CZ:Moderator Group

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.