Uncyclopedia:Ban Policy
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This page is considered an ignorable policy on Uncyclopedia. |
- See Uncyclopedia:Ban Patrol, Special:Ipblocklist, Special:Log/block for a current list of existing bans.
Offense | Recommended Penalty | Comments / Rationale |
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Ban Patrol Disruption | 1 week to 1 month depending on severity | Includes deleting sections, changing the headings of pages being voted on, changing other people's votes or comments. |
Blanking | 1 week per page | Same policy for articles, user pages, and admin pages. |
Creating useless redirects, categories, templates, or stubs | 1st: delete & warn, 2nd+: 1-24 hours | Notify users on their talk page. |
Edit War / Revert War | 1st: revert and warn, 2nd: 1 day to 1 week | Notify users on their talk page. |
Harassment | 1st: Warn, 2nd: 1 week to 3 months, depends on severity | Notify users on their talk page. |
Insubordination | 1st: Warn, 2nd: 1 hour to 1 week | Go easy. The point is easily made. A long ban probably should be justified by other behaviors. |
Open Proxy | Infinite | Too much abuse potential to be allowed to live. |
Plagiarism and copyvios | 1st: delete & warn (check it's not about to be sporked), 2nd: 1 week | Notify users on their talk page. |
Shock images, tubgirls, goatse links, etc. | 1 month | Notify users on their talk page. |
Spam (Categorization) | 1 hour for first offense | Notify users on their talk page. |
Spam (Commercial) | 1 week to 1 month depending on severity | Delete pages or links. Pages directed to CVP as applicable. Unregistered users (IPs) will get 1 month to 1 year depending on severity, and/or the offending created page edited so that it makes fun of what was being advertised and/or the way it was being advertised. |
Spam (Quotes) | 1 hour for first offense | Notify users on their talk page. |
Sockpuppets | Based on behavior | See headings for vandalism, voting page disruption, etc. |
Spambots | Infinite | Yea, we don't like spam! |
Tag tampering (ICU, VFD, etc.) | 1st: revert and warn. 2nd: ban. Length depends on tag. | ICU: 14 days, VFD: 1 week to 1 month depending on severity (same as VFD disruption) |
Vandalism (major) | 1 week per page | Same policy for articles, user pages, and admin pages. |
Vandalism (minor) | 1st: warn, 2nd: 1 hour to ? | It's to your own judgment what this constitutes: noobish bad edits, user boredom, immaturity, or bad judgment rather than showing intention to do a lot of damage. Notify user on their talk page. |
VFD Disruption | 1 week to 1 month depending on severity | Includes deleting sections, changing the headings of pages being voted on, changing other people's votes or comments. |
Voting page Disruption | 1 week to 1 month depending on severity | Ranting, baiting, excessive off-topic commentary, deleting sections, changing the headings of pages being voted on, changing other people's votes or comments. Includes the Noob, Writer, Uncyclopedian, or Useless Gobshite of the Month awards, in addition to VFP and VFH. |
Anything else | 1 second to infinite depending on stuff | Anything that isn't listed above falls into this category. |