User:Dlthewave/DS

Discretionary sanctions, or DS, is a system that allows administrators to place editing restrictions within certain designated topic areas, as a way to prevent disruption and promote collaborative editing.

Conduct expectations
Editors working on DS topics must adhere to certain expectations:

This is quite similar to the norms and expectations that apply to all Wikipedia articles, and most editors will find that they can work on DS topics without changing their editing style or conduct. The main differences are that certain articles may be under more stringent requirements, and administrators can enforce these expectations by placing sanctions on pages and editors at their discretion. This means that formal warnings and blocks can be issued on the spot without going through a community noticeboard such as WP:ANI, provided that awareness requirements are met.

Editor sanctions
Administrators may place restrictions such as warnings, blocks or topic bans on individual editors.

Which topics are under discretionary sanctions?
The Arbitration Committee maintains a list of sanctions. Many of these topics are politically controversial such as Abortion, Palestine-Israel and Gun control. Others, such as "Article titles and capitalisation" and "Cross-wiki issues", have been the subject of disputes over how Wikipedia is written and operated.