CZ:Moderator Group
Welcome to your friendly local Constabulary!
Constables, you might find it handy to bookmark this page!
Basic info
To "call a constable," please write constables@citizendium.com.
Our constables are available to resolve behavioral — not editorial — disputes and to rein in troublemakers. Please do not criticize other people's behavior on the wiki. Such criticisms may be deleted. Please bring the matter up with the Constabulary.
Constables also review applications and create new accounts.
Some handy links for constables
- General
- Constabulary Home
- Constabulary Policy (in Policy Outline)
- List of all constables
- MediaWiki how-to guide - note, Wikipedia's policy greatly differs from ours, but some of their technical how-tos are applicable.
- Professionalism
- New applicants
- Pilot Project Application Review Procedure
- Create an account
- User list
- Defunct: New Account Review Procedure
- Blocking
- Deletion
- Misc
- Special:BrokenRedirects
- Special:CheckUser
- Special:Ipblocklist
- Special:Log
- Special:Newimages
- Special:Unwatchedpages
- How to fix cut-and-paste moves
- Vandalism
A guide to constable procedures
Constables, the following is the beginnings of a guide on how to do your job. Please help clarify and expand it as needed.
The constables mailbox and list
Constables require access to the constables@citizendium.org mailbox to perform their duties. To access it, request instructions from another constable.
We would like to keep it's "Inbox" emptied — have a short turnaround time for all messages, as far as possible. Most of the sub-folders should be self-explanatory. Do look in and read the contents of "For our reference".
Constables also need to to be subscribed to an internal-only account for constables only. As soon as you became a constable, Larry Sanger (at present) should have subscribed you. Contact him if not.
Responding to rude remarks and complaints made on the wiki
Rude remarks shouldn't be tolerated; see Professionalism. If a paragraph of text contains personal attacks or other abusive language, constables should replace the whole paragraph (or a series of thus problematic paragraphs) with the {{civil}} template, which generates this message:
Text here was removed by the Constabulary on grounds of civility. (The author may replace this template with an edited version of the original remarks.)
Complaints by contributors about other contributors — authors, editors, and constables — should be made to constables@citizendium.org. Accordingly, such complaints are not permitted on the wiki. If a paragraph of text contains any such complaint, constables should replace the whole paragraph with the {{nocomplaints}} template, which generates this message:
A comment here was deleted by The Constabulary on grounds of making complaints about fellow Citizens. If you have a complaint about the behavior of another Citizen, e-mail constables@citizendium.org. It is contrary to Citizendium policy to air your complaints on the wiki. See also CZ:Professionalism.
Making repeated complaints about other users on the wiki can, after [how many?] warnings, lead to a user's at least temporary removal from the project. Abuse is dealt with much more strictly; see Constabulary Blocking Procedures and We aren't Wikipedia.
Page deletion
To draft
For now, see Category:Speedy Deletion Requests and CZ:Article Deletion Policy.
Anti-vandalism procedures
See Anti-vandalism procedures.
The {{Approved}} template
See Approval Process with particular attention to this section.