Template:Contentious topics/aware/doc

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This template allows a user to signal their awareness of the discretionary sanctions system, so that it is not necessary to warn them using {{Ds/alert}}. This possibility was enacted by motion of the Arbitration Committee in July 2019.

Usage

Towards the top of your own talk page, add:

{{Ds/aware|topic_code}}

where topic_code identifies the discretionary sanction topic(s) for which you assert awareness, and thus waive the need for notice.

You can specify multiple topics; select them from the full list of topic codes. For example:

{{Ds/aware|ap|e-e|gg}}

displays

This user is aware of the designation of the following topics as contentious topics: post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people Eastern Europe or the Balkans gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them They should not be given alerts for those areas.

Then, if another editor tries to warn you about discretionary sanctions in the relevant topics, they will see:

within the output of Special:AbuseFilter/602, Mediawiki:Abusefilter-warning-DS.