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
Vandalism is viewed as an act that radically alters an article not in-keeping with its format and/or styling. Vandalism can be acts such as (though not limited to); deliberately altering/editing text within an article to be intentionally incorrect, adding offensive language to pages, removing all content from pages, creating pages with "fill in empty links" statements, removing infoboxes or drastically altering the formatting of a page.

Changing an article's name to an offensive title is also viewed as vandalism.

For more information see our Blocking policy which contains further details of actions that are considered vandalism.

If any users find actions they view as vandalism they may add the Vandalism template to the user's talk page altering them to edits viewed as vandalism.

If actions do not cease an Admin should be informed.

Vandalism response
If a user makes an edit that is viewed as a deliberate form of vandalism such as; offensive language, removing content from pages or drastically altering a page's layout on of the following actions will be enacted by an admin.


 * 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.

If a user creates a page of obvious vandalism such as; offensive language, "fill in empty links" or one word descriptions etc, one of the following actions will occur:
 * If the user is 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.

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 'Unintentional Vandalism' (see below for more information).

Unintentional vandalism
User who make edits that are considered unintentional vandalism are edits made to articles that may not be deliberate forms of vandalism. However these edits may contain no information, are copied from existing sources, contain plagiarised information, or are in violation of our Manual of Style or other policies.

If any users find edits they view as unintentional vandalism they may add the Vandalism template to the user's talk page altering them to edits viewed as vandalism.

If actions do not cease an Admin should be informed.

This warning should be placed on the user's talk page, 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 2 weeks.

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. These alterations should not substantially alter a user's user page. If unsure state your intentions on the user's talk 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.