Wikipedia:Update/1/Enforcement policy changes during August 2009


 * Administrators
 * Substantial changes throughout from the July 31 version


 * Banning policy
 * In the introduction, moved one sentence, and removed: "Bans are social constructs, and are not enforced by the MediaWiki software."
 * In WP:BAN, changed "If a user has exhausted the community's patience to the point where an administrator has indefinitely blocked the user and ..." to "If a user has been indefinitely blocked and through community discussion it is determined that ..."
 * In WP:BAN, changed "As with enforcement of other Wikipedia policies, no individual editor is obligated to help enforce any ban." to "While all editors are expected to respect the enforcement of policies by not undermining or sabotaging them, no editor is personally obligated to help enforce any ban."
 * In WP:BAN, removed "Users are generally expected to refrain from reinstating edits made by banned users in violation of the ban, and such edits may be viewed as meatpuppetry."
 * In WP:BAN, removed "legal, physical, or blackmail"


 * Blocking policy, selected version
 * Renamed WP:BLOCK to WP:BLOCK, and some subsections were renamed, but with no changes to the text.
 * Made minor changes to WP:BLOCK, and added: [Unblocking will almost never be acceptable: ...] "when the block is explicitly enforcing an active Arbitration remedy and there is not a "clear, substantial, and active community consensus to do so" (Arbcom motion)"


 * Protection policy
 * Added to WP:PROTECT: "... or confirmed." [Such users can request edits to a semi-protected page by proposing them on its talk page, using the  template if necessary to gain attention.]  "They may also request the confirmed userright by visiting Requests for permissions"
 * In WP:PROTECT, removed "Administrators should avoid using creation protection as a pre-emptive measure, as it is intended to be a response to actual events."