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Policy status and phases

Category
Copyright
Deletion
Speedy deletion
Disallowed content
NDA
Editing
Disruptive editing
External links
Fan fiction
Images

 

Item articles
Lore
Naming
Neutrality
Personal articles
Player character pages
Projects
Stubs
Three revert rule
User naming
Vandalism
Voting

See also: guidelines, administrators
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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.
  • Shortcut: WW:VANDAL

WoWWiki definition of vandalism

This is the definition of vandalism for the purposes of this policy:

  1. Removing valid content without explanation or an explanation that makes no sense.
  2. Items listed in the Do not post policy.
  3. Pretending to remove other vandalism content in order to prevent cleaning. This includes minor edits or minor removals while leaving a bulk of unwanted content ("spam"), but making a comment as if you removed the unwanted content.

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.

Red exclamation mark iconBEFORE YOU START REVERTING VANDALISM: Please read "About reverting vandalism".

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

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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 should get a warning from the admin before a block occurs.
  • If the vandalizing user is obviously controlled by a bot (user), the block will be indefinite.
# of Acts Vandalism Block Time
1 act 7 days (168 hours)
5 acts 1 - 3 months
10 acts 1 year
20+ acts ∞ (permanent)

Note that the above list is a guide and the length will also depend on the style of the vandalism.

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

Appealing a block

Appealing a block may be done in a couple of ways, but we recommend either on the IRC channel, or on your talk page.

See also

  • WoWWiki:Vandalism
  • WoWWiki:Known vandals
  • WoWWiki:Policy/DNP
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