 | This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic. |
The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
Gender-related disputes or controversies and associated people are designated as a contentious topic.
In any challenge to the closure of a formal discussion within the WP:GENSEX topic area (e.g. an RfC or AfD), users who participated in the underlying discussion are limited to at most two comments, not exceeding a combined total of 250 words. Uninvolved administrators may remove violating comments, in whole or in part, as an Arbitration enforcement action, and may use repeated violations as the basis for other sanctions.
Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|gg}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|gg}} – mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection