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Per remedy 5 of Indian military history arbitration case, I would suggest ammending text to reflect that admins can preemptively protect pages in topics authorised by arbitration remedy under the preemptive protection section:

Stylez995 (talk) 13:38, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As this entire section is already about exceptions to preemtion, perhaps just simplifying to: "Pages subject to Arbitration Committee protection remedies are also an exception." ? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:50, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think we can keep it simple in a way that reduces the chances we'll need to revisit the wording in the future. I would recommend Pages subject to Arbitration Committee remedies that permit or require preemptive protection may be protected accordingly. The permit or require could even be shortened to authorize, but I think permit or require is a bit clearer. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:24, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and made the change. I added the word "Finally" at the start of the sentence to improve the flow and I also updated the footnote (rather than try to update the policy for every future Arbitration Committee decision, I just linked WP:GS which people tend to update long before this policy). Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]