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Blocking is how an Inheriwiki administrator prevents a user or IP address/range from editing Inheriwiki. This may be performed for various reason, and the length may vary depending on the situation.
Grounds for blocking[]
- Inappropriate accounts
- Disruptive username with offensive, confusing, random, or unreadable text or characters
- Inappropriate language
- Impersonation of other people
- Names used by known vandals
- etc.
- Vandalism
- Disruptive edits/uploads
- Disruptive blanking
- Disruptive pagemove
- Blatant/malicious cross-wiki vandalism under a vandalism-only account (Wikia accounts are shared by all Wikias except Uncyclopedia)
- etc.
- Spam
- Disruption
- Excessive reverting/edit wars
- This does not include reversions of vandalism.
- Abusive sockpuppets
- Multiple accounts used by the same user for abusive purposes.
- Posting of personal information
- Phone numbers
- Addresses
- etc.
- Personal attacks which place users in danger
- Legal threats
Block length benchmarks[]
- Please note that the following are only benchmarks. The final decision for each incident is left to the discretion of the blocking administrator.
Grounds for blocking | First instance | Second instance | Third instance | Repeated |
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Inappropriate accounts/usernames | Infinite | |||
Vandalism-only accounts | ||||
Abusive sockpuppets | Infinite if confirmed (I.e. through CheckUser) The sockpuppeteer shall receive only 1 warning | |||
Vandalism/Spam/Disruption/Excessive reverting/edit wars (IP) | (Warning) | Up to 24h | Up to 1 fortnight | 1-3 month(s) |
Vandalism/Spam/Disruption/Excessive reverting/edit wars (Registered User) | 24h - 1week | Up to 1 month | Infinite | |
AOL or similar ISPs | 15-30 min. | 24-48h | Up to 1 week (Range block) | |
Posting of personal information Administrators: Please purge the history of those edits should such an incident occur |
(Severe Warning) | Infinite | ||
Personal attacks which place users in danger | ||||
Legal threats | ||||
Open proxies | 3 months | 6 months | Administrator's discretion | |
Others/Special incidents | Such incidents, depending on circumstances, reasons, and severity, are left to the discretion of the blocking administrator. Examples may include known vandals and vandalism IP ranges, confirmed by CheckUser. |
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