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List

The following list is stored at Template:Contentious topics/list.

The following topics are currently designated as contentious topics. The italicised link after each topic names the associated arbitration decision.

• Pages relating to Abortion (Abortion)
• All edits about, and all pages related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, broadly construed (American politics 2)
• All edits about, and all pages related to anti-Semitism and Jewish history in Poland, specifically in relation to World War II and The Holocaust (Antisemitism in Poland)
• Pages relating to Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related ethnic conflicts (Armenia-Azerbaijan 2)
• Pages relating to Climate change (Climate change)
• All edits about, and all articles related to, COVID-19, broadly construed. (COVID-19)
• Any edit about, and all pages relating to, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Acupuncture)
• Pages relating to the Balkans or Eastern Europe (Eastern Europe)
• Articles with biographical content relating to living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles (Editing of Biographies of Living Persons)
• Pages relating to Falun Gong (Falun Gong)
• All edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them (Gender and sexuality)
• All pages relating to genetically modified organisms and agricultural biotechnology, including glyphosate, broadly interpreted (Genetically modified organisms)
• Any edit about, and all pages relating to, the governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues (Gun control)
• Pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes) (Horn of Africa)
• All edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed (Iranian politics)
• Discussions about infoboxes, and edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes (Civility in infobox discussions)
• The topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed (Kurds and Kurdistan)
• All pages and discussions related to article titles and capitalisation, broadly construed (Article titles and capitalisation 2)
• Pages relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict (Palestine-Israel articles)
• Pages relating to Pseudoscience and Fringe science (Pseudoscience)
• Pages relating to the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour (Race and intelligence)
  • This includes restoring edits by banned editors in the Race and intelligence topic area (motion)
• The results of any national or sub-national election (Historical elections)
• All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups (Indian military history)
• Pages relating to The Troubles, Irish nationalism, and British nationalism in relation to Ireland (The Troubles)

Previously authorised

The following topics have previously been designated as contentious topics, or had discretionary sanctions authorised under the previously used procedure, but this designation has been rescinded or superseded by later cases. The italicised link after each topic names the associated arbitration decision.

• Pages related to the Austrian school of economics and the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Austrian economics)
• Ayn Rand and related pages (Ayn Rand)
• Pages relating to Cold fusion (Cold fusion 2)
• Discussions about the integration of Wikidata on the English Wikipedia (Crosswiki issues; expired by its own terms one year after authorization)
• Pages relating to Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
• Pages relating to Homeopathy (Homeopathy)
• Any page relating to or any edit about: (i) the Gender Gap Task Force; (ii) the gender disparity among Wikipedians; and (iii) any process or discussion relating to these topics, all broadly construed (Interactions at GGTF)
• Pages relating to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (India-Pakistan, motion); folded into the designation for South Asia
• Pages relating to the Balkans (Macedonia); incorporated into the Eastern Europe discretionary sanctions by motion
• All pages related to the Monty Hall problem, broadly interpreted (Monty Hall problem)
• All pages relating to Prem Rawat, broadly construed, are designated as a contentious topic. (Prem Rawat)
• Pages dealing with transgender issues including Chelsea Manning and paraphilia classification (e.g. hebephilia) (Sexology and Manning naming dispute); superseded by the GamerGate decision (which was later superseded by Gender and sexuality by motion)
• All edits about, and all pages related to, (a) GamerGate, (b) any gender-related dispute or controversy, (c) people associated with (a) or (b), all broadly construed (GamerGate); superseded by Gender and sexuality by motion
• Pages relating to the Tea Party movement (Tea Party movement)
• The topic covered by the article currently located at tree shaping, interpreted broadly (Tree shaping)
• Pages relating to the Senkaku Islands topic area (Senkaku Islands)
• Pages relating to Waldorf education (Waldorf education)
• Pages relating to Scientology (Scientology, motion)
• The topic of Landmark Worldwide, broadly construed (Landmark Worldwide, motion)
• Pages relating to the Ancient Egyptian race controversy, and associated articles (Ancient Egyptian race controversy)
• Pages relating to Transcendental meditation (Transcendental Meditation movement)
• Pages relating to Muhammad (Muhammad images))
• The topic of Electronic cigarettes, broadly construed (Editor conduct in e-cigs articles)
• Pages relating to Liancourt Rocks (Liancourt Rocks)
• Pages related to longevity, broadly construed (Longevity)
• All discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles (Medicine)
• Pages relating to the September 11 attacks (September 11 conspiracy theories)
• Pages relating to the Shakespeare authorship question (Shakespeare authorship question)
• Pages relating to Sri Lanka (motion); folded into the designation for South Asia
• Pages relating to the Manual of Style and article titles policy (Article titles and capitalisation)

