Looney Tunes Wiki:Bans and Blocks

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Last revision: 3/1/23

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Blocking a user, also known as anvil dropping, is a method that acme heads can use that prevent users from editing the Looney Tunes Wiki. Most accounts are blocked due to disruption of the database. An indefinite block is the punishment set for a user that prevents them from editing the Looney Tunes Wiki for an indefinite period of time. However, with time and good reasoning, it may be retracted. Blocks under 7 days cannot be appealed, unless in error from the blocking acme head. If a user's block is longer than 7 days, they must sit out their block for 7 days, and then may file a request for their account to be unblocked. Unless in error from the blocking acme head, all blocks must be sat out for 7 days before sending an {{Unblock}} request. Those who request before 7 days will have their unblock requests automatically declined. This restriction is for users who were blocked to go back to the wiki policies and read and make sure they understand them thoroughly before they may resume editing.

Please note if your account is globally blocked by FANDOM, you will not be able to edit the wiki as a result.

General Information

Any user may report to an Acme Head for any major disruption. They should supply credible evidence of the circumstances warranting an anvil drop. Wizards and Heads are never obliged to place an anvil drop and are free to investigate the situation themselves. Because anvil drops may be reviewed and appealed, it is often important that the blocking and reviewing heads and wizards as well as additional Acme Staff communicate with each other about the situation.

Blocked users whose blocks are longer than 7 days can appeal by using {{Unblock}} on their talk page. Except in cases of unambiguous error or if an account has already been disabled, Acme Heads should not undo other Acme Head's anvil drops without prior discussion. If the user’s Message Wall access has been revoked, they may message one of the Acme Heads on Community Central, assuming they are willing to talk. Keep in mind that unblock requests may be declined by an Acme Staff member. In that case, the user is eligible to submit another request, or in the case of temporary blocks, wait til their block expires. Repeated abuse of the unblock requests may result in Message Wall access removal. If possible, a second Acme Staff member should review a second unblock request, though that is not always possible.

Please note that unblock requests can be reviewed by all Acme Staff members, including rollbacks and content moderators. Should they approve the unblock, it should also be discussed with an Acme Head or Wizard before lifting the block.

If a blocked user's account has been disabled by Wikia/FANDOM (their contributions page has a light red banner reading "This account has been disabled by user choice, or by FANDOM"), it is recommended that the account be unblocked. This way, it's easier to keep track of blocked users (The disabled users by Wikia/FANDOM won't be able to edit the wiki anyway).

Acme Heads should not block users because they do not like the user in question, for no reason, or have been blocked on other wikis. They must violate one of our policies to be anvil dropped here. However, Acme Staff are allowed to block sockpuppet accounts of users who have had their main account globally locked by FANDOM/Wikia, even if they have not edited or been blocked here at all. Acme Staff can also sanction the offending party with a longer block should they have a history of vandalism or rule-breaking on other wikis hosted by Wikia, especially a Looney Tunes Wiki affiliate.

Site blocks

Site blocks are blocks on the user preventing them from editing anything on the Looney Tunes Wiki except for their talk page. The talk page access may be locked if the user continues to abuse it after being blocked. Site blocked users may not create another account to circumvent their block. This will result in the sockpuppet account being permanently banned, and additional sanctions on the main account will be enforced.

Partial blocks

Partial blocks are blocks on the user preventing them from editing certain namespaces, such as the discussion boards, articles, or their user page or blog. Partial blocks are generally used on users who only join to post on their user page or the discussion boards, but have good faith otherwise. This is to encourage them to edit the wiki to get their rights back. In addition, partial blocks may be issued if the user in question has good faith, but needs to be blocked from editing a certain page, or if the user only needs to be blocked from editing one page or one page type. Partially blocked users may not create another account to circumvent their partial block. This will result in the sockpuppet account being permanently banned, and the partial block will be upgraded to a temporary site block, or in the case of an indefinite partial block, an indefinite site block.

Global blocks and global locks

Global blocks are placed by FANDOM/Wikia staff who work for the company for disruptive editing across the FANDOM network. A user who deliberately vandalizes or breaks rules across multiple wikis, or engages in long-term sockpuppetry is eligible to be globally blocked. If your account is globally blocked by FANDOM, you will not be able to edit the Looney Tunes wiki as a result, or any other FANDOM-hosted wiki. If you are globally blocked, but not blocked here, do not circumvent FANDOM's Terms of Use by creating a new account to edit here. You will need to wait til the global block expires, if temporary, or you will need to appeal it successfully through FANDOM. While this is extremely unlikely, any user who is caught violating FANDOM's global block policy will be blocked indefinitely on this wiki and your sockpuppet account will be reported to FANDOM staff.

