Wikipedia:Update/1/Enforcement policy changes during August 2009

• Wikipedia:Administrators
  • Substantial changes throughout from the July 31 version

• Wikipedia:Banning policy
  • In the introduction, moved one sentence, and removed: "Bans are social constructs, and are not enforced by the MediaWiki software."
  • In WP:BAN#Community ban, changed "If a user has exhausted the community's patience to the point where an administrator has indefinitely blocked the user and ..." to "If a user has been indefinitely blocked and through community discussion it is determined that ..."
  • In WP:BAN#Evasion and enforcement, changed "As with enforcement of other Wikipedia policies, no individual editor is obligated to help enforce any ban." to "While all editors are expected to respect the enforcement of policies by not undermining or sabotaging them, no editor is personally obligated to help enforce any ban."
  • In WP:BAN#Enforcement by reverting edits, removed "Users are generally expected to refrain from reinstating edits made by banned users in violation of the ban, and such edits may be viewed as meatpuppetry."
  • In WP:BAN#Coercion, removed "legal, physical, or blackmail"

• Wikipedia:Blocking policy, selected version
  • Renamed WP:BLOCK#Explanation on blocking to WP:BLOCK#Explanation of blocks, and some subsections were renamed, but with no changes to the text.
  • Made minor changes to WP:BLOCK#Unblocking, and added: [Unblocking will almost never be acceptable: ...] "when the block is explicitly enforcing an active Arbitration remedy and there is not a "clear, substantial, and active community consensus to do so" (Arbcom motion)"

• Wikipedia:Protection policy
  • Added to WP:PROTECT#Semi-protection: "... or confirmed." [Such users can request edits to a semi-protected page by proposing them on its talk page, using the {{editsemiprotected}} template if necessary to gain attention.] "They may also request the confirmed userright by visiting Requests for permissions"
  • In WP:PROTECT#Creation protection, removed "Administrators should avoid using creation protection as a pre-emptive measure, as it is intended to be a response to actual events."