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User:MC10
Warning templates
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Description
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 4im
Various types of nonconstructive edits
Vandalism
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Editing tests
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Page blanking, removal of content
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Creating malicious redirects
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Removal of maintenance templates
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{{N/A}}
Using improper humor
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Creating inappropriate pages
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Uploading inappropriate images
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Image-related vandalism
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Adding promotions of objects or ideologies (also spam)
Adding
spam links
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Using Wikipedia for advertising or promotion
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Not adhering to
neutral point of view
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Inserting factual inaccuracies and/or libel
Addition of unsourced material without proper citations
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Introducing deliberate factual errors
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Adding original research, including unpublished syntheses of sourced material
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Adding unreferenced controversial information about
living persons
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Defamation not specifically directed
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Unaccepted practices, unilateral action against policies or guidelines
Censorship
of material
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Formatting, date, language, etc. (Manual of Style)
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{{N/A}}
Page moves
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Using
talk page
as forum
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Refactoring others' talk page comments
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Removing {{
afd
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Removing {{
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Behavior towards editors and articles
Personal attack directed at a specific editor
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Not assuming good faith
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Ownership of articles
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Other warning templates
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Notices
Warnings
Description
Template
Description
Template
Creating double redirects through bad page moves
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Potentially violating the
three revert rule
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Bad AIV report
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Blatant vandalism
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Adding signatures to article space
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Canvassing
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Creating autobiographies
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Copyright
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Adding incorrect categories
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Linking to copyrighted works
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"
Biting
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Creating
hoaxes
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Cut and paste moves
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Making
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Conflict of interest
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Long term pattern of
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Unnecessarily changing date formats
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Usage of multiple IPs
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Not using edit summary
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Personal info
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Not communicating in English
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Userpage vandalism
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User forgets to place a hang-on reasoning to the talk page
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Using inaccurate or inappropriate edit summaries
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Italicize books, films, albums, magazines, TV series, etc within articles
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Improper use of warning or blocking template
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Unnecessarily changing between national varieties of English
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Username is against policy
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For excessive addition of redlinks or repeated blue links
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Userpage or subpage is against policy
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Incorrect use of minor edits check box
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Writing content that
disparages
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Uploading replaceable non-free images
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Do not report complex abuse to AIV
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We use consensus, not voting
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Use preview button to avoid mistakes
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Recreating deleted articles
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Reverting self tests
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Wikipedia is not a social network (e.g.,
MySpace
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Facebook
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Remember to subst: templates
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Talk in article
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Not signing posts
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Reporting of username to
WP:UAA
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Warning vandals
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Removing proper sources containing dead links
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Rename request
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Patrolling
newpages
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Article probation
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Block templates (
administrators
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Description
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3 (Indefinite)
Blocks
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Anonymous Block
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Advertising
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Spam
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Spam Username Block
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Spam / Advertising Account Block
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Vandalism
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Vandalism Account Block
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Vandalism Account and Username Hard Block
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Creating
Nonsense
Pages Block
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Delete
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Three-revert rule
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Unapproved
Bot
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Username
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Username Hard Block
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Legal Threat
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Harassment
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