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
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.
Since we have stopped self-registration, constables are also (again) reviewing applications and creating 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 a guide to how to do your job.
Constables email accounts
Constables require access to two mailboxes to perform their duties, constables@citizendium.org and a separate internal-only account.
To access the constables@citizendium.org account, request instructions from another constable. We would like to keep this account's "Inbox" emptied — have a short turnaround time for all messages. Most of the sub-folders should be self-explanatory. Do look in and read the contents of "For our reference".
As soon as you become a constable, Larry Sanger (at present) should have subscribed you to the internal-only account. 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 temporary or permanent removal from the project. Abuse is dealt with much more strictly; see Constabulary Blocking Procedures and We aren't not Wikipedia.
Page deletion
To draft
For now, see Category:Speedy Deletion Requests and CZ:Article Deletion Policy.