Template:ArbCom Pseudoscience
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Arbitration Ruling on the Treatment of Pseudoscience: |
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In December of 2006 the Arbitration Committee ruled on guidelines for the presentation of topics as pseudoscience in Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience. The final decision was as follows:
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Template documentationUsage
{{ArbCom Pseudoscience}}This template should be used on the talk pages of pages relating to pseudoscience and fringe science, broadly interpreted.
Non-administrators should be cautious when placing this notice on pages which are not clearly related to the topic area.
To add only the elements of the decision, and not the Ds notice, use {{Arbitration ruling on pseudoscience}}.
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