Warriors Wiki:Chatroom

Eventual Target Location

Warriors Wiki is an online encyclopedia for the Warriors Fandom and, as a means to that end, an online community of people interested in building a high-quality encyclopedia about the Warriors Universe, Books and Characters in a spirit of mutual respect. Therefore, the chat Wikia has built into the software is a useful tool for forwarding that aim. However, certain ground rules have been established to ensure that everyone has a positive chat experience.

Chatroom Rules

 * 1) All Wikia Policies are in effect within the chatroom, but most notably applicable are: Assume Good Faith, Prohibited Content and Spelling & Grammar.
 * 2) * Members are expected to treat others with respect and assume actions are well intentioned until proven otherwise (IE: Refusal to comply with rules when violations are brought to the individual's attention)
 * 3) * Member are expected to user proper spelling and grammar to the best of their abilities. This means exclusive use of net-speak/chat-speak are forbidden (the occasional things like lol or brb is acceptable).
 * 4) All  are in effect within the chatroom, but most notably applicable are: Warriors Wiki is NOT & Spoilers Policy.
 * 5) * Role playing is not permitted within the chatroom
 * 6) * Advertising is forbidden in the chatroom. You may offer URLs if people ask for a specific site type, but no recruiting.
 * 7) * Please clear any spoiled conversations with the individuals in the chatroom beforehand, and warn individuals newly entering that spoiler material is being discussed.
 * 8) No personal attacks (aka the No personal attacks Wikipedia Policy).
 * 9) No disruptive behavior. IE: Spamming, flooding, etc.
 * 10) Chat contents should maintain no higher than a PG rating. As users younger than 13 would violate COPPA, and Anonymous members may not enter the chat the G rating of the general wiki is raised for purposes of the chatroom.

Process

 * 1) User receives a verbal warning in the chat, politely explaining the nature of the problem and how to fix it.
 * 2) If the user refuses to comply with requests to correct behavior the situation should be documented via screenshots of the appropriate section of the chat (keep them, you may be asked to submit them as evidence at a later date) and a verbal report (including no images) should be made to a Sysop or Chat moderator from the list below.
 * 3) The sysop or chat moderator will place a written warning on the user's page. This will be repeated if the problem continues in line with the numbers of warnings described on the list below. Written warnings may be issued no closer than 10 minuets of each other, but may be issued multiple times for the same incident, should it continue that long.
 * 4) If the warning limit is reached, the user in question will receive a chat kickban or a wiki ban, as described on the chart below.

Written Warning Limits & Appeal Limitations

 * Abuse of others:
 * 1 Written Warning
 * No appeals, except to attempt to establish an unfair verdict.
 * Punishment: Kickban & Ban.
 * Chat-speak/Net-speak
 * 3 Written Warnings
 * May appeal in 1 week following first offense.Users who receive another 3 warnings & are kickbanned again are not eligible for appeal.
 * Punishment: Kickban
 * NOT Policy Violation
 * 3 Written Warnings
 * May appeal in 1 week following first offense.Users who receive another 3 warnings & are kickbanned again are not eligible for appeal.
 * Punishment: Kickban
 * Spoiler Policy Violation
 * 3 Written Warnings
 * May appeal in 1 week following first offense.Users who receive another 3 warnings & are kickbanned again are not eligible for appeal.
 * Punishment: Kickban
 * Ratings Violation
 * 3 Written Warnings
 * May appeal in 1 week following first offense.Users who receive another 3 warnings & are kickbanned again are not eligible for appeal.
 * Punishment: Kickban
 * Disruptive Behavior Violation
 * 3 Written Warnings
 * May appeal in 1 month following first offense.Users who offend again are kickbanned are not eligible for appeal.
 * Punishment: Kickban

Sysops & Chat Moderators
These individuals have spoken up and stated that they are willing and ready to deal with chatroom Problems. Chatmods are automatically listed as a part of their duties for the flag. Sysops who wish to help need only add their names to join in.


 * SYSOPs
 * Kitsufox


 * CHATMODs
 * Moonflight

Kickban Appeals

 * Status: Kickban appeals are not yet open

Kickbans are permanent and there is no way to change it. In accordance we've made it the responsibility of the kickbanned user to request a lift of the ban if they are eligible to do so. If you are currently kickbanned but eligible for appeal you should copy the following form and follow the instructions in this section to do so.


 * Chatroom/Appeal_Preload - Home of the preload that will be for the form.
 * Chatroom/Appeal_Header - Home of what will be the appeal header.


 * Category:Open Appeals
 * Category:Approved Appeals
 * Category:Declined Appeals

Request for Chat Moderatorship
STATUS: Nominations are not being accepted at this time

To request Chat Moderatorship please check that you meet the requirements.

Eligibility Requirements
 * Membership of the Wiki for at least 6 months.
 * No written warnings for chatroom policy violations in the previous three months.

If you meet the above requirements and desire chatmod status you may post post the following forum on the talk page of this policy:

=== Nomination for USERNAME ===
 * Date: DD MONTH YEAR

TEXT


 * Replace USERNAME with your Username.
 * Enter the day as requested.
 * In place of TEXT, prove a short essay explaining why you feel you should be granted moderator status.

Following the posting of the original nomination, the following will happen:
 * 1) An existing sysop or chat mod currently working under this policy (is on the list above and has been on said list for at least a month) endorses the user and posts a blog asking for people to cast simple "yay" and "nay" votes with statements of why the vote is being cast in that diction. (Votes without comments will be struck, votes from users without edits or with edit counts unacceptable according to the NOT Policy will be struck, Votes from accounts not active on the wiki within the last month will be struck.)
 * 2) The blog is closed and votes are tallied. If the community votes in favor, the individual is then subject to a vote in the talk page comment by the sysops and chatmods who did not run the blog
 * 3) If the second vote is also in favor they will receive chatmod status. If the second vote is not in favor the nomination will have failed.


 * Please note that any violations to chatroom policy resulting in a written warning during a nomination will void that nomination immediately.
 * Existing policy involved Sysops and Chatmods may close nominations when chats are currently being properly moderated with existing staff. They may also opt to limit the number of Chatmods promoted from voted in applications. This may result in individuals who pass the vote but are not made chatmods due to limited numbers of positions. These passed applications mean, should that user choose to reapply at a later date and they have received no written warnings in the interim period, that they may skip the public blog-vote and go strait to in-policy voting.

Chatmod Vote of No Confidence
Any user may, at any time, post a blog titled "Vote of no Confidence: Chatmod NAME" and in that blog explain why they feel that a chatmod should loose said status. If the blog posts yields more positive than negative votes with less than 25 counted votes, it will be presented to the sysops and chatmods active under this policy and they will then vote. If the blog post yields more positive than negative votes with 25 or more counted votes, the results of the vote itself will be put into action by a Bureaucrat immediately. Votes in a vote of no confidence will be struck under the same criteria as those in a vote to elect a new Chatmod,