Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Pseudoscience and fringe science

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This page documents and supplements decisions of the Arbitration Committee concerning a contentious topic.

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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to pseudoscience and fringe science (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Last modified 14 December 2022

All pages relating to pseudoscience and fringe science, broadly interpreted, are designated as a contentious topic.

Any uninvolved administrator may impose the standard set of restrictions in this topic area for up to one year:

• 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 protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction

When alerting an editor who has never received an alert for any contentious topic, the following template must be used to alert them:

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|cf}}

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

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

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors after their first alert

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|cf}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|cf}}

No page restrictions editnotice

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|cf}}

Talk page notices

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