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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the Balkans or Eastern Europe (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

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Contentious topics

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Last modified 14 December 2022

Eastern Europe and the Balkans, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.

Subtopic of Lithuania

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Reliable source consensus-required restriction (Lithuania)

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Last modified 4 January 2024

All articles and edits in the topic area of Lithuania history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Lithuania are subject to a "reliable source consensus-required restriction."

Subtopic of Poland

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Reliable source consensus-required restriction (Poland)

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Last modified 4 January 2024

5) All articles and edits in the topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland are subject to a "reliable source consensus-required restriction."

Extended confirmed restriction (Poland)

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Last modified 4 January 2024

7) The extended confirmed restriction is imposed on edits and pages related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland, broadly construed. As designated by the Eastern Europe arbitration case, the area also remains a contentious topic.

Guidance for administrators

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  • Administrators should ensure that an appropriate warning has left before applying restrictions.

Standard set of restrictions

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Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:

Individual restrictions

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  • sitewide and partial blocks,
  • topic bans and page bans (from the entire contentious topic, a subtopic, or specified pages within the topic),
  • interaction bans,
  • revert restrictions,
  • word limits per discussion

Page restrictions

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  • page protection,
  • revert restrictions,
  • the "consensus required" restriction,
  • the "enforced BRD" restriction,
  • word limits for all participants in a specific discussion

Clarifications and amendments

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Templates

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When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:

When a page has active page restrictions (other than page protection), the following template must be used as an editnotice:

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

No page restrictions editnotice

Talk page notice