Template:Ds/talk notice/doc

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 nocat=yes is included.

Anyone may place a discretionary sanctions talk page notice.

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 Wikipedia: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.

{{Ds/talk notice|code}}

{{Ds/talk notice|code|brief or long}}

Parameter	Values	Behaviour
|1= (or |topic=)	code: Choose from #Decision codes below; e.g. |topic=tt for The Troubles.	Determines which arbitration final decision will be linked to.
|2= (or |style=)	brief or long; see #Styles for what each looks like.	Determines whether the longer or shorter form will be displayed. Optional; defaults to |style=long.
|restriction=	Custom text or 1RR	Custom text used to define a sanction. |restriction=1RR can be specified to insert "You must not make more than one revert per 24 hours on this article." Optional.

Empty templates, for copy-pasting:

{{Ds/talk notice}}

{{Ds/talk notice}}

Styles

The default is a wordy and detailed message:

{{Ds/talk notice|saq|long}} gives:

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

{{Ds/talk notice|tpm|brief}} gives:

Decision codes

Use	Area of conflict	Decision linked to
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=9/11}}	the September 11 attacks	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/September 11 conspiracy theories
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=a-a}}	Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related conflicts	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=a-i}}	the Arab–Israeli conflict	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel articles
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=aa2}}	Armenia, Azerbaijan, or related conflicts	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan 2
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=ab}}	abortion	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=acu}}	Complementary and Alternative Medicine	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Acupuncture
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=ap}}	post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=at}}	the English Wikipedia article titles policy and Manual of Style	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=mos}}	the English Wikipedia Manual of Style and article titles policy	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=b}}	the Balkans or Eastern Europe	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=blp}}	articles about living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Editing of Biographies of Living Persons
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=cam}}	complementary and alternative medicine	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Acupuncture
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=cc}}	climate change	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=cid}}	discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Civility in infobox discussions
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=covid}}	COVID-19, broadly construed	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/COVID-19
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=e-e}}	Eastern Europe or the Balkans	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Eastern Europe
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=ecig}}	the Electronic cigarette topic area	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Editor conduct in e-cigs articles
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=fg}}	Falun Gong	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Falun Gong
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=gc}}	governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=gg}}	gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=ggtf}}	gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=gap}}	gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=gas}}	gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=gmo}}	genetically modified organisms, commercially produced agricultural chemicals and the companies that produce them, broadly construed	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Genetically modified organisms
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=horn}}	the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Horn_of_Africa#Amendment_(November_2021)
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=ipa}}	India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=irp}}	post-1978 Iranian politics	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=iranpol}}	post-1978 Iranian politics	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=kurd}}	the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Kurds and Kurdistan
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=lr}}	Liancourt Rocks	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Liancourt Rocks
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=med}}	discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=muh-im}}	Muhammad	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Muhammad images
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=old}}	longevity	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Longevity
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=pa}}	gender-related disputes or controversies or in people associated with them	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gender and sexuality
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=pr}}	Prem Rawat	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Prem Rawat
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=ps}}	pseudoscience and fringe science	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=r-i}}	the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=saq}}	the Shakespeare authorship question	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Shakespeare authorship question
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=tpm}}	post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people	Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2
{{Ds/talk notice|topic=tt}}	the Troubles	Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Troubles

Note that the ap and tpm topic codes are interchangeable. tpm is preferred.

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

See also

• {{Gs/talk notice}}: an equivalent for when any general sanction is in use (for instance, Wikipedia community general sanctions). This template is used only for arbitration discretionary sanctions.
• {{Ds/alert}}: the template for alerting individual users to the existence of discretionary sanctions, as required under the system rules.

 Standardised Arbitration Enforcement (AE) templates

This section transcluded from: Template:Ds/topics/single notice [edit] [DS template subpages]

Alerting

• {{Ds/alert}}, to alert an editor to the DS system
• {{Ds/aware}}, to register self as already aware of DS
• {{Ds/talk notice}}, for announcing DS in a talk page messagebox
• {{Ds/editnotice}}, for announcing DS in an editnotice
• EditFilter 602, which automates the logging of alerts
• Log of recent alerts

Enforcement

• {{AE sanction}}, for telling a user they have been sanctioned (under DS or otherwise)
• {{AE sanction/topicban}}, specifically for an AE topic ban
• {{Uw-aeblock}}, for notifying users of arbitration enforcement blocks
• {{Uw-aepblock}}, for notifying users of arbitration enforcement partial blocks
• {{Ds/topics}} & {{Ds/topics/table}}, the lists of topics currently under DS
• Discretionary sanctions enforcement templates, the category for all enforcement-related templates created for the current discretionary sanctions template
• Case/decision specific enforcement templates
• {{Ds/log}}, to display links for searching whether a user has ever been alerted; use like/alongside {{user}}.

Whenever discretionary sanctions are (de)authorised for a topic, update these: {{Ds/topics}} (edit), WP:GS §3.1 (edit), and {{Ds/topics/table}} (edit).

See also

• {{Gs/alert}}, for general sanctions authorized by the community