Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard/Proposed Header

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This page is intended to get attention quickly when dealing with personal attacks.

For editors who want a personal attack situation reviewed:

  1. Make sure the user is currently committing a personal attack and it's not a content dispute.
  2. The editor must have been warned with the {{npa}}, {{npa2}}, and {{npa3}} templates as appropriate. Reports of unwarned editors may be removed.
  3. If the behavior hasn't stopped, add the following header to the bottom of this page in the following format:
    =={{User|NAME OF USER}}== replacing NAME OF USER with the user name or IP address concerned, with a brief reason for listing below (keep it short)
  4. If a editor removes the IP or username and doesn't handle the matter to your satisfaction, take it to the editor's talk page or the administrators' noticeboard, but do not re-list the user here.

For reviewers handling assistance requests:

  1. For each of the users linked here, open their contributions and check for personal attacks. Also check if the users have been sufficiently warned for the current personal attack and whether they've continued to commit personal attacks after being warned.
  2. If the user has not been given a warning higher than {{npa2}}, warn the user with the appropriate template and remove the report.
  3. For users who have already reached {{npa2}} warnings, please leave the report for an administrator to issue a final warning or block the user.

For administrators handling assistance requests:

  1. For each of the users linked here, open their contributions and check for personal attacks. Also check if the users have been sufficiently warned for the current personal attack and whether they've continued to commit personal attacks after being warned.
  2. Do nothing, warn them again, or block the user in question as you think is required. Explain things carefully to the user who listed the attacker if you feel there's been a misunderstanding.
  3. Remove the user from this page.
  4. Repeat until the page is empty save for this header.

Please consider adding this page to your watchlist to make life easier for non-administrator RC-patrollers.