Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Biographies of Living Persons

Arbitration​Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last modified 14 December 2022

All living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Wikipedia articles are designated as a contentious topic.

Guidance for administrators

• This contentious topic designation is designed to support the application of the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy, though administrators may take action to enforce that policy without using the contentious topics procedure.

Standard set of restrictions

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

Individual restrictions

• 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

Page restrictions

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction

Templates

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

• {{Contentious topics/alert/first|blp}}

When a page has active page restrictions, the following template must be used as an editnotice:

• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|blp}}

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{Contentious topics/alert|blp}}
• {{Contentious topics/alert/DS|blp}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|blp}}

Talk page notices

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|blp}}
• {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|blp}}