Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Climate change

Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee has previously enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last modified 14 December 2022

The climate change topic, broadly interpreted, is designated as a contentious topic.

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

Templates

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

User notifications

• {{subst:Contentious topics/welcome|cc}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|cc}}

Editnotices

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

Talk page notice

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|cc}}