Moegirlpedia:Anti-vandalism policy

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This policy specifies common vandalism behavior and its countermeasures on Moegirlpedia. Maintenance personnel shall comply with this policy to deal with all types of vandalism. In the event of a situation not covered by this policy, we will act in accordance with the spirit of this policy.

Vandalism is the act of intentionally jeopardizing the security and order of Moegirlpedia by editing the page content or adding malicious code several times.

Deducing whether something is vandalism should be done with caution. Please maintain a good-faith presumption and do not harm beginner users. A large number of edits that contain controversies are not necessarily vandalism, but can also be bad with good intentions.

Main criteria for vandalism

By amount

General vandalism

Refers to acts of vandalism that are small in number and small in scope and impact. The general recommendation is to limit the number of sessions to three. Can be considered as "minimal but constitutes damage".

Mass vandalism

Refers to a high number or wide range of acts of vandalism. It is generally recommended to limit the number of sessions to 5 and above. Can be considered as "numerous and extensive".

Severe vandalism

Refers to an act of vandalism that is one of the following:

1. Performing the first, second, or fourth type of vandalism described in Category III, Article 1 of "Specific acts of vandalism" below;
2. Performing the acts described in categories III, V, and VI below with a high frequency or wide scope;
3. New users (meaning those who have registered for less than 7 days or are not in the autoconfirmed user group, here, the state before the start of the first act of vandalism is taken into account, the same below) performing the acts described in Article 5 to 6 of Category III below.

• It should be noted that:
  • Mass vandalism, which is an evaluation of vandalism based on the amount and extent of damage.
  • Serious vandalism, is the evaluation of vandalism based on the impact and consequences caused by the vandalism.
  • Both mass vandalism and severe vandalism are mutually exclusive with the evaluation of general vandalism. And for the same act of vandalism the evaluations of massive and severe vandalism can coexist.

By motivation

Intentional vandalism

The user repeatedly performs the same vandalism or refuses to communicate or clearly performs malicious vandalism. It is generally recommended that users who deliberately vandalize are dealt with heavily.

Accidental vandalism

The user has no subjective intention to vandalize but substantially constitutes vandalism.

Unknowing vandalism

Users vandalize because they do not understand the relevant guidelines and policies. As a rule, ignorant vandalism should be preceded by a reminder.

Maintenance personnel have the right to make their own adjudication judgments on a case-by-case basis. However, in principle, it should not be stricter than the above criteria.

Specific acts of vandalism

Vandal behavior includes the following types:

I: Threat to the site's operation

1. Adding or uploading information that involves politically sensitive, censorship-related, Explicit pornography and other content that should be removed immediately;
2. Creating pages that should be subject to speedy deletion
3. Not being a Moegirlpedia staff member and not having obtained written authorization from the staff but impersonating in the name of Moegirlpedia and its staff.
4. Use of possible system vulnerabilities to tamper with important pages such as the policy, the guidelines, or site-wide JS/CSS;
5. Intentionally displaying inappropriate content by bypassing abuse filters, anti-vandalism extensions such as blacklisting, one-party pass (blocking system), etc. (Contains operations performed under the guise of so-called "testing" without the permission of the administrator or STAFF).

II: Harassing others

1. Engaging in attacking personally, or to a group of people, or using slander or verbal abuse,
2. Adding content that relates to the reality of the privacy of other users or the undisclosed privacy of the person described in the article;
3. Harassing users through discussion pages, comment sections, emails or other ways.

III: Vandalizing page content

1. Adding commercial promotion content that exceeds the limits of what is reasonably necessary, such as introductions, corroboration, and citations;
2. Intentionally replacing normal content with large amounts of duplicate or expanded content, gaps, or incorrect content
3. Performing editorial actions that significantly affect the normal display of the page and are assessed by the administrator to constitute vandalism;
4. Adding misinformation, rumors, disproven theories or references;
5. Adding a large amount of content that is not relevant to what the page title refers to;
6. Moving pages under incorrect titles;
7. Create redirects under unrelated titles;
8. Mass deleting content that should not be deleted;
9. Creating articles that meet the requirements of Moegirlpedia:Scope of Inclusion#Not included;
10. Violating the Userpage policy, vandalizing others' userpages;

