Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Archive/Header

Welcome to the editing restrictions archive

This page serves as an archive of editing restrictions on accounts that are either inactive or have been blocked for an extended period. Archiving does not affect the status of these restrictions, all restrictions listed here are stil considered active regardless of the status of the restricted account, archiving is only done in the interest of keeping the main list manageable.

instructions for archiving

• Regardless of the age of the restriction, it should only be archived if the restricted user has been inactive or blocked for two years or more.
• If at any time a user listed here returns to active editing, their restriction should be removed from the archive and added back to the main list
• In the case of blocked users, an unblock request on their own talk page does not constitute a return to activity so long as they have been blocked for two years or more, however restrictions should not be archived while there is an open unblock request on the user's talk page.
• Users whose account has been globally banned by the Wikimedia Foundation itself may be removed at any time
• In the case of two-way interaction bans, all that is required is that one of the two parties is inactive.
• In the case of a single restriction issued to multiple parties, all listed parties must be considered inactive for the restriction to be archived