A request for comment on user conduct (an RfC/U) is for discussing specific users who have violated Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Carefully read the following before filing an RfC.
- Disputes over the writing of articles, including disputes over how best to follow the NPOV policy, belong in Request comment through talk pages.
- For feedback on your own activity at Wikipedia, you might try Wikipedia:Administrator review.
- To report an offensive or confusing user name in violation of Wikipedia:Username policy, see subpage User names.
- To report spam, page blanking, and other blatant vandalism, see Wikipedia:Vandalism.
- Generally, see the dispute resolution process and its helpful advice about dealing with disruptive editors.
- If you would like to get one-to-one advice, feedback or counseling from another editor, then you should consider editor assistance.
- An RfC is a tool for developing voluntary agreements and collecting information.
- An RfC may bring close scrutiny on all involved editors. In most cases, editors named in an RfC are expected to respond to it. The Arbitration Committee closely considers evidence and comments in RfC if the editors involved in the RfC are later named in a request for arbitration.
- See also RfC/U rules.
Qualification
- An RfC/U must be certified in the way outlined at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Minimum_requirements.
- If you're not sure if anyone else has had the same issues with the editor in question, consider some other method of dispute resolution.
- If others have had the same or related issues with the editor in question, you may wish to create a draft in your own user space that you may jointly work on. This will help frame the dispute in a way that will get to the heart of the issue.
- Note that the RfC/U process is not generally used for relatively new users (under a couple hundred edits or so), although this is not a hard and fast policy. Before starting an RfC/U, you should check the edit count of the user involved.
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