All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here

I grant permission for all mods to update this page. (If we decide to make this a policy instead of a guideline, that will be widened while the page is still in my sandbox.) --Robkelk (talk) 18:25, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

That's a working title. Needs a Better Title.

Also needs grammar cleanup. A page with text in nothing but point form is for organizing ideas, not for presenting them.

Also needs input from other mods.

Also needs an introductory paragraph.

Guideline or policy? If the latter, needs input from all active users before going into effect, IMHO.

What is not grounds for a tempban

 * Disagreeing with a mod.
 * Making an honest mistake.
 * Removing - with an explanatory comment - incorrect text that was previously presented as fact.
 * Mentioning politics on a page where it's appropriate.
 * Being disruptive on a one-off basis.

More?

Grounds for a tempban on the first occurrence

 * Breaking the law. (Which if repeated is grounds for a permanent ban.)
 * Putting the wiki as a whole at risk.
 * Violating the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, or the Content Guidelines.
 * Spamming off-topic posts.
 * Bowdlerization of page content in a manner that suggests the presence of Censorware on the user's system.

Grounds for a warning on the first occurrence and a tempban on a repeated occurrence

 * Repeatedly ignoring a mod.
 * Refusing to learn from honest mistakes, or repeatedly making the same honest mistake. (Two ways to say the same thing.)
 * Removing without explanation text that was previously presented as opinion, on a page where opinions are acceptable (WMG, YMMV, etc.).
 * Removing without explanation tropes on a work page or works on a trope page.
 * Adding strong language to a page that shouldn't have it, or removing strong language from a page that should have it.
 * Adding lewdness to a page that shouldn't have it, or removing it from a page that should.
 * Being disruptive repeatedly - especially if no apology was made for the first occurrence.

More?

Duration of a tempban
Varies depending on the nature of the grounds (lawbreaking is worse than fiddling with strong language, for example) and whether the troper is a repeat offender.

Minimum one day for a minor first offence.

Maximum... how long before a "temp" ban becomes effectively a permanent ban? Six months? Longer? Shorter?