• A community discussion at WP:AN has placed pages related to Michael Jackson, broadly construed, under indefinite general sanctions, effective 20:24, 27 December 2019 (UTC).

A November 2025 RfC converted the prior community-imposed discretionary sanctions into a community-designated contentious topic, effective 3 November 2025.

In addition, administrators may apply semi-protection or extended confirmed protection for any length of time or indefinitely on articles in the topic area, provided they reasonably believe meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry has occurred. Administrators may also apply temporary semi-protection or extended confirmed protection on talk pages and pages conducting RfCs related to the topic area provided they reasonably believe meatpuppetry or sockpuppetry has occurred.}}

Pages covered by the contentious topic designation can be tagged with {{Gs/talk notice|topic=mj}}. To alert editors of a community-authorized contentious topic designation, use {{subst:Gs/alert|mj}}. To inform editors of a community sanction, use {{subst:Community sanction|sanction=|rationale=|topic=mj}} and if blocks are issued, {{subst:Uw-csblock}}. All individual sanctions and page restrictions must be logged below.

In addition to community venues (such as WP:AN or WP:ANI as appropriate), enforcement requests and appeals arising from these remedies may be submitted to the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE).^[1]

• Owynhart (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Michael Jackson, broadly construed. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:57, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Owynhart (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) blocked 31 hours for violating the above topic ban. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:47, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Bananasasas (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) topic-banned from making edits related to Michael Jackson for 6 months. --qedk (t 愛 c) 08:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Bananasasas blocked for 72 hours for violating above sanction. --qedk (t 愛 c) 18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Alessiorom13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is topic-banned from Michael Jackson, broadly construed. This sanction was initially imposed by Yamla against Awardmaniac on March 6, 2019. Following sockpuppetry, loss of access to the initial account, several years of elapsed time and a successful unblock request, this topic ban is now transferred to Alessiorom13, formerly a sockpuppet of Awardmaniac, now recognized as their sole legitimate account moving forward. Appeals of the topic ban should be made to Yamla or AN in accordance with general sanctions practice. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 23:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• TruthGuardians (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is indefinitely topic banned from all pages related to Michael Jackson, broadly construed. (Sanction notice) — Newslinger talk 00:36, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • TruthGuardians is unbanned following a successful appeal, and has accepted the following unban condition: TruthGuardians is prohibited from using a large language model (LLM) to make edits on Wikipedia, which includes edits that are LLM-generated or LLM-assisted, regardless of whether the LLM use is disclosed. (Sanction appeal, unban notice, acceptance of unban condition) — Newslinger talk 18:38, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Neverland Ranch 6 months 1RR, consensus required qedk (t 桜 c) 22:15, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson 3 months semi-protected. --qedk (t 愛 c) 20:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Talk:Square One: Michael Jackson 2 months semi-protected due to possibly sock/meatpuppetry during an open RfC. --qedk (t 愛 c) 19:03, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of awards and nominations received by Michael Jackson is semiprotected, indefinitely. El_C 06:53, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Remember the Time is pending changes protected, indefinitely. Anarchyte (talk • work) 06:08, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Off the Wall is semiprotected, indefinitely. Anarchyte (talk • work) 06:08, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Heaven Can Wait (Michael Jackson song), semi-protected for 1 month by Daniel Case. --qedk (t 愛 c) 04:07, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Trial of Michael Jackson extended confirmed protected for one week. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 19:29, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]