UDWiki:Administration/Misconduct

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This page is for the reporting of administrator (sysop) misconduct within the Urban Dead wiki. Sysops are trusted with a considerable number of powers, many of which have the capacity to be abused. In many circumstances, it is possible for a sysop to cause considerable havoc. As such, users are provided this page to report misconduct from the System Operators. For consistency and accountability, sysops also adhere to the guidelines listed here.

Guidelines for System Operator Misconduct Reporting

The charge of Administrative Misconduct is a grave charge indeed. If misconduct occurs, it is important that the rest of the sysop team be able to review the charges as necessary. Any charge of administrative misconduct must be backed up with evidence. The clearest evidence that can be provided for administrative misconduct is a clear discrepancy between the relevant action log (deletion, block, or protection log) and the archives of the relevant administration service page, and this is a minimum standard of evidence admitted in such a tribunal.

Misconduct is primarily related to specific Administrator Services, not standards of behavior. As such, situations including verbal attacks by sysops, while frowned upon, do not constitute misconduct. Sysops on a wiki are in theory supposed to have no more authority than a regular user - they merely have a greater scope of power. Personality conflicts between sysops and regular users should be treated just as a personality conflict between two regular users. If, in the course of such a conflict, a sysop abuses their administrative powers by banning a user, blocking or deleting a page without due process, that is misconduct, and should be reported to this page.

There is, however, an exception to this rule - excessive bullying, or attempts to treat the status of sysop as a badge of authority to force a sysop's wishes on the wiki may also come under misconduct. Any accusations of this should come with just as clear evidence, and for such an action to be declared misconduct, there should be a clear pattern of behavior across a considerable period of time.

All discussion of misconduct should occur on this page, not the talk page - any discussion on the talk page will be merged into this page once discovered. Once a misconduct case has been declared closed, a member of the sysop team other than the sysop named in the case will mete out the punishment (if deemed necessary), and then move the case to the Archive.

Administrative Abilities

For future reference, the following are sysop specific abilities (ie things that sysops can do that regular users cannot):

• Deletion (ie complete removal, as opposed to blanking) of pages (including Images and any other page-like construct on this wiki), through the delete tab on the top of any deletable construct.
• Undeletion (ie returning a page, complete with page history) of pages (including any other page-like construct on this wiki (Images are not included as deletion of an image is not undoable), through the undelete tab on the top of any undeletable construct
• Protection of pages (ie removing the ability of regular users to edit or move a particular page), through the protect tab on the top of any protectable construct.
• Moving of pages (ie changing a page complete with the page's history to a different namespace).
• Warning users reported in Vandal Banning.
• Banning of Users (ie removing the ability of a specific user to edit the wiki), through the Block User page.
• Editing of Protected pages by any means.
• Research IP activity using the CheckUser extension.
• (Bureaucrats Only) Promotion (providing the above abilities) of User to Sysop/Bureaucrat status.

If none of the above abilities were abused and the case doesn't apply for the exception mentioned above, then this is a case for UDWiki:Administration/Arbitration or UDWiki:Administration/Vandal Banning.

Example of Misconduct Proceedings

Sysop seems to have deleted Bad Page, but I can't find it in the Archives of either the Deletion or Speedy Deletion pages. The Logs show a deletion at 18:06, October 24th 2005 by a System Operator, but this does not seem to be backed up by a request for that deletion. I would like to know why this is the case -- Reporter 13:42, 28 Oct 2005 (BST)

The deletion was asked through my talk page. I give my Talk page as proof of this. -- Sysop 13:42, 28 Oct 2005 (BST)

It looks like the page that was deleted did not belong to the requesting user, so you were in no position to delete it on sight. -- Reporter 13:42, 28 Oct 2005 (BST)

You know the rules, Sysop. All deletion requests have to go through the Speedy Delete page. Next time, please inform the user where they should lodge the request. This is a clear violation, will you accept a one-day ban as punishment? -- Sysop2 13:42, 28 Oct 2005 (BST)

I'm not liking it, but I clearly broke the rules, I'll accept the ban. I'll certainly remember due process next time... Sysop 13:42, 28 Oct 2005 (BST)

As punishment for failing to follow due process, Sysop has been banned for a period of 24 hours. This will be moved to the Archive shortly. -- Sysop2 13:42, 28 Oct 2005 (BST)

Before Reporting Misconduct

Due to a the growing number of Non-Misconduct cases popping up on this page the Administration Staff has decided to compile a basic summary of what has been viewed as Not Misconduct in the past. Please read over UDWiki:Misconduct and make sure that what you are reporting is in fact misconduct before filing a report here.

