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The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose discretionary sanctions (information on which is at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions) on any editor who is active on pages broadly related to Error: No topic specified. Discretionary sanctions can be used against an editor who repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Misplaced Pages, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in further inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions, which can include blocks, a revert limitation, or an article ban. The Committee's full decision can be read in the #Final decision section of the decision page. Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page.

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Ds/sanction}}). Any accidental transclusions will be automatically substituted by a bot.

How to use:

{{subst:Ds|topic=Topic}}

{{subst:Ds|topic=Topic|Article}} references a specific article

{{subst:Ds|topic=Topic|Article|Additional text}} adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you"

{{subst:Ds|topic=Topic||Additional text}} or {{subst:Ds|topic=Topic|2=Additional text}} also adds text onto the end of the message instead of "Thank you", but doesn't link a page as specified by the article.

• * This template message serves to inform disruptive editors about general sanctions applicable to the area of conflict that they edit in. The topic parameter is required, and determines the links provided by the template:

• The template should be accompanied by an individualised message, which can be either appended or provided through a separate template message. The template is intentionally worded to apply only after an editor begins to misbehave; preemptive warnings are considered hostile.
• Please remember to substitute the template using {{subst:Ds}} rather than {{Ds}}.
• To give greater detail to your message, you may add the article and some additional text to the end of the template. If such article or additional text includes a URL or anything which includes an equal sign ("="), it may break the parser's function unless you prefix the article or the text with a named template parameter. Use "1=" if the article contains an equals sign and use "2=" if the additional text contains an equals sign (such as a URL).
• Please refer to the index of message templates before using any template on user talk pages to warn a user. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending.
• This template automatically populates the relevant category with the user page. If and when the user account gets blocked, or approximately eight weeks pass with no further action, that categorization is automatically removed.
• This standardized template conforms to guidelines by the user warnings project. You may discuss the visual appearance of these standardized templates (e.g. the image in the top-left corner) at the user warning talk page.
• This is the documentation for the {{Single notice}} standardized template, as used by several single-level user warnings or notice templates. It is located at Template:Single notice/inner(edit talk links history).

See also:

• Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 January 21#Template:uw-balkans, a discussion resulting in the creation of this template.

• Standardised user warning templates
• User warning templates
• Misplaced Pages arbitration enforcement templates