Talk:topic ban

RFD discussion: June–August 2020
I know I created the entry, but I don't necessarily agree with every edit I've made in the past (I hate to admit, I probably need to do the painful project at some point of going through all my pre-2018-ish entries and challenging/editing ones that might be sub-par). Looking at this entry now, it looks to me to be not much more than "a ban from a topic", the only difference is that it's extended to mean a ban from making edits related to a certain topic on that certain website, Wikipedia, so this is just essentially filling in blanks. My position now is that it can be easily deduced from how it looks, and by knowing that it has to do with that particular website you could probably guess the meaning even easier.

On the note of verification, I recall searching Usenet for the term and finding three separate posts that used the term "topic ban" in reference to Wikipedia, but never added these cites. And I don't think it matters. The fact that I was only able to find three also can tell you how this particular example of a "topic ban" is not too notable compared to any other either. PseudoSkull (talk) 17:56, 20 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Evidently created because of being a wiki term, which is not a good sign. Seems SoP to me, really; you could argue that it's not the topic being banned, but the user writing about the topic, but so what? Still rather obvious in context. Equinox ◑ 20:04, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not a set phrase: nothing to prevent any sense of topic (including the adjective) from any sense of ban. DCDuring (talk) 02:13, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as SOP. --Uisleach (talk) 20:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * RFD failed per consensus. PseudoSkull (talk) 17:50, 6 August 2020 (UTC)