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=== Usage guidelines === | === Usage guidelines === | ||
Administrators should never block to punish, but as a means of stopping disruption from an account {{Emdash}} usually in response to an account compromise, the account | Administrators should never block to punish, but as a means of stopping disruption from an account {{Emdash}} usually in response to an account compromise, an account holder being inebriated and editing improperly, the account holder lashing out emotionally, or the account holder acting abusively in response to some kind of falling out {{Emdash}} as but a few examples. Blocking is performed at [[Special:Block]]. | ||
* Blocks should always be marked as <code>Sitewide</code>. | |||
* The box <code>Editing their own talk page</code> should always be ticked. | |||
* Blocks should always be given a legible reason. | |||
* Expiration is at administrator discretion. Generally speaking, most of the examples above would warrant an indefinite block (an inebriated editor perhaps a day or two, someone emotional perhaps a week; these are recommendations, not rules). | |||
The remaining fields on the block page are not relevant. | |||
== Interface administrator == | == Interface administrator == | ||