Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation
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Community discussion
A community discussion at here) has placed Climate change and related pages on article probation - effective as of 23:30, 1 January 2010 (UTC). Please direct all discussions of this remedy to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
Remedy
Pages related to Climate change (broadly construed) are subject to the following terms of article probation:
- Any editor may be sanctioned by an uninvolved administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, personal attacks, incivility and assumptions of bad faith.
- Sanctions imposed may include restrictions on reverts or other specified behaviors, bans from editing the climate change pages and/or closely related topics, blocks of up to 1 year in length, or any other measures the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.
- For the purpose of imposing sanctions under this provision, an administrator will be considered "uninvolved" if he or she is not engaged in a current, direct, personal conflict on the topic with the user receiving sanctions (note: enforcing this provision will not be considered to be participation in a dispute).
- Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to these provisions; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines.
- Sanctions imposed under this provision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Administrators are not to reverse such sanctions without either (1) approval by the imposing administrator, or without (2) community consensus or Committee approval to do so.
- All sanctions imposed are to be logged at Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Log.
How to avoid being subject to remedies
- Do not edit-war;
- Interact civilly with other editors;
- Avoid making repeated comments unrelated to bettering the article;
- Avoid making repeated comments about the subject of the article;
- Avoid repeatedly discussing other editors, discuss the article instead;
- Not much leeway in pages under probation, so basically be a model Wikipedian;
- We actually know when we cross the line; we are all intelligent people;
- Don't get worked up when you get subjected to remedies such as a temporary block or ban. Take a break and come back refreshed.