When a user is globally blocked, in such cases, you will see a ribbon in their contributions page that reads "This user is blocked across the FANDOM network." If a user is indefinitely globally blocked, after about 180 days, their account will be globally locked, which means the user will be unable to log in to their account permanently. You will see a ribbon in their contributions page that reads "This account has been disabled globally by user choice, or by FANDOM." Please note that users who choose to disable their account by choice will also have this banner, but that does not mean they are globally blocked and are welcome to create a new account if they wish to return. This is NOT the same if a user's account has been globally locked. Users who are globally blocked will need to appeal their global block through FANDOM successfully to be able to return to editing FANDOM wikis.

Reasons

Site blocked accounts will have the IP in use disabled from making a new account within 24 hours. Acme Staff has every right to report to FANDOM/Wikia staff of the abuse of IP. Accounts may be blocked for, but are not limited to:

• Persistent personal attacks (racist comments, hate speech to someone else)
• Persistent spam/vandalism (Though obvious blatant spam/vandalism warrants anvil drop without warning, such as removing page content or removing references for no reason)
• Edit warring or revert warring
• Violating the multiple users rule
• Violating any of our rules and policies
• Removing warnings or notices by Acme Staff (this will also earn a block on your wall for the period of time without warning)
• Accounts with inappropriate usernames
• Not being here to build an encyclopedia (this includes, but is not limited to, joining here merely to advertise or discuss your block on another wiki, or only editing your user page or posting on the discussions boards, and not editing the wiki at all)

Indefinite Blocks

An indefinite block (or anvil drop) is a block with no expiration date, but it is not permanent, except in the case of a user who was blocked indefinitely again after being unbanned (see below). Please note that this is not the same as a user who was blocked indefinitely, unblocked, and then blocked indefinitely again.

Users who want to take our standard offer for indefinite blocks agree not to:

• Encourage others to do edits for you for 180 days
• Attempt to create or use multiple accounts for the purposes of circumventing the block/ban for 180 days (if your ban extends to the LTW Discord server, rejoining with another account will count as evasion and the timer will reset on the day of)

If an indefinitely blocked user who accepts our standard offer wishes to be unblocked, they can submit a block appeal after 180 days. However, there is no guarantee that a user will be unblocked simply by waiting out the minimum period. In some cases, a longer period may be necessary for the user to regain community trust and familiarize themselves with the wiki policies.

Please note that if even one Acme Staff member opposes your block, you will remain blocked, and will be considered "banned" from the wiki. However, you are free to await another standard offer and appeal again after 30 days. Please see the Bans section of this policy to learn more.

Bans

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Bans are established by the LTW editing community or Acme Staff on a user. Blocked users may not be banned, but all banned users will be blocked from editing the wiki indefinitely. Please use the vandalism reporting page to start a community ban discussion for a user. Bans should only be in place for users who have committed serious offenses, such as long-term sockpuppetry, or persistent violation of the policies. To be eligible for a ban, a user must have at least been blocked once, regardless of how long the block is or what is was for.

If a majority of the editing community support a ban, the user in question will be blocked from editing and will be placed on a ban from editing the Looney Tunes Wiki. In addition, this may follow to affiliated wikis. If all Acme Staff support the ban, it overrides community consensus and the user in question will be banned. Acme Staff may issue a ban without community discussion if the user commits long-term sockpuppetry.

A banned user may also have their talk page access removed. Banned users will have to take the standard offer listed above, waiting 180 days with no sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, and may appeal the same way as a blocked user. However, banned users must get 100% support from Acme Staff. If even one Acme Staff member disapproves, the user will remain banned, but may appeal again after 30 days. If a banned user has lost access to their talk page, they may message an acme head or wizard on their Community Central page. The acme head or wizard will not unblock the banned user, but instead will give them back their talk page access to submit a community appeal.

For those who are eligible to be unbanned and successfully appeal, being blocked indefinitely again for any reason will be a permanent ban, and the user will be unable to appeal for any reason. Banning is only in the most serious cases, and a second ban after the initial ban reinforces the fact that the user in question is clearly not here to build an encyclopedia.

List of banned users

• User:Hobo250 - Persistent long-term sockpuppetry. Has a habit of uploading duplicate video files. Admins should delete all contributions and place an indefinite block without warning. FANDOM abuse filter is detected to block accounts with the "User:Hobo###" pattern in their names.
• User:21hbcm4zvk3iqxqaacuzhgd5i - Persistent long-term sockpuppetry. Has a habit of wanting to post international Danish dubs despite not being allowed on the wiki. Will attack various pages and their talk pages with various edits if their intended page is locked. Admins should revert all edits from this user and place an indefinite block without warning. This user is also known for doing the same thing onto other wikis as well. FANDOM abuse filter is detected to globally lock this user's sockpuppets, but it does not take effect right away.
• User:Penparody - Persistent sockpuppetry on Discord server. Has a habit of making alternate accounts to rejoin the Discord server and harass users. Acme Staff, do not hesistate to ban from the Discord server if they join again. Rollbacks and content moderators should also note the Wikia/FANDOM account associated with the Discord sockpuppet, so they can be blocked on the wiki as well. Admins should place an indefinite block without warning.

