Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Abortion

Arbitration​Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to abortion (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 11 January 2023

Abortion, broadly construed, is designated as a contentious topic.

Administrators instructed

Last modified 28 November 2011

Administrators are instructed to only move or rename pages relating to the topic of abortion (broadly construed) in the presence of a demonstrable community consensus (such as the result of a proper Requested Move discussion).

Guidance for administrators

• Editors are strongly encouraged to not move pages in this topic area without demonstrable consensus, such as through a requested move discussion.

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

Clarifications and amendments

The Arbitration Committee resolved requests for clarification or amendment on this contentious topic on the following occasions:

• April 2012: Clarification requested on the administrators instructed remedy (archived request)

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|ab}}

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

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

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

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

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|ab}}

Talk page notices

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