the page, adding information without a source, or otherwise harm the encyclopedia, may be sanctioned by an administrator, even being blocked from editing.

You are still encouraged to contribute constructively. Before making edits in this topic area, please read and understand the purpose of Wikipedia and our guidelines for reliable sources for medical articles. If you need help or are not sure if what you want to do complies with these policies, please click here to ask a question before making your edit. Another editor will be along to offer advice.

If your edit is undone by another editor, you should not readd it unless you're sure why it was removed and you've fixed the issue - Wikipedia operates on consensus. Instead, start a discussion on the talk page.

Thank you for your understanding, and for helping to improve Wikipedia.

Proposal 2 (with proposed COVID-19 general edit notice)[edit]

This page is part of WikiProject COVID-19, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check out our editing resources, particularly the guideline on medical sourcing. Thank you for your contributions, and stay healthy!

WARNING: You will be blocked if you disrupt this page.

Editors of this and all pages related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), broadly construed, are subject to discretionary sanctions. This means that editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to Wikipedia's purpose, standards of behaviour, or normal editorial process may be blocked or otherwise restricted at administrators' discretion. You are still welcome and encouraged to make constructive edits to this page or to propose changes at the associated talk page. If your edits are reverted, please start a discussion there, and do not restore them without consensus.

These restrictions were authorised by the community in March 2020. Further details are here.

Proposal 3[edit]

ATTENTION to editors who intend to disrupt Wikipedia: You will be sanctioned if you disrupt this page.

The community has authorized administrators to impose discretionary sanctions on disruptive users who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any Wikipedia policy and editorial norm especially the policy on reliable sources for medical articles on pages related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including this page. Do NOT disrupt WIkipedia!

Information about the active general sanctions can be found at Wikipedia:General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019.

Current notice (for reference)[edit]

Before you edit this page:

This page relates to COVID-19, broadly construed, which is a contentious topic. Your behavior on this page is subject to special rules. You must follow:

If you do not follow those rules then you may be banned from editing on the topic or blocked from editing entirely.

This restriction is authorised by the Arbitration Committee. Before making edits in this topic area, please familiarise yourself with the contentious topics policy.