The Infinity Blade Wiki enforces a number of policies applying to behaviour and the use of site features. This extends across all local namespaces as well as the Discussions platform.
The Infinity Blade Wiki adheres to senior Fandom policy requiring full compliance on behalf of its users.
Other policies can be found on Community Central.
A user who displays misconduct may be blocked by an administrator in response to their behaviour, preventing them from performing editing-related actions and/or from posting on Discussions. Respecting common sense is the underlying principle that adhering to will significantly reduce the possibility of being blocked. Everyone - including staff - is subject to and must abide by the information stated in this section.
Procedure
Blocking is a countermeasure to prevent the expected continuation of misconduct, or to defuse an escalating situation of negativity or conflict between members. The function of blocking is to disincentivise undesirable behaviour, not to disenfranchise participation or to banish users. Resorting to blocking is regarded as unfavourable, and is preferred to be avoided, or else be minimal and temporary in nature, afterwards giving a user the chance to demonstrate a change and improvement to their behaviour.
- Warnings may be issued to inform an offending user of their misconduct where it is assumed that they were at least partly unaware of wrongdoing.
- A block's initial duration is determined at staff's discretion, and if subsequent blocks are applied relating to particular misconduct, these may increase up to a maximum duration of 1 month per block.
- Users are entitled to an explanation regarding the cause and conditions of blocks, and one can make a request on their message wall for staff to provide this (where permission to post on their own message wall while blocked is afforded, unless the privilege is abused, leading to it being revoked).
- An appeal may be pursued with the staff member who applied a block to have its details clarified and its duration potentially reduced, until that staff member deems that the matter has been adequately settled, where then no other staff member is obliged to intervene.
- Blocks may be reduced or lifted at any time without notification.
Unacceptable conduct
Conducting any of the following actions (including through automated processes) - by means of publishing, posting, linking to or uploading content - may result in being blocked:
- Transmitting inappropriate material: such that is recognisably obscene, discriminatory, violent, pornographic or illegal.
- Negatively contributing unproductively or destructively: such that is clearly unrelated, redundant, nonsensical or visually obstructive, or is transparent vandalism, or editing of others' user pages without permission.
- Persistent irrelevant promotion: such as of sites, services, products, individuals, groups, ideologies or behaviours which are not connected with the wiki's subject or are recognisably objectionable.
- Displaying intentionally antisocial behaviour: such as degrading abuse, sustained harassment, threatening retribution, slanderous gossiping, manipulative activity, or subtly belittling posture - towards other users, on-site or off-site where recognised.
- Expressing self-directed highly negative sentiment: such as self-loathing or self-degrading or suicidal sentiments; moreover, wilfully provoking a heated public response. Wikis are not adequately facilitated nor suited for discussing such associated issues.
- Undermining staff authority: deliberately disobeying or constantly disregarding staff instructions, making defamatory remarks against staff, or displaying overtly ignorant behaviour whose instances are repeated and lacking of general regard.
Prohibited account usage
Using an account(s) for the following is forbidden, and in addition to recurring blocks, may result in reports being made to Fandom staff:
- Inappropriate display of account information: including username, avatar or profile bio, for displaying or linking to content that is identifiable as an action of unacceptable conduct as stated in the above section. An account whose username is deemed as such (including being gibberish) must be changed when given such instruction by staff.
- Sockpuppetry: using an alternate account where the operator (who has a recognised 'main' account) fails to demonstrate the capacity for its responsible use, any action as deemed as such by staff which may include evading blocks, misleading other users, or stalling in the forthright disclosure of the operator's identity. An operator's identity may be verified - and hence permission be given to operate the alternate account - with double disclosure being provided, requiring that the alternate account is used to declare that "This is an alternate account of a named operator" (the main account username), and that the main account is used to declare that they operate a named alternate account. Declarations must be made on each account's own user page (not using one account to edit another account's user page), easily readable and unobscured.
- Impersonation: using the name of other users or distinguishable real life people, groups or organisations. An account whose username is deemed an act of impersonation must be changed when given such instruction by staff.
- Unsolicited personal information handling: including solicitation (e.g., asking someone for their age), underhanded acquisition or dissemination; actions which compromise users' privacy.
Deletion may occur suddenly and without warning. Pages may be marked for deletion by having Template:Delete included on them by editors. When reading the Deletion Log, the following reasons are likely mentioned:
- Unnecessary/insignificant: A page either completely unrelated or partially related but of low significance and not requiring a full article.
- Relocation/substitution: A page with content either being directly moved elsewhere or with similar information already so.
- Vandalism/spam: A page created solely out of misconduct.
- Redirect removal: Redirects should only be used in specific cases, else links should lead directly to a target page and redirects inadvertently created should be deleted where they occur.
- Other reason: Any other reason a page is deleted at staff's discretion.
Existing pages that are vandalised are not deleted, rather, their edits are reverted to the last proper version. This takes only the click of a button.
If you believe that a page has been deleted without good reason, you may make an enquiry to a staff member.
Staff have the ability to protect (lock) pages, preventing certain user groups from editing them. Page titles can also be protected, meaning that uncreated pages will not be able to be created under the protected title. Generally, protection is not commonly used so to allow all users to contribute towards the wiki's development. However, there are various circumstances which prompt page protection. When reading the Protection Log, the following reasons are likely mentioned:
- Complex page: Applied to pages containing complex code or technical information.
- High traffic page: Applied to pages subject to frequent editing by many users who may inadvertently cause mismanagement and inconsistency.
- Target of malicious edits: Applied to pages subject to frequent vandalism.
- Other reason: Any other reason a page is protected at staff's discretion.
There are three levels of protection, all users, autoconfirmed and administrator. Second level protection prevents unregistered and newly registered users (within four days) from editing, while third level protection prevents users without special user rights from editing.
If you believe that a page has been protected without good reason, you may make an enquiry to a staff member.
Files consist of various types of media including images, videos, audio and PDFs. Note that replacing files with versions of lesser relevance or quality may be regarded as vandalism.
When reading the Deletion Log, the following reasons are likely mentioned:
- Unused/insignificant: A file which is related but of low significance and lacking intended placement.
- Duplicated/superseded: A file duplicated or of lower quality to another file which is effectively able to replace it.
- Unrelated/inappropriate: A file either completely unrelated or one which constitutes unacceptable conduct.
- False/unverified: A file implied to be official or relevant but is unable to be verified or determined to be false.
- Corrupted/missing: A file that fails to function or display correctly.
- Illegal/copyright violation: A file that contains decisively illegal material or violates a distinctive copyright.
- Other reason: Any other reason a page is deleted at staff's discretion.