Wikipedia:Contentious topics/COVID-19

Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to COVID-19 (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

Contentious topics

Last modified 27 March 2026

The community COVID-19 general sanctions are hereby rescinded and COVID-19 is designated as a contentious topic.

Standard set of restrictions

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

Individual restrictions

• 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,
• word limits per discussion

Page restrictions

• page protection,
• revert restrictions,
• the "consensus required" restriction,
• the "enforced BRD" restriction,
• word limits for all participants in a specific discussion

Templates

The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors

• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/first|covid}} – mandatory for an editor's first alert
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert|covid}}
• {{subst:Contentious topics/alert/DS|covid}}

Editnotices

• {{Contentious topics/editnotice|covid}}
• {{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice|covid}} – mandatory when a page has active page restrictions other than page protection

Talk page notice

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|covid}}