Phineas and Ferb Wiki:Block policy

Some people will appear just long enough to stir up trouble and disappear afterwards. This is referred to as "disruptive editing". Many times, it will not be necessary to take action against them.

When it does becomes necessary to block a user, use the following rules when setting the duration. Administrators should not issue a block in retaliation or as punishment, just as a means of discouraging further repetition of the poor edits. However, administrators should be aware that by the third time a person causes a problem, they are usually behaving in a deliberate manner and will need to have a much longer block set on their account or IP address.

In all situations, administrators should conduct themselves in an impartial manner, stating facts, not opinions or personal feelings.

Ask that they stop
For situations where a person is being disruptive but without malicious intent behind the actions (such as a kid "playing around" or people adding fan fiction), asking them to stop may be enough to resolve the situation. Do not ask why they are making their edits. State what is not acceptable and link to the appropriate page(s).

If the user continues making poor edits, ask again that they stop. If the user still continues making poor edits, ask them to stop one final time and list what the consequences will be if they persist. Typically, this will be a short block of a few days.

Users that do not reply to these messages may be deliberately ignoring them. Those that made honest mistakes or "newbie mistakes" will either stop the bad behavior or will acknowledge the message.

Durations
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 * Profanity: two week block for first offense, one month for second offense, six months for third offense, permanent for fourth offense.
 * Insults and harrassment: warning on offender's talk page for first offense, or go immediately a two week block if it is severe enough. Second offense will be the next step up. (If it was a warning previously, increase to two weeks.)
 * Racial slurs: minimum of a one month block.
 * Inappropriate pictures: warning on offender's talk page for first offense, or go immediately a two week block if it is severe enough.
 * Pornography: permanent block.
 * Sexual statements: minimum of a one month block.
 * Spam: Advertisements, rants against third parties, political statements: one year block.
 * Sock puppet accounts:
 * Unacceptable user names:

To set a permanent block, set the Expiry to "other" and fill in "infinite" for the Other time.

Notification on their Talk page
The message on the user's talk page notifying them of the block should be matter-of-fact, stating the duration of the block and what they are being blocked for. Keep personal statements or questions out of your response. Example:


 * Profanity is not allowed on this wiki, as per (link to this policy page). You are blocked for two weeks.

For registered users where a block of six months or longer has been enacted, select "Prevent user from sending e-mail". This will prevent them from causing further problems via e-mail.

Appealing a block
Administrators should not de-select "Allow this user to edit own talk page while blocked" when setting the block unless it is for a repeat offender that has made it clear that they will continue their actions when the block expires. Allowing the user to edit their own talk page will permit them to register an appeal if they feel the block was unjust or if they are blocked as "collateral damage" (an IP address on a public network that is shared between computers, which typically results when "Automatically block the last IP address used by this user, and any subsequent IPs they try to edit from" is selected for a registered user).

Users that have been blocked may register an appeal on their Talk page, listing why they should be unblocked.

For more information, refer to Appealing a block on Wikipedia.

Talk
The following section will be moved to the Talk page after this is moved into the main namespace.

Since I am the one that is establishing the block duration guidelines, I thought it best to share my reasoning behind those durations. Some of them are based on the "three strikes" rule.


 * Profanity
 * The first offense might have been done just for shock value, but if they do it a second time, then it becomes more of a conscious decision on their part. By the time they do it a third time, there is no doubt that they are doing it deliberately and will continue to do so.


 * Insults and harrassment

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