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Background

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of article protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibit editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas. The Arbitration Committee recently passed a motion that established expectations for use of the protection within the scope of arbitration enforcement.

The protection policy currently states that extended confirmed protection may only be applied in topic areas authorized by the Arbitration Committee or as a result of community consensus (per this discussion). However, it also states that Criteria for community use have not been established. This request for comment seeks to establish such a community process for the use of extended confirmed protection.

Options

Option A: Allow use only for topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee (current policy)
Option B: Allow use only for topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee or for persistent sockpuppetry where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective (similar to what ArbCom stipulated for arbitration enforcement and discretionary sanctions 30/500 applications). Notification is to be posted in a subsection of AN for review unless the topic is already authorized for 30/500 protection.
Option C: Allow use to combat any form of disruption (such as vandalism, edit wars, etc.) and on any topic, given semi-protection has proven to be ineffective. Notification is to be posted in a subsection of AN for review unless the topic is already authorized for 30/500 protection.

For clarity, please support only one option.

Option A

Option B

Option C

Discussion

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 == Options ==
-*'''Option A:''' Allow use only for topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee.
+*'''Option A:''' Allow use only for topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee (current policy)
-*'''Option B:''' Allow administrators to apply at their discretion '''only''' against persistent sockpuppetry or continued use of new, disruptive accounts where other methods (such as semi protection) have not controlled the disruption (verbatim what ArbCom [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 11#Arbitration motions regarding extended confirmed protection|stipulated]] for [[WP:AE|arbitration enforcement]] and [[WP:AC/DS|discretionary sanctions]] 30/500 applications). Notification is to be posted in a subsection of [[WP:AN|AN]] for review.
+*'''Option B:''' Allow use only for topics authorized by the Arbitration Committee or for '''persistent sockpuppetry''' where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective (similar to what ArbCom [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 11#Arbitration motions regarding extended confirmed protection|stipulated]] for [[WP:AE|arbitration enforcement]] and [[WP:AC/DS|discretionary sanctions]] 30/500 applications). Notification is to be posted in a subsection of [[WP:AN|AN]] for review unless the topic is already authorized for 30/500 protection.
-*'''Option C:''' Allow administrators to apply at their discretion when other protection measures have failed and full protection would be inappropriate. Notification is to be posted in a subsection of [[WP:AN|AN]] for review.
+*'''Option C:''' Allow use to combat ''any'' form of disruption (such as vandalism, edit wars, etc.) and on ''any'' topic, given semi-protection has proven to be ineffective. Notification is to be posted in a subsection of [[WP:AN|AN]] for review unless the topic is already authorized for 30/500 protection.
 For clarity, please support only one option.