Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Race and intelligence

Arbitration Committee

The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour (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 14 December 2022

Both experienced and new editors contributing to articles relating to the area of conflict (namely, the intersection of race/ethnicity and human abilities and behaviour, broadly construed) are reminded that this is a highly contentious subject and are cautioned that to avoid disruption they must adhere strictly to fundamental Wikipedia policies, including but not limited to: maintaining a neutral point of view; avoiding undue weight; carefully citing disputed statements to reliable sources; and avoiding edit-warring and incivility.

To enforce the foregoing, the area of conflict is designated as a contentious topic.

All sanctions imposed under the original remedies shall continue in full force.

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

Editnotices

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

Talk page notice

• {{Contentious topics/talk notice|r-i}}