What precisely is a "Contentious claim?" One definition is an unreferenced or poorly referenced claim that any editor objects to, if that editor is acting...

set of rules applies to certain topic areas, which are referred to as contentious topics (abbreviated CT). These are specially designated topics that have...

Wikipedia community has designated certain topic areas as contentious topics (list). Much like contentious topics designated by the Arbitration Committee, these...

Arbitration Committee adopted the contentious topics procedure, which replaces ArbCom's former "discretionary sanctions". Contentious topics and discretionary...

Arab–Israeli conflict (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Additionally...

system will be renamed "contentious topics" (CT), and restrictions placed within the DS system will be referred to as "contentious topic restrictions". Passed...

outlines administrator instructions for the use of the contentious topics system. Some contentious topic areas have additional restrictions that you as...

contentious topic: {{subst:Contentious topics/welcome|ps}} {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|ps}} {{Contentious topics/editnotice|ps}} {{Contentious topics/page...

capitalisation (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

received in response to alerting an editor to the contentious topic of American politics. The contentious topics procedure has been developed by ArbCom over...

to abortion (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

from infoboxes (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

to COVID-19 (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

set of rules applies to certain topic areas, which are referred to as contentious topics (abbreviated CT). These are specially-designated topics that have...

related people (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last amended...

Iranian politics (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

related disputes) (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

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edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 24 February 2026...

produce them (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Additionally...

contentious topic: {{subst:Contentious topics/welcome|tt}} {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|tt}} {{Contentious topics/editnotice|tt}} {{Contentious topics/page...

associated with them (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

and behaviour (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 19 October 2023...

Eastern Europe (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 19 October 2023...

alternative medicine (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

contentious topic: {{subst:Contentious topics/welcome|cc}} {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|cc}} {{Contentious topics/editnotice|cc}} {{Contentious topics/page...

produce them (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Additionally...

sub-national election (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 19 October 2023...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 14 December 2022...

system will be renamed "contentious topics" (CT), and restrictions placed within the DS system will be referred to as "contentious topic restrictions". Consultation...

related conflicts (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Note that the...

Wikipedia articles (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. All living or...

and Kurdistan (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Note that the...

social groups (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Last modified...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 18 July 2025 1c)...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 18 July 2025 1c)...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. The Prem Rawat case is amended...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last amended 19 October 2023...

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Wikipedia articles (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic. Documentation...

Wikipedia dubs certain topic areas as Contentious Topics (CTOP) or as subject to General Sanctions (GS). Therein, editors are held to higher conduct standards...

Wikipedia community has designated certain topic areas as contentious topics (list). Much like contentious topics designated by the Arbitration Committee, these...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 19 October 2023...

edits related to this topic area (the "contentious topic"). It has since removed that area as a designated contentious topic. Last modified 19 October 2023...

specific sanction. Quick links Wikipedia:Contentious topics Contentious topics templates Scopes of all active contentious topic designations List of community-authorised...

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2007 2006 2005 Quick links Wikipedia:Contentious topics Contentious topics templates Scopes of all active contentious topic designations List of community-authorised...

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which has been designated a contentious topic[LINK]. This standard message is designed as an introduction to contentious topics and does not imply that...

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project and have been designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee. When editing a contentious topic, Wikipedia’s norms and policies...

designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee. Not all topics that are controversial have been designated as contentious topics – this...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

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designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee. Not all topics that are controversial have been designated as contentious topics – this...

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Arbitration Committee Contentious topics return to beginning The Arbitration Committee has designated topics as contentious due to a history of problematic...

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Check that the page, or a section of the page, falls within a specific contentious topic. Decide on the appropriate page restriction. If you are doing this...

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confirmed restriction). They can also designate certain topic areas as contentious topics and thereby empower administrators to impose further restrictions...

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central log for all sanctions issued pursuant to an Arbitration Committee contentious topics remedy in Header as well as any appeals or modifications made...

Directives Status: not done, not blocking Create a "subpage of the contentious topics procedure listing relevant information" (10) (pages created DJ...

designate contentious topics. The Arbitration Committee invites editors to request that the Committee conduct a review of the contentious topics system...

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a contentious topic, effective 17:00, 18 November 2025 (UTC). The topic of weather events, broadly construed, is a community-designated contentious topic...

basis, see Wikipedia:Contentious topics For a log of all topics subject to the contentious topics procedure, see Template:Contentious topics/table For a...

Administrators are authorized to impose contentious topic restrictions in contentious topic areas. Those contentious topic restrictions take the form of editor...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

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Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

disputes or controversies and associated people are designated as a contentious topic. Passed by motion 11 to 0 at 23:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC) Amended...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

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Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA: Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August 10 last year, without warning. ←...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

also used when designating a topic area as a contentious topic ("Unless otherwise specified, contentious topics are broadly construed"). In particular...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

encouraged. What is not encouraged is involving yourself in disputes or contentious issues that occur between editors themselves, unless it directly relates...

paraphrase "The sky is usually blue" as "The sky is often the color blue". Contentious statements about living people: Editors must take particular care adding...

and contentious content in biographies of living people. While negative content and allegations are probably a bigger problem, any contentious content...

movements (NRMs) have frequently proved contentious. The key to stable, neutral articles in this contentious field is good sourcing: focus on using the...

HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:18, 14 April 2021 (UTC) In our most contentious areas, content and behavioral disputes often get so messy that they are...

page.‎ The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 03:25, 1 June 2011 (UTC) Contentious ridings in the Canadian federal election, 2011 (edit | talk | history |...

sitewide and partial blocks, topic bans and page bans (from the entire contentious topic, a subtopic, or specified pages within the topic), interaction...

personal editing restriction that may be imposed by administrators as a contentious topic page restriction to limit editors from reinstating any challenged...

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to topic areas may include a contentious topic designation, which are listed at Wikipedia:Contentious topics. Contentious topics are specially-designated...

include reliable sources for any material about a living person that is contentious. In addition, all quotations and any material challenged or likely to...

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invoking BLP as a justification for an edit. "Contentious" should be narrowly construed BLP states, Contentious material about living persons (or, in some...

