Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2015

WP:AELOG/2015
WP:DSLOG/2015

This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2015 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2015.

The required information is the user or page the sanction is being applied to, enforcing administrator, date, nature of sanction, including expiry date (if applicable), basis or context (such as link to AE request), and a diff of the user notification (if applicable).

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All sanctions and page restrictions must be logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log. Whenever a sanction or page restriction is appealed or modified, the administrator amending it must append a note recording the amendment to the original log entry.

To be valid, sanctions must be clearly and unambiguously labelled as an arbitration enforcement action (such as with "arbitration enforcement", "arb enforcement", "AE" or "WP:AE" in the Wikipedia log entry or the edit summary). If a sanction has been logged as an arbitration enforcement action but has not been clearly labelled as an arbitration enforcement action any uninvolved administrator may amend the sanction (for example, a null edit or reblocking with the same settings) on behalf of the original administrator. Labelling a sanction which has been logged does not make the administrator who added the label the "enforcing administrator" unless there is confusion as to who intended the sanction be arbitration enforcement.

A central log of all page restrictions and sanctions (including blocks, bans, page protections or other restrictions) placed as arbitration enforcement (including contentious topic restrictions) is to be maintained by the Committee and its clerks at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log.

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— Arbitration Committee Procedures on logging sanctions

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2015

Abortion

MarieWarren (talk · contribs) blocked indefinitely for misrepresenting sources in Abortion related articles after warning.--v/r - T P 23:50, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

American politics 2

Americans for Prosperity and its associated talk page are subject to a restriction of one revert per 24 hour period ('1RR') until 2015-08-31 23:59 UTC due to repeated edit warring by multiple parties. —Darkwind (talk) 18:02, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Collect (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from interacting with User:MrX (one way IBAN) for this edit, see discussion here. Bishonen | talk 20:48, 14 July 2015 (UTC).[reply]

This interaction ban is hereby lifted per request from User:MrX. Bishonen | talk 21:03, 28 August 2015 (UTC).[reply]

HughD (talk · contribs) is topic banned from anything related to Americans for Prosperity for two weeks following repeated incivility and disruptive behavior at Talk:Americans for Prosperity about content.[1][2] -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:14, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
PraetorianFury is topic banned from participating at any article, page or discussion that concerns the topic of "same sex marriage" for an indefinite period of time, per the discussion here [3]. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:38, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Springee (talk · contribs) — WP:1RR in topic area for 1 month due to edit warring --slakr^\ talk / 08:13, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
United States presidential election, 1968 semi-protected for 3 months due to persistent disruptive editing from various IP ranges. --slakr^\ talk / 12:57, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
HughD (talk · contribs) was under a #Tea party movement topic ban from August 2015 but following editing at Watchdog.org, that ban has been redefined and expanded to cover everything related to conservative US politics from 2009 to the present, broadly construed until August 28, 2016.[4] -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:07, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nocturnalnow topic banned from American Politics since 1932 per this AE discusson Spartaz ^Humbug! 09:57, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient Egyptian race controversy

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

Steverci (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from topics related to Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as ethnic conflicts related to Turkey, all broadly construed per the reasons discussed in this arbitration enforcement request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:27, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~Modified to indefinite 1RR in the same topic area in a step towards removing the restriction entirely. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:00, 27 April 2015 (UTC)~~[reply]

Vacated in favour of a new sanction. See Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2019#Armenia-Azerbaijan 2. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:19, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

HistoryofIran (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from editing any pages relating to or making any edit about related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts, broadly interpreted. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yozer1 (talk · contribs) is blocked one year as an arbitration enforcement for continued violation of his ban from WP:ARBAA2. See details at on my talk and the block notice on Yozer1's talk. EdJohnston (talk) 02:09, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ninetoyadome is under a one-revert-per-week restriction, supervised editing (probation) and civility supervision (civility parole) (diff) placed by Dougweller 23 March 2014. Zad68 04:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ninetoyadome is blocked one ~~week~~ month for violating 1RR at Caucasian Albania, per here. Zad68 21:05, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Parishan is banned one week from the page Caucasian Albania and its Talk page for baiting, edit-warring stopping just short of 1RR, failing to cite reliable sources, per here. Zad68 21:05, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
C1cada is topic-banned for six months — ending 00:00, 6 November 2015 (UTC) — from all pages dealing with the Armenian Genocide, per discussion at WP:AE (here). — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:18, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MELB1110 is topic banned for one month from Armenia and related pages for persistent edit warring against consensus on Armenia. Bishonen | talk 14:01, 2 July 2015 (UTC).[reply]
MELB1110 has been blocked for 24 hours for violating his topic ban. Bishonen | talk 16:07, 2 July 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Dominator1453 is topic banned indefinitely from topics related to the Armenian genocide as well as other ethnic conflicts related to Turkey.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 18:15, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Dominator1453 indefinitely blocked for violation of his topic ban.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 06:22, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Steverci (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from topics related Armenia in response the misrepresentation of sources, POV pushing and editing logged out to avoid scrutiny brought up in this thread. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:46, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Vacated in favour of a new sanction. See Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2019#Armenia-Azerbaijan 2. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:19, 29 December 2019 (UTC)~~[reply]

Sanctions detailed in Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log/2019#Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 have been lifted. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 05:00, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Austrian economics

Article titles and capitalisation

SMcCandlish (talk · contribs) topic-banned for two months for feuding and edit-warring over quotation styles [5]. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:57, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Darkfrog24 (talk · contribs), the other party in the dispute, was given an administrative warning and new {{Ds/alert}} [6]: "I have to say that I would have imposed the same [TBan] on you for your edit-warring, if it hadn't been for the purely procedural reason that I can't find evidence you have been formally notified of the discretionary sanctions regime for WP:MOS ... Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:38, 6 September 2015 (UTC)"
- SMcCandlish topic ban vacated at WP:Administrators noticeboard upon appeal: "It is clear that this topic ban did not have the support of the community" [7]; "retroactively unbanned" [8] as of when request was made. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 10:30, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Climate change

