Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Race and intelligence
This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic. |
The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.
Arbitration Committee decisions[edit]
Contentious topics[edit]
Both experienced and new editors contributing to articles relating to the area of conflict (namely, the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed) are reminded that this is a highly contentious subject and are cautioned that to avoid disruption they must adhere strictly to fundamental Wikipedia policies, including but not limited to: maintaining a neutral point of view; avoiding undue weight; carefully citing disputed statements to reliable sources; and avoiding edit-warring and incivility.
To enforce the foregoing, the area of conflict is designated as a contentious topic.
All sanctions imposed under the original remedies shall continue in full force.
Guidance for administrators[edit]
Standard set of restrictions[edit]
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
- Page restrictions
- page protection,
- revert restrictions,
- the "consensus required" restriction,
- the "enforced BRD" restriction
Clarifications and amendments[edit]
Templates[edit]
When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:
{{Contentious topics/alert/first|r-i}}
When a page has active page restrictions, the following template must be used as an editnotice:
The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:
- Alerting editors after their first alert
{{Contentious topics/alert|r-i}}
{{Contentious topics/alert/DS|r-i}}
- No page restrictions editnotice
{{Contentious topics/editnotice|r-i}}
- Talk page notices