Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Partial blocks

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The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
There is consensus to enable partial blocks on the English Wikipedia.
Each subsection in the survey section has been closed with a result.
Participants raised concerns about the lack of policy governing partial blocks. A follow-up RfC should be held to discuss any additional partial blocking policy elements not discussed in one of the survey subsections.
— JJMC89 (T·C) 09:37, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Currently, administrators are only technically able to prevent users from editing the entire site via a block. In 2018 and early 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team worked on implementing partial blocks. Rather than the entire site, this functionality would allow administrators to prevent a user from:

  1. Editing one or more specific page(s)
  2. Editing all pages within one or more namespace(s)
  3. Emailing other users

As of December 2019, this functionality has been deployed on most large- and medium-size wikis—specifically the Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Telugu Wikipedias, as well as on Meta Wiki, MediaWiki, and all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis. There are plans to deploy the functionality to more projects in the future as well. More information on partial blocks can be read at Wikipedia:Community health initiative on English Wikipedia/Partial blocks. An example of a partial blocks policy modeled off of other wikis can be found at Meta:Partial block model policy.

The purpose of this request for comment is to determine whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. 05:45, 12 December 2019 (UTC)