Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Infoboxes

Arbitration​Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to discussions about infoboxes, and edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last modified 14 December 2022

All discussions about infoboxes, and edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes, are designated as a contentious topic.

Standard set of restrictions

Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:

Individual restrictions

• sitewide and partial blocks,
• topic bans and page bans (from the entire contentious topic, a subtopic, or specified pages within the topic),
• interaction bans,
• revert restrictions
• Infobox probation, indefinitely restricting a user from:
  • adding, deleting or collapsing infoboxes;
  • restoring an infobox that has been deleted; or
  • making more than one comment in a discussion, where that discussion is primarily about the inclusion or exclusion of an infobox on a given article.

For clarity, an editor under probation is permitted to edit an already existing infobox, but should be cautious of giving the appearance that they are attempting to game their probation as this may lead to more contentious topic sanctions.

The editor may, if they wish, add an infobox in the same edit or series of edits when they:

• create a new article; or
• convert an article from a redirect.

Page restrictions

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction

Templates

When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|cid}}

When a page has active page restrictions, the following template must be used as an editnotice:

• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|cid}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|cid}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|cid}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|cid}}

Talk page notices

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|cid}}
• {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|cid}}