Wowpedia:Vandalism policy

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This page is an official policy on Wowpedia. This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy. See Wowpedia:Policies for an overview of Wowpedia policies. See Category:Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles.

Vandalism Policy

NOTE: A stricter modification to the penalties table below has been ratified and will be adopted in less than a week. Please see the discussion page for details.

What is Vandalism?

See WoWWiki:Vandalism.

Cleaning Vandalism

An act of vandalism can be removed or reverted with only a comment in the edit summary identifying the type of vandalism (usually spam, unexplained deletes, etc.). Disagreement with the edit should be posted in the related discussion page. Cleaners will be added to the honorary Cleaners category, unless they request to be removed.

Record of Vandals

Vandals should have their user name added to the known vandals list with a some note on the type or level of vandalism and optionally any cleaning information.

Blocking Vandals

Blocking by an admin will occur after a certain number of acts of vandalism, the length of time will depend on the number of acts, and a note to that effect will be added to known vandals list:

• If the user is seen to be posting with non-malicious intent, they will get a warning from the admin before a block occurs.
• If the vandalizing user is obviously controlled by a bot (user), the block will start at 1 year.

# of Acts Vandalism	Block Time
5 acts	7 days (168 hours)
20 acts	1 month
50 acts	1 year
100 acts	10 years

For reference you can look at the list of currently blocked users or the log of users who have been blocked.

How to Appeal a Block

Generally there is no recourse to a block, but you could create another user and post an appeal with reasons in the discussion area of the Vandalism policy.