Cases made to further personal disputes should never be made here, harassment of any user through administration pages may result in vandal escalations. Despite their unique status this basic protection does still apply to Sysops.

Misconduct Cases Currently Under Consideration

User:Krazy Monkey

Long time lurker, first time poster. Ok so way back last year a group of mine called amnesia was deleted. I complained. It wasn't restored on the grounds that it wasn't clear enough it was a groups page. But i was told if i remade the page as a clear group page that'd be fine. I did so and all was well until DDR was bored and in march decided a page that he said he was fine with having recreated [posted it on a/sd and judging by his comment drama seeking was most likely his motivation, but lets not go there.

Anyway no criteria is cited however if we try and read between the lines of ddrs post it seems he's putting it forward as a deletion work around. This is clearly invalid given that when i recreated it both him and bob approved of it as valid given that it was now a group page.

Basically i don't really care if cheese gets punished but i want my group restored, my groups template given back its link and my groups redirect fixed. Gracias. xoxo 12:49, 24 May 2010 (BST)

Oh yeah its obvs but i forgot to mention its misconduct coz he speedied something that didn't meet any of the crits since the disused group crit carked it. he also didn't cite what crit it was in the log or on a/sd so yeah. xoxo 12:53, 24 May 2010 (BST)

Correct English. That is all. --Thadeous Oakley 13:40, 24 May 2010 (BST)

Not Misconduct - Basically, from what I can tell, you made the page twice, and both times it could be classified as Crit 1 (I'd have felt more comfortable having it go through Deletions, I think, just to get some more opinions), thus, Cheese acted responsibly in speedy deleting it. DDR told you that it wouldn't be a Crit 6 if, when you made it again, you changed it to be an actual group page, with the assumption being that you'd flesh it out like, you know, an actual group page. You didn't, however, since it looks to me like you merely copy/pasted the group template and added one other one. So I can see where he was coming from in thinking that it was a Crit 6 as well, since your lack of substantial addition to the page could easily appear to be a thinly veiled attempt at circumventing the previous deletion.

As for your demands, it sounds to me like A/U is where you want to go. If you do actually follow DDR's advice and make an actual group page (rather than merely slapping on the trimmings of one), it won't be a Crit 1 or a Crit 6 any longer. —Aichon— 21:49, 24 May 2010 (BST)

One - Ha! i tried A/U last time to little effect. 2 - plz point me to this guidelines for an actual group page. The group is called amnesia ffs it was never going to have a 4000 word essay on the group on it. Its my group, i want it back! it was deleted for nooo reason apart from cheese submitting to ddr's drama stirring. If it had of A/D-ed i'd be pissed but this wouldn't be misconduct (obvs). Just because the submitter is a crat/sysop/prominant user (cbf looking up what it was at the time) doesn't mean cheese should just go ahead. Some basic research would have shown it was a case for deletions not a/sd. not cool. xoxo 12:23, 25 May 2010 (BST)

Not misconduct - many group pages with no meaningful content, nor evidence of any members whatsoever, get deleted... Crit 12 by proxy -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 23:45 25 May 2010 (BST)

ah k. so its not a crit anymore so just push crit 12s through on other crits. makes sense. cunt. xoxo 08:23, 28 May 2010 (BST)

User:Krazy Monkey

Archived as Not Misconduct. —Aichon— 02:58, 28 May 2010 (BST)

User:Yonnua Koponen

Archived as Not Misconduct. —Aichon— 01:31, 28 May 2010 (BST)

User:Krazy Monkey

Archived as not misconduct -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 08:50 20 May 2010 (BST)