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The Arbitration Committee has enacted remedies that apply to all editors who make edits related to post-1978 Iranian politics (the "contentious topic"). The contentious topics procedure applies to all pages and edits related to this contentious topic.

Arbitration Committee decisions

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Contentious topics

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Last modified 27 March 2026

All edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics are designated as a contentious topic.

Guidance for administrators

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Standard set of restrictions

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

Individual restrictions

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  • 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

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


Clarifications and amendments

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Templates

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The following templates may be used in this contentious topic:

Alerting editors

Editnotices

Talk page notice