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Community discussion

A community discussion (here) has placed Climate change and related pages on article probation - effective as of 23:30, 1 January 2010 (UTC). Please direct all discussions of this remedy to Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Remedy

Pages related to Climate change (broadly construed) are subject to the following terms of article probation:

• Any editor may be sanctioned by an uninvolved administrator for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, personal attacks, incivility and assumptions of bad faith.
  • Sanctions imposed may include restrictions on reverts or other specified behaviors, bans from editing the climate change pages and/or closely related topics, blocks of up to 1 year in length, or any other measures the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.
  • For the purpose of imposing sanctions under this provision, an administrator will be considered "uninvolved" if he or she is not engaged in a current, direct, personal conflict on the topic with the user receiving sanctions (note: enforcing this provision will not be considered to be participation in a dispute).
• Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to these provisions; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Sanctions imposed under this provision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee.
• Administrators are not to reverse such sanctions without either (1) approval by the imposing administrator, or without (2) community consensus or Committee approval to do so.
• All sanctions imposed are to be logged at Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Log#Log of sanctions.

How to avoid being subject to remedies

• Do not edit-war;
• Interact civilly with other editors;
• Avoid making repeated comments unrelated to bettering the article;
• Avoid making repeated comments about the subject of the article;
• Avoid repeatedly discussing other editors, discuss the article instead;
• Not much leeway in pages under probation, so basically be a model Wikipedian;
• We actually know when we cross the line; we are all intelligent people;
• Don't get worked up when you get subjected to remedies such as a temporary block or ban. Take a break and come back refreshed.

Log of sanctions

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change placed under a 1RR restriction - Ryan Postlethwaite 12:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

• Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident placed under a 1RR restriction. Ryan Postlethwaite 22:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

• Scientific opinion on climate change: see Talk:Scientific opinion on climate change#Locked - maximum 1 revert per editor 24 hour period; contested edits should not be restored until consensus is reached; editors who repeatedly make obviously controversial edits without first seeking consensus may be sanctioned. - 2/0 (cont.) 19:20, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

• Outcome of Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Requests for enforcement#JettaMann:
  • JettaMann (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is topic banned from William Connolley and related articles, broadly construed, and interaction banned from User:William M. Connolley. - 2/0 (cont.) 05:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

• Outcome of Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Requests for enforcement#Request concerning Jpat34721:
  • Jpat34721 is banned from the pages Climatic Research Unit hacking incident and Talk:Climatic Research Unit hacking incident until 2010-02-13. - 2/0 (cont.) 02:54, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
  • I have now indef blocked Jpat34721 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) per explanation on their talk page. Jehochman 04:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
    • Jpat34721 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has subsequently been unblocked by Jehochman. -- ChrisO (talk) 10:54, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Following discussion at User talk:2over0#procedural Question, Jpat34721 is unbanned from Talk:Climatic Research Unit hacking incident. - 2/0 (cont.) 22:03, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

• GoRight (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) indefinitely blocked by 2over0 . - 2/0 (cont.) 18:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

• ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) blocked for 31 hours for personal attacks and disruptive editing on Talk:Lawrence Solomon. I then noticed the article probation notice on that talk page, so thought it best to record the block here. Vsmith (talk) 19:39, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
• McSly (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), Kenosis (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and 83.203.210.23 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) blocked 12 hours for edit warring per Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Requests for enforcement#Edit war at Talk:Global warming. LessHeard vanU (talk) 23:55, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

• Outcome of Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Requests for enforcement#William M. Connolley refactoring and interjecting his comments in those of others and engaging in antagonistic attacks on fellow editors:
  • User:William M. Connolley is required to refrain until 2010-07-27 from editing others' talkpage posts in pages subject to this probation even in cases where the talk page guidelines would otherwise indicate that it could or should be done. - 2/0 (cont.) 21:38, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Log of warnings

• Outcome of WP:GS/CC/RE#Request concerning User:GoRight:
  • GoRight (talk · contribs) warned "further edits of a battleground-like nature will result in sanctions.". (by Jake Wartenberg, transcribed to User talk:GoRight by Tony Sidaway) ++Lar: t/c 17:51, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
• Outcome of WP:GS/CC/RE#Multiple Editors:
  • GoRight (talk · contribs) warned "not to file any further frivolous or vexatious enforcement requests, or else " he "may be blocked without further warnings". (by Jehochman, transcribed to User talk:GoRight by me). ++Lar: t/c 17:51, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
• Ling.Nut (talk · contribs) is cautioned to discuss article improvements without debating the topic itself or imputing motive to other editors. - 2/0 (cont.) 16:32, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
• Thegoodlocust (talk · contribs) is cautioned to comment on the content, not the contributor. - 2/0 (cont.) 17:27, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
• Outcome of Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation/Requests for enforcement#William M. Connolley refactoring and interjecting his comments in those of others and engaging in antagonistic attacks on fellow editors:
  • User:William M. Connolley warned to refrain from using septic and similar derogatory terms, and to promptly refactor any unintentional typos.
  • ChildofMidnight is warned to be more civil in interacting with other editors, and is reminded that Misplaced Pages is not a battleground.
  • Off2riorob is reminded to be especially careful to abide by the terms of the probation. - 2/0 (cont.) 21:40, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Notifications

Users should generally be individually notified about the article probation before any remedy is applied to them, but this does not preclude the use of emergency measures. Anyone who edits this page is automatically considered to be on notice. Please remove duplicates from the list.

Note: you can use three tildes (~~~) to sign and five (~~~~~) to timestamp your entry. You can use the template:uw-probation to alert anyone to article probation and post a "diff" showing the warning. Please use that template civilly, as a simple notice rather than an accusation of probation violation.

Note that very new editors who perform provocative edits may have the notification placed on their talk pages without being logged here. This is because of Scibaby activity which generates a high number of such accounts which are effectively throwaways and are often identified as socks by checkuser and indefinitely blocked. Nevertheless they may receive notification on the assumption that a new account could prove to be a productive editor mistakenly suspected of socking. Should that prove to be the case, the notification may be logged here after a few days.

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