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arguments about what a place ought to be called, instead asking the less contentious question, what it is called. The Wikipedia community has found it difficult...

previously contentious makes it more probable that your previous account will be identified. Certain articles and topics are particularly contentious and have...

community general sanctions on this topic area were superseded by a contentious topics designation by the Arbitration Committee. No further edits should...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

including contentious topic designations Update the following pages (following the instructions there) for contentious topics: Template:Contentious topics/list:...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

otherwise sanction editors they're often going to be upset and lash out. A contentious RFA is great practice for that, and a decent way to show editors that...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

after 30 days and 500 edits. This access is required for editing highly contentious pages that have in most cases been protected by the Arbitration Committee...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025. The topic of Michael Jackson, broadly construed, is community-designated as a contentious topic....

WP:POST/1 12 August 2015 News and notes Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA In the media Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj Forum Community...

community-imposed discretionary sanctions into a community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025. Shortcuts WP:GS/UYGHUR#CTWP:GS/UYGHUR#CT...

community-imposed discretionary sanctions into a community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025. Shortcuts WP:GS/PW#CTWP:GS/PW#CT...

"remove immediately and without waiting for discussion" the following: Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced Removals...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

the person so that it is even less contentious than would be acceptable for a competent adult or not contentious at all. To do this, add sources and...

the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

administrators should neither apply ECP to pages with only a tenuous link to the contentious topic nor seek out articles in the topic area to protect preemptively...

content policies require inline citations for all direct quotations, for contentious material, whether negative, positive, or neutral, about living persons...

articles Wikipedia:Stress alerts Wikipedia:Student assignments Wikipedia:Contentious topics/South Asia WikiProjects: Wikipedia:WikiProject Saudi Arabia...

sanctions on this topic area were superseded by a Arbitration Committee contentious topics designation. No further edits should be made to this page. All...

decision misconduct in a contentious topic (CTOP) requiring user or page restrictions, including community-designated contentious topics violations of restrictions...

sought via discussion (or the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, for less contentious topics). Wikipedia:Redirect instead Wikipedia:Redirects are costly...

Dank and Hiding Thierry Henry's fateful handball has proven to be as contentious on Wikipedia as it has been in football (soccer) following households...

Currently: folks are setting up statements below, and a list of contentious articles is being drafted. At Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and related articles...

remedy (including restrictions and logged warnings imposed under the contentious topics procedure) are recorded at the Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement...

doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination...

not a fan may violate the second person's right of publicity and be contentious. Paid or compensated endorsements are considered to be different from...

need to be addressed separately as a topic since they are/can be very contentious and referred to or shortly described in main article itself: 1) Role...

sanctions, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian politics#Contentious topic designation A community discussion at the administrators' noticeboard...

of individual editors, subject to consensus. Since templates can be contentious, editors should not add citation templates, or change an article with...

biographies of living persons policy that unsourced and poorly sourced contentious matter about living and recently deceased people be immediately removed...

consider: Process is important. Process is even more important when a contentious issue is involved. Many such debates will never end in near-unanimity...

designate contentious topics. Passed 10 to 0 with 1 abstention by motion at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC) 1c) South Asia designated as a contentious topic...

decision be amended or rescinded Appeal an arbitration enforcement or contentious topic restriction Report a violation of a restriction imposed directly...

be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living (or, in some cases, recently deceased) persons...

Battle of Uhud, and Fustat. I also brought Muhammad - an article so contentious that it had been reported on in mainstream media - up to Good Article...

certain contentious topics even in articles that are otherwise open for editing (because the majority of the article does not fall under the contentious topic)...

Winningest is a word that can be contentious among Wikipedia editors. There are dictionary entires for winningest from Collins ("The winningest person...

April Fools' Day has historically been a contentious day on Wikipedia, and the limits on how editors may play jokes and pranks on other users and the...

rather than what is so. This is not to say anything philosophically contentious; indeed, philosophers describe debates all the time. Even sophisticated...

was originally published as Wikipedia:Contentious populations. Wikipedia dubs certain topic areas as Contentious Topics (CTOP) or as subject to General...

"<ref>source</ref>" model Being well versed with WP:NPOV. This means that no contentious statments should be stated as facts, and that minority views should not...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings is amended...

proposed bot, and ensure that the requested task has consensus. The more contentious a task, the higher the burden of demonstrating consensus. Non-controversial...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

that all contentious BLP content should be sourced or deleted. I'm challenging the content of this BLP, therefore it is by definition contentious. So source...

decision misconduct in a contentious topic (CTOP) requiring user or page restrictions, including community-designated contentious topics violations of restrictions...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

IMDb content inappropriate to reference on Wikipedia: Any potentially contentious material about living persons (BLPs). Cast lists, etc. for films and...

remedy designating Prem Rawat as a contentious topic (Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat § Contentious topic designation). Any actions previously...

project scope began in December. Nine alternatives were presented in the contentious, sometimes heated discussion. Support was divided between keeping the...

transgender issues, how they affect research, and how they can play out in contentious Wikipedia editing. Kris Schreier Lyseggen, photojournalist and author...

Wikipedia discussion. Do so when consensus appears unclear, it is a contentious issue, or where there are wiki-wide implications (e.g. any change to...

2026. Contentious topic – administrators may impose restrictions on editors and pages in the area of conflict in accordance with the contentious topics...

 ;-) If you see WP:BLP issues, such as unsourced (or poorly sourced) contentious statements about living people (or recently deceased people), you can...

considers contentious. Phil Bridger (talk) 14:52, 5 February 2010 (UTC) Comment - the connection from DAIGIworld (only reference). The contentious was set...

productively. It also allows the discussion to stray away from well-known contentious issues towards the beautiful landscapes of hermeneutical disputes on...

(phab:T427125) Arbitration Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented. The...

extremist//May express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources controversial//May express contentious opinion and are...

installed to enable quick changes of mistakes. However, when things get contentious on Wikipedia, reverts may be taken as being offensive or even inappropriate...

not contentious and the consensus is obvious to the participants, then formal closure is neither necessary nor advisable. While closing a contentious discussion...

previous debates, and any proposals to change such conventions may be contentious (see also the Arbitration Committee Highways case). The following are...

are more timeless. 8. Finally, do you think WikiProject China's more contentious articles could benefit from some form of flagged revisions? I honestly...

discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month. The...

unsourced material may be removed, and in biographies of living persons contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

with it. WP:BDP states that [extending BLP] would apply particularly to contentious or questionable material about the dead that has implications for their...

assist editors regarding the reports below. Administrators may impose contentious topic restrictions to enforce policies. Centralized discussion Updating...

controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons". While that covers much, most, or...

citation but does not have one may be removed. Please immediately remove contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced. When...

All contentious material about living persons must cite a reliable source. Do not wait for another editor to request a source. If you find contentious material...

etc. This artificial watchlist exists to help editors keep an eye on contentious articles. Show recent changes to watchlist articles LGBT rights in Europe...

number of pictures of, well, vulvas, so I assume one of them was the contentious image, but my German is almost non-existent. Matt Deres (talk) 20:40...

let's dispel any notion that presenting forthright and unambiguous—even contentious—statements of fact without counterbalancing argument automatically makes...

This indicates the start of the proposed new text to replace the existing Discretionary Sanctions remedy. Discuss this section Y Updated: 10:20, 23 March...

"Module:Arbitration.*", "Module:Arbitrator .*", "Module:Contentious.*", "Template talk:Contentious topics.*", "Template:@ArbCom.*", "Template:ACMajority...

On review, it seems that noone beyond the nominator can identify any contentious material in this article. The article needs citations, however, and this...

by serialized edits in this sense, explains which types of possibly contentious edits are better not serialized, and gives some general recommendations...

AfD with caution: deleting articles for the purpose of cleanup can be contentious. The purpose of TNT is cleanup (to "start over"). Other relevant essays...

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-- to solve the problem which is a set of contentious names. Rightly or wrongly, the names are contentious to some people, even if not to all, and the...

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be written from a neutral point-of-view. Some edits, particularly on contentious subjects, are easily identifiable as being partisan, and are usually...

"intricate detail" removal or excessive article redirection, which remain contentious as an Arbcom matter. Other issues being considered include harassment...

designate contentious topics. Passed 10 to 0 with 1 abstention by motion at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC) Remedy 1 of Longevity ("Contentious topic designation")...

Armenia-Azerbaijan 2 ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 4.1 of Abortion ("Contentious topic designation") Remedy 1.2 of American politics 2 ("Contentious topic designation")...

editor who added the material. Editors should immediately remove any contentious material about living persons that is unsourced, relies upon sources...

community divided on the reliability of the web publications of the famously contentious Fox News. Some believed that the online version of Fox News should be...

article titles contentious topic is amended, to narrow the scope to only apply to article titles and capitalisation. The contentious topic area is to...

Webster Leadbeater (first edits for all four accounts) to support a highly contentious string of edits including presenting the subject's claims of conversing...

Aufrette, concerns the suitability of the new move review forum, after a contentious requested move discussion (initiated by the filer) was closed as successful...

prevent situations where the following occurs: A drive-by editor adds contentious content to an article A regular editor trying to maintain a neutral article...

Oversight activity Someone is misbehaving within a "contentious topic" (list of active contentious topic designations) None of these describe the misbehavior...

subjects that happen to be in the news, and politically or culturally contentious topics are especially vulnerable to these issues. Edits on Wikipedia...

amendment request. Discussion surrounding a request to amend last year's contentious Climate change case to lift the topic ban on William M. Connolley entered...

exception, and in particular to biographies of living persons, which states: Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased)...

people/Content was called to seek to clarify consensus on the word contentious in the phrase "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly...

might have been different if process had been properly followed. For contentious discussions, even when the result is unchanged, the mere specter of the...

need to go over the top. Can the problem be solved by trimming a single contentious sentence? Do so! Legal issues: Sometimes an editor will come to the conclusion...

inclusion of content documenting micronations in Wikipedia was initially a contentious issue. The fact that this is no longer so is largely attributable to...

and good quality information online. Thus the greater impact of the contentious or poorly sourced wiki-bio the subject's reputation. The less eyes (watchlists)...

whatever. What's the material that the source supports? Is it contentious or contested? Contentious material is material that people might take a position on...

October 2015 (UTC) Are contentious blocks done by newish admins? I thought it was the relatively experienced admins who did the contentious blocks and unblocks...

examples. {{contentious label inline}}. Created June 2016, for Wikipedia:Manual of Style (words to watch)#Contentious labels. ⇒[contentious label] {{verify...

Explanation If contentious topics restrictions are requested, supply evidence that the user is aware of them (see WP:CTOP#Awareness of contentious topics) Mentioned...

this page. The result of the discussion was Speedy delete as unsourced contentious info. Basically amounted to calling an ESPN reporter "hot." NAC. Ten...

anyone the community trusts. One area where this difference has been contentious is non-sysop closures. Discussions on Wikipedia are closed when an editor...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

on this.—S Marshall T/C 11:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC) The policy says: "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether...

benefit of such templates is the avoidance of repeated discussions on contentious topics, especially from new or infrequent editors. {{Current COVID-19...

that has major issues with citing even non-contentious statements (esp. when what is or isn't contentious is not necessarily always clear-cut). --DoubleGrazing...

designated as a contentious topic. Each reference to the prior discretionary sanctions procedure shall be treated as a reference to the contentious topics procedure...

revealed that this person is here merely to disrupt and to provoke on a contentious issue. I am closing this and the other AFD discussion, and have revoked...

citation is a matter of judgment. If a word or phrase is particularly contentious, an inline citation may be added next to it within a sentence, but adding...

Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Awareness of contentious topics is hereby removed from the contentious topic procedures. Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Warnings...

submissions close tomorrow, with proposed decisions due by 26 June. Due to the contentious nature of the case, arbitrator SirFozzie added a notice on the evidence...

Either (1) (unsourced) or (poorly sourced contentious) material OR (2) (unsourced) or (poorly sourced) contentious material. I really have no idea which the...

shtml? I'm not too worried as long as this site isn't being used for any contentious info, e.g. BLP. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:09, 8 April 2009 (UTC) Been a reliable...

WikiProject Islam, Itaqallah discussed the issues of POV and working with contentious, highly-viewed content. To what extent do these issues affect Christianity-related...

we do not delete them on solely these grounds. Other articles are on contentious topics, and there is often much caution taken in regards to this. It...

First of all, there are some sections in the USA PATRIOT Act that are contentious to some people. I am not up on what all of those sections are (I do know...

February 2010 (UTC) Keep - Only very minor points are unsourced now, non-contentious statements. Meets Notability and Verifiability now.  MPJ -DK  06:43,...

explaining and discussing your edits and asking for 3rd opinion. Avoid contentious community discussions and editing any subjects that are controlled by...

also particularly pertinent: Another key to the problem here, {name of contentious editor}. You don't see yourself as having an opinion; you see yourself...

their achievements, and that the contentious material is reliably sourced. There might be scope for removing some contentious content, but that would require...

inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity...

dork is an annoying nerd. They can disrupt Wikipedia by engaging in contentious disputes over minor, petty issues, usually involving one or both sides...

responses of the defending side. Lists of this form seem to grow out of more contentious articles.) (Some things may read as a pro and con list, but instead of...

comment box at the bottom of the page. Date format "Conspiracy Theory": a contentious label? Resolving article title policy conflicts between MOS:TM, MOS:CT...

amount of opposition based on my not participating too much in AfDs or contentious areas, but that didn't come to pass. On the other hand, I knew it would...

articles in the newly defined area of conflict were reminded of the contentious nature of this subject and were cautioned that to avoid disruption, they...

last word on these subjects. And Blaxland has to deal with some highly contentious and controversial issues, including ASIO surveillance of ordinary citizens...

Terrorism, as defined by the United States administation, has been a contentious issue, that often causes people to make knee jerk reactions based on...

of the following situations: The discussion is contentious (especially if it falls within a Contentious Topic), and your close is likely to be controversial...

not applicable. It only says to delete contentious material, not entire articles. Is there anything contentious here? Instead of diverting the discussion...

needed}}, or any similar tag) a claim that is "likely to be challenged" contentious material, whether negative, positive, or neutral, about living persons...

or freedom fighter, or a sexual practice a perversion – may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources to...

theories ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded due to the topic area being covered by the post-1992 American Politics contentious topic. All...

with the listed caveats: Shortcut WP:NCCREFACTORWP:NCCREFACTOR Non-contentious cleanup – anything where you are sure that the other editor will thank...

by editor filing complaint On September 14, 2022, Dallavid made this contentious edit to the September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes article, after...

prolific and unrestricted use of the disclaimers. After a series of long, contentious discussions, several problems with spoiler warnings were identified:...

discussions Honesty Tendentious editing There is no justice Some examples of contentious issues: writing style, such as changing the English variant from US English...

[[WP:edit warring|edit warring]] and seek [[WP:consensus|consensus]] for any contentious edits at [[Talk:{{PAGENAME}}]]. Editors who fail to adhere to these standards...

sought via discussion (or the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, for less contentious topics). For a technical perspective, removing a hatnote actually adds...

unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material: "(however, whether your edit falls under the exemption may be contentious. See WP:3RR for further guidance...

the article. It is often a flaw of human nature to want to simplify contentious topics by merely excluding points of view that disagree with it. This...

project expectations within contentious topics. Administrators are also allowed to set special rules on pages within a contentious topic to prevent inappropriate...

speaks clearly). Isabelle has kept away from editing content in the more contentious areas of Wikipedia (and this is no bad thing!), yet has shown an ability...

to be used on Feburary 17, 2004. RfA requests gradually became more contentious. There were a handful of cases of good admins gone bad, and it appeared...

extra care should be taken on articles that mention living persons. Contentious material about living or recently deceased persons that is unsourced...

new comment rather than closing the discussion. If discussion becomes contentious, participants may request the assistance of GAR coordinators at the GAN...

inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity...

commends all editors who have made the effort to work collegially in this contentious area while adhering to Wikipedia's rules, guidelines, and other non-enumerated...

Jan 30, 2004 (UTC) Support. I found this user to be able to discuss contentious issues in a reasonable manner, showing respect for sources, as well as...

being nominated for AfD it has become contentious. WP:BLPREMOVE instructs us to "Remove immediately any contentious material about a living person that...

Arbitration Committee Requesting enforcement back to previous menu return to beginning Before escalating the matter to administrators, please talk to the...

"News and notes"). The Abortion case closed this week, after 15 weeks of contentious arbitration. The remedies included the provisions that all articles related...

Nothing in this stub falls into that category. None of it is in any way contentious. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:30, 5 August 2011 (UTC) That's because absolutely...

example, Naver News's source list includes OhmyNews. Especially for contentious topics, you should scrutinize the underlying source. There are a number...

broadly construed, is community-designated as a contentious topic. Pages covered by the contentious topic designation can be tagged with {{Gs/talk notice|topic=acas}}...

is the concept of consensus. Proposals and suggestions that might be contentious must generally achieve consensus before being implemented. Most changes...

In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is...

[citation needed] tag. Editors are encouraged to remove unreferenced contentious material on sight. Wikipedia no longer accepts new articles on living...

date "would not be much of an uphill battle", and that reviewing such a contentious request would set up a difficult situation for a new committee. Others...

closes for controversial topics that gain acceptance. Making something contentious into something boring is something I've seen Lee do well, including in...

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): This is for non-contentious search and replace tasks. Edit period(s): Intermittent runs. Estimated...

address. A few comments: Born2cycle has pledged at AN to improve his contentious behavior; I don't see huge progress yet, but suggest we wait and see...

poorly sourced contentious material. If you are having a dispute about whether to include it, the material is automatically contentious. External links...

Persons as Contentious Objects". It gives a rich overview about the history of the controversies about BLPs (conceptualizing them as "contentious objects")...

discussion, Participation in directly applicable policy discussions, if contentious A significant history of friendly or unfriendly interactions with the...

A handful of highly contentious topics on English Wikipedia are subject to extended confirmed restriction (ECR) by either an Arbitration Committee (ARBCOM)...

actions. Contentious topic restrictions are appealed under the same process, with a couple of small exceptions documented at Wikipedia:Contentious topics...

the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April...

Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are...

should be made to this page.‎ The result was redirect to Idoli. Non-contentious Black Kite 22:20, 15 March 2010 (UTC) Nebeska tema (edit | talk | history |...

The issue here is, liberal Muslim or progressive Muslim are already contentious concepts. JahlilMA (talk) 17:27, 14 September 2017 (UTC) Delete per WP:NOR;...

binding and enforceable for the time being. Editors are reminded that all contentious edits touching upon Macedonia naming practices also continue to be subject...

fact that they were only 1% and 2%". [The post was later edited to 28% "contentious-ness" each, reflecting that the percentages are relative to the number...

Talk:Abortion was 1 month ago). I think that repeatedly reverting a contentious article, citing WP:BRD but not actually discussing, is disruptive even...

per ... well, everything mentioned above. Courtesy blank as possibly contentious? Ivanvector (talk) 09:04, 21 January 2010 (UTC) Delete per above, but...

page if they are challenged, to avoid edit wars. Be sure to remove any contentious and potentially libellous information regarding living persons on sight...

especially considering the subject. It has been laden with tags by a single contentious editor, who also occasionally reverts. I looked at the article in an...

despite your best intentions. It's also worth noting that there are contentious editors who will deliberately try to goad you into reacting so that you're...

reverted, and unsourced contentious information should not be added back into biographies, especially BLPs. Non-contentious information may be reinstated...

reliability of The Daily Dot, though it is considered fine for citing non-contentious claims of fact. Some editors have objected to its tone or consider it...

account asking a question at the TEAHOUSE, voting on an RFA, editing a contentious topic, or asking for help from an administrator should not be checked...

memory serves me (and it does) research showed that women edited more contentious articles on Wikipedia than men. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:20...

enforcement", "ArbCom", "arbitration committee", "contentious topic" ], "summaryExcludePatterns": [ "introduction to contentious topics" ] }...

topic, linking to the contentious topic page in the action summary will suffice (e.g., [[WP:CT/BLP]] or [[Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Biographies of...

(including criminal or illegal acts) contain statements that are libelous, contentious, or disparaging, or disclose any private or non-public information about...

result was no consensus. I do not see a consensus forming here. Language, contentious sports guidelines and no input after a relist. Star Mississippi 02:01...

anything about about politically contentious topics. pbp 15:14, 1 April 2025 (UTC) Keep: The rules don't say to avoid contentious topics full stop, they say...

designated as a contentious topic. Each reference to the prior discretionary sanctions procedure shall be treated as a reference to the contentious topics procedure...

User:EmilEikS regarding overall overt and implied behavior which is contentious and disruptive to the project. User:EmilEikS needs to become familiar...

From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz . Featured content Contentious FAC debate: a week in review . Arbitration report Four open cases, proposed...

claiming something is contentious makes it contentious. Under that logic, everything in the universe is potentially contentious if a user who happens...

focus of the project as a whole. Some of the project's articles cover contentious issues or are frequent targets of vandalism. What tools does the project...

edits is concerning. Edit-summaries are recommended for most edits; for contentious material, they are an absolute necessity. Vanamonde (Talk) 16:23, 3 March...

Pigsonthewing, who is "cautioned that the topic of infoboxes remains contentious under some circumstances and that he should edit carefully in this area...

these grounds. The burden of proof is on those who add or defend the contentious material to provide sources that satisfy the concerns of the challenging...

case ("Climate change: contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic designation remain...

facts presented should be limited only by issues of style. When editing contentious topics, facts should be added gradually to give the other side a chance...

This page contains the discussions over the former Category:Terrorists, a contentious category that was deleted in 2009....

then everyone else is likely too busy, too. A quick copyedit to remove contentious matter about living people that is also unsourced or poorly sourced,...

you disagree with them. "This is a contentious issue; leave it be". Well, of course. If it weren't a contentious issue, there would be no discussion...

rarely contentious given that the articles revolve largely around the plot and reviews. But, of course, some novels may have been contentious or controversial...

law, such as child pornography and links to pirated software. Removing contentious material that is libelous, biased, unsourced, or poorly sourced according...

all move closers should be) when closing discussions where significant contentious debate among participants is unresolved, any experienced and uninvolved...

should be expected to keep their extensions compatible with remains a contentious issue. Gerrit 2.4.2 patched, but 2.5 not yet ready: Posting an update...

aware that the wording on Cornish geography entries can sometimes be a contentious topic. You don't have to agree with everything but there is no excuse...

contentious material on living persons must be referenced - and unreferenced claims that individuals are pornographic actors are clearly contentious....

civil and avoiding personal attacks, utilising reliable sources for contentious or disputed assertions, and resorting to dispute resolution where necessary...

remember through articles is often equally personal and often just as contentious as in the 1920s. What causes one editor to choose a medieval battlefield...

groups. The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic. The...

baseman)|Bobby Brown]] Shortcut WP:ITNRDBLURBWP:ITNRDBLURB It is often contentious whether a death that qualifies for "recent deaths" should instead merit...

appropriate? Choosing a particular school of thought is partisan, and likely contentious. While this is appropriate for complex schools of thought such as Marxism...

02:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC) Merge Fork clearly not necessary, the contentious changes should be discussed on the talk page. --NickPenguin(contribs)...

list of seaports was on December 5 [4]. It was not me who started the contentious edits to Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier [5], list of railways in China [6]...

{ "description": "List of participants on the DS 2021 consultation [[Category:Wikipedia discretionary sanctions review|2021]]", "targets": [ { "title":...

inappropriate block in a non-stressful and non-complex situation, and slightly contentious editing combined with the general lack of evidence of ability to handle...

community-imposed discretionary sanctions into a community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025. Shortcuts WP:GS/Blockchain#CCTOPWP...

Talk:Wreathgate (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs) A current highly contentious news story - even the name is not established yet, This has no place...

a page in arbitration space but cannot find it I need help with the "contentious topics" procedure I have a legal issue I need something not on this list...

The article relies on The Daily Dot (WP:DAILYDOT) and Boing Boing for contentious BLP claims of fact. In spite of being less directly discussed sources...

as WP:FLC requires. The current title of this article is extremely contentious. There is also no consensus for what the appropriate titling style is...

on his main account is acceptable only as long as the edits are not contentious. Should Yobot be stopped or blocked for a series of edits, Magioladitis...

self-published fringe works) require due caution, especially when used in contentious articles and biographies of living persons. This doesn't exclude using...

inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity...

Karmafist) were not automatically resysopped (Carnildo was re-adminned in a contentious adminship request nearly seven months later, while Karmafist was banned...

terrible. Were this not such a contentious area, I would advocate that no penalty or censure is necessary. But this IS a contentious area, and in light of TRPoD's...

What do we do when we don't know what to do? - how wikipedia deals with contentious blocks / bans, and the aftermath! 'Cuil' - a 'cool' new search? 'Conflict...

Stub-level article. Articles that should be nominated must be one that is not contentious or controversial and for which many online sources can be found so that...

protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions. Per a recent motion, COIVRT-related blocks are generally...

