User:Void/Content Policy enforcement

This page details a proposed procedure for the enforcement of the Content Policy. Note that certain clauses are dependent on the Content Policy reform and may be removed from this document should their proposals fail.

Process
Upon deciding to investigate a wiki for violating the Content Policy, a steward must follow this procedure:
 * 1) Compile the initial report(s) (whether they be reports from other users or the steward's own findings that lead them to deem an investigation necessary) to a private page on stewardswiki. The purpose of this action is twofold: firstly it provides easy reference to the reasons the wiki is being investigated in the first place; and second, it serves to make other stewards aware of the investigation (but should not replace effective communication).
 * 2) Investigate the wiki and collect evidence which shows the wiki is violating the Content Policy. This evidence should be linked to and described (in brief) on the investigation page. Stewards are encouraged to reach out to the local wiki administration to clarify potential issues that are not clearly hardline violations.
 * 3) Determine the appropriate course of action for handling the violations.
 * 4) Using the evidence collected, prepare a statement outlining how the wiki violates the Content Policy and detailing what steps will be taken to remediate these problems.
 * 5) * In the case of a wiki violating clause 1b or 1c of the criteria, the wiki may be closed, locked and made private prior to the drafting of this statement.
 * 6) Issue the prepared statement to the wiki bureaucrats and submit a copy of this statement to the Stewards' noticeboard for community review.
 * 7) * If the wikis violations do not meet the criteria for immediate action, a response must be received prior to taking any action. Alternately, action may be taken after a week with no response, or should community consensus emerge for swifter action.
 * 8) Enact the prepared remediation.

Immediate Closure
The following are criteria for which a wiki may be immediately closed and locked (and possibly deleted with minimal further process):
 * 1) The sole purpose of the wiki is:
 * a) spam or SEO;
 * b) to host illegal content (Trust and Safety MUST be informed);
 * c) sexual content or fetishes involving characters who are obviously minors;
 * d) severe insults, hate, incitements to violence, or unjustifiable rumors; or
 * e) wikis with no clear purpose (or explicitly anarchy) and no leadership.
 * 1) The wiki has restored content that was prior removed for violating policy. This condition is only meant to apply in situations where the problematic content is restored by the same administration that removed it in a clear attempt to game the system to get approval. This condition is not to apply in situations where there is sufficient community presence on the wiki to replace the offending administrators, nor shall it apply to situations where the content was restored by accident or by a single/few "rouge" administrators.
 * 2) The sole purpose of the wiki is in clear violation of the Content Policy and other stewards are in agreement of closure.

Immediately Make Private
These criteria straddle the awkward line between being so egregious as to require being hidden from public view, but not so egregious as to require immediate expulsion from the project.
 * 1) The wiki has systemic issues of:
 * a) unsubstantiated insult, hate or rumours against a person or group of people;
 * b) sexual content or fetishes involving characters who are minors, including characters who are implied to be underage except if explicitly stated otherwise;
 * c) toxicity including ongoing campaigns of harassment, where hiding this content will markedly improve safety in the community; or
 * d) deceiving, defrauding, or misleading users, where hiding this content will markedly improve safety in the community;
 * 1) The wiki has other clear systemic violations of the Content Policy and other stewards are in agreement with making the wiki private.

Defining "Creates Problems"
A steward must prove one of the following to invoke the Content Policy clause "A wiki must not create problems which make it difficult for other wikis":
 * 1) Volunteers or other projects have been turned away from Miraheze as a result of this wiki.
 * 2) There have been repeated circumstances where attacks against this wiki have spread to other uninvolved wikis or degraded platform performance as a whole.
 * 3) Service providers utilized by Miraheze have threatened to or have denied or reduced services to Miraheze due to the contents of the wiki.
 * 4) The wiki is inciting toxic behavior on the platform.