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[ / ]UnAnything Policy [ / ]

Last Updated: 2024 January 15

This section doesn't contain anything that a normal user may be banned for, though all users are encouraged to read them if they get banned. The following are a special set of rules that the people in power must follow. Breaking these will obviously result in loss of privileges and/or disciplinary action. Disciplinary action for staff misconduct is to be dealt with by other staff.

If you...

  1. Feel an administrator has violated any of these rules, simply contact a different administrator (don't contact the same one, because then you'd be stupid).
  2. Were banned for a reason not listed in the rules, contact Fandom. If the administrator has resigned or been demoted, contact an active administrator.
  3. Wish to become an administrator, please look into this guide.
  4. Don't know how to be an administrator, look into this other guide instead.

Rules when Enforcing Power

  1. You shall act in good faith whilst exercising powers.
  2. You shall not violate UnAnything policy when using your powers, or use your powers to violate UnAnything policy.
  3. You shall treat everyone fairly and equally under the UnLaw, as discrimination and favoritism are strictly prohibited.
  4. You shall not give esoteric, bizarre or unusual justifications for the exercise of authority. Justifications shall not mention user behaviors unless said user is 100% involved, or the behavior itself is mentioned in UnAnything Policy.

Issuing Warnings

  • Administrators may issue warnings for any violations.
  • Content Moderators may issue warnings only for violations related to pages or editing.
  • Discussion Moderators may issue warnings only violations related to discussions, blogs, forums, or other such communications.
  • Other types of UnAnything staff may not issue warnings.

Blocking Rules

  1. If you notice someone violating UnAnything policy, you must punish or otherwise warn the offender (unless another admin already did something).
  2. If you notice someone violating Fandom's Terms of Use, you must contact Fandom staff.
  3. You cannot block someone unless they themselves have violated UnAnything policy.
  4. Block lengths must be within prescribed the ranges. These ranges are typically indicated in red, and are usually categorized based on whether they are for first-time offenses or recurring violations. For subsequent offenses wherein the maximum time is no longer sufficient, you may issue longer blocks so long as they remain reasonable in duration.
  5. You may permanently block users if they show no improvement after continuous offenses/blocks.
  6. If a blocked user contacts you on the Community Central wiki (or if you left their message wall open) you must hear them out so long as they're behaving reasonably and acting in good faith.
  7. You must have reason for unblocking someone: especially if it's to pardon someone for rule violations (as it's not inherently apparent to others if someone has changed). Double jeopardy is forbidden.
  8. As you cannot block someone for not violating the rules, it is hereby forbidden to block yourself. ;)
  9. You may unblock yourself for any reason, or no reason at all.

Deletion Rules

  1. You must delete all unlawful, or explicit content off this wiki that you see. (Uploads of entire songs/movies, porn, etc)
  2. You cannot delete someone's pages if the only reason is because you don't like them; that is harassment.
  3. You may however delete the pages or contributions of users who are evading blocks.
  4. Deletion for anything else is permitted within reason.

Protection Rules

  1. You may protect UnAnything's image. (e.g. our logo, the background, the image of Captain 0)
  2. You may protect important pages (e.g. the main page, the rules, guides and help pages)
  3. You may protect widely used templates and/or images.
  4. You may protect pages that get vandalized somewhat regularly.
  5. You may protect images from being overwritten due to their generic name.
  6. You may protect pages from being made if they're inappropriate/offensive (e.g. Holocaust, Suicide, SJWs)
  7. You cannot protect another person's user page.
  8. You cannot protect pages to resolve disputes in your favor if the other side's version is reasonable.
  9. Protections for anything else may or may not be permitted, though make sure protection serves some important purpose.

Import Rules

You are allowed to import pages so long as the content is being properly licensed (e.g. CC BY-SA 3.0), and you do not import entire wikis, or anything more than 10 pages without consolidating with the rest of the UnAnything staff and coming to an agreement on importing wikis/the pages. Otherwise your imports will be reverted and you will be disbarred.

Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training Video

You must follow the instructions of this Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training Video when applicable to the UnAnything Wiki. If the video is unavailable to you, just know that you're expected to reasonably resolve conflicts.

Duties of the Offices

  • Do not fail to carry out the duties of an elected position as prescribed to you.
  • If you block The Chair for violations against the rules, or you impeach them for being incompetent, you must take on their duties and reasonably fulfill them until you find a suitable replacement, which can also be yourself.
  • You must give The Chair the power to perform their duties if they request it and you are capable of giving it without violating the rules. You may only give them user rights for the period they can carry out their duties.
  • You may not yield your time to The Chair: this isn't Congress.

