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This is the official website for the Gokurakugai Wiki's vandalism policy. Before editing, all contributors are required to carefully read and comprehend "all" of the policies. An initial warning and, if it continues, a block may be issued for breaking these rules. Please feel free to speak with an active administrator if you have any additional inquiries. Administrators should follow the rules when thinking about blocking a user.
The outline of vandalism on this wiki and a staff response suggestion are provided in our vandalism policy. Users are also strongly advised to read our blocking rules because the typical punishment for vandalism is to block the offending editor from editing.
Vandalism on regular pages
- Vandalism is an obvious and deliberate act that robs an article in the main article space of the quality of its content. The following types of acts are examples of vandalism but are not limited to them:
- Adding offensive words to a title or article's body of text. This one should be obvious. You can anticipate an immediate ban if you arbitrarily swear on a page, with no questions asked and no warnings issued.[1]
- Spamming a page with unwanted content. Expect your editing abilities to be quickly restricted if you include an advertisement or a lot of incomprehensible text on a page.
- Purging pages of all content. You have blanked a page if you remove all content from it before pressing publish; in most cases, this will prevent you from making changes to it. However, it can happen unintentionally, so if you discover you've accidentally blanked a page, kindly undo your actions right away or seek assistance from a staff member. Administrators will be forced to assume that the blanking was intentional if they cannot see any evidence that you tried to undo it. People who blank pages may be immediately blocked, especially if it appears that they are doing so quickly and on multiple pages.
- Editing text in an article to include blatantly false information on purpose. Here, we don't mean benign errors brought on by inadequate research or wrong information, such as "Alma is a Half-Maga (although this is a correct information, we just use this as a sample)." We're talking about blatantly incorrect statements like "Alma is a Half-Maga, someone who could transform fully into a Maga, making him unconscious with his surrounding."
- Adding personal commentary from the author to an article This is an encyclopaedia. Any personal commentary from you or another editor should not be included in our main articles, aside from Mashiro's notes, the series author. Such declarations as, "Alma is a Half-Maga, someone who could transform fully into a Maga, making him unconscious with his surrounding." are vandalistic because they undermine the objectivity we're trying to establish here. In general, we strive to uphold the Wikipedia standard of a neutral point of view.
- Altering the layout of a page tremendously.[2] But compared to the previous types, this vandalism is much more arbitrary. In some instances, drastic layout changes represent sincere efforts to enhance the appearance of the wiki as a whole. For instance, altering a picture's size in an infobox is not necessarily vandalism. Vandalism does not necessarily occur just because an infobox is removed. However, if you frequently alter the size of an infobox image after an administrator has informed you of the standards needed to maintain the site's uniform appearance, your actions may be viewed as vandalism. Similar to the removal of an infobox from a story page, doing so is almost always clearly vandalism; however, doing so from a page with only one line of text may not be. Even though it's more difficult to define, this kind of "graphic design vandalism" involves purposefully altering a page's layout in opposition to the site's overall design aesthetic. In general, it's better to consult an administrator before changing any of the visual components on a page.
Action to take
Please alert any active admins if you come across something you believe to be vandalism.
Alternately, you could undo the editor's action to aid in the site's recovery from vandalism. Simply click "undo" after reviewing the damaged page's history, which can be found under the edit drop-down menu at the top of the page.
Administrative response
- An admin will take one of the following actions if a user makes an edit that is considered to be intentional vandalism.
- Unregistered users will have their IP addresses blocked for up to 3 months;
- If the user is registered, they will be blocked for up to 6 months.
- One of the following things will happen if a user "creates a page" of obviously vandalized content:.
- Unregistered users will have their IP addresses blocked for up to two weeks;
- If the user is registered, they will be blocked for up to one month.
To be clear, these are the penalties for "'deliberate"' vandalism. Administrators are responsible for ensuring that the offending editor did not intend to harm the site. As a result, it is normally ideal — though not always required — for an administrator to give an editor fair warning "before" imposing a ban.[3]
Vandalism on user and discussion pages
Vandalism can take any of the forms mentioned above for regular articles in the forum, user, and talk page namespaces. More frequently, it refers to the obvious and intentional act of altering content that was either written by you or another user.
User pages
User pages, also known as profile pages, cannot be substantively changed by anyone other than the user who is linked to that page.
