Suggestions[]
Suggestions:Remove the table of block times, it's overly bureaucratic. Also, allow for more individual-admin discretion (such as "Any admin may block any user that they determine is a detriment to the project") 22:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- Addressed and changed. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 22:28, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Warning users[]
I have noticed that some users have been warned, and have stopped vandalizing, yet they are still blocked. How many warnings should a user be given before they are blocked?--Matoro183 Talk - Contribs 19:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Fanon[]
Excuse me, but could you elaborate fanon? Thank you. 112.202.80.4 08:03, April 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry I accidentally posted my comment to your topic that may have appeared as a response, it was solely unintended. I moved it to a brand new one. -
Delaney Wang Talk Activity 00:01, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
== Blocking Policy (edited) ==
"Blocking is the means by which an administrator prevents a user account or IP address/range from editing the Harry Potter Wiki." I thought bureaucrats also have this right, should I request to add "or bureaucrat" after "by which an administrator..."? -
Delaney Wang Talk Activity 23:57, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
SUGGESTION: "Perseverance of Harrassment"[]
I'd like to make a suggestion to add on to the Blocking policy page. An additional reason I thought would fit is called "Perseverance of Harassment". According to the Once Upon a Time Fandom network policies, one of them say:
- "If you are blocked/banned on this Wiki, it is NOT appropriate to follow any Staff Member (or any user involved with the block/ban) anywhere on the Fandom network other than the Community Central to protest. This will result in your block being extended here.
- If you are blocked/banned on another Wiki, DO NOT follow the blocker here to complain. This will result in you being blocked here as well and possibly an extension on the Wiki in question."
I read through all the policies and they don't say anything about this here, and since I don't think many users here are aware of the above texts, maybe it would probably be a great idea to add this in? -
Delaney Wang Talk Activity 01:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, I'm glad that you made this suggestion, as I also wanted to talk about this after recent incidents surrounding Pelle Pirat. I don't know about others, but I'd say that it's equally damaging for HPW to talk about local issues in Community Central compared to other wikis, as it's just another platform that's completely invisible from HPW. There've been lots of interactions there initiated by Pelle Pirat about HPW business that span across several users' message walls and are very hard to keep track of. This is certainly not in line with the HPW spirit that anything related to the wiki has to be discussed in the wiki. And to me at least, being communicated on another platform, no matter what it is, by a user after their block here, is very annoying. If a user is blocked, they're no longer welcome to participate in any wiki business for the blocking period, and contacting other users in other sites is just circumventing what a block should entail. Their own talk page is typically still open even during the block, so if the user wishes to appeal the block or say something else, they can still do that there. Admins obviously do check Special:RecentChanges so it's not likely for the message to go unnoticed. MalchonC (talk) 04:02, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- People should only really deal with HPW matters on the HPW itself, staff should only be contacted in exceptional circumstances. RedWizard98 (talk) 19:48, 22 February 2024 (UTC)