Misc

  • All Content Moderators are granted "Administrator permission/approval" where required by the policy, unless otherwise stated.
  • Bureaucrats, whether they actually have Administrator rights are not, are to be treated as having Administrator rights by the policy for all intents and purposes.
  • If a section is not explained by UnAnything's rules, such as who can edit the rules, the autonomy/power to do stuff resides within the staff member and the permissions granted by their user rights, so long as they are acting reasonably with their power.
  • Major widespread changes to the wiki (examples being such as: alterations to the wiki's design, enabling/disabling extensions, allowing IPs to edit, banning certain pages to be made, or other things mentioned) require that the community be consulted and onboard with the change.
  • The Abuse Filter may be used by administrators to automate the enforcement of these rules, and/or to tag edits. Administrative actions executed by the filter are said to be done by the filter, except in extreme cases of a unfair or broken filter, in which case the author of the filter is responsible.

Bots

Bots are accounts Administrators and above are allowed to set up for purposes of automating large bulk edits for stuff like category expurgation. They are not sockpuppets by all accounts. Once a Bot has been set up and approved, it may freely edit the wiki and be given additional user rights, as well as be added to the UnAnything Staff page as a Bot. However there's some regulations for what you may not do with Bots. Bots may not:

  • Partake in discussions of any sort. Forums, talk pages, comments, message walls, none of that.
  • Block people.
  • Vote in polls.
  • Destroy the Wiki.
  • Be used if their Bot status is taken from them (within reason you're aware it's been taken away).
  • Be used after you've been demoted from UnAnything Staff (within reason you're aware you're no longer staff).

Sometimes things go wrong with Bots, and they malfunction. But remember you're still ultimately accountable for what they do, and may be punished if you don't clean up your mess. If you cannot handle a Bot, you might have it taken away from you.

User Rights

  • You may revoke anyone's user rights for any reason or no reason at all.
  • You may not "secretly" promote any user to Bureaucrat. Such an appointment is null, and will be demoted by Fandom staff immediately alongside yourself. They must ask you and your bureaucratic buddies first, then you all must agree that that user should a Bureaucrat before finally promoting them.
  • You may grant user rights (besides Bureaucrat) to users so long as it's evident the user with rights will be of benefit, the promotion isn't pointless/the user won't edit, and there isn't too much staff.
    • If final number of staff would be greater than 7.3, you may not promote more people.
    • Bots do not count towards the above staff limit, however may never receive Bureaucrat rights.
    • Temporary delegations of user rights exceeding no more than seven days length each month, for a single delegated user of the permanent staff member's choosing, excluding Bureaucrat rights, may be granted without regard to the staff limit.
    • The Chair, as described in Duties of the Offices, may be granted Content Moderator rights for the duration of their term. The Chair counts towards the staff limit.

Rules for the Rules

  • You may not alter anything part of or within the "User Rights" or "Rules for the Rules" sections of these rules without three fourths approval of said alterations from a Secure Poll† or Bureaucrat Consensus‡.
  • You may not add rules that conflict with other rules.
  • Do not add overly-specific rules for issues that don't exist.
  • Rules must exist to the foundations of the rules: [Link 1] [Link 2]
    • You may not delete these two pages or these revisions.
    • If these are somehow inaccessible or no trustworthy version/backup exists, you must come to a consensus of what the foundation of the rules is and pass it into these rules with a Secure Poll† or Bureaucrat Consensus‡.

† A Secure Poll is a poll that fulfills this criteria:

  • The poll must be held in the UnAnything Forums, under the Announcements category, and may not be a text post. This is the "post of the vote".
    • If you need to explain the purpose of the poll, you must put "(READ DESC)" at the very start of the title.
  • You must make the poll known in one of two ways:
    1. The post could be announced via Special:Announcements. The title of the announcement must be similar to that of the post of the vote, and must encourage users to vote.
    2. The post could be promoted on the top of the Main Page as a notice with a link to the poll. Language must be neutral, but must encourage the user to vote in the poll.
    • The post of the vote must become 1 week old before you can count it. If it is 8 days old, then it spoils and becomes insecure/void.
  • You may not make any adjustments to anything unless to entirely remove the poll.

If it is impossible for a secure poll be held under the previous definition, then the new criteria is this:

  • The poll must be held on a website that does voting by IP. The poll's settings must be set to be this way also.
    1. The post could be announced via Special:Announcements. The title of the announcement must be similar to that of the post of the vote, and must encourage users to vote.
    2. The post could be promoted on the top of the Main Page as a notice with a link to the poll. Language must be neutral, but must encourage the user to vote in the poll.
    • The poll must become 1 week old before you can count it. If it is 8 days old, then it spoils and becomes insecure/void.
  • You may not make any adjustments to anything unless to entirely remove the poll.

‡ Bureaucrat Consensus requires this criteria:

  • All bureaucrats must approve of said change(s), with their explicit agreement to said alteration being publicly visible on this wiki.
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