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Welcome to your friendly local Constabulary!

Constables, you might find it handy to bookmark this page!

Basic info

To "call a constable," please write constables@citizendium.com

Constables are available to resolve disputes and rein in troublemakers. Please do not criticize other people's behavior on the wiki. Such criticisms may be deleted. Please bring the matter up with the Constabulary.

Since we have stopped self-registration, constables are also (again) reviewing applications and creating new accounts.

Some handy links for constables

A guide to constable procedures

Constables, the following is an informal guide to how to do your job.

See Anti-vandalism procedures.

See Constabulary Rules Enforcement Procedures for details.

Undoing vandalism damage

So far we've seen basically two kinds of vandalism: old-fashioned idiotic misediting of pages (e.g., adding insults or dirty words), and page moving. Our tech guys are at work making the latter more difficult.

"Reverting" old-fashioned vandalism is as simple this:

Go to the vandalized page.
Click the "history" tab.
Click on the last legitimate version in the history.
Click the "edit" tab (for that old version).
Simply press save.

Or even simpler...use the vandal's user contribution page...

"Reverting" page moves can be done in two different ways. First, the hard way:

From recent changes (or another list of changes), click on the page that was moved (not the page that it was moved to!). Notice "(Redirected from <page title>)" in small print near the top of the page? Click on <page title>. This will take you to page that was moved.
On that page, click "history". Make sure there's just one edit there (i.e., the move edit). It there is more than one, ask for help from someone more experienced.
Go to the page that the page was moved to.
Press the "move" tab.
Type in the correct name.
Do check the "move associated talk page" box (if it comes up; it will come up only if there is an associated talk page).
Press "move page."
Finally, you have to delete the old page that was moved from. To do that, click on the page you want to delete, follow the "(Redirected from <page title>)" link, and when you get to the redirect page (which you just created), click the "delete" tab.

Second, the easy way:

Go to the move log.
Locate the page that has been moved. Click "revert."
Delete the old page that was moved from. To do that, click on the page you want to delete, follow the "(Redirected from <page title>)" link, and when you get to the redirect page (which you just created), click the "delete" tab.

Page deletion

To draft

For now, see Category:Speedy Deletion Requests and CZ:Article Deletion Policy.

Page protection

Move protection

Responding to complaints made on the wiki

Contributors--authors, editors, and constables--are not permitted to make complaints about other users on the wiki. They are also, of course, not permitted to attack other contributors personally. If a paragraph of text contains any such complaint or attack, constables should replace the whole paragraph (or a series of thus problematic paragraphs) with the {{nocomplaints}} template, which generates this message:

A comment here was deleted by The Constabulary on grounds of making complaints about fellow Citizens. If you have a complaint about the behavior of another Citizen, e-mail constables@citizendium.org. It is contrary to Citizendium policy to air your complaints on the wiki. See also CZ:Professionalism.

Making repeated complaints about other users on the wiki can, after warnings, lead a user's at least temporary removal from the project. Abuse is dealt with much more strictly and harshly; see Constabulary Blocking Procedures.

The "constables" mailbox

You should get instructions from another constable about how to access the constables@citizendium.org mailbox.

We would like to keep "Inbox" clean. Most of the folders should be self-explanatory. Do look in and read the contents of "For our reference".

The constables mailing list

If you are a constable, you should be subscribed to this list. Contact Larry Sanger (at present) if you're not.

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 Constables, the following is an informal guide to how to do your job.
-=== Account blocking ===
+See [[CZ:Anti-vandalism procedures|Anti-vandalism procedures]].
-Constables are able to block accounts for various reasons.  Here is how and when.
-==== Ill-formed names ====
-Our binding policy on what names are acceptable and unacceptable is found on the [[Special:Userlogin&type=signup|create account page]] and [[CZ:New Account Review Procedure|New Account Review Procedure]].  A few extra notes for constables:
-* We don't like it, but we will accept lowercase names, names written in CamelCase, and the occasional other weird variant.
-* We generally ''block'' accounts created in the form "F. M. Last".  But a good idea is to put something like this in your block explanation: "please contact constables@citizendium.org if you can show that you publish under this name".
-* If someone happens to have the name of some famous person, or some other unlikely name, but which ''could'' be a real name, then the procedure is to ask the person for some proof that it is in fact his/her name.
-The easiest way to block an ill-formed name is to look at [[Special:recentchanges|recent changes]] or the [[Special:Log/newusers|user creation log]] and click "block," found next to the offending username.  Occasionally (for whatever reason) you need to get to the "[[Special:Blockip|block user]]" page directly.  That is linked above.
-When using the block user page, we always give a reason for blocking, such as "Incorrectly created account (full name needed)."
-We do not give warnings to people with ill-formed names.  That's because the solution is simply to create a new account.
-==== Vandalism ====
-The main way to stay on top of vandalism is to monitor [[Special:recentchanges|recent changes]] on a regular basis, and ban vandals as soon as they appear.  We aim to have at least one constable on the wiki at all times as a sort of vandalism watch.
-To block a vandal's username, simply click "block" next to the username as it appears in [[Special:recentchanges|recent changes]].
-But if it looks like a vandal is creating more than one account to vandalize from, then we should block the vandal's IP address for a week.  To do that:
-* Look up the IP address.  Go to [[Special:CheckUser|check user]], paste in the vandal's username (doesn't matter whether the username has already been banned), and click "Get IPs".  It isn't usually necessary to fill out the reason.
-* Then go to "block user" and put the IP address in "IP Address, email, or username," select expiry of one week, and press "block this user."  Done!
-Note that this is not always effective, simply because some vandals' IP addresses are shifting within a range, or they switch proxies.  (We should be banning all open proxies if we haven't already done so.)
-==== Troublesome users ====
-There are many other reasons to ban people other than ill-formed names and vandalism.
 See [[CZ:Constabulary Rules Enforcement Procedures|Constabulary Rules Enforcement Procedures]] for details.