Overview

The purpose of this page is to centralise the various lists of topics that are currently designated as contentious topics. There are three such lists:

1. The list of valid codes for all the topics.
2. The human-readable list of topics of the form Pages relating to <affected articles> (<link to arbitration case>) – <Additional notes>
3. The list of links to any final decisions that contain remedies which designate a topic as a contentious topic, and
4. The list of affected articles.

Lists (2) and (3) are primarily used on templates used to give "warnings" of the existence of the contentious topics system or to serve notice to an editor who is actually subject to a restriction. Please see here for an automatically-produced list of pages on which this template is used. Due to the ugly output of the list, this template deliberately appears blank. When new contentious topics are designated, the Arbitration Committee's clerks only need to update this list and Template:Contentious topics/table (excluding Wikipedia:General sanctions and other very large lists that cannot be included in this template).

Use

The template takes one parameter, the value for which depends on the type of list you want to return. Corresponding to the three lists specified in #Overview, the acceptable values for this parameter are |code exists=, |scope=, |link=, |topic-subpage=, |subtopic=, |supertopic=, |canonical=, and |list=. For example:

• {{Contentious topics/list|code exists=gg}} → yes
• {{Contentious topics/list|code exists=xx}} → no
• {{Contentious topics/list|scope=a-i}} → the Arab–Israeli conflict
• {{Contentious topics/list|link=mos}} → Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation 2 (plain text, not linked)
• {{Contentious topics/list|topic-subpage=mos}} → Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Article titles and capitalisation (plain text, not linked)
• {{Contentious topics/list|subtopic=apl}} → Polish history during World War II (1933–1945) and the history of Jews in Poland
• {{Contentious topics/list|supertopic=apl}} → ee (the decision code for parent topic)
• {{Contentious topics/list|canonical=b}} → ee (outputs the "canonical" decision code, in lowercase)
• {{Contentious topics/list|list}} – generates a prose list explaining every code, in code-alphabetic order, with lines such as this one for code ee:
  • Pages relating to Eastern Europe or the Balkans (Eastern Europe)

 Standardised Arbitration Enforcement (AE) templates

This section transcluded from: Template:Contentious topics/list/single notice [edit] [Contentious topics template subpages]

Alerting

• {{alert/first}} ({{Contentious topics/alert/first}}), to alert an editor to the CT system which is mandatory for the first time an editor is alerted to contentious topics (except if they've previously been alerted to discretionary sanctions in any topic area)
• {{alert}} ({{Contentious topics/alert}}), to alert an editor to the CT system
• {{alert/DS}} ({{Contentious topics/alert/DS}}), to alert an editor to the CT system who had previously been alerted of DS
• {{Contentious topics/aware}}, to register oneself as already aware of CT
• {{Contentious topics/talk notice}}, for announcing CT in a talk page messagebox
• {{Contentious topics/editnotice}}, for announcing CT in an editnotice
• EditFilter 602, which automates the logging of alerts
• Log of recent alerts

Enforcement

• Individual restrictions
  • {{AE sanction}}, for telling a user they have been sanctioned (under CT or otherwise)
  • {{AE sanction/warning}}, specifically for a CTOP warning
  • {{AE sanction/topicban}}, specifically for an AE topic ban
  • {{Uw-aeblock}}, for notifying users of arbitration enforcement blocks
  • {{Uw-aepblock}}, for notifying users of arbitration enforcement partial blocks
• Page restrictions
  • {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice}}, editnotice that must be used for announcing active page restrictions (except page protection)
• {{Contentious topics/list}} & {{Contentious topics/table}}, the lists of contentious topics
• Contentious topics enforcement templates, the category for all enforcement-related templates created for the current contentious topics template
• Case/decision specific enforcement templates
• {{Contentious topics/log}}, to display links for searching whether a user has ever been alerted; use like/alongside {{user}}.

Whenever contentious topics are (de)authorised for a topic, update these: {{Contentious topics/list}} (edit), WP:GS §3.1 (edit), and {{Contentious topics/table}} (edit).

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