The Sims Wiki talk:Policy/General Policies
Proposal to add to general rules
Every so often we have a user who admits - either through their userpage or otherwise - that they are below 13 years of age and therefore are not allowed to be members of Wikia and, by extension, this wiki. The few times this has happened, the administrators have usually issued long-term but non-permanent blocks (usually a year-long block). No further actions are taken by administrators after that.
The issue becomes that the administrators are being asked to actively enforce Wikia's terms of service, without rules on the local wiki indicating that administrators will block for that kind of a violation. I know I would prefer that local administrators keep their hands out of that issue, as I think it can lead to unnecessary complications and might get us in trouble with Wikia if they determine that we neglected to inform them of an underage user whom, although blocked on this wiki, is still able to edit elsewhere on Wikia.
With all this in mind, I propose the following addition to the General Rules section of General Policies.
7. All members of The Sims Wiki must conform with Wikia's Terms of Use. Non-conformance may include, but is not limited to a user:
- Registering when under thirteen (13) years of age.
- Failing to maintain the security of their account.
- Violating standards of User Conduct, including those standards not already listed in other policies on The Sims Wiki.
In cases where a violation of the Terms of Use exists and is not already addressed by local wiki policies, such as use of the service by underage users, local administrators will refer the matter to Wikia Staff. Local administrators will not issue blocks for matters referred to Wikia Staff, unless necessary to prevent detrimental impact to The Sims Wiki.
This essentially says that we reserve the right to enforce Wikia ToU, but are not bound to do anything except inform Wikia when the ToU is violated and where we don't already address the violation specifically in our rules. We do not address issues of security or age in our policies, so in both cases we would report the matter and only block the user when they cause harm to the wiki. Input? -- LostInRiverview talk · blog 21:05, March 22, 2012 (UTC)