Here at the Warhammer Wiki, when a user violates one of our established rules, the Administrators or Moderators often will give a written warning on that user's Talk page or message wall. But for those who continuously flaunt the rules, or refuse to abide by the established conduct and etiquette that is expected by all users of this wiki, then sometimes the wiki's staff is forced to take a harsher approach to such violations.
All wikis are expected to conform to a certain level of civility in writing articles and Talk page posts. The use of excessive cursing or sexual terminology is strictly prohibited. Declarations of hate that are said pejoratively and without humour, like "I hate you," are also strictly prohibited, and violates this wiki's Harassment/Intimidating Behavior Policy.
Minor Offences[]
Minor offences include slight instances of uncivilised behaviour, including:
- Insults
- Trolling
- Flaming
- Ignoring Staff instructions
- Publicly declaring your hate for someone or insulting their contributions
More specific instances of this type of offence includes the breaking of this wiki's more minor rules, disregarding warnings from the Administrators or Moderators on breaking minor rules, and other acts of disrespect and general offensive behavior. Such offences are likely to result in short bans lasting days or weeks.
Moderate Offences[]
These include instances of multiple acts of rule-breaking in a relatively short period of time. This includes the following:
- Rapid fire acts of rulebreaking (repeated offences against multiple rules at a time) or failing to follow wiki rules or staff instructions, or a failure to alter behaviour after an Administrator or Moderator's request or warning.
- Rapid fire edits across a swathe of pages at one time, all done using incorrect formats as defined in the Manual of Style and/or edits that add incorrect information or misinformation.
- Directly insulting Administrators, Moderators, other users or their contributions through highly offensive or derogatory terms of jargon. For example: A specific instance would be if an offender would tell a user that their works are terrible, and insulting them.
- Additionally, breaking higher guidelines and rules come under this heading, such as spamming, vandalism and otherwise causing drama on the wiki.
These offences will likely result in a longer ban lasting from one to many months.
Major Offences[]
These include fairly large amounts of rules being broken at one time. This includes:
- Posting of sexually explicit text in your content.
- Sending fairly offensive messages to other users (via a user's Talk Page or online Chat). This includes disparaging remarks or insulting their personal lives (such as making fun of deceased relatives or friends).
- Taking steps which could place the wiki in legal jeopardy or damage the wiki's fundamental code backbone.
- Plagiarism (usually from the Lexicanum)
Administrators must use their best judgement to decide on whether the user involved has made a Major Offence or an Unforgivable Offence. These offences will result in bans lasting multiple months, up to a year, or may even be deemed worthy of a permanent ban.
Unforgivable Offences[]
Unfortunately, there are rare times when a user commits very egregious violations or offences that are simply unforgivable and will result in an immediate permanent ban. This includes the following:
- Large-scale rule, format and guidelines breaking
- Vandalism
- Personal attacks upon an admin, mod, or staff member
- Repeated interference in admin or mod duties and/or content creation
- Repeated needs for remedial action that take admins or mods away from their duties
- Interference in wiki operations and duties carried out by admins and mods
- Spamming
- Harassment of Administrators and/or Moderators
- Posting sexually explicit material
- Posting content that breaks the laws of the United States or most other nations (i.e. posting child pornography or breaking copyright laws)
These offences will result in an immediate and permanent ban from the Warhammer Wiki.
Execution of the Permanent Ban[]
Due to legitimate concerns about overzealous use of the permanent ban, editors will receive a warning from an Administrator or Moderator before any permanent ban is enacted against them in cases other than vandalism, plagiarism, spamming, rapid spamming of articles in incorrect formats or without sources, interference in wiki operations carried out by the Administrators and Moderators or personal harassment of other editors or the Administrators and Moderators. In the above excepted cases a permanent ban may be given without warning.
When a warning is warranted, it will explain what the user has done wrong, and will provide an explanation of how they can avoid a similar error in the future.
Failure to comply in good faith, or personal attacks upon the staff member delivering the warning will then result in a permanent ban.