A Quest For Knowledge (talk · contribs) topic-banned from Anthony Watts (blogger) and Climate change denial until September 16, 2015. - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 23:18, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Tillman (talk · contribs) topic banned indefinitely from the climate change topic indefinitely with an appeal not recommended for at least 6 months. Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:28, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked 7 days for violations. GoldenRing (talk) 22:07, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked 1 month for violations. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:34, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Acupuncture

G. Edward Griffin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) subject to 1RR per 7 days until 10 March 2015 due to continual edit warring, left message on talk page and editnotice. My message on talk page stated that this may be enforced (particularly if there is tag team edit warring) with 0RR being imposed on users or with an article ban. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:11, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Srich32977 (talk · contribs) blocked 24 hours for violating 1RR/week on G. Edward Griffin ([9] & [10]). Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Unblocked after appeal on talk page. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:06, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
G. Edward Griffin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) semi protected for one month after an edit by an IP to likely avoid the 1 revert per 7 days restriction. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Atsme (talk · contribs) warned for making a disruptive and incivil edit on Talk:G. Edward Griffin. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:01, 12 March 2015 (UTC)~~[reply]
- Vacated following discussion on my talk page (see 1 & 2). Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 23:51, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
G. Edward Griffin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) full protected for one month due to persistent edit warring. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A1candidate (talk · contribs) is restricted to WP:0RR on the acupuncture article. Additionally, A1candidate is restricted to WP:1RR on articles related to alternative medicine. Gaming these rules, engaging in Battleground behavior, WP:IDHT behavior, or focusing on contributors over content will result in this being extended to a complete topic ban. Sanctions will expire one year from today or (with administrative review) one year from the most recent 0RR or 1RR violation, whichever comes last. diff ~Adjwilley (talk) 07:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
QuackGuru (talk · contribs) is ~~restricted to WP:0RR on the acupuncture page and~~ topic banned from Acupuncture and restricted to WP:1RR on pages related to alternative medicine. ~~Updates to references and citations are specifically allowed, so long as they are uncontroversial.~~ Battleground, Tendentious or Gaming behavior may result in a complete topic ban, as will focusing on contributors over content or making accusations against other editors. To successfully appeal these restrictions, QuackGuru must: 1.) demonstrate a history of collaborative editing, building and respecting consensus; 2.) not violate the sanctions for a reasonable amount of time before the appeal; 3.) demonstrate they see Wikipedia as an encyclopedia rather than a platform for exposing quackery. diff ~Adjwilley (talk) 07:59, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- 0RR restriction converted to full topic ban based on Gaming behavior. diff ~Adjwilley (talk) 16:13, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Atsme (talk · contribs) article ban from Kombucha (Atsme may still edit the talk page and is encouraged to do so) until 23:59, 28 June 2015 (UTC) as this is second time they have edit warred on the article in the past week so this sanction will stop the edit warring and encourage discussion. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:37, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
LesVegas (talk · contribs) blocked for a week on 23 August 2015 for pointy/disruptive editing. This is the last comment in the ANI discussion. Drmies (talk) 04:52, 23 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Electronic Cigarettes

QuackGuru topic banned from the Electronic Cigarette topic area for six months per this discussion. [11]. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:15, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
QuackGuru blocked for 24 hours for a topic ban violation - namely patrolling a page on e cigs in an opposing editors sandbox. [12]. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:04, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Mystery Wolff topic banned from the Electronic Cigarette topic area for six months per this discussion. [13] Spartaz ^Humbug! 14:54, 19 December 2015 (UTC)~~ Tban struck 22 December and replaced with a final warning to avoid personalising editing disputes. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:42, 22 December 2015 (UTC) Diff[reply]
CFCF was given a final warning to avoid undoing edits that have consensus in this AE discussion. The text of the warning was CFCF is formally warned that any further instances of reverting other users enacting a consensus will result in sanctions. They are reminded that discussion not reverting is the correct way to resolve a dispute. They should note that any edit that undoes another user's edit is a revert and are reminded that 1RR or not, undoing a consensus change is clear disruption Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:50, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Europe

The editor most recently editing as 95.220.153.246 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (previously 176.195.200.228 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 176.195.140.253 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and others) indefinitely topic-banned from all edits relating to Russian-Ukrainian relations [14][15] Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Russian editor1996 (talk · contribs) indefinitely blocked from editing the site for repeated disruption of articles related to the Ukrainian/Russian situation.~~ — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 13:48, 13 February 2015 (UTC) Note: application of discretionary sanctions rescinded at ARCA.[reply]
Muffi (talk · contribs) blocked two weeks for persistent edit warring on Kosovo. De728631 (talk) 18:22, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Viet-hoian1 (talk · contribs) blocked 3 months for persistent edit-warring and tendentious editing on Ukraine-related topics (but also in other areas under DS rules, including Israel and Balkans). Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:49, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Againstdisinformation (talk · contribs) TBAN from Anna Politkovskaya for three months (ending 00:01, 14 December 2015 (UTC) for disruptive editing example, including incivility and personal attacks [16] [17] [18] and disruption to make a point [19] after two blocks. also cautioned that similar edits on other pages are likely to result in a long or indefinite block. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:27, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Volunteer Marek (talk · contribs) warned for making a personal attack and that further personal attacks or incivility will likely result in a block or other sanction. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:56, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lvivske (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from the topic of the Azov Battalion, on both article and talk pages, but may appeal at any time. EdJohnston (talk) 17:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
E-960 (talk · contribs) is topic-banned for three months from Blue Army (Poland) and associated talkpage. -- Euryalus (talk) 02:24, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Editing of Biographies of Living Persons

