Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Armenia-Azerbaijan

:Last modified 14 December 2022

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and related ethnic conflicts, broadly construed, are designated as a contentious topic.

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

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The Arbitration Committee has resolved requests for clarification and amendment for this contentious topic on the following occasions:

• April 2008: Clarification on the area of conflict, specifically whether it includes Iran and Turkey (Archived request)
• May 2010: Whether the authority of uninvolved administrators included applying restrictions to articles (Archived request)
• April 2012: Clarification on the area of conflict as it relates to imposed page restrictions (Archived request)
• February 2013: Clarification on the scope of title requiring a page be about both Armenia and Azerbaijan, or just one. (Archived request)

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{{tlx|Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|a-a}} supports the additional use of {{para|ECR|yes}}, which signifies that the page falls under the community's authorization of the extended-confirmed restriction for {{tqq|Politics, ethnic relations, and conflicts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, or both—broadly construed and explicitly including the Armenian genocide}}.