Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Armenia-Azerbaijan

Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related conflicts (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Note that the community has separately authorized general sanctions for Armenia-Azerbaijan, including by imposing an extended-confirmed restriction on a subset of the topic area: Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last modified 27 March 2026

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and related ethnic conflicts are designated as a contentious topic.

Community decisions

These community decisions are listed here as a courtesy, and have been set independent of the Arbitration Committee.

Extended-confirmed restriction

Last modified 8 September 2023

• Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide—are placed under an extended confirmed restriction.
• In the rest of the Armenia–Azerbaijan topic area, the community endorses administrators making liberal use of extended confirmed protection as an arbitration enforcement action.

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,
• word limits per discussion

Page restrictions

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction,
• word limits for all participants in a specific discussion

Clarifications and amendments

The Arbitration Committee has resolved requests for clarification and amendment for this contentious topic on the following occasions:

• April 2008: Clarification on the area of conflict, specifically whether it includes Iran and Turkey (Archived request)
• May 2010: Whether the authority of uninvolved administrators included applying restrictions to articles (Archived request)
• April 2012: Clarification on the area of conflict as it relates to imposed page restrictions (Archived request)
• February 2013: Clarification on the scope of title requiring a page be about both Armenia and Azerbaijan, or just one. (Archived request)

Templates

Standard templates

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

User notifications

• {{subst:Contentious topics/welcome|a-a}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|a-a}}

Editnotices

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|a-a}}
• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|a-a}} – mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection

Talk page notice

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|a-a}}
• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|gsaa}} – to indicate that the subject falls under the subtopic of politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide

Additional, topic-specific templates

{{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|a-a}} supports the additional use of |ECR=yes, which signifies that the page falls under the community's authorization of the extended-confirmed restriction for Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide.