Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. It describes a community-initiated process where articles related to climate change were placed on general sanctions. It has been superseded by discretionary sanctions, which may be requested at Arbitration Enforcement.

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Community discussion

A community discussion (found 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 (template), 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 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.

Notification of probation

Articles within the scope of this probation may be tagged on their talk pages with Template:Community article probation filled out as follows:

{{Community article probation|main page=Climate change|[[Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation]] for full information and to review the decision}}

This template will automatically categorise articles into Category:Articles on probation. Note that the "Main page" field should be left as shown above, since the main page for this set of articles under probation is Climate change. For a list of pages that are currently tagged, see here.

Articles under a special editing restriction should display a matching WP:Editnotice. The suggested text for a 1RR restriction is:

 {{editnotice
 | header = Note!
 | headerstyle = font-size:150%; text-align:center;
 | textstyle = background-color: #cfc; border-width: 4px; border-style: solid; border-color: #88a; text-align:center;
 | text = This page is under a 1 [[WP:Edit warring#Reverting|revert]] rule restriction due to the 
    [[Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation|climate change  topic community probation]]. 
    Do not make any edit to the article that reverses the edit of another user in whole or in part more than 
    once in any 24 hour period. Avoid  [[WP:edit warring|edit warring]] and seek [[WP:consensus|consensus]]
    for any contentious edits at [[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}]]. Editors who fail to adhere to these standards may be 
    [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing for a short period.
 }}
 {{Active editnotice}}<!-- Categorizes page as having an editnotice. -->

To notify a user on their talk page that an article is under probation, Template:uw-probation can be used. This can be referenced with:

{{subst:uw-probation|PAGE NAME|Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation}}

where PAGE NAME needs to be changed to the name of the relevant article.

Please record notifications in the appropriate table at Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Log#Notifications.

Community discussion

Remedy

How to avoid being subject to remedies

Notification of probation

See also