Nobody wants to check the page history to find out if the page has been vandalized, but if anything suspicious appears, it will be reviewed and action will be taken.
Please note, being disrespectful and leaving rude comments is not necessarily vandalism, but it does not look good, and rude statements or statements implying one user should consider another user "superior" to them will generally be treated in the same class as vandalism.
Guidelines[]
- If anyone who edits blatantly vandalizes the wiki, they will likely be blocked by an administrator.
- Edits that are harmful or in violation of the wiki's rules will result in a warning from an administrator or veteran user. The decision is then up to the administrators if they will ban the user or if they will give them another chance.
- If a new user has broken some rules but their edits appear to be in good faith, they will likely not be marked for a block. Instead, the user may receive a post on the user's message wall explaining to them why and what they were doing wrong. However, if the user refuses to change their attitude after being warned, they will be banned.
- Creating a new account to circumvent an existing ban will result in the banned account(s) being banned for an increased period and the new account being permanently banned.
- Warnings reset after a month has passed.
Block Duration[]
Contributors can be banned indefinitely. The length of the ban depends on the severity of the violation, and moderators can decide upon consequences based on the incident.
An important point to keep in mind is that if a user comes back from a block and continues to misbehave, their new block will be longer than the last one, and will continue to increase for each offence. Admins may make minor alterations to this if they feel a case warrants it, but generally, ban lengths will be these lengths: 1 Day • 3 Days • 1 Week • 2 Weeks • 1 Month • 3 Months • 6 Months • 1 Year • Permanent
Rule Disputes[]
Blocked users can brief their situation with the community on Discord, where an agreed upon block duration can be reached. If they still wish to raise a rule dispute, they can bring their case to the wiki's bureaucrats, either by leaving a message on their message wall, on a policy talk page, or on a forum. Furthermore, comments from better received and more active users will be taken more seriously than comments from less active users.
Types of Vandalism[]
Vandalism can be anything from adding incorrect or outdated information to a page, to deleting text. In general, it is the act of incorrectly changing a page, causing the information to be incorrect, unpresentable, or both.
There are a few types of vandalism, depending on which page it appears on. Please note that some rules may not be included in this list, since more types may crop up due to creative vandals. Some common block reasons include:
- Griefing
- Deliberate destruction or damage to information or data on the wiki.
- Deleting text, in some cases all of the text on a page.
- Misuse of article
- Changing a page's name without notifying an admin beforehand
- Creating a page for the wrong purpose.
- Use the forums for ideas, and if needed, your own user blogs for personal article uses.
- Extensive pseudo-translation
- Being careless about or insisting on adding {{upcoming}} content that has not been released to the English-speaking audience yet.
- Adding insights in another language than English
- Changing the language of an entire page into another language other than English
- Spamming
- Excessive repetition of a message. Such as sending the same message randomly to people, or simply reposting the same message over and over.
- Flooding a page with large amounts of text.
- Repeatedly making non-constructive edits, such as commenting or editing within a short time period, or adding and removing one word to get 100 edits.
- 3 - 7 days
- Unrelated content or speculation
- Adding gibberish, unrelated content or speculation
- Contributing with no clear attempt to use proper formatting, and with intent to troll other users.
- Adding useless / false information
- Such as adding jokes or tips to pages.
- Make sure what you're adding is useful and truthful.
- Raiding
- Creating a new account just to vandalise.
- Indefenitely