These are the rules in Sluggerpedia.
A * means it's permissive to Administrators only.
A ** means that only Admins can issue it.
Templates[]
These Templates can be only used if a user isn't following a rule. Blocks can be only used if that user is still breaking a rule after a Last Warning.
Level One Offenses[]
Level one offenses are low level offenses and are given through the Reminder and Imagefix templates. Infractions that deserve a Reminder template include:
- Consistently writing with bad grammar/spelling (some leniency for non-native English speakers)
- Not entering coding correctly
- Entering speculation into articles
- Making too many consecutive edits to one page
- Creating Fanon-Games
- Removing other user's comments/Votes (Unless it's Spam, Flame, or Vandlisim.)
- Adding unnecessary amounts of off-topic information or Trivia
- Uploading unnecessary files, including duplicate images
Infractions that deserve a Image Warning template include:
- Having too many Gifs
- Uploading Massive Images
- Having To many Personal Images
- Violating the Image Policy
Level Two Offenses[]
Level two offenses are mid level offenses and are given through the Warning template. Infractions that deserve a Warning template include:
- Entering false information into articles
- Creating Off-Topic Articles
- Participating in an edit war
- Abusing warning privileges (handing out undeserved warnings or joke warnings, including tampering with warning templates for informal usage)
- Removing a warning
- Editing Other Userpages*
- Advertising (However, Clubs are okay.)
- Flaming at other users
- Spamming Pages
- Cussing (Allowed Words: Stupid, Dumb, Idiot.)
Level Three Offenses[]
Level three offenses are high level offenses and given through the Last Warning template. Infractions that deserve a Lastwarn template include:
- Minor vandalism (like removing information for no reason, adding comments to an article, etc.)
- Falsely calming to be an Administrator
- Impersonating another user
- Creating sockpuppets **
- Undermining admin authority **
- Trolling at other users
Level Four Offenses[]
Also see The Block List.
Level four offenses are offenses which warrant an automatic infinite ban. Infractions which are considered level four offenses include:
- Major vandalism (like blanking pages, uploading inappropriate images, unprovoked flaming, etc.)
- Possessing an inappropriate username
- Creating sockpuppets during a temporary block (will extend the block the first time and become an infinite ban the second time)
- Creating an account just to make inflammatory comments
Please note that any sockpuppets of an existing account are automatically banned.