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Mapping CTOPs

Mapping contentious topics

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At the bottom of Wikipedia:Contentious topics is a section that I've often perused when bored: the list of all contentious topics defined by the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. Of particular interest to me are the geographically-defined topics, and how they map onto the real world.

Contentious topics on Wikipedia have a quite finicky and annoying-to-follow history, and each one is a little bit different.

working list of geographically-defined CTOPs

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All discretionary sanctions on these topics have been superseded by the 2022 decision to change discretionary sanctions to the current contentious topics procedure; they were functionally the same thing, and so I am counting it for my purposes.

  • The Arab-Israeli conflict: under discretionary sanctions since 2008, the only surprising thing about this one is that it wasn't brought to ArbCom earlier. The original ArbCom case was in 2008, and we're already up to four of them.[a]
  • Horn of Africa: under discretionary sanctions since 2020, when ArbCom opted to resolve a case request by motion.

honorary mentions

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the following are listed at WP:GS, and are similar in scope to the above CTOPs.

notes

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  1. ^ some useful explanatory pages can be found at Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel articles & at WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration
  2. ^ case 2007