 | 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 the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
1c) South Asia designated as a contentious topic
All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
6b) A consensus of admins at WP:AE may extend WP:ECR to subtopics of WP:ARBIPA if such a sanction is necessary to prevent disruption. Such extensions must be of a limited duration, not to exceed one year.
2) The topic of Indian military history is placed under the extended-confirmed restriction.
3) Caste-related topics in South Asia are placed under the extended-confirmed restriction.
5) Administrators are permitted to preemptively protect mainspace articles covered by the extended-confirmed restriction for caste-related topics in South Asia when there is a reasonable belief that they will be the target of disruption.
9) Uninvolved administrators are encouraged to monitor the articles covered by contentious topic designation in the original India-Pakistan case to ensure compliance. To assist in this, administrators are reminded that:
24) Administrators are reminded that, when possible, topic bans should only be as broad as necessary to stop disruption. Some possible subtopics related to WP:ARBIPA are:
Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:
consensus that Tamzin's explanation is spot on, referring to a description posted by Tamzin, which read as follows:
To me, the logical scope of "Indian military history" would be
- The military history of any entity, or vassal/proxy of an entity, based in
and/or
- the present-day Republic of India and/or
- territory that was at the time considered India
- Any military activities by any other entity that took place in that region.
Consensus that election pages are not automatically subsumed by a reference to "political parties", broadly construed.
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|sa}}{{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|sa}} – mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection{{Contentious topics/talk notice|sa}}{{Contentious topics/talk notice|imh}} – to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic of Indian military history{{Contentious topics/talk notice|sasg}} – to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic of caste-related topics in South Asia