Status as of 22:28 (UTC), Sunday, 22 September 2024 (Purge)
The Arbitration Committee is seeking to revise the discretionary sanctions procedure.
The discretionary sanctions procedure sets forth a special set of rules that apply in topic areas defined by the Arbitration Committee. Within those topic areas, administrators are granted additional authority to prevent and respond to misconduct by editors. Discretionary sanctions were first introduced in 2009, codified in 2011, and substantially reformed in a 2013–14 review process.
The purpose of this revision process is to simplify and clarify the procedure and resolve problems with the current system of discretionary sanctions.
Revision process
The revision process will be conducted in four phases:
- Phase I community consultation (March – April 2021) (closed)
- Phase II community consultation (September – October 2022) (closed)
- Proposed decision (November – December 2022)
- Implementation: The drafting arbitrators will implement the Committee's decision in conjunction with the Committee's clerks and interested volunteers designated by the Committee.
The revision process was managed by drafting arbitrators designated by the Arbitration Committee (CaptainEek, L235, Wugapodes).
Final decision
The merged text of the final decision may be found at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions/2021-22 review/Implementation/Merged.
Name
1) The discretionary sanctions (DS) system will be renamed "contentious topics" (CT), and restrictions placed within the DS system will be referred to as "contentious topic restrictions".
- Passed 10 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Nutshell
2)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Lead
3)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Awareness
4)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Appeals and amendments
5)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Contentious topic restrictions: imposition, types, duration, use
6)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Enforcement
7)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Warnings
8)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Administrator instructions
9) The Arbitration Committee will, acting through its members, clerks, and other editors designated by the Committee, maintain instructions for enforcing administrators.
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Contentious topic subpages
10) The Arbitration Committee will, acting through its members, clerks, and other editors designated by the Committee, maintain a subpage of the contentious topics procedure listing relevant information including:
- other topic-wide remedies (e.g. ARBPIA-wide 500/30 and 1RR)
- standard templates for the topic area
- any guidance for admins from ArbCom
- any ARCAs or other clarifications that affect the topic
- any additions to the "standard set" for the topic
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Editnotices and talk page notices
11) The Arbitration Committee will, acting through its members, clerks, and other editors designated by the Committee, modify contentious topics editnotices and talk page notices with the following broad goals:
- Creating two editnotice templates: one for optional use on pages with no page restrictions, and one for mandatory use on pages with page restrictions;
- Using clear and concise formatting when describing page restrictions in place of long individual lines; and
- Creating custom ArbCom-maintained templates for cases with existing topic-wide restrictions (such as Template:Editnotice GMO 1RR).
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Designation of contentious topics
12)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Logging
13)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Continuity
14)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' role and expectations
15)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
AE noticeboard
16)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Sufficiency of other actions
17)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Enforcement templates and procedural documents
18)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Arbitration enforcement log
19)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Decorum
20)
- Passed 11 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Administrative provisions
21) Each reference to the prior discretionary sanctions procedure shall be treated as a reference to the contentious topics procedure. The arbitration clerks are directed to amend all existing remedies authorizing discretionary sanctions to instead designate contentious topics.
- Passed 10 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Referrals from Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard to the full Committee
22)
- Passed 10 to 1 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Notes
Motion to close
The above proposals that are supported by an absolute majority of unrecused active arbitrators are hereby enacted. The drafting arbitrators (CaptainEek, L235, and Wugapodes) are directed to take the actions necessary to bring the proposals enacted by this motion into effect, including by amending the procedures at WP:AC/P and WP:AC/DS. The authority granted to the drafting arbitrators by this motion expires one month after enactment.
The Arbitration Committee thanks all those who have participated in the 2021-22 discretionary sanctions review process and all who have helped bring it to a successful conclusion. This motion concludes the 2021-22 discretionary sanctions review process.
- Passed 6 to 0 with 1 abstention at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