Factchecker atyourservice (talk · contribs) is blocked for 24 hours for making a personal attack at Talk:Shooting of Michael Brown after the warning above and is warned that further violations will result in a longer block or topic ban. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:35, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Cwobeel (talk · contribs) is warned for making a disruptive comment which had a chilling effect on discussion at Talk:Shooting of Michael Brown. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:50, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Brianna Wu semi-protected indefinitely due to repeated BLP violations.[20] Of note, consideration may need to be given to also semi-protecting the talk page due to similar BLP violations. Risker (talk) 04:21, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Cwobeel (talk · contribs) is blocked for a week for WP:BLP violations per AE request. Sandstein 16:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cwobeel is also banned from editing any list of awards or nominations of living people, with the exception of edits that consist only of adding accurate and reliable sources, subject to the usual exceptions; based on the same AE request. Sandstein 11:13, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Greedo8 (talk · contribs) blocked indefinitely for BLP violations (some requiring suppression) in relation to Gamergate.[21] Risker (talk) 04:52, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
09I500 (talk · contribs) blocked indefinitely (AE provisions to run for 12 months from the date of the block) for BLP violations on Emma Sulkowicz immediately after being informed of the BLP discretionary sanctions in relation to the same edits (also logged under GamerGate for violation of a topic ban under those discretionary sanctions). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:50, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Kelly (talk · contribs) blocked 24 hours for restoring material removed on BLP grounds and under active dispute on Emma Sulkowicz. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Unblocked per agreement to cease restoring the material in question. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:49, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Cwobeel (talk · contribs) blocked for a fortnight for restoring material subject to a BLP dispute while discussion was ongoing at BLPN. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:42, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Neptune's Trident (talk · contribs) blocked for 48 hours for BLP violations at Talk:Brianna Wu, and at User talk:Acroterion immediately after BLP warning and notice of BLP and GamerGate sanctions for the Wu edit. Action taken under BLP sanctions, not imposing GamerGate sanction at this time. Acroterion (talk) 17:06, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Block extended to one month in light of recent two-week block and for further BLP violations while blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
RebeccaTheAwesomeXD (talk · contribs) is banned from editing BLP content, broadly construed, for a period of six months following repeated warnings and a one week block for adding unsourced and contentious material into BLP articles. CT Cooper · talk 20:17, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 2 weeks for violation of the ban on editing BLP content. CT Cooper · talk 12:50, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked for 1 month for a second violation of the ban on editing BLP content. CT Cooper · talk 17:30, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked for 3 months for a third violation of the ban on editing BLP content. CT Cooper · talk 21:37, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GrandTheftVotto (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from pages relating to Debito Arudou, in all namespaces, broadly construed (notification). — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:32, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked for one week for violating their topic ban. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 01:18, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oddexit (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages related to Debito Arudou, broadly construed (notification). — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 18:32, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thomas Paine1776 (talk · contribs) is topic-banned for twelve months from pages related to Donald Trump, broadly construed (notification). Bishonen | talk 21:21, 27 July 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Bachcell indefinite topic ban from all edits related to Ahmed Mohamed, broadly construed. Gamaliel (talk) 17:21, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Made permanent per consensus at WP:AE. Gamaliel (talk) 16:54, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lane99 is indefinitely topic banned from Murder of Anni Dewani and all related articles.[22] Bishonen | talk 04:28, 14 November 2015 (UTC). Clarifying: sorry, that's all related pages.[23] Bishonen | talk 15:46, 22 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Lane99 blocked for 48 hours for editing Murder of Anni Dewani in violation of their topic ban. Bishonen | talk 22:21, 30 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]
CheckersBoard has been topic banned from André Marin and Ontario Ombudsman. See this discussion as well. --In actu (Guerillero) | My Talk 05:06, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

Aaron Schock (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) semi protected indefinitely due to continual BLP violations, only one year as an arbitration enforcement action. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Dennis L. Montgomery (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) stub-ed and full protected for a year as a arbitration enforcement action. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 08:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jeremy Corbyn (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) — Due to edit warring, editors are limited to making no more than one revert per 24 hours on any image-or-file-related changes, with exception for reverting clear and obvious vandalism, redlinked files, or contributions from anonymous editors — expires in 30 days. --slakr^\ talk / 04:05, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Expanded due to ongoing edit warring by small minority, to avoid needless full protection of the page. Sanction now: "Due to edit warring, all editors to this article are now limited to making no more than one revert per 24 hours, with exception for reverting clear and obvious vandalism, redlinked files, or contributions from anonymous editors. This restriction expires in 6 months." WJBscribe (talk) 10:26, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Brianna Wu (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) fully protected for six months as an arbitration enforcement action due to repeated BLP violations requiring suppression; logged under both NEWBLPBAN and ARBGG. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:57, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Falun Gong

GamerGate (superseded by Gender and sexuality)

Inherited from community sanctions

The following sanctions were inherited from the community general sanctions:

YellowSandals cautioned against making personally directed comments on article talk pages (on 02 January 2015) by HJ Mitchell.
Loganmac cautioned against making personally directed comments or accusing others of bias on article talk pages (on 02 January 2015) by HJ Mitchell.
Ryulong prohibited from commenting on Wikipedia with regards to any accounts owned or alleged to be owned by Wikipedia editors on non-Wikimedia websites or the activities of such accounts as concern the GamerGate controversy. Expires upon closure of WP:ARBGG arbitration case, imposed by HJ Mitchell.
Ksolway indefinitely topic banned from editing any article or making any comment regarding GamerGate anywhere on Wikipedia (on 02 January 2015) by HJ Mitchell.
MarkBernstein blocked for a week for violation of topic ban (on 03 January 2015) by east718.
Bramble window blocked indefinitely; GS enforcement provision in place for 12 months. (on 11 January 2015) by HJ Mitchell.
Tarc cautioned against making personally directed comments on article talk pages; offered informal advice (on 16 January 2015) by HJ Mitchell.
TheRedPenOfDoom blocked 48 hours for edit-warring and creating a hostile atmosphere by HJ Mitchell (on 17 January 2015)
Singdavion indefinitely topic banned from Gamergate for BLP violations, edit warring, battleground mentality, SPA

(see here by User:Gamaliel.

- Singdavion blocked for 1 week for breach of topic ban by Future Perfect at Sunrise.
  - Later Indefed by DeltaQuad
DHeyward blocked 48 hours for BLP violations, using talk page as a forum by HJ Mitchell (18 January 2015)
MarkBernstein blocked for a month (on 24 January 2015) for outright violation of topic ban and because most edits since the topic ban have been skirting it; warned that further violations will result in a one-year block by HJ Mitchell
- Block commuted to time served. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:53, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
09I500 indefinitely topic banned on 25 January 2015 per enforcement request by Future Perfect at Sunrise.

ArbCom-authorised discretionary sanctions

The following sanctions are issues pursuant to the discretionary sanctions remedy:

Protonk (talk · contribs) blocked 24 hours for an egregious BLP violation (and advocating ignoring of BLP) on Talk:Gamergate controversy. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:45, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Commuted to time served per appeal.[24] Risker (talk) 07:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Protonk (talk · contribs) topic-banned from gamergate for three months (same diff and rationale as above). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:45, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Rescinded per appeal.[25] Risker (talk) 07:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Skyrock84 (talk · contribs) blocked (by me) indef as an "obvious GamerGate-related sleeper sock" 23 January 2015, under the old community sanctions. Block rescinded and replaced with a 1-year topic ban (by me) on 30 January 2015 under the new ArbCom sanctions. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:26, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rhoark (talk · contribs) prohibited from editing the Gamergate controversy article and its talk page (including all sub-pages of both) until 12:00, 02 May 2015 (UTC). Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:18, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
09I500 (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic-banned from any article or discussion relating to any gender-related dispute or controversy", explicitly including "GamerGate, any and all content to do with rape, and any gender- or sexuality-related content on articles such as 4chan", for edit-warring and exhibiting a battleground mentality. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:37, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked indefinitely (AE provisions will run for 12 months from the date of the block for immediate violation of the topic ban. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:46, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Crisis (talk · contribs) blocked for a week and indefinitely topic-banned from GamerGate for inappropriate use of a talk page and BLP violations. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:03, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Retartist (talk · contribs) indefinitely banned from "any article, page, or discussion relating to GamerGate, broadly construed" for inserting BLP-violating external links after having previously been offered guidance on such (see AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked 1 month for breach of topic ban [26]. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:56, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Avono (talk · contribs) indefinitely prohibited from "addressing or referring to MarkBernstein, from editing [MB's] userspace, and from otherwise interacting with [MB], anywhere on Wikipedia", for repeated ad hominem arguments and attacks. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:46, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
ArmyLine (talk · contribs) blocked 1 year (concurrent with indefinite normal admin block) after repeated breaches of prior topic ban, for a pattern of activities that concentrated entirely on casting aspersions and raising specious complaints against other users in the area of conflict. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:53, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
AnsFenrisulfr (talk · contribs) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:AnsFenrisulfr&diff=647919157&oldid=647561216 indefinitely banned] from making any edit related to GamerGate (broadly construed), for unhealthy focus on enforcement (see AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:32, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
YellowSandals (talk · contribs) indefinitely banned from making any edit related to GamerGate (broadly construed), for continuing to make personal attacks against other editors after being warned multiple times. Dreadstar ☥ 18:59, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked for three days for breaching TBAN. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Theduinoelegy (talk · contribs) 90 day topic ban for disruptive editing as reported on WP:AE. Dreadstar ☥ 04:31, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked for one week for breaching TBAN per this AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 22:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Blocked for one month [27] for breaching 90-day topic ban at Anita Sarkeesian and topic ban extended to one year from the original date of topic-banning. Acroterion (talk) 18:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ghost Lourde (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned. Dreadstar ☥ 23:37, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) 90 day topic ban. Dreadstar ☥ 21:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

