Help:User Accounts

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Icaruspedia has some guidelines regarding user accounts, these guidelines are listed below.

Activating Accounts

Accounts are activated simply by using the "create an account" feature.

Deactivating Accounts

Accounts cannot be deleted or removed from the wiki; due to the nature of the database, deleting an account would cause database errors.

Emails

It is important that users have legitimate email addresses tied to their accounts. Not only is this needed to activate them, but it allows users to recover their passwords if they forget it. Should the option be enabled in the user preferences, it also allows semi-anonymous emails between two users. So it is important to have real email addresses tied to accounts rather than a temporary email address. Icaruspedia WILL NOT spam in-boxes.

Renaming Accounts

It is entirely possible to rename accounts here. To do so it is simply a matter of requesting it from a staff member. It is recommended that this be done sparingly. As it is a load on the server to change a name. It also turns your existing user pages into redirects as it moves them to the new name.

Account Rights

Depending on the user's actions, he or she may acquire further access to actions and rights on the wiki. The Staff of the wiki decide what users to give user rights to.

Banning Accounts

There are a number of reasons why an account will be banned. The amount of time of the ban is based upon the reason for banning. Common reasons for banning include:

  • Inserting false information
    • Deliberately inserting a large amount of information that is completely false.
  • Removing content from pages
    • Removing a large amount of content from pages.
  • Spamming links to external sites
    • Inserting links to external sites for purposes of advertising it.
  • Inserting nonsense/gibberish into pages
    • Inserting random content into pages for purposes of causing disruption.
  • Intimidating behavior/harassment
    • Harassing another user, defiance of the wiki's rules, unacceptable attitude.
  • Abusing multiple accounts
    • Registering under more than one account to evade a block, vandalize, or other illicit purposes.
  • Unacceptable username
    • The username contained illegal characters or was simply too long. Users blocked under this reason will be asked to register under a different, more appropriate username.
  • Vandalism
    • Overall destructive behavior with obvious intent to cause chaos.

User Gender

A newly introduced feature allows users to assign a gender to their accounts. In the future, this will be used to have the correct pronouns in userboxes, messages, and other things. As of right now the feature is not used enough to do this. It is highly encouraged that users set their gender on the user preferences.