Wikipedia:General sanctions/Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean and Syriac topics

This page is a log for a community-authorised discretionary sanctions regime. It is used to record notifications issued and sanctions imposed under that regime, as specified below. Changes to this page must adhere to the discretionary sanctions procedure.

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WP:GS/ACAS

Community discussion

A community discussion at the village pump (proposals) has placed all pages with content related to Assyrian, Chaldean, Aramean, and Syriac identity, culture, and politics, broadly construed, under a community-authorized general sanctions regime, effective 19:30, 24 May 2025. The use of "and" here should be understood inclusively, meaning sanctions may apply to any, multiple or all of these ethnicities and listed topics.

Remedies

The following editor restrictions constitute the standard set of editor restrictions which may be imposed by a single uninvolved administrator:

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, and
other restrictions that have been specifically designated by the Arbitration Committee for use by a single administrator in a particular contentious topic.

The following page restrictions constitute the standard set of page restrictions which may be imposed by a single uninvolved administrator:

page protection,
revert restrictions,
the "consensus required" restriction,^[a]
the "enforced BRD" restriction,^[b] and
other restrictions that have been specifically designated by the Arbitration Committee for use by a single administrator in a particular contentious topic.

Log of administrative actions

Log any block, ban or extension under any remedy here, including any appeals or modifications. Minimum information includes name of administrator, date and time, what was done and the basis for doing it. Place {{subst:Gs/sanction|topic=acas}} on a user's talk page when imposing sanctions. For blocks, use {{subst:Uw-csblock}}.

Page level sanctions

Individual sanctions

Useful templates

Standardised community-authorised general sanctions templates

This template uses Lua:

Module:Sanctions (sandbox)

This section transcluded from: Template:Gs/topics/single notice [edit] [GS template subpages]

Alerting

{{Gs/alert}}, to alert an editor to active sanctions
{{Gs/talk notice}}, for announcing GS in a talk page messagebox
{{Gs/editnotice}}, for topics, or individual pages, where additional restrictions apply
EditFilter 602, which automates the logging of alerts
Log of recent alerts

Enforcement

{{Gs/sanction}}, for telling a user they have been sanctioned
{{Uw-csblock}}, for notifying users of community sanctions blocks
{{Gs/topics}} & {{Gs/topics/table}}, the lists of topics currently under community sanctions
Discretionary sanctions enforcement templates, the category for all standardised enforcement-related GS templates
Various GS templates
{{Ds/log}}, to display links for searching whether a user has ever been alerted; use like/alongside {{user}}.

Whenever community sanctions are (de)authorised for a topic, update Module:Sanctions/data.

See also

{{Contentious topics/alert}}, for contentious topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee

Notes

^ On pages where "consensus required" is in effect, an edit that is challenged by reversion may not be reinstated without affirmative consensus on the talk page.
^ On pages where "enforced BRD" is in effect, an edit that is challenged by reversion may not be reinstated by the editor who originally made it until the editor (a) posts a talk page message discussing the edit and (b) waits 24 hours from the time of the talk page message.

[1] On pages where "consensus required" is in effect, an edit that is challenged by reversion may not be reinstated without affirmative consensus on the talk page.

[2] On pages where "enforced BRD" is in effect, an edit that is challenged by reversion may not be reinstated by the editor who originally made it until the editor (a) posts a talk page message discussing the edit and (b) waits 24 hours from the time of the talk page message.

[a]

[b]