TBan removed per [28]. Dreadstar ☥ 23:11, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Neptune's Trident (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely for BLP violations. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:48, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from all edits and discussion regarding User:DHeyward and User: Thargor Orlando ~~and restricted from opening and participating in noticeboard discussions or enforcement requests related to those users without the permission of an uninvolved administrator.~~ with the exception of opening new enforcement requests. Gamaliel (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Modified Gamaliel (talk) 22:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Interaction ban lifted per this discussion. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
DHeyward (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from all edits and discussion regarding User:MarkBernstein ~~and restricted from opening and participating in noticeboard discussions or enforcement requests related to MarkBernstein without the permission of an uninvolved administrator.~~ with the exception of opening new enforcement requests. Gamaliel (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- DHeyward is reminded that this sanction is still in effect. Gamaliel (talk) 02:14, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- DHeyward blocked 48 hours for violation of the above restriction. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:50, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Overturned on appeal to AN. [29]. --22:24, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
- Modified. Gamaliel (talk) 22:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Interaction ban lifted per this discussion. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thargor Orlando (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from all edits and discussion regarding User:MarkBernstein ~~and restricted from opening and participating in noticeboard discussions or enforcement requests related to MarkBernstein without the permission of an uninvolved administrator.~~ with the exception of opening new enforcement requests. Gamaliel (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Modified. Gamaliel (talk) 22:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Interaction ban lifted per this discussion. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Bumblebritches57 (talk · contribs) topic banned from (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed, for a duration of one year. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:42, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- User warned to redact ban violation. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 17:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC) User declined and indicated intention to continue with violations. Blocked for 1 month. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 18:49, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) blocked for one month for topic-ban violations and repeated personally directed comments/battleground mentality (cf. AE thread). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Galestar (talk · contribs) Standard GG topic ban for 12 months. "Any editor subject to a topic-ban in this decision is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed." Gamaliel (talk) 16:37, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ranze (talk · contribs) Standard GG topic ban for 12 months. "Any editor subject to a topic-ban in this decision is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed." Gamaliel (talk) 16:17, 4 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Modified to exclude the articles Afterlife Empire and TechRaptor from the topic ban. Gamaliel (talk) 03:26, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Eqqy (talk · contribs) indefinite GG topic ban based on edit-warring to include allegations of criminal activity. Blocked for one week for the repeated BLP violations. Acroterion (talk) 14:48, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Block extended to indef by Kuru due to BLP violations in the unblock request. Acroterion (talk) 15:09, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
ColorOfSuffering (talk · contribs) ~~topic-banned, broadly construed, from GG, for three months. Zad68 03:38, 10 June 2015 (UTC)~~[reply]
- Sanction lifted per agreement to the condition that CoS will, when communicating about the topic of Gamergate, broadly construed, commit to adhering to the guidelines at WP:TPG, and in particular will commit to using plain, straightforward communication about the article content and sourcing. Zad68 03:55, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Handpolk (talk · contribs), standard indefinite topic ban per content and broad consensus in [this ANI thread]. Per the ANI outcome they are invited to appeal the topic ban when they a) reach the 500 edit threshold through means other than the overuse of repetitive minor edits, and b) can demonstrate that their intentions are to provide new and reliable information for the article(s) and/or to legitimately seek consensus for rewording existing material, having considered past talkpage discussions and consensus outcomes. -- Euryalus (talk) 03:39, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Handpolk blocked [30] for 48 hours after continuing to discuss a gender-related topic after direct warning to stop [31]. Acroterion (talk) 02:47, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
J0eg0d, standard indefinite topic ban for disruptive and unproductive contributions: [32] Gamaliel (talk) 15:31, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
TheRedPenOfDoom (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic-banned "from all edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed." They may appeal after 6 months. Per this AE request. Zad68 21:06, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Vordrak (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from interacting with User:MarkBernstein, as a one-way WP:IBAN, with the exception that Vordrak may start standard noticeboard discussions (such as at WP:ANI or WP:COIN) regarding Mark and participate in the discussions Vordrak starts. In particular, Vordrak may not participate in discussions regarding Mark that Vordrak did not start, nor may Vordrak bring up the topic of Mark in other locations such as Talk pages, and Vordrak may not discuss any off-Wikipedia content regarding Mark. Zad68 23:37, 25 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Neptune's Trident (talk · contribs) reprimanded for a topic-ban violation, advised that future violations are likely to result in an indefinite block (AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:48, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) is officially admonished to not be a jerk. Gamaliel (talk) 03:14, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
BenMcLean (talk · contribs) is topic-banned with the standard GG topic ban until 19 March 2016. Any uninvolved administrator may lift this topic ban without my consent if he is able to demonstrate to the administrator an understanding of the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behavior towards other editors and of proper talk page decorum. Gamaliel (talk) 18:01, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 24 hours for violating topic ban, NPA, and POINT. Gamaliel (talk) 16:47, 13 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked for 48 hours for violating topic ban immediately upon expiration of previous block. Gamaliel (talk) 20:02, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Choice777 is topic banned with the standard GG topic ban until 25 March 2016. Gamaliel (talk) 22:24, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked [33] for 48 hours for violations of topic ban at Talk:Anita Sarkeesian. Acroterion (talk) 02:26, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kyohyi is topic-banned with the standard GG topic ban until 22 March 2016. Acroterion (talk) 17:42, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Cavalierman is indefinitely topic banned with the standard topic ban --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:39, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

Gamergate controversy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) placed on 1RR; editnotice added to the article, notice added to the talk page. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:16, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Marcos12 (talk · contribs) blocked 1 week for breaching 1RR after warning. See notification and AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:14, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PC2 protection on Gamergate controversy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) converted to a discretionary sanction (guidance for reviewers). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:04, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

False accusation of rape (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) subject to the restriction below until 00:01, 16 November 2015 per AE request.

Cannot make any edit (apart from those which are blatantly uncontroversial) to this article without first proposing it on the talk page for at least 24 hours and having a consensus in support of the change.

Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:35, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Gamergate controversy article and its Talk page are not editable by accounts with fewer than 500 edits and age less than 30 days, pursuant to this WP:AE request. Zad68 14:08, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:
In May 2015 administrator Zad68 imposed extended confirmed protection of Talk:Gamergate controversy as a discretionary sanction in response to this AE request. The Arbitration Committee notes that Zad68 is currently inactive so the sanction cannot be modified without consensus or Committee action. Therefore the Committee lifts the discretionary sanction on Talk:Gamergate controversy (not the article) to allow the community to modify the protection level in accordance with the Wikipedia:Protection policy.

