Policies
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Guidelines
Terms of Reference
Forum guidelines
Photo uploading/deletion policies
Comments deletion policies
Offensive, meaningless, talk between users, or unrelated comments will be removed by the Advanced Users or by the Wikimapia Team.
Restrictions/banning policies ("No penalty without a law")
Ban policy
Banning is the act of restricting a user's account, and therefore the privileges it offers, by Advanced Users and Wikimapia Administrators. Although, Wikimapia Administrators reserve the right to ban any user, Advanced Users can only ban users as per the ban reasons listed under section 4. Users ban policy of the Wikimapia Guidelines.
The interpretation of the Wikimapia Guidelines should be literal (i.e. as is written) and not subjective. With this said however, there is no sure way to apply an absolute definition to the wordings of any legislation and so there will always be a margin of vagueness or ambiguity involved. In situations where this is apparent, one should exercise rational deliberation.
Aside from extremely rare exceptions, the punitive measure of banning a user must only be enacted after exhausting three remedial stages. These stages, including the final stage of permanent banning, are:
- Guidance
- Warning
- Temporary ban
- Permanent ban
Guidance
It is necessary to show to an user of an error and to suggest them to correct (or itself to make corrections). Need to prove/show, why its action is an mistake.
Warning
If an user persists (continues to make similar mistakes, does cancellation of correct editing, swears etc.), it is necessary to show it point/place in the Rules which it breaks. It is necessary to write that wrong actions may be cause of ban.
Temporary ban
User can temporarily limit from editing the map, from posting in the forum or complete blocking. Temporary ban - this is not punishment/retribution, but educational activity.
Permanent ban
If, after a temporary ban the user (the offender) has continued to make similar mistakes, it is necessary to apply a permanent ban.
