Dozierverse Wiki:Blocking Policy

***The Dozierverse Wiki is continually revising our policies.***

***If you locate any unwritten rule that should be clarified, use the talk page to make a proposal***

In the context of wiki communities, **Blocking** is defined by Fandom as the prevention of an user, either a registered account or through their IP address name, from editing a wiki.

Blocking is performed by local administrators and occasionally Fandom Staff, as a consequence of vandalism, spamming, trolling, disruption and other instances detailed below, in order to prevent further damage to be done to the wiki and enforce its policies.

The duration of the blocks is proportionate to the grievousness of the damage performed to the site and may be either reduced when the blocked user agrees to stop the situation that caused the block, or fully served until its expiration.

## Reasons for Blocking

* **Inserting false information**: One of the most common reasons for blocking an user is the addition of information that is false, inaccurate, incorrect, speculative, or can just be described as "fanon" or "head-canon".
	+ **False information**: Any and all information not coming from official or trusted sources added to articles is or can be considered false, at least until otherwise proven. Its addition to articles, either by not following the policies on style and information, article creation or content, adding it to incorrect articles, or creating incorrect articles just to add it is grounds for a block.
	+ **Fanon**: Fanon, fan theories or head-canon, no matter how widespread they are, are not allowed in this wiki's articles. Addition of fanon should almost always have a warning, either by a general announcement or personally, prior to blocking. Once the warning has been made once, re-addition of fanon is grounds for a block.
	+ **Edit-warring**: Edit-warring in order to insert false information despite other users undoing it is also grounds for a block. As explained in many policies across the wiki, if you think that the information you added is correct and has been removed, the course of action is not just re-add it and start a discussion in the edit summary, it is to discuss it with the editor who removed and, if necessary, ask an admin or moderator to mediate.
	+ **Vandalism**: Vandalism is the epitome of the insertion of false information with *bad-faith*, with the only purpose of lowering the quality of the wiki and/or disrupting the functioning of the community. Vandalism and its bad faith is usually ground for indefinite bans.
	+ **Category spam**: Creation of categories and insertion not allowed or plainly bypassing the policy regulating its creation is also a form of false information, as it is information that does not belong to a category within the wiki's system.
	+ **Copyright violations**: Copyrighted material is information that does not belong to the wiki and goes against Fandom's Terms of Use and Service. Either text plagiarized from other articles within the wiki without proper attribution, text taken from outer sources or images taken from illegal screenings of movies, are grounds for a very severe block.
	+ **Empty pages**: Empty pages with no content, without format, or even without an introduction go directly against the policies for article creation, and therefore, the content of the article itself is considered to be false to the principles of the kind of information that belongs to the wiki. The creation of an empty article is not an excuse to force people to fill it either.
* **Removing content from pages**
	+ **Removal of information**: The removal of information has two main variants: A "good-faith" one, with erroneously removing correct information under the thought it was incorrect, and a "bad-faith" one, which would be analogous to adding false information. While the first one should lead to a warning first and only a block in case it is recurring or persistent, the second one leads to a severe block.
	+ **Blanking pages**: Blanking a page, removing all of its content, is ground for an indefinite block. Even if the page is going to be marked for deletion, the page should not be blanked under any circumstance, as it helps speed up the deletion process.
	+ **Removal of warnings**: Removing official warnings made by administrators or moderators in message walls is not allowed, as warnings are meant to stay in the history of walls.
* **Spamming links to external sites**: Links to external sites within articles are not allowed, with a few exceptions. Obvious spam to external malicious sites are grounds for an indefinite block.
* **Intimidating behavior/harassment**
	+ **Disruption**: Disruption of the wiki and its proper functioning, via changing comments, misleading or malicious edits, not following policies and procedures, excessive drama, trolling, etc. can lead to a block, with its length based on the severity of the disruption.
	+ **Harassment**: The harassment of other users via excessive or abusive on their message walls, profanity and insults, threats, hounding their edits or discussions, and other instances that may be perceived as harassment, lead to an often indefinite block.
	+ **Personal Attacks**: Users perceived as attacking other editors, often due to edit wars, are usually given a "cool-off ban". If the attack also includes one of the instances considered as harassment, that ban's length is usually longer. All instances currently defined as personal attacks are subject to a very extended or indefinite ban.
	+ **Disclosure of Personal Information**: Whether or not personal information about an editor is accurate, its disclosure is not only a violation of Fandom's Terms of Use, but also a crime in most jurisdictions. Therefore, it leads to an indefinite ban of the site.
* **Abusing multiple accounts**: The unrightful use of a secondary account, often to bypass a block in previous one, is not allowed by Fandom's Terms of Use. It leads to an indefinite block on the sock-puppet account, and often, an increase on the socket-puppetteer's original account, if the edits follow the same pattern that lead to the initial block (usually edit-warring, harassment or disruption).
* **Unacceptable username**: Accounts created with an inappropriate name, either be it in terms of user impersonation/insult, or general rudeness/obscenity is also grounds for a no-warning infinite block.

## Block Appeals

* If you are blocked or banned and want to appeal it, please use your message wall on THIS Wiki, or contact an administrator on their wall on the Community Central Wiki.
* If you are blocked/banned on *this* Wiki, it is ***NOT*** appropriate to follow **any** Staff Member (or any user involved with the block/ban) anywhere other than Community Central to protest. This **will** result in your block being extended here.
* If you are blocked/banned on *another* Wiki, do not follow the blocker here to complain. This may result in a block here and possibly an extension on the Wiki in question.

## Blocks on Other Wikis

Administrators reserve the right to block a user because they have been blocked on another wiki within the Fandom network. There are some reasons to apply this right:

* An user could be involved in a "rolling" attack on Wikia wikis, in which he vandalizes a series of wikis.
* An user could have demonstrated a pattern of behavior at another site that is plainly in violation of the rules of the Dozierverse Wiki.
* An user's fight with another user on another wiki might be threatening to "spill over" onto our wiki.

Of course, being blocked on another site does not automatically mean that an user is going to be blocked here. Sometimes administrators on other sites act with haste or malice. Administrators from the Dozierverse Wiki will review each situation on a case-by-case basis.