WikiQueer:List of banned users

This is an incomplete list of banned WikiQueer users. Banned users are no longer welcome to edit the encyclopedia, until such time as the ban is lifted. Banned users who feel that their bans are unjust may appeal their case to the Arbitration Committee. Bans may be enacted either by the Arbitration Committee or by community consensus.

Banning is different from blocking; a block is a technical measure to disable editing by a specific account or IP address, and is a restriction which may be temporary or indefinite. Banning is a social construct, and blocks may be used to enforce them. There are also different kinds of bans: Some are temporary or focused on a specific article or topic. However, in the context of this page, "banned user" means someone who has been banned from the entire site.

Accounts which are reincarnations (sockpuppets) of banned users may be blocked as soon as it's obvious who they are; bans apply to the person and not the account. For more information, see the blocking and the banning policy.

Banned by Lead Administrator
Historically, the Lead Administrator has the authority to ban users himself, which usually only occurs in exceptional situations; commenting on, criticism of and disagreeing with a ban is permitted.

The Lead Admin has banned the following users indefinitely. They may appeal their ban by emailing him or the Arbitration Committee.

Banned by the Arbitration Committee
The Arbitration Committee may ban users or approve of previous community bans. This list does not include bans that have expired, short-term bans, and bans from specific articles or categories.

Banned by the WikiQueer community
Community bans may arise from consensus at the administrators' noticeboards (WQ:AN, WQ:ANI), the former community sanctions noticeboard (WQ:CSN), or elsewhere. Users who alienate and offend the community enough may eventually be blocked indefinitely by an administrator with no administrator willing to unblock them. Although this has, at times, been considered a de facto ban, only an official community (or ArbCom) WQ:BAN allows any editor to automatically revert all edits by banned users (and their sockpuppets) without violating WQ:3RR.

The community can also extend bans imposed by ArbCom (see above). This corresponds to this section of the WikiQueer:Blocking policy.