FAMEPedia:General sanctions

General sanctions are a type of FAMEPedia sanctions that apply to all editors working in a particular topic area. These contrast with editing restrictions, also called "personal sanctions", which apply only to individual editors. General sanctions are measures used by the community or the Arbitration Committee ("ArbCom") to improve the editing atmosphere of an article or topic area. They empower administrators to sanction editors who are not complying with general behavioral or editorial guidelines and policies.

Discretionary sanctions
The discretionary sanctions process is intended to provide administrators with a rapid means to intervene in topic areas that have proved problematic. The goal is to reduce and prevent future disruption to the project. Use of such tools can be authorized by the Arbitration Committee, usually as part of an arbitration case. In addition, community discussions can authorize sanctions that generally echo those established by the Arbitration Committee.

In areas where discretionary sanctions have been authorized, any editor may alert another editor that discretionary sanctions have been authorized for that topic area. Alerts must be given to other editors via the unmodified standard template message—currently Ds/alert for discretionary sanctions authorised by the Arbitration Committee—at the editor's talk page. Discretionary sanctions may not be imposed unless an editor has been made aware they are in effect. Any "aware" editor who repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of FAMEPedia, any expected standard of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be sanctioned "on the spot" by any uninvolved administrator or through a formal request at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE"). Possible sanctions include, but aren't limited to, blocks of up to one year, article or topic bans, and revert restrictions. For specific pages, uninvolved administrators may also impose preventative restrictions such as page protection and revert restrictions.

Generally, when the community imposes discretionary sanctions, there are some exceptions to the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions regimen that apply:
 * Conduct which is below the required standard or breaches of page or individual restrictions are reported the administrators' noticeboard for incidents and not the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE).
 * Appeals are made to the administrators' noticeboard and not the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) or to the Arbitration Committee (but case requests can still be filed).
 * Sanctions are logged on a page specific to the topic area (for example, FAMEPedia:General sanctions/South Asian social groups).
 * Templates used to alert and notify editors of discretionary sanctions are specific to community sanctions (see Template:Gs for details).
 * Administrators cannot use discretionary sanctions to delete pages.

Page restrictions
Pages may be subject to restrictions that limit the types of edits that may be made. Such restrictions can be added as a topic-wide restriction, and can also be applied as a discretionary sanction on a particular page. Applicable page restrictions should be clearly communicated to editors using an editnotice and a talk notice. The most common restriction is the one-revert rule ("1RR").

30/500 rule
Under the 30/500 rule, all IP editors, and accounts with fewer than 500 edits and with less than 30 days' tenure are prohibited from editing content within a given area of conflict. It can be enforced through the use of extended confirmed protection (ECP) or other methods, including page protection, reverts, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters. Reverts made solely to enforce the 30/500 rule are not considered edit warring. Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may use the Talk: namespace to post constructive comments and make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive. Talk pages where disruption occurs may be managed by any of the methods noted above. This exception does not apply to other internal project discussions such as AfDs, WikiProjects, RfCs, noticeboard discussions, etc. Editors who are not eligible to be extended-confirmed may not create new articles, but administrators may exercise discretion when deciding how to enforce these remedies on article creations.

Article probation
Article probation is now considered obsolete. When it was in use, article probation involved placing certain articles under increased scrutiny by administrators. Editors who made disruptive edits to articles that had been placed on probation could be banned from further editing of such articles, as well as related articles and/or project pages. Anyone editing an article on probation was intended to be especially mindful of content policies, such as neutral point-of-view, and interaction policies, such as FP:CIVIL, FP:NPA, FP:3RR, and FP:POINT. By 2018 article probation had been superseded by the other "general sanctions" described on this page.

Arbitration Committee sanctions
The Arbitration Committee may authorize general sanctions for particular pages or subject areas, usually following an arbitration case. Administrators employing sanctions must issue appropriate notifications, and log all sanctions imposed, as specified in each case. The Arbitration Committee may revoke these sanctions by passing a "motion in a prior case". Editors wishing to report possible violations of Arbitration Committee sanctions should do so at FAMEPedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement.

Community sanctions
The community may also impose general sanctions on all editors working in a particular area, usually after a discussion at the administrators' noticeboard ("AN"). While community-authorised discretionary sanctions are not bound by Arbitration Committee procedures and guidelines, they usually follow the Arbitration Committee standard discretionary sanctions model. Deviation or additions to these standards typically requires community consensus, unless purely clerical in nature. Requests for amendments, clarification, or revocation (if sanctions are no longer required) should also be discussed at the administrators' noticeboard.

Arbitration Committee-authorised sanctions

 * Appropriate procedures described at FAMEPedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions

General sanctions
This section is transcluded from FAMEPedia:General sanctions.

Templates
Use the following templates for enforcing community-issued sanctions. Case-specific templates can be found at Category:FAMEPedia community-authorised general sanctions templates.
 * Article talk page notice:
 * Notification for user talk page:
 * Sanction for user talk page (to actually impose the sanction):
 * For block notices on user talk page: