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Concept

Sometimes, an otherwise good contributor loses his or her cool and judgment related to a single article or topic. In such a case, it may be best for the encyclopedia if said person ceases editing said topic for a while. This is called "community probation", as opposed to a "community ban" where the community simply decides the encyclopedia is better off without the user entirely. Probations generally have a time limit, and violating probation generally results in a block of some sort.

There is no strict formal process regarding community probation. Probations are proposed and discussed on the admin noticeboard, and logged here for convenience since said noticeboard has a rather large mailflow. Probation should probably not be imposed by just a single admin, and can be appealed to the admin noticeboard, or if necessary, to the ArbCom. This page is just a log, and is not meant for discussion of any sort.

Current probations

Mccready is issued a 30 day community probation related to Pseudoscience articles

Based on this discussion on AN/I and the numerous comments on Mccready's talk page, Mccready (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) is issued a 30 day ban from editing all articles related to the Pseudoscience. Mccready is encouraged to discuss his ideas on the talk pages of these articles. The the suggested sanction for disregarding the article ban is a 24 block with the block time adjusted up or down according to Mccready's response. Admins are encouraged to monitor the ongoing effectiveness of this article topic ban and make appropriate adjustments if needed. FloNight 23:26, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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