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:Misanthropy

This edit is in breach of rules and precedent. It's a protected page, and while adding his joke group is legal, the rest isn't; Making fun of the other groups and fucking up any pretense of NPOV a disambiguate page should have. Using your powers for a joke is not something that should be encouraged. The fact that it's a protected page makes it misconduct. If it weren't it would still be bad, as a disambig is suppose to be of Neutral Point of view.

He's been warned about something similar before, where he was told protected pages are only to be edited out of administrative need. And I while like the guy personally, it seems he has trouble taking his role as a sysop more serious. The former example was handled on his talk page, but looks like Misanthropy needs to be treated a bit more roughly then that. --Thadeous Oakley 17:12, 11 August 2010 (BST)

LOL -- Adward  17:18, 11 August 2010 (BST)

I can see the humor in it, I honestly do, but it's wrong, as I summarized in the bolded sentence. Fun stuff should be done within the rules. --Thadeous Oakley 17:19, 11 August 2010 (BST)

He was making an edit to reflect the creation of a new group. Clearly.-- Adward  17:21, 11 August 2010 (BST)

And at the same time make fun of the others. Do you think the disambig is NPOV now? --Thadeous Oakley 17:23, 11 August 2010 (BST)

It's a lot better.-- Adward  17:23, 11 August 2010 (BST)

Thank you for your input. --Thadeous Oakley 17:24, 11 August 2010 (BST)

Meh. If you want to extend this Umbrella circle jerk outside of its confines, be my guest, but if you honestly think this is all as serious as you're taking it, I'm not the one who's losing here. Anyway, all that can really be called for here is two removal of about two NPOV words from a protected page, which wouldn't even have needed protected if you kids could keep teddy in the pram. 17:25, 11 August 2010 (BST)

That. You also fail at wikimeme. You also have vested interest. I also like ham. Edit conflict mis bastard.-- Adward  17:26, 11 August 2010 (BST)

Hilarious. --Dawkins ^{[T][P!][W!][♞]} is currently: having his arm torn off by a zombie. 17:32, 11 August 2010 (BST)

Misconduct - From the guidelines and precedent. -- Cheese 18:36, 11 August 2010 (BST) Misconduct Cheese got it. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 18:36, 11 August 2010 (BST)

User:Nubis

Archived as Misconduct. —Aichon— 21:44, 4 August 2010 (BST)