User:Train of Knowledge/Procedure

This is the procedure for reporting users who have disrupted Wikipedia.

When to report someone to AIV
IPs will be reported to AIV if they reach their final warning (vandalising/spamming after receiving a 4/4im warning) and users will be reported if their only edits appear to be vandalism/spamming and they have no good intentions to editing Wikipedia (and/or if they vandalised/spammed past their 4/4im warning). Behaviours that would warrant reporting to AIV include:
 * Abuse of tags (bad-faith addition or removal of tags such as, or  )
 * Unexplained removal of content (or even replacing such content with Patent nonsense)
 * Repeated uploading of copyrighted material (less purposeful/repeated instances of copyright violations will be reported to ANI)
 * Using uncivil or otherwise inappropriate edit summaries
 * Changing the format of the page maliciously without explanation
 * Deliberate attempts to game the system (circumvent enforcement of Wikipedia policies, guidelines and/or policies)
 * Vandalising using embedded text (link vandalism, placing malicious/offensive/disruptive/irrelevant messages or spam in hidden comments for editors to see)
 * Deliberately adding errors or blatant hoaxes to articles, particularly to BLPs.
 * Uploading shock images or NSFW images on places where they aren't supposed to be
 * Adding or changing external links to disruptive, irrelevant or inappropriate targets (this includes shock sites, virus sites or other NSFW/NSFL sites)
 * Creating attack pages, vandalistic pages or hoax pages.
 * Adding unusually large amounts of bad-faith content to disrupt viewing of the said page.
 * Moving pages to inappropriate titles.
 * Adding profanities, graffiti or patent nonsense to pages (except sandboxes).
 * Adding inappropriate external links (spamming, not necessarily shock sites, virus sites or NSFW/NSFL sites)
 * Talk page vandalism (deleting or editing comments on (user) talk pages other than your own unless they constitute vandalism, internal spam, harassment, personal attacks, legal threats, threats of violence or private personal information)
 * Vandalising templates (this will usually come with a 4im because vandalising templates causes massive damage)
 * Maliciously editing user pages (this is mostly prevented by a filter)
 * Vandalbots (these will be reported as either spambots or compromised accounts on sight)
 * Creating adverts masquerading as articles (if this is the account’s only purpose and there is no username violation)
 * Adding references with the aim of promoting the author or work referenced.

When to report someone to ANI
Reports to ANI must involve immediate or urgent instances of any of the following (usually after a final warning):
 * Copyright policy violations (not repeated)
 * Disruptive editing or stubbornness (edit wars will be reported separately to ANEW)
 * Harassment or personal attacks (unless they are threats of violence or instances of outing).
 * NPOV contradictions

When to report someone to ANEW
Reports to ANEW will be made if someone participates in an edit war and has violated the 3RR (generally) or 1RR (for specific topics covered by discretionary sanctions).

When to report someone to SPI
This is for suspected sockpuppetry. Reports will only be made if either the IP or account, the accounts or the IPS are used for malicious reasons. Malicious reasons include the following:
 * Creating an illusion of support
 * Editing project space
 * Circumventing policies
 * Strawman socks
 * Evasion of sanctions
 * Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts
 * Avoiding scrutiny
 * "Good hand" and "bad hand" accounts.
 * Editing while logged out in order to mislead
 * Misusing a clean start
 * Role accounts
 * Deceptively seeking positions of community trust.
 * Using more than one administrator account
 * Posing as a neutral or uninvolved commentator

When to report someone to UAA
If the username of a person is a blatant violation of the username policy as promotional, implying shared use, misleading (imitating a user, famous person, bot or sysop account), offensive or disruptive – the user will be promptly reported to UAA. If the username doesn’t violate the username policy, but comes close to it – a warning will be placed on the user’s talk page.