User:Daniel Carrero/BLOCK

There is some unacceptable behavior which may justify a user to be blocked from editing.

Blockable offenses

 * The block tool should only be used to prevent edits that will, directly or indirectly, hinder or harm the progress of the English Wiktionary.
 * It should not be used unless less drastic means of stopping these edits are, by the assessment of the blocking administrator, highly unlikely to succeed.

Examples
There is no hard-and-fast rule about what is considered to hinder or harm our progress. Clear examples of such behaviour usually include:


 * Deliberately harming our content by deleting useful things or adding useless content or pages.
 * Persistently wasting other editors’ time by making many edits that have to be undone, cleaned up, or otherwise modified to make them correct.
 * Causing our editors distress by directly insulting them or by being continually impolite towards them.

There are other means of protecting Wiktionary; for example, by discussion on the users’ talk pages. Usually, some effort should be made to explain to people why their edits are considered incorrect, however a short block can be given if they clearly won’t listen. In cases where a user has had something explained to them, an explicit warning should be given to them before blocking them; this can show that they have no intention of mending their ways.

Patrolling
Users who clearly have no intent to be productive may be blocked immediately.

Particularly:
 * Those editing apparently for the primary purpose of adding offensive or promotional material.
 * People making many bad edits in short order.
 * Accounts with usernames that are offensive, similar to established accounts’, or promotional.

However, there are people who make innocent mistakes; they should not be blocked instantly:
 * People making one or two unhelpful edits.
 * Those adding protologisms, or Wikipedia-style articles.

Such an account can be blocked if the user ignores a single request to desist or explanation of what he is doing wrong.

Anonymous IPs
For anonymous IP addresses, in most cases, block one day, anon-users/prevent-creation only. If it recurs (the block log has entries), then check the tabçe:

Seasoned contributors

 * It is rare, but occasionally there will be a seasoned contributor, even an administrator, who is causing trouble; such cases must be handled with diplomacy.
 * It is not acceptable to block a whitelisted user or an administrator unless they already know they will be blocked for their actions.
 * The contributor must receive an explicit warning before being blocked, unless they are deliberately and maliciously ignoring current practice.

Range blocks
See Help:Range blocks for how to block a range of IP addresses.