For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 01:01, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Zoe Quinn indefinitely semi-protected. Courcelles (talk) 07:05, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Page move requests at Gamergate controversy are prohibited until March 2016. Gamaliel (talk) 15:57, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Brianna Wu (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) fully protected for six months as an arbitration enforcement action due to repeated BLP violations requiring suppression; logged under both NEWBLPBAN and ARBGG. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:57, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Genetically modified organisms

DrChrissy (talk · contribs) is warned that their recent post to User talk:SlimVirgin is not covered by the ban exemptions listed in WP:BANEX. Per an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 15:05, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Vergilden (talk · contribs) and I9Q79oL78KiL0QTFHgyc (talk · contribs) (jps) are both warned for 1RR violation at Precautionary principle per an AE request. EdJohnston (talk) 02:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An {{ARBGMO talk notice}} announcing the 1RR restriction has been added at Talk:Precautionary principle per an AE request. EdJohnston (talk) 03:00, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Gun control

Arthur Rubin (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely (AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:59, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Upon appeal at AE, this topic ban was replaced by a 1RR restriction within the topic area. [34] Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 06:31, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Mike Searson (talk · contribs) blocked for a month; indefinitely topic-banned from gun control; and indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, addressing, or commenting on User:Lightbreather anywhere on Wikipedia. See AE request for details. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:21, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lightbreather (talk · contribs) and Scalhotrod (talk · contribs) are placed under a mutual interaction ban of indefinite length [35][36]. They may interact only on the Lightbreather arbitration case and only subject to the defined rules of that case for those with interaction bans. Sanction placed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator, not as an arbitrator. Thryduulf (talk) 20:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
TruthIsDivine (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from all edits regarding governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues [37] Gamaliel (talk) 23:31, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

India-Pakistan

Noughtnotout (talk · contribs) is banned from the topic of the Dawoodi Bohra on all pages of Wikipedia including talk. See topic ban notice. EdJohnston (talk) 16:40, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
TopGun (talk · contribs) and OccultZone (talk · contribs) are reminded that discretionary sanctions may be used to impose a one revert restriction (such as with this wording) in response to edit warring, see this discussion for background. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:24, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Joshua Jonathan (talk · contribs) is formally advised to use quotation marks or properly paraphrase content imported from external sources, and recommended to check his previous edits for problems. MER-C 03:38, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Bolterc (talk · contribs), indefinite topic ban from all edits relating to politics of India and/or Pakistan, after a series of ANI complaints regarding edit-warring and other forms of disruptive editing. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:34, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mifciw (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from all edits related to the Kashmir conflict and the history of Kashmir [38]. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:28, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Xtremedood (talk · contribs) blocked 48 hours for edit warring at List of converts to Islam from Hinduism, per this notice. The block was imposed as a regular admin action after this AE complaint. A dispute between Delibzr and Xtremedood was previously at WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 12:44, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Rajput334 (talk · contribs) topic banned indefinitely from Rajput and all related pages for persistent tendentious editing after many warnings. Bishonen | talk 09:25, 23 May 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Rajput334 (talk · contribs) blocked for a month for attempting to evade his topic ban by editing anonymously. Bishonen | talk 11:16, 24 May 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Rajput334 (talk · contribs) Block extended to indefinite, also on 24 May 2015, for persistent sockpuppetry and disruption. Bishonen | talk 20:00, 12 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Darkness Shines (talk · contribs) blocked one year (indef block, under AE rules for one year per ArbCom-mandated limits) for repeated edit warring and incivility (edit warring also occurred on articles related related to Eastern Europe). Heimstern Läufer (talk) 12:26, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
TopGun (talk · contribs) topic-banned for 6 months from all edits related to Indian-Pakistani conflicts and Pakistani politics, for making POV edits displaying gross lack of competence. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:43, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
TripWire (talk · contribs), topic-banned for 6 months from all edits related to Indian-Pakistani conflicts and Pakistani politics. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:05, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Chaudharys-3591 (talk · contribs), indefinite block owing to legal threat, but also repeated violation of policies despite warnings and AE notification. —SpacemanSpiff 13:17, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Soham321 (talk · contribs) topic-banned for 6 months from all pages related to India, broadly construed. Extensive rationale here. Bishonen | talk 16:06, 20 July 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Soham321 (talk · contribs) blocked for 24 hours for violating his topic ban.[39] Bishonen | talk 14:25, 31 July 2015 (UTC).[reply]
Zmaghndstakun (talk · contribs) topic banned for 3 months as a result of edit warring and tendentious editing. --ceradon (talk • edits) 16:52, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jasimkhanum10 (talk · contribs) topic banned for 3 months as a result of edit warring and tendentious editing. --ceradon (talk • edits) 16:52, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Unbiasedpov (talk · contribs) topic banned from 2002 Gujarat riots related articles, talk-pages and discussions due to disruptive and POV editing, slow but persistent edit-warring, and being unresponsive to feedback despite numerous warnings. Abecedare (talk) 15:01, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs) topic banned for three months from all pages related to Indian religions, broadly construed.[40] Bishonen | talk 15:50, 24 September 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Topic ban lifted a couple of weeks early per conditions and promises here. Bishonen | talk 11:17, 11 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Jasimkhanum10 (talk · contribs) blocked for two weeks for topic ban violations.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:45, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jasimkhanum10 (talk · contribs) blocked for three months for topic ban violation.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:07, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Pebble101 (talk · contribs) — WP:1RR within topic area for 3 months due to repeated edit warring, block evasion. --slakr^\ talk / 01:16, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Js82 (talk · contribs) topic banned from anything related to Indian religions, broadly construed for six months due to disruptive and POV editing as well as an inability to collaborate with other editors.—SpacemanSpiff 04:50, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Now under CU block (placed by Bbb23 for sockpuppetry); evading AE topic ban using a sock. —SpacemanSpiff 06:29, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Page level sanctions

Bharatiya Janata Party (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - one revert per 24 hour restriction imposed for 6 months due to persistent edit warring. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Siachen conflict (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - WP:1RR until November 1, 2015 to minimize edit warring. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 03:49, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nair, Jat people, Vanniyar, Bhumihar and Talk:Nair are placed under an indefinite 500/30 restriction per this AE closure. No one may edit those pages unless they have 500 edits and been on Wikipedia for at least 30 days. EdJohnston (talk) 13:44, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Kashmir conflict (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - WP:1RR until December 31, 2015 to minimize edit warring. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 13:55, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Interactions at GGTF

