Dead Mount Death Play Wiki:Blocks

This policy page pertains to blocking practice on the Dead Mount Death Play Wiki.

Blocking
Blocking is when a wiki administrator blocks a user's account and/or IP address from editing the wiki for a specified duration of time. On the DMDP Wiki, blocks are typically applied to users whose wiki edits are disruptive.

The main types of disruptive edits include:


 * Spam
 * Vandalism
 * False information
 * Plagiarism

Blocks and Global Rules
Actions that violate FANDOM's Terms of Use receive an immediate block (duration left to administrator discretion). There is zero tolerance for harassment, bullying, or abuse.

Bad Faith editing: block types
The DMDP Wiki defines "bad faith" disruptive edits as user actions that are deliberately disruptive, false, intrusive, or otherwise dilatory. Users responsible for bad faith edits will be issued immediate blocks without warning.

Spam and Vandalism
These are the most severe "bad faith" edits to a wiki, and as such the most intolerable.

Spam constitutes the advertisement of products and sites unrelated to the wiki, as inserted into articles or posts. Vandalism is the act of inserting nonsense/gibberish, blatantly false information, or irrelevant media/content into pages. It can also be the act of removing valid information from pages, such as erasing the content of an entire article.


 * First time spammers and vandals will receive an immediate block with a 1–3 day duration, depending on the severity of the spam or vandalism committed. For instance, first time vandalism of extensive scope (e.g. extensive vandalism of a single page, or vandalism spanning multiple pages) is more likely to earn 2—3 days.
 * Vandals who commit recurring vandalism will receive a longer block. The block's duration will increase every time vandalism occurs. * An average incremental block sequence usually begins as follows: initial multi-day block → 1 week → 3 weeks/1 month → 3 months et cetera.
 * Administrators may adjust block durations at their discretion; for instance, in the case of a vandal with three counts of severe vandalism and a high chance of immediate reoffence, an administrator might decide three months is insufficient and instead issue a longer block.

Good Faith editing: block types
Disruptive edits which an administrator believes were made in good faith are unlikely to warrant a block. More often than not, an administrator may choose to simply undo an edit without feeling a discussion or warning is necessary. In some cases, whether before or after a rollback, an administrator might reach out to a user to discuss the content of, reasoning behind, and/or source of their edit's content.

One or more warning may be issued in cases wherein a user reinserts information/redoes edits that an administrator took issue with and contacted them to discuss; chances of warnings and blocks will increase in the event a user never acknowledges the administrators' communication attempts, or acknowledges them yet continues their behavior unchanged.

False information
In the Spam and Vandalism section, "blatantly false information" was classified as vandalism. Users who insert false information in perceived good faith will most likely be contacted by an administrator with a source inquiry; however, should the factuality of the information remain dubious or unable to be proven beyond doubt, repeated reinsertion of information will likely lead to a warning, then a block.

Plagiarism
Users are expected to contribute original content or attribute quoted content, not copy another source's text without attribution. Although plagiarists are not presumed ignorant of their actions, meaning plagiarism is technically not 'good faith editing', plagiarism is more likely to receive a warning as opposed to an outright block.