| EBTHK's Policies and Guidelines |
|---|
| Content Standards |
| Editing Rules Neutral Views Available for verification Privacy protection State the source |
| Format Guidelines |
| Editing Guidelines Route info template system |
| Managements |
| Deleting Rules and Guidelines Page Protection Guidelines Image Usage Guidelines |
| Attitude on User Communication |
| User Page Guidelines Etiquette and Civility Don't resort to legal threats No personal attacks |
| User Violation Behaviours |
| Vandalism Copyright Infringement User Offence Policy and Blocking |
| Resolution of Disuputes |
| Consensus Resolving disuptes Preventing Common Mistakes |
The User Offence Policy and Blocking is a policy to make people aware of the rules and their consequences. Users should read this policy before editing.
Warnings and reminders are for administrators to remind users to correct their mistakes. Blocking is a means for administrators to prevent users from participating in the editing of EBTHK, which is also known as banning or censoring.
The sole purpose of banning and warning is to protect the purpose, prevent vandalism and guarantee the user's privileges, and should never be used to penalise the user. However, they are not limited to these cases, especially if they are specifically provided for in other guidelines. However, while the cases listed in the table below are relatively less controversial, other cases of blocking are more likely to be controversial, and if there is uncertainty, the block should not be enforced or other administrators should be consulted before the block is enforced.
Users can report acts violating rules in the Vandalism Report Area, and should provide sufficient evidence to do so. However, administrators have the right to refuse to enforce proposed bans and may conduct independent investigations.
Conditions that require warnings or blocks[]
Warning Guidelines[]
Minor offences: These are behaviours that break the rules but are less serious, first offenders will be reminded of the rules, and for repeated offences a warning or a block not exceeding one week can be imposed.
| Type of offence | Description |
|---|---|
| Improper uploading of files stored in this site | Uploading pictures, audio-visuals or other files that are completely unrelated to the content of the articles or that relate to the privacy of individuals |
| Uploading files but not processing them | Files uploaded but not processed (e.g., placed in pages, image libraries, etc.) |
| Violation of Editing Guidelines | Users repeatedly violate editing guidelines when editing (e.g. uploading files with the camera's built-in default camera name or meaningless words). |
| Editing conflicts | A user's edits repeatedly cause editing conflicts for others. |
| Excessive links | Inserting lots of redundant internal links in the editor |
| Additions and deletions | (Unintentional) addition or deletion of spaces, blank lines and other meaningless words in editing |
| Abuse of visual edits | Destruction of the source code structure when using the Visual Editor |
| Negligent vandalism | User editing inadvertently causes corruption on other pages (e.g., template modification fails without being detected) |
| False reports | No apparent reason and/or no concrete evidence to report the user |
| Constantly changing header pictures of buses | Constantly changing the header pictures of buses in articles to meet individual requirements. |
| Meaningless posts | The act of posting meaningless threads, such as nonsense threads, or threads with only a random word or number as the title and no other content |
| Pretending (not impersonating) administrators | Non-admin users pretending to have the power to punish others, e.g. by warning bans, sending warnings to users, etc. |
| Violation of neutrality | Our goal is to maintain a neutral point of view. We should aim to present all sides of an argument fairly, rather than pointing out or implying that any one side is correct in an article. If you have a negative opinion about something, it's best to keep it to your personal page or discussion boards, rather than on regular pages |
| Foul language | Use of unfiltered foul language, but it is possible to replace some of the words in the foul language with asterisks, tic-tac-toe symbols, etc. (If you need to add words to an article when editing it, or if you find foul language when editing it, please contact an administrator to take care of it, and don't try to force the editing.) |
Blocking Guidelines[]
Moderate offences: The offence is considered more serious but not so serious as to warrant a permanent block, which may result in a user violating the rules of this category being blocked immediately without warning. Depending on the severity of the offence, a warning may be issued instead of a block.