Eric Corbett (talk · contribs) and Lightbreather (talk · contribs) are indefinitely prohibited from interacting with, or, directly or indirectly, commenting on each other, broadly construed, per WP:IBAN, pursuant to this AE request. Zad68 01:57, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Eric Corbett (talk · contribs) blocked for two weeks and talk page access removed due to this comment which is a violation of the GGTF TBAN (logged separately) and IBAN from Lightbreather. Talk page notice here. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:02, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lightbreather (talk · contribs) indefinitely banned from "addressing, referring to, commenting on, or otherwise interacting with Sitush, whether or not by name". HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:52, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Landmark Worldwide

Theobald Tiger (talk · contribs) is warned for making personal attacks, edit warring, and disrupting Wikipedia to make a point pursuant to this AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:19, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Astynax (talk · contribs) warned "not to cast aspersions, not to make accusations about editors outside of the proper fora, and to critique edits and content rather than editors and their motives" (AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:50, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Tgeairn (talk · contribs) warned to ensure that their edits "comply with the letter and spirit of all applicable policies, particularly NPOV (AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:50, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

Landmark Worldwide (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) full protected for one month to force warring parties to resolve issues on the talk page (AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:50, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Liancourt Rocks

Longevity

Ollie231213 Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE request] Spartaz ^Humbug! 09:47, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- An appeal of this action was declined at AE. Thryduulf (talk) 22:10, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia

Serb1914 (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to the Balkans due to continued edit warring over a long period of time (including currently at Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović). Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:30, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Blocked [41] for 2 days following violation at Bosnian-Herzegovinian Patriotic Party-Sefer Halilović (previously told this article was covered). Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:34, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A Gounaris (talk · contribs) indefinitely banned from all topics relating to Greece or the Balkans due to a long-term pattern of edit warring and lack of consultation, with possibility of review after six months. Notified of the ban here. EdJohnston (talk) 04:33, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sanctions imposed on Director (talk · contribs) and Timbouctou (talk · contribs), following this [42] ANI thread:
- A full interaction ban between both users, of indefinite duration, under the same conditions as the earlier one in 2012 ("banned from all interaction, undoing each others edits, making reference to or comment on each other, replying to each other in any discussion, editing each others user talk space, or filing ANI reports about each other for 6 months except to clarify or abolish this interaction ban or to report violations of the interaction ban")
- A 12-months topic ban for Timbouctou from all topics related to Croatia
- A 6-months topic ban for Director on the narrower topic area of Croatian constitutional continuity and related issues of Croatian officeholders. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
AnulBanul (talk · contribs) and Dragodol (talk · contribs) are each topic banned for three months from anything to do with Bosnia and Herzegovina on all pages of Wikipedia including talk pages and noticeboards, per a complaint at WP:AN3. See [43] and [44]. EdJohnston (talk) 13:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ceco31 (talk · contribs) is blocked for three months for topic ban violations. Sandstein 09:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Citadel48 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from everything concerning Bosnia and Herzegovina on all pages of Wikipedia including talk pages and noticeboards, and is banned from marking article edits as 'minor' within the domain of WP:ARBMAC. Per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 00:05, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Kadribistrica (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours for edit warring / violation of article-wide WP:1RR on Kosovo --slakr^\ talk / 09:58, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Let's keep it neutral (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to the Balkans, broadly construed. User agreed to this ban in advance as a condition of the revocation of a long-term block.[45] Swarm ♠ 21:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Burridheut (talk · contribs) indefinitely topic banned from the topic of Spiro Koleka per this AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:21, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Aryanprince (talk · contribs) topic-banned from all edits about Serbs or Serbia for 6 months for extensive edit-warring at Serbs [46]. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:30, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad images

