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This is the central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in 2016 as well as any appeals or modifications made to sanctions issued in 2016.

The required information is the user or page the sanction is being applied to, enforcing administrator, date, nature of sanction, including expiry date (if applicable), basis or context (such as link to AE request), and a diff of the user notification (if applicable).

Abortion

American politics 2

• HughD is blocked one week for violation of his topic ban from US politics since 2009, as notified here per an AE request. EdJohnston (talk) 19:28, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Sir Joseph is topic banned from editing any page relating to Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 17:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sir Joseph (talk · contribs)'s AE appeal of the Bernie Sanders ban was declined. EdJohnston (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sir Joseph (talk · contribs)'s one-week topic ban from Bernie Sanders and related pages has been extended to six months for reasons explained here. Bishonen | talk 09:09, 6 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
      • Sir Joseph's appeal, at WP:ARCA, of the 6 month topic ban was declined by the Arbitration Committee. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:52, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sir Joseph is blocked for 31 hours for violating his topic ban at WP:AE (edit in violation). — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:04, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Kendrick7 is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:50, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• MXfurry is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 month, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Volunteer Marek is banned from making any edits to the article Bernie Sanders for 1 week, per this notice. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:55, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • This action reversed per uninvolved administrator consensus. --Laser brain (talk) 15:13, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient Egyptian race controversy

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2

• Jaqeli is indefinitely topic banned from everything related to both Armenia and Georgia, per this notice. EdJohnston (talk) 20:19, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Austrian economics

Article titles and capitalisation

• Darkfrog24 is indefinitely topic banned from articles, discussions, and guidelines, explicitly including the manual of style, related to quotation marks and quotation styles, broadly interpreted. They may use quotes and quotation marks, and edit pages that include them, subject to normal editing rules (e.g. regarding edit warring). This ban may be appealed no sooner than 6 months after it is placed. Thryduulf (talk) 14:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • That topic ban replaced with: Darkfrog24 is indefinitely topic banned from the manual of style, and manual of style-related topics, specifically including quotation marks and quotation styles. This applies on all pages, including his and other's user talk pages. This may be appealed no sooner than 12 months from today (4 February 2016). Thryduulf (talk) 13:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Institited an indefinate ban as Darkfrog24 appears to be incapable of understanding the terms of the TBAN. See discussion at Arbitration Enforcement. No object to an unblock in a couple of weeks if Darkfrog24 confirms they now get it and will stop relitigating their case through TBAN clarifications. Spartaz ^Humbug! 23:30, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Catflap08 and Hijiri88

• Catflap08 blocked for a week for a series of topic ban violations and Hijiri88 warned about monitoring Catflap08's edits and breaking their interaction ban by reporting the topic ban violations. Both per this request at Arbitration Enforcement. Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:29, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Climate change

Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Acupuncture

Electronic Cigarettes

• Mystery Wolff is indefinitely banned from the topic of electronic cigarettes on all pages of Wikipedia, with right of appeal after six months per this AE closure. Notified here. EdJohnston (talk) 01:21, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Europe

• User:Solntsa90 is topic banned from RT (TV network) and Talk:RT (TV network) for six months, for disruptive behavior specifically in the discussion of reliable sources. Drmies (talk) 17:25, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Doctor Franklin (talk · contribs) is subject to a WP:0RR ban for 1 year, for a pattern of continuously disruptive EW behavior (after being warned several times, and previously blocked). — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 13:39, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Solntsa90 (talk · contribs) is indefinitely banned from the topic of Vladimir Putin on all pages of Wikipedia including talk, for long-term edit warring on a troublesome article (14 reverts of the Putin article during February). EdJohnston (talk) 05:08, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Editing of Biographies of Living Persons

• Sfarney (talk · contribs) is indefinitely topic banned from Rick Alan Ross and all related pages and content per rationale here. Bishonen | talk 10:22, 26 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Falun Gong

• Sinceouch2422 indefinately blocked per this AE discussion, Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:17, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GamerGate

• MarkBernstein (talk · contribs) is indefinitely prohibited from making any edit about, and from editing any page relating to, (a) Gamergate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 01:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Page-level sanctions

• Brianna Wu: 500/30 restriction- editing prohibited to accounts newer than 30 days and/or with less than 500 edits. Gamaliel (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Anita Sarkeesian: 500/30 restriction- editing prohibited to accounts newer than 30 days and/or with less than 500 edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:59, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Genetically modified organisms