| Type of offence | Description | Valid block time |
|---|---|---|
| Copyright infringement |
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One day to half a year (6 months) |
| Editing others' user pages | Editing another person's user page without permission, unless:
|
One day to 3 months |
| Edit wars | Two or more users repeatedly falling back on each other's edits (i.e., reverting more than three times) without any discussion (with the exception of reverting vandalism edits). |
Aggressor: two weeks Participant: one day to one week |
| Sexually explicit content | Discussing sexual terms or topics | 3 days to one week (7 days) |
| Racism and hate speech | Using hateful behaviour against a person's race, sex, orientation, religion, etc. | One week to one month |
| Harassment and bullying |
|
One week to one month |
| Enquiry/disclosure of personal information | Behaviour that asks other users for their private information (age, location, phone number, etc.) or leaks information that others say about themselves (regardless of whether the information is correct or not) | One day to one month |
| Making matters worse | Behaviour that intentionally makes other users feel guilty about their faults, even though they are solely responsible for their own behaviour or have been sanctioned by the EBTHK admins and have nothing to do with other users | One to two weeks |
Serious offences: This will result in the user being blocked immediately and may be referred to Fandom staff for a global block.
| Type of offence | Description | Valid block time |
|---|---|---|
| Malicious vandalism | Multiple page vandalism or large scale rule breaking on community boards (e.g. inserting meaningless characters, shuffling pages, clearing pages) | Permanent |
| Advertisement promotion | Inclusion of inappropriate external links in the text for self-promotional purposes | Permanent |
| Mature content | Publishing or adding to pages and boards media that contain inappropriate content for children/mature content, such as pornography, excessive gore, or other explicit content, etc. | Permanent |
| Impersonation |
|
Permanent |
| Cross-wiki vandalism | Users going to other Encloypedia of Hong Kong (EHK) series wikis or other wikis to continue vandalism | Permanent |
| Planning of cross-wiki vandalism | Plan to vandalise other Encloypedia of Hong Kong (EHK) series wikis or other wikis, and any action to do so is considered the same as cross-wiki vandalism | Permanent |
| Abusing sockpuppet accounts | Using multiple alternate/puppet accounts to perform the above vandalism behaviours | Permanent |
| Vandalism using proxy IPs | Using proxy IPs to conduct vandalism | Permanent Proxy IP: within 24 hours |
| Inducing epilepsy | Posting images, GIFs, APNGs, films or any other form of media with flashing lights that cause people with epilepsy to suffer from seizures induced by light stimuli. These behaviours can seriously harm them and in rare cases can even lead to death. | 5 days to one month (Unintentional) Permanent (Intentional) |
Special Offences[]
These behaviours are different from the above mentioned offencs and will depend on the user's situation as to the duration of the ban and may be referred to Fandom staff for action.
| Type of offence | Description | Valid block time |
|---|---|---|
| Minors | In accordance with Fandom's Terms of Use, the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the European Union's General Data Protection Agreement, and the California Consumer Privacy Act, users under the age of 13 may not create a Fandom account. If you reside in California or the European Union, the age requirement is 16.
According to Fandom's terms of use, administrators will not ask a user's age |
Until the user turns 13/16 years old (or 13/16 years if the user did not provide when they will turn 13/16) |
| Inappropriate username | Username(s) with misleading, promotional, abusive, vandalistic, Hong Kong places and things or domain names and email addresses with these names in it | Until the user changes the appropriate username |
Remarks[]
- In case of cross-wiki vandalism or massive vandalism, please notify Fandom staff immediately in order to detect and revert the vandalised content and stop the vandalism, and ban the users of cross-wiki vandalism or vandalism.
- The effective time of the block mentioned in the penalty plan depends on the seriousness of the violation.
- If there is a type of violation that is not mentioned in the above table, the administrator will deal with it according to the actual situation.
Appealing[]
If you think a ban is unreasonable, please file a complaint with the administrator's message wall, but if the ban is for one of the following reasons, please file a complaint in the Community Central.
- Serious offences
- Spammers
- Violation of Terms of Use
- Major vandalism
- Underage users
The user offence behaviours are set by referencing from Warnings and Blocks on Roblox wiki, Wiki Guidelines on Jailbreak wiki and the Block Guide of User Lxazl5770 on Minecraft wiki, and used in accordance with the terms of the CC-BY-SA licence.