Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Biographies of Living Persons

"WP:CT/BLP" redirects here. For the policy on biographies of living persons, see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons.

Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Wikipedia articles (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

All living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Wikipedia articles are designated as a contentious topic.

Passed 10 to 0 with 1 abstention by motion at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Guidance for administrators

• This contentious topic designation is designed to support the application of the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy, though administrators may take action to enforce that policy without using the contentious topics procedure.

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|blp}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|blp}}

Editnotices

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

Talk page notice

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

See also

• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons