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This template warns people on the talk page that arbitration discretionary sanctions have been authorised. Discretionary sanctions allow administrators to act quickly and decisively to prevent misconduct.

The template requires you to declare which arbitration decision authorised discretionary sanctions, by specifying a #decision code.

You should place the template at the top of the talk page, below the header (if used) but above all other templates.

The template places the page into Category:Wikipedia pages under discretionary sanctions or Category:Pages with discretionary sanctions editnotice depending on usage unless &#x3c;code&#x3e;nocat=yes&#x3c;/code&#x3e; is included.

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The page it is placed on must be within the topic area of the arbitration case. Keep in mind that many topic areas are "broadly construed". Clarification of whether a page is in a topic area can be requested at Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment.

Use
You may use this on the article talk page. You may also use it in an article edit notice for general information; however, edit notices about a special "page restriction" deployed under discretionary sanctions should instead be advertised using the special Ds/editnotice template.



Empty templates, for copy-pasting:

Styles
The default is a wordy and detailed message:

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Alternatively there is a more concise, bold-print message:

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Decision codes
If an article has sanctions but doesn't fit into one of the above topic areas, this template is unsuitable. Use sanctions instead.