IV: Interfering with maintenance

1. Tampering with guidelines and guideline pages in violation of the procedures for developing and revising Policy, Guidelines and Essays
2. Tampering with the content of essay pages to make them contradict policies and guidelines, or tampering with the content of help pages so that it does not give correct instructions;
3. Impersonating Moegirlpedia staff, or performing operations that are only allowed to be done by Moegirlpedia staff without permission, or disguising said operation through other operations;
4. Insistence of repeated edit conflicts in defiance of the maintenance staff or in violation of other guidelines;
5. Abuse of sockpuppet accounts to avoid bans and continue vandalizing, evade user confirmation, etc;

V: Vandalizing discussion pages

1. Deleting and tampering with discussion page messages (subject to the provision of the discussion page guidelines);
2. Not leaving signatures, or leaving irregular signatures, and refusing to correct after repeated warnings;
3. Abusing proposals, permission requests, and banning appeals;

VI: Abusing authority

1. When maintenance staff perform operations such as rollback, deletion, banning, and their operations clearly violate the provision of each of the site's established policies and guidelines;
2. Serious consequences caused by incorrect use of authority;

'VII: Others

1. Other acts that the guidelines have stipulated merit a ban;

• • If the length of the ban is specified, otherwise it shall be determined on Ban length.

1. Other behavior that the maintenance staff think merit a ban (users who commit such acts should first be warned, and after they are deemed ineffective and banned, they must be reported in the Discussion board).

• The content here includes text, images (including user avatars), audio, video, etc. as follows;
• Deletion in this context refers to deletion, hiding page content, or non-maintenance staff marking a page for deletion.

Anti-vandalism measures

Warnings

Out of the principle of presumption of good faith, maintenance personnel should first warn users who commit acts of vandalism.

It is recommended that the warning discussion thread be titled with a warning so that other maintenance personnel can check it against the "Suspected Maintenance Personnel Leaving Warning" label.

It is recommended that maintenance personnel recuse themselves from issues that concern them, and avoid actions such as sending warnings or taking other measures to the other party they are arguing with.

If the maintenance staff believes that the user in question has committed the act in question due to being new/a mistake, etc. and has the will to correct it, it can also be used as only a reminder.

For users who perform Type I and Type II vandalism, warnings may not be needed: issue a direct ban and other measures.

Banning

Banning users is only one of the means to solve the problem or temporarily slow down the intensity of the conflict, not the end goal, and should not be abused. The improper use of banning can cause users to retaliate against Moegirlpedia in return, generating massive content vandalism or reputational damage.

Due to the IP allocation policy of network operators in mainland China, enabling the automatic IP blocking option has a certain risk of preventing a large number of users from editing due to chain blocking, so unless the vandalism is severe and implemented by an administrator, the option [Automatically block the last IP address used by this user, and any subsequent IP addresses they try to edit from] should not be used when blocking.

Currently, user groups with blocking rights are administrators and patrollers.

In particular, the pre-existing user page of a user that was permabanned with a public ban log should be replaced with {{Permaban}}.

Ban length

The number of times below refers to the number of times the same user has been banned in the ban log in the most recent year after adding the current ban (excluding the abnormal bans caused by abuse filters and abnormal bans caused by the maintenance staff testing mechanism, please pay attention):

In general:

• First time: 1-3 days;
• Second time: 7-15 days;
• Third time: 16-30 days;
• Fourth time (including repeated violations of the banned situation as stipulated by the policy): 31 days.

Contains content that is subject to the [content that should be removed immediately] section, or is a new user and contains personal attacks, slander, abuse, rumors, or advertising:

• Permanent ban.

Banning appeal

Banned users who disagree with the banning result can use the {{Help}} template on their own user discussion page to file an appeal, which will be reviewed by other maintainers.

Other users can also raise objections on the discussion board.

Protection

Protecting is also a response to vandalism, see Moegirlpedia:Protection policy.

Other

Administrators and STAFF can also use abuse filters, blacklisting, etc. to prohibit specific users from editing specific pages, adding related content, blocking specific words, etc. in order to prevent vandalism from expanding.

If there is a large, uncontainable amount of offending content in the comments section, the maintenance staff may consider deleting the contents in question and temporarily closing the comments section.