Wikipedia:General sanctions/Climate change probation

Community discussion
A community discussion (found here) has placed Climate change and related pages on article probation - effective as of 23:30, 1 January 2010 (UTC). Please direct all discussions of this remedy to Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Remedy
Pages related to Climate change (broadly construed) are subject to the following terms of article probation:


 * Any editor may be sanctioned by an uninvolved administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, personal attacks, incivility and assumptions of bad faith.
 * Sanctions imposed may include restrictions on reverts or other specified behaviors, bans from editing the climate change pages and/or closely related topics, blocks of up to 1 year in length, or any other measures the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.
 * For the purpose of imposing sanctions under this provision, 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).
 * Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to these provisions; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines.
 * Sanctions imposed under this provision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard (template), 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 at General sanctions/Climate change probation/Log.

How to avoid being subject to remedies

 * Do not edit-war;
 * Interact civilly with other editors;
 * Avoid making repeated comments unrelated to bettering the article;
 * Avoid repeatedly discussing other editors, discuss the article instead;
 * Not much leeway in pages under probation, so basically be a model Wikipedian;
 * We actually know when we cross the line; we are all intelligent people;
 * Don't get worked up when you get subjected to remedies such as a temporary block or ban. Take a break and come back refreshed.

Notification of probation
Articles within the scope of this probation may be tagged on their talk pages with Template:Community article probation filled out as follows:



This template will automatically categorise articles into Category:Articles on probation. Note that the "Main page" field should be left as shown above, since the main page for this set of articles under probation is Climate change. For a list of pages that are currently tagged, see here.

Articles under a special editing restriction should display a matching WP:Editnotice. The suggested text for a 1RR restriction is:

To notify a user on their talk page that an article is under probation, Template:uw-probation can be used. This can be referenced with:


 * PAGE NAME

where PAGE NAME needs to be changed to the name of the relevant article.

Please record notifications in the appropriate table at General sanctions/Climate change probation/Log.