Duration

Everyone, sans vandalism-only account creators, is eligible to receive at least one warning ({{Warning}}) before being blocked from editing. A second warning ({{WarningFinal}}) may be issued for continued violations as a last resort, but a block may be issued by an Acme Head without this second warning. Factors such as how long a user has been on the site (users who have been here for a long time should know better), the infraction in question, and whether the user was clearly acting in good faith can also dictate whether a user receives a warning first or is blocked outright. The final decision is up to the blocking Acme Head/Wizard. Please keep blocked users' message walls open for them to appeal or reply to the conversations unless they were blocked for removing warnings from their message wall. Blocks longer than 1 year should be indefinite. Setting someone to be blocked until year 2030 or 100000 is not permitted.

IP addresses are automatically locked from editing for 24 hours after the user's account has been blocked. Because IP is shared around a certain brick-and-mortar (building), or multiple buildings, there may be more than one user who edits on that address. In the case of persistent violators, should it need to have a duration longer than 24 hours or one full day, then let Wikia staff know. Wikia staff can extend the block to the entire IP address if vandalism becomes a problem. IP addresses should only be blocked for a maximum of 365 days, or 1 year.

Category 1 offense

• Swearing
• Failing to cite sources
• Using the article talk pages as a forum/discussion board
• Only contributing to the discussion boards/user page/user blog and not editing the wiki
• Creation of new categories (note that creating categories based on years or "Cartoons directed by", "with layouts by" or "animated by" for a new person is completely acceptable, and is the only exception to this rule)
• Edit warring (3 reverts on the same article within a 24 hour period made by the same user will result in a temporary block)

Level 1 offenses typically heed a warning followed by a short temporary block. Attempting to create accounts to circumvent a block will only result in those accounts being indefinitely blocked, and may result in a community ban.

Category 2 offense

• Vandalism
• Spam
• Trolling
• Removing warnings (or block messages) from Message Wall (All violations will result in a 7 day block without Message Wall access without warning)

Category 2 offenses are more serious and may result in a warning followed by a block of various timeframes. Attempting to create accounts to circumvent a block will only result in those accounts being indefinitely blocked, and may result in a community ban.

Category 3 offense

• Pornography
• Privacy policy violation
• Child pornography
• Sexualization of minors
• Harassment
• Threats
• Impersonation
• Sockpuppeting

All category 3 offenses may lead to an immediate indefinite block.

Unacceptable username policy

Users with unacceptable usernames may be blocked based on an administrator's discretion for reasons such as profanity, sexual references, impersonation, personal attacks, and references to notorious people. In this case, should the user have not violated any other policies, a soft-block will apply so the user will be allowed to create a new account with an acceptable username. If the offending account's username is changed to a more acceptable one, the user will be unblocked.

Usernames with personal attacks directed at another user will be blocked indefinitely. As this is vandalism, this will be a hard-block, meaning the user cannot create a new account and must appeal their block. Repeated violations of this policy will result in the user’s sockpuppets and main account being reported to SOAP for spam.

Unblock process

A user may request an appeal to have their account unblocked by using {{Unblock}} on their talk page. For temporary blocks, any acme head or wizard is free to unblock as they see fit. For indefinite blocks, all acme staff must approve of the user being unblocked. All levels of acme staff are eligible to review unblock requests. Rollbacks and content moderators are allowed to decline an unblock request. The blocking acme head should preferably not be the one reviewing the first request, nor should they be the one who is unblocking the user, in most cases. In addition, if a request is declined by one acme staff, any future requests should be reviewed by other acme staff members when possible. Keep in mind, that all acme staff have to approve of the unblock should the blocked user in question be placed in contention for an unblock.

However, for a community ban, the ban appeal has to get at least 60% support from users (preferably staff members) on the wiki. After 24 hours, if less than 60% of users support the appeal, the ban will remain in place, though for a discussion with smaller and larger amounts of users, it may vary. Users are welcome to submit another request if they have good reasons that staff should unblock them.

If users mess around with their talk page (i.e., spamming or harassing), they can have their talk page access removed. When anvil dropping a user, always leave their wall open unless they are messing with it, such as spamming or removing warnings. An exception to this is if the user is sockpuppeting and you have removed their talk page access from their main account.

Because the block/anvil drop for removing warnings from Acme Staff is always 7 days for every offense, those blocks are NOT negotiable.