[1] seems clear case of using annon to create illusion of support for contentious material. the other 2 edits (at the moment) seem similar enough, to users...

aspects of Scouting in a particular country to replace the article with a contentious title. Failing resolution of an English name from points (1) - (3), we...

predictions made in reputable sources that may be politically or socially contentious, such as a claim by a notable theologian or Minister. For scheduled events...

powers in a certain topic area, which became discretionary sanctions, now contentious topics (CTOP). Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (AE), created...

the accuracy of our content. We do this by citing reliable sources. Contentious material on a living or recently-deceased person that is unsourced or...

the word terrorism or terrorist can be contentious; see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch § Contentious labels. Its use should be decided on a...

Deletion is mandated by WP:BLP as this consists of (at least potentially) contentious and essentially unsourced assertions about living people.  Sandstein ...

appreciate others editing the article, but I also feel some of the edits are contentious, with my references to poor opinion polling and the Panorama investigation...

see Wikipedia:Cite your sources. Should the statement's neutrality be contentious, see Wikipedia:NPOV dispute for more details about addressing the issue...

judge whether Wikipedia rules have been broken – an often difficult and contentious task. They only need to know that the editors have been banned, a fact...

"Page title", "Requested action", and "Short explanation (including the contentious topic or the remedy that was violated)" to describe the request. For...

assist editors regarding the reports below. Administrators may impose contentious topic restrictions to enforce policies. Centralized discussion Updating...

enforcement; see below). When necessary to prevent disruption in designated contentious topic areas, administrators are authorized to make protections at any...

From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz . Featured content: Contentious FAC debate: a week in review . Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed...

come to a consensus with NSPORTS concurrently being in the middle of a contentious debate. I would suggest rather than 19 separate AfDs, which no one wants...

high-quality sources! How frequently does the WikiProject deal with contentious and controversial material added to articles about Catholicism? What...

says 'contentious' material must de deleted straight away. As the material is based on his two, official, biogs I fail to see where the contentious material...

topic, linking to the contentious topic page in the action summary will suffice (e.g., [[WP:CT/BLP]] or [[Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Biographies of...

statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, including contentious material about living persons, and for all quotations; inline citations...

discussion for settling on the title, since that seems to be somewhat contentious. ~Anachronist (talk) 07:40, 20 December 2016 (UTC) Faithless electors...

Overflow.) Create maps that help visualize the language stocks and groups (contentious as they may be). Add labels to maps (to SVGs, so they can be translated)...

edit is too complex to explain in an edit summary, or the change is contentious, add a section to the talk page that explains your rationale. Be prepared...

doomed from the beginning. For example, if someone adds poorly sourced contentious matter about a living person, then you need to either add high-quality...

binding and enforceable for the time being. Editors are reminded that all contentious edits touching upon North Macedonia naming practices also continue to...

was merge/redirect to Cypriot refugees. This appears to be a highly contentious issue and a merge should be handled carefully by an editor more knowledgable...

instance, the material is not 'contentious'. While you might note that it is poorly sourced, the material is not contentious. There is no harm done in posting...

today will be left for the world of tomorrow. Will we leave a fractured, contentious, and cantankerous community beset by an unwillingness to adapt to a new...

and falls under contentious topics overall. Moxy🍁 01:36, 10 June 2025 (UTC) If it falls under a contentious topic, use {{contentious topics/talk notice}}...

by P.T. Aufrette, concerns wheel-warring on the Perth article after a contentious requested move discussion (initiated by the filer) was closed as successful...

you. If you really want to express your personal views and opinions on contentious subjects, there are many other websites that permit this (within limits)...

engagement with any of the issues raised with their conduct or their contentious edits. I'd support a block for disruptiveness, to be lifted when they...

record. The result of the debate was keep. This debate has been extremely contentious, just like the other debates about other high schools. The result is...

The result of the debate was keep. This seems like one of the less contentious high school debates. Sjakkalle 09:44, 14 May 2005 (UTC) Not notable,...

Santiago at Bo's Coffee at SM Megamall. The meeting was fruitful and some contentious issues were clarified. Succeeding informal meetings are in the works...

should be made to this page.‎ The result was redirect to Idoli. Non-contentious Black Kite 22:20, 15 March 2010 (UTC) Dok dobuje kiša (u ritmu tam-tama)...

sourcing statements is the act of finding reliable evidence to support contentious statements in articles. An aside in a minor article in a high-quality...

a person edits Wikipedia largely or solely to promote one side of a contentious issue, they're likely to have spent years of their life studying it....

one link, and where to possibly put an image). That spiraled, and one contentious user on Essjay's article days (multiple complaints to WP:ANI, etc.) began...

a broad palm with 5 digits", for example). However, this may be more contentious for certain model lines (is the D300 "professional" or "prosumer"?) 2...

tag); Any statement that you believe is likely to be challenged; and Contentious material, whether negative, positive, or neutral, about living persons...

voting, the Arbitration Committee closed this case, which stemmed from contentious editing at articles relating to Muhammad. The final decision includes...

ridiculous, or offensive, in which case remove it immediately. Any unsourced contentious material in biographies of living persons must be removed immediately...

Wikipedia:Software notability Primary sources should only be used to verify non-contentious objective content such as release dates, features, etc. Subjective opinions...

decision be amended or rescinded Appeal an arbitration enforcement or contentious topic restriction Report a violation of a restriction imposed directly...

the exact opposite: they will make edits, possibly bold and usually contentious, to a single article. Once they are reverted, they will write a ten-page...

preferred sources (academic biographies). They also tend to be less contentious than other articles, with the obvious exception of current politicians...

Issue 12 August 2015 News and notes Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA Superprotect was a novel page protection level implemented on August...

designate contentious topics. Passed 10 to 0 with 1 abstention by motion at 21:36, 14 December 2022 (UTC) The final remedy of Liancourt Rocks ("Contentious topic...

restrictions (including bans) in certain topic areas (see Wikipedia:Contentious topics and Wikipedia:General sanctions). Individual administrators may...

contentious/political claims as their conservative bias often interferes with accuracy), Huffington Post (for anything political and/or contentious,...

version prior to the current edit war) talks only about the removal of contentious and inadequately sourced material from articles. It also says "Page deletion...

made a mistake in a note or edit summary. Do not do this to restore contentious edits, as it is likely to be seen as edit warring. An example of such...

a way of avoiding a deletion discussion. However, draftifying can be contentious. Sometimes an editor does not agree that the page that they have written...

you deal with contentious nominations where a decision to promote or not promote might be criticized? A. RfA is one of the more contentious process on Wikipedia;...

sources are dead. I would be concerned about contentious material used in BLP, but I'm unsure which is contentious. It could be the illegitimate affair, but...

