Wikipedia:General sanctions/Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean and Syriac topics
 | This page is a log for a community-designated contentious topic regime. It is used to record notifications issued and sanctions imposed under that regime, as specified below. Changes to this page must adhere to the community-designated contentious topic procedure and community consensus. |
Community discussion
A community discussion at the village pump (proposals) has placed all pages with content related to Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean, and Syriac identity, culture, and politics, broadly construed, under a community-authorized general sanctions regime, effective 19:30, 24 May 2025. The use of "and" here should be understood inclusively, meaning sanctions may apply to any, multiple or all of these ethnicities and listed topics.
Contentious topic (2025)
A November 2025 RfC converted the prior community-imposed discretionary sanctions into a community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025.
Remedies
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The following editor restrictions constitute the standard set of editor restrictions which may be imposed by a single uninvolved administrator:
The following page restrictions constitute the standard set of page restrictions which may be imposed by a single uninvolved administrator:
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The topic of Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean, and Syriac identity, culture, and politics, broadly construed, is community-designated as a contentious topic.
Templates
Pages covered by the contentious topic designation can be tagged with {{Gs/talk notice|topic=acas}}. To alert editors of a community-authorized contentious topic designation, use {{subst:Gs/alert|acas}}. To inform editors of a community sanction, use {{subst:Community sanction|sanction=|rationale=|topic=acas}} and if blocks are issued, {{subst:Uw-csblock}}. All individual sanctions and page restrictions must be logged below.
Enforcement
In addition to community venues (such as WP:AN or WP:ANI as appropriate), enforcement requests and appeals arising from these remedies may be submitted to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE).
Log of administrative actions
Log any block, ban or extension under any remedy here, including any appeals or modifications. Minimum information includes name of administrator, date and time, what was done and the basis for doing it. Place {{subst:Gs/sanction|topic=acas}} on a user's talk page when imposing sanctions. For blocks, use {{subst:Uw-csblock}}.
Page level sanctions
- Draft:Aramean people, downgrading to indefinite extended-confirmed move protection, locus of dispute that prompted these sanctions in the first place. -- asilvering (talk) 17:48, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
- Chaldea is semi-protected for 1 year. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 03:04, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- Tur Abdin, indef ECP; central to various disputes in this topic area. -- asilvering (talk) 21:58, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- Ricky Rich, semi 1 year. Curbon7 (talk) 05:44, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
- Turoyo language, semi-protected for 6 months. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 19:15, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
- Ilyas ibn al-Qassis Hanna al-Mawsili is semi-protected for 1 year. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 02:35, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
- Mark Savaya is semi-protected for 1 year. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 00:04, 25 October 2025 (UTC)
- Hanne Safar, indef ECP due to edit-warring. Toadspike [Talk] 09:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Shamoun Hanne Haydo, indef semi. Daniel Case (talk) 03:11, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
- Ömerli, Mardin, indef ECP under WP:GS/KURD. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:34, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
- Defence of Iwardo, semi-protected for six months - The Bushranger One ping only 06:19, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
- Sayfo, indef ECP under WP:GS/KURD - The Bushranger One ping only 04:59, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Individual sanctions
- DavidKaf (talk · contribs) blocked 3 months for socking with account Wlaak (talk · contribs), in contravention of topic ban. -- Amanda (she/her) 23:50, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Hogshine (talk · contribs) warned not to replace one identity word (eg Syriac, Assyrian) with another one, for any reason other than correcting a source-text integrity issue, see Special:Diff/1316230689 -- asilvering (talk) 06:01, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
- Historynerd361 (talk · contribs) warned not to replace one identity word (eg Syriac, Assyrian) with another one, for any reason other than correcting a source-text integrity issue, see Special:Diff/1316230689 -- asilvering (talk) 06:01, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
- 777network (talk · contribs) given the same warning, see Special:Diff/1321509082. -- asilvering (talk) 23:55, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hogshine (talk · contribs), per this AE noticeboard thread, ban from making comments about the conduct of other editors on article talk pages in the WP:GS/ACAS topic area. Talk page notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:24, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- 777network (talk · contribs), per this AE noticeboard thread, indefinite topic ban from Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean, and Syriac identity, culture, and politics, broadly construed. Talk page notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:24, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- Historynerd361 (talk · contribs), per this AE noticeboard thread, indefinite topic ban from Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean, and Syriac identity, culture, and politics, broadly construed. Talk page notification. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:24, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- Ibansis (talk · contribs) is warned for misusing a large language model (LLM) to generate article content. (warning notice) — Newslinger talk 09:20, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Useful templates
Standardised community-authorised general sanctions templates
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Alerting
- {{Gs/alert}}, to alert an editor to active sanctions
- {{Gs/talk notice}}, for announcing GS in a talk page messagebox
- {{Gs/editnotice}}, for topics, or individual pages, where additional restrictions apply
Enforcement
- {{Gs/sanction}}, for telling a user they have been sanctioned
- {{Uw-csblock}}, for notifying users of community sanctions blocks
- {{Gs/topics}} and {{Gs/topics/table}}, the lists of topics currently under community sanctions
- Discretionary sanctions enforcement templates, the category for all standardised enforcement-related GS templates
- Various GS templates
Whenever community sanctions are (de)authorised for a topic, update Module:Sanctions/data.
See also
- {{Contentious topics/alert}}, for contentious topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee
Notes
- ↑ On pages where "consensus required" is in effect, an edit that is challenged by reversion may not be reinstated without affirmative consensus on the talk page.
- ↑ On pages where "enforced BRD" is in effect, an edit that is challenged by reversion may not be reinstated by the editor who originally made it until the editor (a) posts a talk page message discussing the edit and (b) waits 24 hours from the time of the talk page message.
- ↑ December 2025 RfC