User:Mackensen/Yellow Card
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The community gives a yellow card to a user when it finds their conduct is subpar in some way. This is a warning with no actual sanction, and is based on the yellow card in association football. If the user who receives the yellow card re-offends in the next six months, this will likely lead to appropriate sanctions, such as a topic ban or block.
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Rationale
Discussions at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (ANI) can get derailed because people disagree on whether there's a problem, or agree that there's a problem but can't agree on a remedy. The purpose of the yellow card is to address situations where someone's conduct is subpar, but not so egregious that the remedy is obvious. With a yellow card the community is telling someone that you made a mistake, you're on notice that you handled this poorly, and if this comes up again something will actually be done about it. Repeated misconduct after a warning is easier to understand as a problem needing a remedy. From the recipient's perspective, it's good to receive feedback before getting sanctioned.
Past discussions
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive353#Potentially involved block by AlisonW
- Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 50#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong closed
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1128#ErnestKrause disruption at GAN
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Propose yellow card for HEB