However, occasionally during the editing of the larger wiki, admin and bots may change a user page to implement minor changes. These include eliminating categories that don't belong on user pages and renaming links on the user page so they still function properly. The user page of a user should not be significantly altered by these changes.
If unsure, explain your intentions on the user's talk page and let them decide.
Discussion pages
Vandalism occurs when users edit or outright delete comments made by other users in namespaces where the words "forum" or "talk" are present. Simply removing comments made by other users will seriously disrupt the conversation.
Always keep in mind that the goal of most discussions is to alter some aspect of the wiki, such as a rule or the way a certain page is edited. It will be more difficult for people to follow the flow of the conversation if you cut out a section of it in a year.
Do not remove an "objectionable" comment from a discussion page on your own initiative. Please leave a message on an admin's talk page alerting them to any inaccuracies, inflammatory content, or other offensive material you feel is present.
Making absolutely offensive language non-printing while keeping it in hidden text is preferable if you come across it on a talk page[4], rather than just deleting it. The administrative team will be able to quickly investigate the offensive message and deal with the offending editor in this way.
Your own talk page
Please keep in mind that your talk page is not "yours.". It is not, under any circumstances, a secure messaging system. This conversation is addressed to you in a "public" way. It must be preserved in its original form so that others may follow any conversations you may be having. Your talk page may be "archived," but you do not have the authority to edit or remove any of the comments made by other users.
Editing or removing someone else's comments on "your" talk page is unquestionably considered vandalism because it makes it simple to interpret those comments in a way that is completely different from how they were intended. You could easily transform someone from "well-reasoned" into "attack dog" by deleting a few lines here and there from their text. It is also more difficult for an admin to assist you in dealing with the offending editor if you remove offensive comments.
The best way to approach "your" talk page is as the "steward," not the "owner," for this reason.
Your own comments
On another person's user talk page, you also don't have the authority to delete the comments you made there. Comparable to snail mail or e-mail, perhaps. You cannot retrieve a letter that has been sent after pressing "send" or dropped into a box. The best you can do is release a follow-up note in which you clarify points made in the original comment.[5]
Administrative response
Setting up a schedule of punishments is challenging due to the wide range of this kind of vandalism. Someone who deletes their own comments after realizing they made a silly comment hardly merits the same level of punishment as someone who deliberately replaces someone else's user page with pornography. Because of this, it's preferable to state that the administrator in charge of the case has unrestricted power to determine the appropriate punishment.
But generally speaking, vandalism of user and discussion pages should be regarded as "less significant" than that of pages in the main article space. In order to keep tempers from fraying on a talk page, minimum penalties, for instance, can be as brief as just two hours. On the other hand, it "is" possible to receive a permanent ban for this type of vandalism, as would undoubtedly be the case for the person in the aforementioned hypothetical who uploaded pornography to a user page.
Unintentional vandalism
Unintentional vandalism is exactly what it sounds like: an edit that falls under the definition of vandalism (as stated above), but which cannot be deemed to be intentional. People may well blank an article or a user talk page without being aware that doing so is prohibited by this wiki's rules.
Administrators are specifically enjoined to try to consider most acts of vandalism as unintentional, and to therefore give warnings, instead of actual bans, upon the first offence.[3]
If any users find edits they view as unintentional vandalism, an Admin should be informed.
An individual's actions will no longer be regarded as "unintentional" if they proceed after warnings. Such users will therefore be handled in accordance with the guidelines provided elsewhere in this policy.
Footnotes
- ↑ It should be noted that there are circumstances in which expletives are acceptable in an article, such as when the article is quoting from a published work or researching the use of expletives in an academic setting. The Gokurakugai Wiki does not claim to be "safe for work," and there are many instances of profanity there. Therefore, in official Gokurakugai narratives, we will not censor what actually happened.
- ↑ Note: Administrators are often free from allegations of "layout vandalism" because they are the major designers and implementers of the site's configuration and layout.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Admin can never be required to give warnings, as some acts of vandalism are insidious, wide-ranging and fast-moving. Such attacks must be countered decisively.
- ↑ This is done by enclosing it in special characters, like this: <!--Now my text will still be on the page, but it will be hidden-->
- ↑ You may, however, edit your comments to remove any grammatical or spelling errors and to check that any provided links function properly.