AdministrationManual:Blocking

Blocking a user is restricting the user's ability to edit this wiki, this page will teach you step by step what you should do while you are blocking somebody, and when you should block somebody.

1. Confirmation
This is the first step to blocking a user. You must confirm that they did the action that they need to be blocked for, this is usually an easy step.

2. Check their warnings
Note: Only use this step if the offense does not immediately warrant a block if the user has done an offense, and they should be blocked, do it right away! Check the offending user's talk page (check the histories too), for any warnings that may have been previously given. If they have reached the threshold of allowed warnings for that offense, proceed to step 3, otherwise, warn them (You may view the punishments section to see the maximum amount of warnings they can get for a particular offense).

2a. Sock Puppets
In the case of the offending user being a sockpuppet, immediately block both the sock account and the real user account permanently.

3. Block the user
Head to Special:Block (this is also located on your sidebar) or to the user's user page and use the block link in the tools section. Additionally, when you are finished blocking the user, you may go to Special:BlockList to confirm if they were blocked, and you can go to Special:AutoBlockList to check if any other users were blocked (in case it was a sockpuppet).

4. Deletion of log details and the offending edit(s)
After blocking the user, please use the "change visibility of selected logs/revisions" to hide the block log and the offending edit(s). Hide all information please, this is so that users do not harass the blocked user, as that is also not tolerated.

Punishments
This section will contain a table of the duration, as well as the allowed amount of warnings, for blocks.