One Piece Wiki:Guidebook/Treatment of Vandalism

Vandalism is the act of messing with a page, causoing the article or page to be incorrect, messed up, or both.

Types of Vandilism
There are a few types of vandalism, Vandalism can change depending on which page it appears on. Vandilising could be anything from puttinmg sometihng on the wrong page, where it stands out and has no relation to anything else, to deleting text.

Vandalism on Article Pages
Types generally include:


 * Deleting Text
 * Deleting all of the text. See Editing Advice for more info.


 * Adding Gibberish
 * Changing the article's name.
 * Changing text to another language, other than English, or when present, Japanese. See Other Languages for more details.
 * Changing the entire article's language into any language except for English.

There may be more, that can crop up due to creative vandals, but these are the most common issues that may come up.

Vandalism on Article Talk Pages
Generally Talk Pages are the easiest targets to cause problems with. Most types of Vandalism include:


 * Deleting all the text. See Editing Advice for more information.
 * Changing someone's statement
 * Changing the author of the statement to anothe user or IP Address.
 * Editing of any sort, other than adding your own statement, or signing your own statement.

Nobody wants to check the Page History to find out if the page has been vandalised, but if anything suspicious appears, it may be chacked.

Vandalism on User Pages and User Talk Pages
Many times, unhappy users or users in an argument feel tempted, and give in to vandalising another user's personal page or talk page. This is very cruel, and is one of the worst things you can do in some cases. Another user must revert your edits out, and feelings may get hurt. Keep in mind that if you ever end up on the Users to be Banned page, Vandalism of another's user page, especially severely damaging edits, will be held against you.

User Page Vandalism

 * Deleting text
 * Adding text the user does not want
 * Editing text
 * Editing text to make the person look as if they are bad at spelling, adding in grammatical errors and horrible spelling on purpose, or re-writing things in all caps.


 * Replacing text to damaging statements. THese include things such statements, possibly in all capital letters(considered yelling), such as "I WET MYSELF", "I THINK THIS SITE SUCKS" or "I'm olny 5 year old, help me pelase?" and other such statements that make the user look stupid, like a baby, and immature, that can destroy their reputation.

User Talk Page Vandalism
The most common vandalism to User Talk Pages are:


 * Deleting all text
 * Changing signatures
 * Deleting statements
 * Editing text
 * Adding pictures that perhaps is unsightly, disgusting, or otherwise does not belong on the page in any way, and can be cosidered disrespectful.

Please note, being disrespectful and leaving rude comments is not Vandalism, but it does not look good, and rude statements or statements implying one user should consider another user "superior" to them will generally be treated in the same class as vandalism.

Users
Users who own an account wil lgenerally be warned a couple of times before any action is taken on their account. A warning should be given for each edit made that is vandilism, so if User A edits a page saying "One Piece Sucks!" then edits it again adding "my butt!" onto the end of it, one warning on their talk page counts as 2, and that should be noted in the warning. Many users use a 4 strikes your out, allowing a user 3 warnings before any serious action is taken, and since the 3 strikes rule is well known, and gives a user plenty of chances to change their act, it is probably best to go by. It also helps keep everyone on the same page, that way one user doesn't think about banning while another considers minor actions.

One warned 3 times, the 3rd and final warning, should include another warning that action against the account will be taken next time. If vandalism continues, they are to be added to the Users to be Banned page, with links and notes as to what they have done. Punishment should probably be 1-2 days of suspension, to let the user cool off and think about what they've done. Keep in mind, simply because a user has made good edits in the past, doesn't mean they don't deserve this suspesnion. It helps to get them away from everyone else, and chill out.

If the suspension does not stop the user, they should be warned once more, and then be added to the Users to be Banned page. 1-3 Weeks would be ideal for a 2nd punishment. A warning should be added to their talk page oin the day of their return, noting that any more vandalism will result in account loss.

For the final ban, if activity continues, the user's account will be permanantly banned. If the user creates another account, they may be added to the Users to be Banned page, proof presented that they are one and the same, and then users can decide if their vandalism was bad enough to IP ban them, opr give them a second chance, and a fresh start. Anymore vandalism will result in an immidiate IP ban, put into effect as soon as an Administrator logs on and notices.

At the point of the 2nd ban and 3rd ban, any vandalism should ignore voting, and go immidiatly into a banning request. Administrators should ban these users with the proper ban time. If another user feels the time of the 2nd ban is unfair, this may be disputed, if Administrators have not yet completeds the Ban. Administrators should give 15 minutes to a half an hour to let users disagree on a ban duration time, ban either by the time recommended, or is another user disagrees and leaves another recommended time, the Administrator may do whatever duration they see fit, as long as it has been recommended by another user, besides the nominator, the banning administrator, or the user to be banned. Administrators may recommend another time, but they will not be able to do the ban in that case, unless they wait 24 hours.

Action Against IP Addresses
IP Addresses shall receive one warning on the talk page. Should candalism occur, the IP address should immidiatly be banned for 1-2 days, and after that, permanantly IP banned. IP banned IPs and Users found to have created another account/IP with a different IP Address are also to immidiatly be IP banned under the new IP address.

Punishment and Rule Disputes
If any user feels the rules, guidelines, and ideas are unfair, please discuss on the talk page and remember to re-read Editing Advice before changing any important guide article pages. We all recommend signing up, and comments from random IP addresses should be ignored. It is quick and easy to sign up, and is much better than us receiving random edits and suggestions from someone who is not active.