Tardis:Vandalism policy

The TARDIS Index File's Vandalism policy is continually evolving and being updated, below are some guidelines related to vandalism both intentional and unintentional. Other topics covered are unhelpful and unconstructive content additions, leaked and unsourced information.

Vandalism
If a user creates a page of obvious vandalism e.g: swearing; "fill in empty links"; etc, one of the following actions will occur:
 * If they are an unregistered user their IP will be blocked for upwards of 2 weeks.
 * If the user is registered they will be blocked for upwards of 1 month.

If a user alters/edits/removes all content from the page in a deliberate form of vandalism then one of the following actions should occur:
 * If they are an unregistered user their IP will be blocked for upwards of 3 months.
 * If the user is registered they will be blocked for upwards of 6 months.

On occasion new users may accidentally remove all content from a page, a user's edit history will in these instance be analysed to see if their actions fall within 'Unhelpful content and Unintentional Vandalism' (see below for more information).

Unhelpful content and Unintentional Vandalism
Unhelpful content and unintentional vandalism are articles which do not serve a purpose and have no information, are incredibly sparse in information or existing articles that have had all their information removed.

A warning such as:
 * "Please do not add unhelpful or unconstructive content. This is a warning."


 * Should it continue


 * "Please do not add unhelpful or unconstructive content. If you continue to in your actions you may be blocked from the TARDIS Index File for [amount of time]."

These warnings should be placed within the user's talk page with a link to the page(s) as an example, also in order to assist the user the Welcome template (for registered users) or the Welcome IP template (for non-registered users) should be present.

If a user's actions continue following warnings, the user will be blocked for a period upwards of 1 month.

Altering of personal pages and postings
This section relates to users altering other user's personal pages, be it their User page, posts in the Forum or on article talk/discussion pages.

In all cases other users should not change or adjust anything that has been written by individual users on their personal pages, if a user believes something is incorrect, inflammatory or otherwise offensive a message should be placed on the user's talk page, or a message on an Admin's talk page making them aware of the problem.

Users may delete comments left on their own talk page by other users, however altering, editing or rewriting another user's comments is considered vandalism.

If a user persists in altering another user's personal pages, the user may be blocked for a period upwards of 2 hours until an understanding can be achieved.

On occasion editors may alter a user's user page to enact minor changes during the editing of the larger wiki, these include changing the names of article pages (and the pages that link to them) and removing categories that do not belong on user pages. This alterations should not substantially alter a user's user page. If unsure state your intentions on the user's user page and allow them to make the decisions.

Leaked images and unsourced information
Leaked images and unsourced information should not be posted, any information posted on the Doctor Who Wiki - TARDIS Index File should have a Doctor Who media source (ie TV, novel, comic strip, audio drama, etc) or a factual based information source. Blog sites and fan sites are not considered credible sources of information.