Palestine-Israel articles

Baatarsaikan (talk · contribs) blocked 48 hours for violating WP:3RR at The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy per report at WP:AN3.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:14, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Davidbena (talk · contribs) blocked 24 hours for casting aspersions at AE (and failing to substantiate/strike when asked). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:44, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Unblocked per request with words of advice. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ashtul (talk · contribs) blocked for a week for violating 1RR per AE request. Sandstein 09:20, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Sanction upheld on appeal. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ashtul (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely (with provision for reconsideration afer three months) for exhibiting a battleground mentality. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:49, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Ashtul blocked for a fortnight for violating the topic ban. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:56, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Ashtul (talk · contribs)'s topic ban is rescinded with words of advice. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Inthefastlane (talk · contribs) blocked for three days for violation of the 1RR on January 2015 Shebaa farms incident (see AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:58, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ashtul (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely (with provision for reconsideration after six months editing elsewhere); see diff and AE request for rationale and background. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:48, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Monochrome Monitor (talk · contribs) topic-banned for three months after a complaint at WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 16:17, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lr0^^k (talk · contribs) blocked for 36 hours for violation of the 1RR at 2006 Lebanon War. Courcelles (talk) 21:17, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) notified of sanctions, warned for behavioral misconduct.[47]. Swarm ♠ 09:10, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Article Ali Khamenei placed under WP:1RR for 1 month due to double-trouble of edit warring on a BLP, but listing it here since it appears to be more politically oriented. --slakr^\ talk / 07:06, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Facepalm — My bad; totally didn't realize and/or forgot these were all already under 1RR. For whatever reason I was thinking that only applied to the Syrian one. --slakr^\ talk / 08:39, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lanlan lanwan (talk · contribs) blocked for a week for violation of the 1RR and persistent edit-warring per AE request. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 13:48, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The_kyle_3 (talk · contribs) topic banned from pages relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict until 00:00 UTC, 1 November 2016 due to repeated disruptive editing, personal attacks, and edit warring. Ian.thomson (talk) 09:41, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yossiea~enwiki (talk · contribs) blocked for 48 hours for making a personal attack on Talk:List of military occupations, in a discussion directly relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Swarm ♠ 22:18, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Monochrome Monitor (talk · contribs) topic banned two weeks from pages relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict [48] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:51, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
7uperWkipedan (talk · contribs) blocked 48 hours [49] --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:51, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
7uperWkipedan (talk · contribs) topic banned for continued edit warring. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
7uperWkipedan (talk · contribs) indef blocked. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 14:21, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Leon Uris protected 7 days due to slow edit war; also atypically reverted most recent edit a while later when an editor to the page brought it to my attention that the edit had been made by a less-than-30/500 user. --slakr^\ talk / 00:31, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Infantom (talk · contribs) blocked for 48 hours for violating WP:1RR at Israeli cuisine susbsequent to an alert based on a report at WP:AN3.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gouncbeatduke (talk · contribs)[50] & WarKosign (talk · contribs)[51] are banned from interacting with one another as per policy described at WP:IBAN, for three months, as per the result of this AE request--Cailil ^talk 09:40, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gal lilos (talk · contribs) blocked for 24 hours for violating WP:1RR at Tomb of Lazarus (al-Eizariya), based on report at WP:EWN.
82.11.33.86 (talk · contribs) blocked for 48 hours for violating WP:1RR at Gulf War based on a report at WP:AN3.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:57, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Shootsrubberbands (talk · contribs) blocked 72 hours / WP:1RR @ Two-state solution and resumption of edit warring directly following release of block. --slakr^\ talk / 20:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lemondropzzz (talk · contribs) blocked for one week for violating WP:1RR at Zionist political violence based on a report at WP:AN3.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:00, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lemondropzzz (talk · contribs) blocked for one month for violating WP:1RR at Mondoweiss based on a report at WP:ANEW. --Jayron 32 14:17, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
KirinD (talk · contribs) blocked for 24 hours for repeated political POV-pushing on various articles related to Israel/Palestine after having been notified of discretionary sanctions, and after report at WP:AIV. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:00, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
KirinD (talk · contribs) Indefinitely blocked after returning to the exact same edits (and with a comment on talk page indicating no understanding of why they are inappropriate). Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:00, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudoscience

Middle 8 (talk · contribs) warned for filing a vexatious AE report and attempting to use enforcement mechanism to remove an opponent in a content dispute. Middle 8 is warned that failing to adhere to this warning will likely result in substantive sanctions (see AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
JzG (talk · contribs) warned for incivility and for bringing up his administrator status during a content dispute. JzG is warned that failing to adhere to this warning will likely result in substantive sanctions (see AE request). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
GodBlessYou2 (talk · contribs) topic banned from the topic area of the Creation-evolution controversy for disruptively refusing to leave behind a defeated proposal on a talk page. [52] Heimstern Läufer (talk) 12:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
JzG (talk · contribs) is ~~warned~~ for making this revert against consensus at G. Edward Griffin (based on his comment in the closure review at AN they were obviously aware of the close. This warning, along with the previous one, may be taken into account in the future and lead to further sanctions. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:20, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Following discussion on my talk page (see [53]), this warning should not be considered for future sanctions as JzG believed in good faith that the edit would not be controversial. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:18, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MarioMarco2009 is indefinitely topic-banned from the subject of Homeopathy, broadly construed, following ANI notification. [54] Drmies (talk) 21:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Realskeptic is indefinitely topic-banned from autism and vaccination, broadly construed, indefinitely.[55][56]. NW (Talk) 18:01, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Prem Rawat

Race and intelligence

WeijiBaikeBianji (talk · contribs) topic-banned from the "race and intelligence" topic area for three months per AE request. Sandstein 13:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

IQ and Global Inequality indefinitely semi-protected. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BenJonson (talk · contribs) blocked for two weeks for violating his topic ban from all articles, discussions, and other content related to the Shakespeare authorship question, William Shakespeare, or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, broadly construed across all namespaces.[57] Bishonen | talk 17:51, 16 August 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Tea Party movement

HughD (talk · contribs) topic-banned from any articles involving the Tea Party movement broadly, including but not limited to anything at all related to Americans for Prosperity, Koch Industries, the Koch brothers, for one year. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:25, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~HughD (talk · contribs) blocked for one week for violating the topic ban. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:24, 29 August 2015 (UTC)~~[reply]

Block rescinded but the topic ban remains in effect. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Warned that further violations of the TBAN will likely result in a block (even if just minor) in response to this AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:06, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
HughD blocked for one week following editing on Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:45, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An appeal of this block was declined at AE after the block had expired. EdJohnston (talk) 03:39, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Following editing at Watchdog.org, topic ban redefined and expanded under American politics 2. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:05, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Troubles

Gob Lofa (talk · contribs) blocked 1 day for 1RR vio at Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland (1 & 2). Also warned that further issues in their editing related to not communicating or inaccurate communication (such as inaccurate edit summaries), plus other things they've been blocked/warned regarding, will likely result in a long block or other sanctions (such as TBAN or IBAN). Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:54, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Mabuska (talk · contribs) blocked 1 day for 1RR vio at Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland (1 & 2). Also warned regarding remaining civil and avoiding personal attacks (had previously had this issue mentioned to them). Also told Mabuska that I was looking at an IBAN or TBAN and incivil (etc) comments make it look like you are the editor who is causing problems. Also suggested that they avoid editing Gob Lofa's talk page. Notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:54, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Steeletrap (talk · contribs) blocked for three weeks for breaches of R2 TBAN per this AE request. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:40, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]