Mercenaries Wiki:Blocking Policy

Please note that users hardly ever get banned cos the admins are so nice.

Grounds for blocking

 * 1) Vandalism – Vandalism is defined as any bad-faith edit made with the intent to lower the quality of the wiki or disrupt the functioning of the community. In most cases, users should be warned prior to blocking, though final discretion is left to the administrators.
 * 2) Spam – Posting irrelevant spam links in articles, or creating articles which are entirely spam is grounds for an infinite block.
 * 3) Move vandalism – Page move vandalism (moving an article to a nonsensical or inappropriate title) is grounds for immediate indefinite bans.
 * 4) Inappropriate account naming – Creating an inappropriate account name - be it in terms of user impersonation/insult, or general rudeness/obscenity is also grounds for a no-warning infinite block.
 * 5) Disruption – Users who disrupt the wiki (be it via changing other people's comments, making misleading edits, or harassing other users) will also be blocked.
 * 6) Blanking pages – users will be banned for 2 months, no warning.
 * 7) Fanon – users adding fanon should almost always be warned prior to blocking, but if they keep posting their fanon the admins will ban them for 5 months.
 * 8) Personal attacks  – Users attacking other editors personally (in regards to anything) should be given one warning prior to a cool-off ban. The length of the ban is dependent on the severity of personal attacks.

-- PATX  22:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)