• Prokaryotes (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages and content related to genetically modified organisms, broadly construed, as the outcome of this enforcement request. MastCell ^Talk 19:56, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Topic-ban appealed at WP:AN; appeal closed as unsuccessful.
  • Prokaryotes reverted the closure of his appeal and continued to dispute the sanction; again closed as unsuccessful.
  • Topic-ban appealed to WP:AE ([1]); closed as duplicative.
  • Topic-ban appealed to WP:ARCA; appeal closed as unsuccessful.
• Semitransgenic (talk · contribs) topic-banned indefinitely from pages and content related to genetically modified organisms, broadly construed, as the outcome of this AE discussion. Spartaz ^Humbug! 11:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gun control

India-Pakistan

• Sigmabaroda blocked indefinitely 11 Jan 2016 for disruptive editing on Indian articles.[2]. Bishonen | talk 03:31, 18 January 2016 (UTC) (belated logging).[reply]
• MBlaze Lightning — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• FreeatlastChitchat — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Blocked for a week for violation per discussion here Spartaz ^Humbug! 13:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• TalhaZubairButt — WP:1RR for 1 month within area; repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 02:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Truth should trump indefinitely topic banned from all pages and discussions relating to castes.[3] Bishonen | talk 17:47, 25 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
• MBlaze Lightning blocked 72 hours due to personal WP:1RR-restriction violation @ Research and Analysis Wing --slakr^\ talk / 04:03, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Interactions at GGTF

Landmark Worldwide

Liancourt Rocks

Longevity

• 930310 Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:22, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• GreatGreen Topic ban from Longevity broadly construed per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 10:10, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• BjörnBergman 1RR on Longevity broadly construed for six months from today's date per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 18:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia

• Fez120 (talk · contribs) — WP:1RR for 3 months on all articles within the topic area due to repeated edit warring. --slakr^\ talk / 04:02, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad images

• User:SheriffIsInTown is topic banned from all pages related to Muhammad broadly construed for a period of 1 month. In response to a pattern of non-neutral edits contrary to consensus. HighInBC 20:25, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Ttt74 (talk · contribs) is topic banned for six months from all editing related to Muhammad per these notices. Bishonen | talk 21:08, 28 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Palestine-Israel articles

• User:HistoryWrite has been blocked indefinitely for gaming the 500/30 restriction, see this discussion. Bishonen | talk 09:15, 3 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]
• 104.162.193.17 (talk · contribs) has been blocked three days under the 500/30 rule for editing pages related to the Arab-Israeli conflict with an IP. See this notice. This IPv4 is probably the same editor as the IPv6 reported at WP:AE. EdJohnston (talk) 19:51, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Semiprotected Palestine for one year. IP editors are not allowed to edit this article per WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. EdJohnston (talk) 03:31, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• 104.162.193.17 (talk · contribs) for three months under the 500/30 restriction for continuing to edit pages related to the Arab-Israeli conflict with an IP. See this message. EdJohnston (talk) 18:13, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• WwiikkiiPEDIA is blocked indefinitely from editing, for their primary purpose in editing clearly being disruption, shown by their repeated violation of WP:ARBPIA3#500/30, in direct violation of the sanctions already in effect on the page State of Palestine. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 15:28, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Mrbrklyn Blocked for 48 hours for violating WP:ARBPIA2#500/30 with this edit. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:55, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Chesdovi is topic banned from Zionism (broadly construed) and Western Wall or adding references to Palestine or Palestinians in articles that do not contain them. I have left out categories as they should be covered by the Zionism tban. Chesdovi is cautioned that high volumes of repetitive edits in sensitive areas that case disruption are to be avoided. Further controversy over such edits will result in long blocks. Per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:13, 25 March 2016 (UTC)(Prev topic ban from IP area still extant). Spartaz ^Humbug! 17:56, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudoscience

• Realskeptic Topic ban appeal dismissed. [4] Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:13, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• TheBIHLover has been topic banned from Bosnian pyramid claims and all related pages and discussions for three months.[5] Bishonen | talk 12:13, 21 March 2016 (UTC).[reply]
• Beautifulpeoplelikeyou is banned from the topic of electronic harassment and psychotronics, broadly construed. per this AE discussion Spartaz ^Humbug! 12:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Askahrc is indefinitely banned from the topic of Deepak Chopra on all pages of Wikipedia including talk and noticeboards, per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 15:45, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Conzar is indefinitely banned from the topic of vaccination, broadly construed, on all pages of Wikipedia including talk and noticeboards per this notice, after an AE discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 17:32, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Prem Rawat

Race and intelligence

Scientology

Senkaku Islands

September 11 conspiracy theories

Sexology

Shakespeare authorship question

Tea Party movement

The Troubles

Transcendental Meditation movement

Waldorf education