WP:BLPSOURCES states "This policy extends that principle, adding that contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should...

to it—this is particularly inappropriate if the article or edits are contentious." In WP:SOCK#Legitimate uses, removed: [A clean start is permitted only...

there's arguments on both sides and relisting only emphasised that this is contentious. KaisaL (talk) 17:07, 1 July 2016 (UTC) Home Chef (edit | talk | history |...

The result was No consensus (non-admin closure); notability remains contentious. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 08:21, 12 August 2008 (UTC) PIAS Entertainment...

article (January 17) about incest and rape, The Daily Beast notes the contentious discussions on Wikipedia regarding the article genetic sexual attraction...

especially as a sysop - to re-read the BLP guidelines. It states that all contentious claims - which in this case does not mean defamatory but instead claims...

Medicine WikiProject trying to sort everything out, even if that got a bit contentious, I would say of course not. However, Simvastatin's article history points...

categorizing articles, maintenance tagging, checking for and removing unsourced contentious claims, and initiating and participating in deletion discussions for...

intended for use when the topic is contentious. The moderator should also state what ArbCom case has made the topic contentious, such as WP:ARBEE or WP:ARBIPA...

So, try to give more than one source for a listing that is possibly contentious. If there's only a minority of sources that would include the item in...

must: Not be inappropriate, profane, or offensive. Not contain libelous, contentious, or non-public information. Not be misleading by impersonating other...

non-contentious facts such as release date, record label, and catalog number, general sources are also acceptable. Any surprising or contentious notes...

included for contentious information References should be included for contentious information References should be included for contentious information...

the Right rally. I'm closing this quickly, per SNOW. It's a BLP in a contentious area, and right now we have enough on our plates. Drmies (talk) 15:26...

articles that may attract controversy or vandalism. Anyone who comes across contentious or frequently vandalised article is welcome to add to it. Review recent...

family members, and the fact that some were no longer living. Amid the contentious atmosphere of these deletion reviews, a comment Friday by Night Gyr sparked...

2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review Status as of 16:20 (UTC), Saturday, 1 August 2026 (Purge) The final decision has been posted and announced. The...

by P.T. Aufrette, concerns wheel-warring on the Perth article after a contentious requested move discussion (initiated by the filer) was closed as successful...

edited conservatively with an emphasis on ascertainable fact, and not on contentious opinions. There are few people, groups, or nations for which one can...

inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity...

(UTC) Ealdgyth, What is contentious? Coffee removed 90% of most of the lists. Are you saying most of those were contentious? Pick one from random, and...

page.‎ The result was Merge to Code Lyoko. Since this was a relatively contentious discussion, I'll give some closing notes. While there were passionate...

project expectations within contentious topics. Administrators are also allowed to set special rules on pages within a contentious topic to prevent inappropriate...

deletion, but no consensus. The notability of academics is a notoriously contentious topic, and people here don't agree about whether Knuth is notable for...

poorly sourced contentious material must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful." It only addresses contentious material, which...

as a content creator. Things will improve as I become more active on contentious talk pages. see the disambiguation on mirth It makes me crazy to describe...

inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia’s talk pages. However, the practical effect of this...

resolution process, by which editors can seek enforceable solutions regarding contentious disputes over article content, user conduct, and Wikipedia policy and...

push an article into GA or FA status or helped resolve a difficult and contentious issue.? Jacklee: As I mentioned, I tend to work alone on articles, but...

communicate well with participants, and, if needed, will consult over contentious issues and/or decline to act. They must be trusted by the CheckUsers...

Generally speaking, they will avoid participating in spaces that are contentious, or make overtly bold edits. However they won't make a special effort...

noticeboard designated all pages within the topic of mixed martial arts as a contentious topic. Log blocks, topic bans or other administrative actions here. Include...

History. I have tried to do an exhaustive and balanced study on the contentious topic of "Origin of the Rashtrakutas" which is detailed in a subarticle...

area, it appears reasonable to require particularly good sourcing for contentious material, and consensus here is that this is not the case in this instance...

perspective about what's appropriate for Wikipedia. I later discovered the contentious WP:FICT and broader WP:GNG. As David Fuchs says, there's a wealth of...

should be made to this page.‎ The result was keep. I think might be a contentious close but I'm reading the consensus here as Keep this article. Liz Read...

himself in contentious areas better than most people involved politically charged articles this past fall. Because he was involved in such contentious areas...

this article for peer review because it has recently been through a contentious deletion, deletion review, incubation, further editing by an uninvolved...

to get dragged into something controversial at DRV by closing a truly contentious debate, then this would be effectively self-regulating. Again, it must...

February 2010 (UTC) Keep and Revise as per Rrburke, deleting all unsourced contentious material, in addition to making any other changes required by WP:BLP...

expansion of the military at various times, the factors which motivated contentious objectiors and captions to some weapons which note criticisms of that...

elements that might be spun out but I would prefer given that this is a contentious topic to err towards TNT and make sources available to any editor who...

of this block, in that PM has gone from contentious high end Arbcom/admin stuff to editing regular, contentious articles. That said, the edits in the list...

nevertheless situations in which bold edits can safely be made, even to contentious articles. Always use your very best editorial judgment in these cases...

of nominations under the reasoning of WP:GNG and WP:SOLDIER has been contentious, but I am satisfied that there is a consensus to keep - rather than no...

I do not doubt it is well-intentioned. This has been one of the most contentious articles at WP, so I can understand how important it is to enforce prior...

Another template for "good articles" was deleted in April, after a contentious debate that included complaints about spamming talk pages to influence...

just a draft; (2) The information so far drafted is plausible and non-contentious; (3) Malawi is a place where sources are difficult to find, and deleting...

I am nominating this article for A-Class review as a result of contentious FAC discussion.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 18:43, 6 August...

and all articles in this category have been placed on WP:1RR due to contentious editing. El Señor Presidente El Señor Presidente was created on 15 January...

Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics: Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration. ← Back to Contents...

the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks. The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed. Miscellaneous...

living persons policy. All contentious claims about a living person are required to be well sourced. Unsourced contentious claims are required to be deleted...

history on Wikipedia has shown me to be a level-headed and rather non-contentious editor, and I think these qualities would be valuable as a member of...

and semi-finals already redirect there, I see no reason this would be contentious. Non-admin closure. Serpent's Choice (talk) 15:52, 23 May 2011 (UTC)...

