Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment: Difference between revisions

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I recently encountered a user talk page discussion titled [[User talk:Theofunny/Archive 1#Views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Gaza war|"Views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Gaza war"]], in which {{u|Patternbuffered}} said, {{xt|"I was going to just revert, but I'll give you a day or so to clean it up"}}, in reference to article content related to the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]]. As Patternbuffered was not [[WP:XC|extended confirmed]], the [[WP:ECR|extended confirmed restriction]] (ECR) of [[WP:CT/A-I]] prohibited Patternbuffered from performing the described revert.

Per current practice (e.g. {{u|ScottishFinnishRadish}}'s warning of {{npu|Long-live-ALOPUS}} in [[Special:Permalink/1296036037#Introduction to contentious topics|another discussion]] for violating ECR by posting [[Special:Diff/1292926915|another user talk page comment]]), my understanding is that ECR also prohibited Patternbuffered from starting the user talk page discussion in the first place. However, Patternbuffered [[Special:Diff/1307594945|pointed out to me]] that the wording of the clause in question excludes {{xt|"userspace"}} from the {{xt|"area of conflict"}} without additional qualifiers. Long-live-ALOPUS [[Special:Diff/1292930723|also interpreted]] the clause as it was written.

I do not believe it is the intent of the userspace exception to allow non–extended confirmed users to openly discuss the Arab–Israeli conflict on other users' talk pages in ways that are prohibited in other namespaces and restricted on article talk pages. I ask the Arbitration Committee to amend the clause to limit the exception to the editor's own userspace, which better reflects existing practice. —&nbsp;'''''[[User:Newslinger|<span style="color:#536267;">Newslinger</span>]]'''&nbsp;<small>[[User talk:Newslinger#top|<span style="color:#708090;">talk</span>]]</small>'' 01:04, 25 August 2025 (UTC)