User:Acalamari/IWN

Additional Noticeboard
Inappropriate Warnings Noticeboard (IWN)

Due to the problem of some users being incorrectly accused of vandalism, a new section should be added to the noticeboards that would deal with situations where users believe they’ve been falsely accused of vandalism. Here, they could ask for the intervention of other users to review the accusation, and prove whether they vandalized or not.

The noticeboard will not be limited to administrators reviewing the accusations; any user with enough experience should be able to tell whether a warning is false or not. Since there are a lot of administrative backlogs, limiting this section to administrators would be illogical.

Users should be treated appropriately; those who have had their cases reviewed, and actually did vandalize should be given a polite notice to say they did vandalize. Users who have placed illegitimate warnings on other users' talk pages should be given a notice saying that they should be more careful when placing warnings.

Level 1, and possibly Level 2 warnings should be modified to provide a link to this noticeboard, assuming that this proposal is accepted. That way, if a user feels that they’ve been falsely accused, they will have a link to follow.

Advantages of IWN

 * It will reduce backlogs on other noticeboards, such as AN and AN/I. Users will no longer have to go to them in order to question warnings.


 * Edit wars on user talk pages over illegitimate warnings will be reduced; resulting in fewer blocks and biting on potential good-faith and decent contributors.


 * The noticeboard will show new users that most other users are actually willing to help them, as opposed to want to bite them.

Disadvantages of IWN

 * Assuming templates were changed to provide a link to this noticeboard, real trolls and vandals will come to it; which means IWN might be more at risk of trolling and vandalism than the other noticeboards.


 * There will be misuse of the noticeboard, besides trolling and vandalism; good-faith users might sometimes be confused with IWN, such as asking something that the noticeboard doesn’t deal with. However, this issue can easily be resolved by kindly directing them to the proper place to deal with their problem.


 * There could be times where the noticeboard could be inactive. This is unlikely, however, since many users are warned about vandalism every hour, so the noticeboard could actually become indefinitely backlogged.