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The Misplaced Pages '''ban''' is a formal ] of editing privileges on all or part of Misplaced Pages. A ban may be temporary and of fixed duration, or indefinite and potentially permanent. The standard invitation Misplaced Pages extends to "edit this page" does not apply to banned users. |
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Users may be banned as a result of the ] process. |
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While bans often apply to the entire project, partial bans are sometimes used when a user's disruptive activities are limited to a specific page or subject matter. For example, a user may be banned from a single article or an entire subject area. Users who violate partial bans are blocked temporarily to enforce the ban. Where appropriate, partial bans may extend to include ]. |
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Banning should not be confused with ''']''', a technical mechanism used to prevent an account or ] from editing Misplaced Pages. While blocks are one mechanism used to enforce bans, they are most often used to deal with ] and violations of the ]. Blocks are not the only mechanism used to enforce bans. A ban is a ] and does not, in itself, disable a user's ability to edit any page. |
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== Decision to ban == |
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The decision to ban a user can arise from various sources: |
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# The Misplaced Pages community, making decisions according to appropriate community-designed policies with consensus support, or (more rarely) following consensus on the case itself. If no ] is willing to unblock a user, and the user has been blocked after due consideration by the community, the user is considered banned. |
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# The ] can use a ban as a remedy usually following a ]. In the past these bans have nearly always been of limited duration, with a maximum of one year. |
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# The Arbitration Committee may delegate the authority to ban a user. In the past it has done so using two mechanisms: ] and ]. |
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# ] retains the authority to ban users. |
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# The ] has the authority to ban users, though it has not often exercised this authority on the English Misplaced Pages. |
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== Community ban == |
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There have been situations where a user has exhausted the community's patience to the point where he or she has been blocked long term (usually indefinitely) by an administrator—and no one is willing to unblock them. Such users may have been blocked as a result of the ], or the community may have discussed their behaviour on a relevant noticeboard such as ] or the now-defunct ], and reached a consensus to ban the user. Users blocked under these circumstances are considered to have been "banned by the Misplaced Pages community." If there is a demonstrated consensus of community support for the block, the user should be listed on ] (under "Community"). |
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== Appeals process == |
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Bans imposed by the community may be appealed to the ]. Banned users should not create sockpuppets to file an appeal. Rather, they should contact a member of the committee or an ] by email and ask that a request be filed on their behalf. Generally speaking, the banned user will make the request on his or her talk page, which will be copied to ] by a clerk. In some cases, a banned user may be unblocked for the purpose of filing an appeal. In such cases, editing of unrelated pages is grounds for immediate re-blocking. |
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Users who have been banned indefinitely by the Arbitration Committee may appeal to the Committee after one year. |
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While any arbitration decision may be nominally appealed to ] or the ], historically, neither has intervened. |
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== Dealings with banned users == |
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Misplaced Pages's hope for banned users is that they will leave Misplaced Pages with their pride and dignity intact, whether permanently or for the duration of their ban. As such, it is inappropriate to bait banned users or take advantage of their ban to mock them. |
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=== Editing on behalf of banned users === |
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Wikipedians are not permitted to post or edit material at the direction of a banned user, an activity sometimes called "proxying," unless they are able to confirm that the changes are verifiable and have independent reasons for making them. |
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== Evasion and enforcement == |
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Misplaced Pages's approach to enforcing bans balances a number of competing concerns: |
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* Maximizing the quality of the encyclopedia. |
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* Avoiding inconvenience or aggravation to any victims of mistaken identity. |
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* Maximizing the number of users who can edit Misplaced Pages. |
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* Avoiding conflict within the community over banned users. |
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* Dissuading or preventing banned users from editing Misplaced Pages. |
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As a result, enforcement has a number of aspects. As with enforcement of other Misplaced Pages policies, no individual editor is obligated to help enforce any ban. |
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=== Blocks === |
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Except for partial bans, the primary account of any banned user is customarily blocked for the duration of the ban. |
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If the banned user creates ] accounts to evade the ban, these usually will be blocked. When evasion is a problem, the ] of a banned user who edits from a static IP address can also be blocked for the duration of the ban. When a banned user evades the ban from a range of addresses, short term IP blocks may be used. Typically, these last 24 hours. <!-- range blocks for the duration of the ban are no longer used --> |
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=== Restart and extension of ban duration when evasion is attempted === |
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It is customary for the "ban timer" to be reset or extended when a banned user attempts to edit in spite of the ban. No formal consideration is typically necessary. For example, if someone is banned for ten days, but on the sixth day attempts to evade the ban, then the ban timer will be reset from four more days remaining to ten days remaining. If the user doesn't subsequently evade the ban, the total duration is thus sixteen days. |
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=== Enforcement by reverting edits === |
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Any edits made in defiance of a ban may be ] to enforce the ban, regardless of the merits of the edits themselves. As the banned user is not authorized to make those edits, there is no need to discuss them prior to reversion. Users are generally expected to refrain from reinstating edits made by banned users. Users who reinstate such edits take complete responsibility for the content by so doing. |
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It is not possible to revert newly created pages, as there is nothing to revert to. Such pages may be ]. Any user can put a {{tl|db-banned}} to mark such a page. |
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=== User pages === |
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Banned users' ] may be replaced by a notice of the ban and links to any applicable discussion or decision-making pages. The purpose of this notice is to announce the ban to editors encountering the banned user's edits. Unlike editors who have been temporarily blocked, banned users are not permitted to edit their user and user talk pages. |
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=== Other means === |
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Serious, ongoing ban evasion is sometimes dealt with by technical means or by making an abuse complaint with the operator of the network from which the edits originate. |
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== Reincarnations == |
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Banned users sometimes return to Misplaced Pages using another user name. Obvious reincarnations are easily dealt with — the account is blocked and contributions are reverted or deleted, as discussed above. See ] for policy on dealing with unclear cases. |
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== Outside influence == |
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Attempts to coerce actions of users through threats of actions outside the Misplaced Pages processes, whether onsite or offsite, are grounds for immediate banning. |
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== Scope and reciprocity == |
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The English-language Misplaced Pages does not have authority over the ], sister projects, or Wikipedias in languages other than English. As such, bans issued by the Misplaced Pages community or by the Arbitration Committee are not binding on other projects. |
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Reciprocal recognition of bans is an unsettled area of policy, in part because of the relative rarity of cases where banned users attempt to join another project. |
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== See also == |
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* ] |
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* ] and ], from ] |
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* ] - coordination point for bans made on other WMF projects |
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