Blocking policy

At Vaxfact wiki, everyone is welcome to edit, and editors should not be blocked unnecessarily. However, it may be necessary to block those who persistently edit disruptively or who attempt to use this wiki for purposes contrary to those of the wiki.

Disruptive editing
Editing in a manner that is disruptive to the wiki includes things like edit warring (editors going back and forth undoing each others' edits), altering someone else's talk page comments, and creating a hostile environment, for example by insulting, threatening, or ranting about other editors, expressing views that attack groups of people, or displaying offensive images or symbols. This includes making unsubstantiated or gratuitous accusations of editing against policy. Adding graphic images of disease may be considered disruptive as such pictures are not necessary and may discourage readers.

Threats
Threatening to take any physical, legal, social, or other action against an editor in real life will usually lead to an immediate block, which in many cases will be of infinite length, as will threatening online harassment.

Personal info
Posting or threatening to post nonpublic information (such as name, contact info, info about the geographic area in which a person lives or spends time, info about the persons' relationships or habits, ect) about any person, whether or not that person is an editor, is prohibited and may be treated as a threat. Contacting any editor via a method by which they have not clearly consented to being contacted by other editors (eg. calling an editor on the phone) may come off as threatening and will likely lead to a long or infinite block.

Contrary purposes
Any editor whose primary reasons for editing are contrary to the goal of disseminating accurate information about vaccines for educational purposes(not medical advice) may be blocked indefinitely. Examples of editing for contrary purposes include pushing an agenda, advertising, using the wiki as a social network, vandalism (deliberately adding nonsense, or false or irrelevant content), and trolling (stirring up drama and creating arguments just for the sake of it). Editors who insist on claiming to provide medical advice will also be blocked.

Disagreements
Well meaning disagreements are NOT disruptive editing as long the editors involved remain calm and discuss the disputed edits without resorting to ad hominems, edit warring or other unacceptable behavior.

Notice
This is a new wiki and problems may come up that are not adressed by current policies, so the founder does reserve the right to block users for any reason, even reasons not listed here.