User:Ricken/SandboxPG/Deceased Amtgardians guidelines

This is an organized procedure for dealing with the player pages, accounts, userpages, and user rights of deceased Amtgardians as established by community consensus.

Verification

The first step is to make absolutely sure that the user in question has indeed died. Reliable sources are key to counteracting fallacious claims. If possible, multiple attestations are desirable. If a user's death is announced on wiki by someone claiming to be a relation or a friend of the deceased, it's important to seek off-wiki confirmation of their claims.

Handling AmtWiki references

On the user page

If the Amtgarder had a user page for editing AmtWiki, there are two things to be done in terms of the userpage.

• The user page should be fully protected to prevent vandals from defacing the page.
• A hatnote in compliance with the family's wishes should be placed on the userpage, explaining that the user has died. This step may be bypassed if the family does not desire a hatnote. If possible, the hatnote can also provide simple directions to a friend or family member who wishes to access the userpage to do so, including directions to contact admins to access the protected page.

On the talk page

Consider archiving any unseemly disputes, warnings or deletion notices, so they are not immediately visible.

Editors who choose to do so may leave tasteful condolence notices on talk pages, by editing in the usual manner.

On the account

As a symbolic gesture of respect, accounts of deceased AmtWiki editors should not be blocked unless they have been compromised. However, to prevent severe harm to the wiki if such a situation should happen, the user rights of deceased Amtgardians should be removed. User rights to be removed primarily include administrator and bureaucrat rights. If rights are removed, a note should be made about the rights the user held in their editing tenure.