Policies
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Wikimapia Guidelines
The Guidelines is the official legislation for Wikimapia and should be adhered to and regarded as the official regulations enactment in addition to the Terms of Reference.
Terms of Reference
The Terms of Reference and is an agreement notice which one must accept to abide by in order to use Wikimapia and its services. It also covers the Terms of Use, Copyright Notice and Privacy Notice in greater detail.
Forum Guidelines
The Forum guidelines is a set of community rules which must be adhered to by users participating in Wikimapia's forum.
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
Restrictions and banning policies are applicable to users who infringe Wikimapia's policies. For the purpose of simplicity, a user who commits violations shall be called an infringer.
Banning is the act of restricting an infringer'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 an infringer as per the ban reasons listed under section 4. of the Wikimapia Guidelines.
The Restrictions/banning policy comprises of four core modules:
- Wikimapia Guidelines
- Terms of Reference
- Banning Guidelines
- Ban Moderation
Banning Guidelines
The Banning Guidelines is provided by the Wikimapia Administration to guide Advanced Users on the process of determining and banning an infringer.
Banning Moderation
Ban Moderation is a corrective procedure that must be followed closely by Advanced Users in order to ensure an infringer is afforded exhaustive resources for rehabilitation before a permanent ban is considered. Ban Moderation comprises of four actions, they are: Guidance, Warning, Temporary ban and Permanent ban.
AU Codex
This AU Codex is a code of conduct for Advanced Users.
Interpretation issues
Please note, the interpretation of Policies 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 legislative document and so there will always be a margin of vagueness or ambiguity involved. In situations where you are unsure about an interpretation, you should:
- use sound judgement
- discuss the point with Advanced Users
- contact the Wikimapia Administration