"<ref>source</ref>" model Being well versed with WP:NPOV. This means that no contentious statements should be stated as facts, and that minority views should...

March 2013 (UTC) My reason for creating this page is because of the contentious tracklist. The title of this album suggests it is just the four releases...

singular antecedent or referent are well established, some uses remain contentious, and style advice varies. Some methods of avoiding generic masculine...

use reliable sourcing, and to seek consensus first if editing in a contentious segment of the mainspace. Articles related to the Monty Hall problem...

Footnote was added to explain how the phrase might possibly be regarded as contentious. This was reverted. Introduction rephrased using "part" in the first...

The only "delete" vote was expressed weakly and the sole "keep" noted contentious sources. Article history will remain if better sources can be found....

Talk:Meredith Russo has attracted multiple editors attempting to insert highly-contentious BLP material. Many such requests or allegations were removed due by Cyberpower678...

inequality, how gender socialization shapes public comportment, and the contentious nature of Wikipedia's talk pages. The practical effect of this disparity...

transclusions · logs · subpages) Delete and listify. Too complex and contentious for a navbox. Per previous discussion on Western Art. --Kevlar (talk...

disputes, meanwhile, uses the case study of Gdańsk, the subject of a contentious vote as to when the city should be referred to by its Polish name Gdańsk...

In many contentious articles, there is a tendency to add mountains of detail to explain why something is "good" or "evil". In general, the more stuff...

level of formal academic training is able to do. Further, climate is a contentious area, as reflected by it being under discretionary sanctions. Her success...

especially when they involve articles or topics that become extremely contentious to a significant number of people, such as major current events or global...

Article processes, answered many media copyright questions, closed several contentious deletion and article move discussions, and involved myself with the odd...

active sanctions or editing restrictions (see also Wikipedia's page on contentious topics). A "no-edit order" is a message sent to a single editor (who...

International Business Times, HuffPost contributors, People's reliability for contentious claims, The Daily Beast, Forbes contributors, PR Newsire and The New...

Hoffman list had been incompletely censored under some interpretation of "contentious BLP content" ([1]), so after battling with that odd to filter to restore...

a very contentious question, as trademarks need not always be registered, and McDonalds trademarks in particular have been legally contentious, see McDonald's...

one of the few occasions where Wales has spoken out publicly about a contentious matter of Wikipedia content policy. One prominent previous example is...

one did, it still leaves a lot of details (some of which are extremely contentious and sensitive) entirely unsourced, and still depends too strongly on...

already served at least one term. Civility enforcement was likely the most contentious case of the year, but there have been no new cases since Fæ in July....

special was beaten in the ratings by Strictly Come Dancing. NOTE: a contentious #1 was removed from this top 10, because I wasn't sure if it should be...

Speedily Approved. Trusted, experienced bot-op doing an obvious, non-contentious task. Josh Parris 08:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC) The above discussion is...

deployed immediately and which had to sit in the queue – has been a contentious issue in recent months (see, for example, previous Signpost coverage...

by the Committee I was restricted as an "arbitration enforcement" or "contentious topic" action I was told to appeal my sanction to the Arbitration Committee...

Some contentious topics, including Armenia and Azerbaijan, involve the overlap between two Wikipedia policies that are both recognized as non-negotiable...

the Strong Style Spirit references in, as they are no longer citing contentious material. I believe that the champions and dates could have been open...

by Is not a (talk · contribs) below are illustrative of editing in a contentious area. First, it should be pointed out that the editor is a new account...

consensus. Many of the claimed affiliations are unsourced, poorly sourced or contentious. Discussion is already ongoing at Talk:Rajat_Gupta on how to deal with...

to the article and thus I do not see Canada Jack engaging the type of contentious, single-agenda editing that these sanctions were enacted to prevent (and...

right to edit the contentious articles. Also, if we threw out the loons faster, we wouldn't have any loons upending the contentious articles. Zora 23:24...

the Falun Gong case ("Contentious topic designation") is rescinded. Any actions previously taken in accordance with the contentious topic designation remain...

documentation High-importance attention templates, such as {{Notice}}, {{Contentious topics/talk notice}}, {{Gs/talk notice}}, {{BLPCRIME talk notice}}, or...

biographies of living people must be impeccably sourced. Any contentious or potentially contentious information needs to be attributed to a reliable mainstream...

Editing the GamerGate article on Wikipedia has been a controversial and contentious exercise, culminating in a currently open Arbitration case involving...

1.1) Any uninvolved administrator may apply infobox probation as a contentious topic restriction per remedy 2. That user will be indefinitely restricted...

with expert knowledge in the area. It's time to face the fact that in contentious topics, editors with a strongly biased POV are often much more motivated...

previous text, and simply went on to write the thumbnail history of this contentious field. As they say, its a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it. Douglas...

requirement in userspace. Contentious claims, per BLP, can be removed by anyone, to be sure. I do not see anything particularly contentious at this point. Collect...

the ringleaders of a plot to exile Queen Mary I of England, and made a contentious claim of parliamentary privilege after he was found guilty of this offence...

to say so. Peter Rehse: Quite a bit and as said above it can be quite contentious especially with the more popular events like MMA. Generally though consensus...

collection period. Potential uses could include: auto-flagging articles as contentious/popular/funny, auto-flagging edits as needing moderation. Crowd-sourcing...

the entire page is substantially of poor quality, primarily containing contentious material that is unsourced or poorly sourced, then it may be necessary...

Copyright Office added. This is not an adversarial matter. It is non-contentious business. It's true that if you add original content to a work that's...

be made to this page.‎ The result was Redirect. This is a close and contentious one, but the weight of policy-and-guideline-based arguments seems to...

April 2006 (UTC) Object. The underlying subject is so convoluted and contentious and twisted for various reasons that I think no article that fairly reflected...

encyclopedia to host these images. These few images are among the most contentious materials hosted on Wikipedia, degrade Wikipedia's reputation, create...

previous compromise, "football (soccer)", was seen as confusing to some and contentious to others. Historically, in 2006 there was an issue where the addition...

page related to a particular topic, and may be blocked if they do so. Contentious topics Administrators may impose any sanctions which they believe are...

living people in WP:ATT applies to "contentious material". What in the present article do you see as contentious? —David Eppstein 23:50, 5 March 2007...