SmashWiki:Probation

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Probation is a state that users may be placed into should it be decided that they are spending too much of their time in editing their user pages and/or forums without making constructive edits. While under probation, users cannot edit pages in the User: or Forum: namespaces.

Any administrator can request probation of a user once they believe that the user in question has been suitably warned yet continues their unconstructive edits. The user should be placed into the probation usergroup by a bureaucrat as soon as possible if the request is valid.

During times where the wiki status is a Yellow or Red, the probation criteria are more sensitive, and both warnings and probation aplications should be provided earlier.

The length of a probation is dependant on the user's history and the current status of the wiki. In many cases, users deemed to have made no effort to contribute will remain on probation until they have made a reasonable effort to do so. In a similar way, users with outstanding contributions have more leeway during times of low status. Of course, repeat offenders will have successive probations of increased lengths.

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