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The User Rights Policy relates to the usage of user rights on the NSW Trains Wiki, and what User Rights should and should not be used for.
Blocking
- An administrator or bureaucrat must block as per the Blocking Policy.
- Any administrator can contest a block, in which the discussion will take place at the Administrators noticeboard
- An administrator must not block anther administrator or user with User rights. Instead, the user should be desysopped, which MUST have a community discussion at the Administrators noticeboard
Protection of Pages
- Pages must not be protected unless they are deemed to be of a high risk (Main Page) or are subject to high vandalism.
- A Sysop-only protection should not be applied unless the page, template or file is deemed to be of large significance.
- Temporary protection can be applied to a page for up to a fortnight in the case of heavy vandalism or edit warring.
- Pages cannot be protected because they are unfinished. This is a wiki, all pages are unfinished and it is unnecessary to overprotect, as that limits this website's function to work as a wiki.
CSS and JS
- CSS and JS may be edited by an admin, when deemed necessary.
- It is recommended that you test out major CSS and JS changes on a test wiki, to ensure that they function as expected.
- An admin will not edit a person's personal CSS or JS page unless:
- a) It is their own personal CSS/JS page
- b) There is an obvious mistake in the coding
- c) If they are asked to
- Any admin can challenge an edit to the site CSS/JS pages, the discussion for which will take place at the Administrators noticeboard
MediaWiki messages
- If an admin deems it necessary, they may freely edit MediaWiki pages
- An admin should place custom code in a MediaWiki page if another user wishes to include HTML code on a userpage
- Any admin may challenge an edit to a MediaWiki page by reverting the edit and starting a discussion on the respective talk page.
Forum Administration
- If a discussion is become heated, an admin should close the discussion and warn all the users involved
- If a discussion is off-topic, and admin has the right to delete it
- If an admin wishes to make major changes, they should propose it first at the Administrators noticeboard
Rollback
- When using rollback, only use it for vandalism edits. If you wish to undo one of your own edits or the edit of the only editor to a page, use the undo function so that you don't remove good-faith edits or all content (unless that's what you want to do)
- If you think an edit is likely to cause dispute, leave a friendly message in the comments/talk page to notify other users that was what happened
Abuse of rights
- Please see the Administrators noticeboard if you see a user abusing their rights.
Obtaining rights
- Any user can apply for user rights, using the page NSW Trains Wiki:Requests for Permissions
- If you have been blocked, you must wait the same number of months as the level on the blocking scale you received. (e.g. if you were blocked thrice, you must wait 3 months after the block expires to ask for rights)