WP:GS/BI

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Community sanctions in this area of conflict have been revoked or have expired. As a result, this community sanctions-related page is now obsolete, is retained only for historical reference, and should not be modified. For the specific community decision that rescinded or modified these community sanctions, see this link.

Community discussion[edit]

A community discussion at the administrators' noticeboard (incidents branch) has established general sanctions for edits relating to the term "British Isles". 12:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Affirmation

The existence of these sanctions was affirmed during a December 2015 discussion at the administrators' noticeboard. 17:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Remedies[edit]

Any editor who systematically adds or removes the term "British Isles" from multiple articles without clear sourcing and justification, or who edit-wars over such addition or removal, may be added to the list of topic-banned editors.

For the purpose of adding users to the list, as well as imposing and enforcing restrictions under this provision, an administrator should be uninvolved. An administrator will be considered "uninvolved" if he or she is not engaged in a current, direct, personal conflict on the topic with the user receiving sanctions (note: enforcing this provision will not be considered to be participation in a dispute). Sanctions imposed under this provision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee. Administrators are not to reverse such sanctions without either (1) approval by the imposing administrator, or without (2) community consensus or Committee approval to do so. All sanctions imposed are to be logged below.

Types of sanctions that may be used:

Civility parole
Interaction bans
Revert restriction
Topic bans

Topic bans allowing discussion but not editing of the term 'British Isles' have been used in two cases (TritonRocker and HighKing). Complete bans from editing and discussing the topic of the term British Isles has also been implemented (LevenBoy). A further type of topic ban that bans an editor from all editing and discussion of naming disputes to do with Britain, Ireland and the term 'British Isles' was also discussed as one of the remedies available to this probation.

Log of sanctions[edit]

Log any topic bans and restrictions that are imposed; duplicates should be avoided. All restrictions will be enforced by blocks. Note: All sanctions imposed so far have been of indefinite durations - per discussion of this probation on ANI.

List of topic-banned and sanctioned editors

Log user name and any action taken with regards to this probation. Where a ban is lifted, the entry may not be removed - it may be striken, with a separate entry of name of admin or diff where ## was lifted; basis for removing from list; diff of notification to user. As with all pages, use common sense. The following information should be proved:

User name. Restriction.
- Name of administrator who imposed ##; basis for adding to list; [diff of notification to user|timestamp].
  - Blocked for (duration); (which sanction was violated); diff of violation or summary of why conduct was considered to be violation; sign.

User:Triton Rocker. Topic Ban (on editing of the term 'British Isles').
- Topic ban imposed by User:Black Kite; persistent undiscussed additions of BI after warning; [1] Black Kite (t) (c) 09:29, 25 July 2010 (UTC).Reply[reply]
- Civility Parole imposed by User:Cailil [2]; persistent incivility, assumptions of bad faith, personal attacks, soapboxing and general disruption of the talkspace. Imposed per consensus at the Administrators noticeboard (logged by Cailil ^talk 23:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  - Blocked for 24 hours; Topic ban violation; [3]; TFOWR, 08:09, 26 July 2010
  - Blocked for 48 hours; Topic ban violation; Tenant farmer and Burnt orchid; TFOWR, 06:49, 31 July 2010
  - Blocked for 1 week; Topic ban violation; [4]; Olaf Davis (talk) 10:47, 6 August 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  - Blocked for 12 hours; Topic ban violation; [5]; Bwilkins (logged by TFOWR 22:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  - Blocked for 1 month; Topic ban violation; ;Bwilkins at 10:11, 25 September 2010 (logged by Cailil ^talk 14:48, 25 September 2010 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  - Blocked for 12 months; Civility parole violation; [6] [7]; Looie496 at 05:38, 26 October 2010 (logged by Ncmvocalist (talk) 09:01, 26 October 2010 (UTC))Reply[reply]

User:LevenBoy. Civility Parole & Topic ban (discussion & editing of term 'British Isles').
- Civility Parole imposed by User:Cailil [8]; persistent incivility, assumptions of bad faith, personal attacks and general disruption of the talkspace. Imposed per consensus at the Administrators noticeboard (logged by Cailil ^talk 23:28, 30 September 2010 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  - Blocked for 1 month; Civility parole violation (additionally under WP:BATTLE and WP:POINT); Blocked and logged by Cailil ^talk 18:26, 12 October 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
- Topic ban imposed by User:Cailil [9]; persistent revert warring on multiple articles over the use of the term British Isles after warning was issued. (logged Cailil ^talk 16:41, 17 May 2011 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  - Blocked for 1 month, for continuing to attack other editors after being topic banned from the subject[10]. Blocked by Elen of the Roads. (logged by Cailil ^talk 17:57, 14 August 2011 (UTC))Reply[reply]

User:HighKing. Topic Ban (on editing of the term 'British Isles').
- Topic Ban imposed by User:Cailil; continued violations of the topic probation after warnings; [11]. (logged by Cailil ^talk 17:53, 14 August 2011 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  Ban lifted[12] (logged by Cailil ^talk 21:11, 2 June 2012 (UTC))Reply[reply]
  Ban reimposed by User:Cailil here[13] after a return to previous behaviour breaching the probation several times during the period from February 2013 to June 2013. User:HighKing "is topic banned from editing in relation to the term 'British Isles' broadly construed. He may still contribute to discussions on the topic as long as these comments conform to wikipedia's talk page guidelines and interaction policies."--Cailil ^talk 21:14, 18 June 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
- Request for ban review lodged here on 20 August 2014. Outcome of review was no consensus, defaulting to retaining ban - closing comments here. -- Euryalus (talk) 10:59, 12 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
User:Bjmullan. Topic banned from editing in relation to the term 'British Isles' in any way, and from discussions of the use of that term, widely construed anywhere on wikipedia.
- Topic Ban imposed by User:Cailil; edit-warring on multiple articles about the use of the term British Isles over a prolonged period (especially April-May 2012); [14]. (logged by Cailil ^talk 02:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC))Reply[reply]
User:Van Speijk. Topic banned from editing in relation to the term 'British Isles' in any way, and from discussions of the use of that term, widely construed anywhere on wikipedia.
- Topic Ban imposed by User:Cailil; edit-warring on multiple articles about the use of the term British Isles over a prolonged period (especially April-May 2012); [15]. (logged by Cailil ^talk 02:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC))Reply[reply]