Admin Tools Wiki:Testing policy
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This page documents an official policy on Admin Tools Wiki. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone should follow. Except for minor edits, please make use of the discussion page to propose changes to this policy. |
This page lists what should and should not be done as tests. This policy applies to all users at Admin Tools Wiki.
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[edit] Administrators
Administrators are able to do multiple things with the the tools. The following is what is allowed to be done:
[edit] Protections
Pages can be protected and unprotected whenever an admin wants in order to test the protection tool. Administrators may protect and unprotect any page they want to test the undeletion tool, unless it is marked with the category, Category:Pages not to be tested on. Repeated protections and unprotections of pages are not considered wheel wars on this wikia, but may be considered wheel wars on other wikia depending on that wikia's policies. Please do not make mass protections or salts. It may result in a desysopping if done continuous times.
[edit] Deletions
Deleted pages can be undeleted whenever an admin wants in order to test the undeletion tool. Administrators may delete any page they want to test the undeletion tool, unless it is marked with the category, Category:Pages not to be tested on. In this case, deletion of the page, even if it is undeleted, may lead to a block or removal of rights. Repeated protections and unprotections of pages are not considered wheel wars on this wikia, but may be considered wheel wars on other wikia depending on that wikia's policies. Please avoid making mass deletions as tests. It may result in a desysopship if done continuous times.
[edit] Blocks
Users can be blocked and unblocked whenever an admin wants to in order to test the block tool. But it is very important that if a user is blocked that you know if it was a test block or a real block. In order to tell them apart, users that have been blocked as tests will be marked as a category, Category:Test blocked users or no category at all. Real blocked users will be marked with the category, Category:Real blocked users. The templates for blocks are the following: For tests, add {{Test block}} to users user pages and for real blocks, add {{Real block}} on their user page. When you block a user whether it is for tests or if it was real, please add the appropriate block templates to their user pages. Not adding the correct template or adding the template at all to user pages when issuing real blocks is highly frowned. Another thing that should be avoided is making mass numbers of test blocks. Please do not do this. You may be desysopped if you abuse the sysop powers.
[edit] Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats should not use the tools as tests. Using the bureaucrat tool has to be done in serious purposes, like when promoting a user who has proven they are a trusted editor on an established wiki either by talk page, email, IRC or at Admin Tools Wiki:Requests for rights. Using the bureaucrat tools as tests will also be frowned and will possibly lead to losing the bureaucrat permission depending on the situation.
[edit] Editing
All users are able to make tests edits around the wiki. Users are allowed to create any page with any title and edit any page unless it has the category, Category:Pages not to be tested on. Any type of editing here can generally be done here at Admin Tools Wiki unless it constitutes Admin Tools Wiki:Vandalism, advertisement, or anything else that harms the wiki. If a page has not been editing for a while, preferably about a week and if the page has very little meaning or text, it may be deleted by any administrator. Pages that are quality pages that have a substantial amount of good content should not be deleted until more time passes.
[edit] General
Pages that have the Category:Pages not to be tested on at the bottom should not be tested on. Abusing this policy may result in you being desysopped and possibly blocked, depending on the situation.
