Wikipedia:General sanctions/South Asian social groups

Community discussions

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A 2012 community discussion at the administrators' noticeboard placed all pages about social groups, explicitly including caste associations and political parties related to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal under community discretionary sanctions.

Subsequent enforcement tended to treat this sanction more akin to the "related to X, broadly construed" wording seen in most other sanctions. A 2023 discussion at the administrators' noticeboard found no objection to formalizing existing de facto practice, expanding the sanctions' scope to pages related to South Asian social groups, broadly construed.

Remedies

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Sanctions imposed cannot be undone by another administrator without approval of the sanctioning administrator or an appeal at the administrators' noticeboard. Pages may be tagged with {{Gs/talk notice|sasg}}, which can be used to indicate that articles are within the scope of these sanctions. Prior to being sanctioned, editors can be notified of these sanctions with the {{subst:Gs/alert|sasg}} template. Use the {{subst:Community sanction}} template when imposing sanctions. For blocks, use {{subst:Uw-csblock}}.

The standard set of discretionary sanctions are imposed on all pages related to social groups, broadly construed—be they castes, communities, tribes, clans, kootams, gotras, etc., and explicitly including caste associations and political parties—related to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. This includes biographies that mention subjects' membership in such groups.

Log of administrative actions

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Log blocks, topic bans or other administrative actions here. Include diff of username, action-date-time-duration etc, diffs of any evidence, administrator user name.
Admins: Please move the sanction to the bottom of the expired section once it has expired.

Active sanctions

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Add the following text replacing the text in all caps with the necessary info:

User sanctions

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* {{User2|USERNAME}}, TYPE OF SANCTION, DURATION, DIFF ON USERPAGE. ~~~~

Resumed after block expired and blocked for a month. Daniel Case (talk) 04:19, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article-specific sanctions and protections

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Expired sanctions

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User Action date Type Scope Enforcing admin Expiration date
Vyasan 2012-05-05 Topic ban All edits relating to the Nair caste across all namespaces Salvio giuliano 2012-12-09
Robin klein 2012-06-05 Topic ban Any edits, across all namespaces, relating to the following subject: Jews or Christians in India and Saint Thomas Christians Salvio giuliano 2012-12-06
BetterIndia 2012-05-18 Topic ban All edits relating to any caste across all namespaces Salvio giuliano 2012-08-19
Ruderow 2012-06-22 Topic ban Any edits relating to the Kayastha caste across all namespaces Salvio giuliano 2012-09-23
Vettakkorumakansnehi 2012-06-25 Topic ban All edits relating to the Nair caste across all namespaces The Blade of the Northern Lights 2012-12-25
Chauhan1192 2012-05-28 Topic ban Anything pertaining to social groups, across all namespaces Salvio giuliano 2012-08-29
Kallarmagan 2012-06-28 Topic ban All edits relating to the Kallar caste across all namespaces Salvio giuliano 2012-09-29
Mariraj.s 2012-07-13 Topic ban All edits relating to castes and ethnic/social groups across all namespaces SpacemanSpiff 2012-10-13
Dcoda89 2012-09-08 Topic ban All edits relating to any caste across all namespaces Salvio giuliano 2013-03-09
Hoshigaki 2012-09-22 Topic ban All edits relating to any caste across all namespaces per ANI discussion The Blade of the Northern Lights 2013-03-22
CorrectKnowledge 2012-09-22 Topic ban All edits relating to any caste across all namespaces per ANI discussion The Blade of the Northern Lights 2013-03-22
ApostleVonColorado 2012-09-22 Topic ban All edits relating to any caste across all namespaces per ANI discussion The Blade of the Northern Lights 2013-03-22
Starrahul 2012-10-16 Topic ban Articles and discussions related to Maratha, broadly construed, per this. The Blade of the Northern Lights 2013-04-16
68.98.32.250 2013-01-31 Block, 3 days Qwyrxian 2013-02-03
68.98.32.250 2013-02-06 Block, 2 weeks, for continuing same behavior that lead to previous sanction Qwyrxian 2013-02-20
Clarkpoon 2013-02-07 3 day block for disruptive editing on Saini. If disruptive behavior continues, a topic ban may be the necessary next step. Qwyrxian 2013-02-10
Irajeevwiki 2013-04-03 3 day block Talk:Ezhava pursuant to ANI discussion Drmies 2013-04-07
Jattnijj 2013-08-16 1 month Block

Permalink to AN/I discussion

2over0 2013-09-16
Indiansociology 2014-03-16 topic ban (1 year) All edits relating to castes and ethnic/social groups across all namespaces 2over0 2015-03-16
WiseWik 2016-03-20 Block (24 hours) Violation of topic ban.[35] Bishonen 2016-03-21
Bhumihar (article) 2014-05-25 Semi-protection Bhumihar (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Due to persistent disruptive editing and non-neutral point of view editing. Callanecc Indefinite
User:Kunal gurjar 2014-06-15 Topic Ban Topic banned [36] from editing anything related to Gurjar across all name spaces; action due to repeated BLP vios after multiple warnings. SpacemanSpiff 2014-09-15
Kunal gurjar 2014-6-22 Block User:Kunal gurjar blocked 10 days with topic ban reset until end of September, for repeated and persistent breaches of topic ban [37]. Fut.Perf. Future Perfect at Sunrise Ten days
John811jd 2014-11-21 Block for disruptive editing: violations of WP:FORUM, WP:RS, etc. Discussion at ANI ongoing; perhaps an indef block will result if copyvio allegations are proven and added to the evidence. Rajput and talk page Drmies 36 hours
Shvrs 2014-09-28 Block Repeated infractions of topic ban Bishonen 3 months
Gattysandhu 2015-06-28 3 day block Editor blanked DS notification and continued to add unsourced material and original research to caste articles. Ponyo 2015-07-01
WiseWik 2016-03-09 Topic ban * Any edit to Komati caste and related pages for one month anywhere on Wikipedia per this notification. Bishonen One month
Sharkslayer87 2018-05-01 Topic ban Indefinitely topic banned from making any edits to caste-related pages and discussions per this notice. Bishonen 2018-12-14

See also

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