Tardis:Other people's user pages
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When you contribute to Tardis, you agree that your contributions can be modified by anyone at any time. Technically, this applies to your user page, as well. However, we ask that you generally not edit someone else's user page, under the theory that you probably wouldn't want someone editing yours.
If you notice that someone else's user page has been vandalised, please do not revert on your own initiative. Instead, please alert an admin. Admin have greater powers to notice editing patterns, and so are in a better position to identify the seriousness of the vandalism.
Admin and your user page
Admin, and especially bots, are obviously exempt from the above rule, and can edit your user page without prior or latter warning. Still, neither admin nor bots will usually edit your page in a major way. Generally, they will edit user pages in mostly trivial ways, or so as to perform basic maintenance. Things that may happen on your user page include, but are not limited to, spelling changes, removal of links to pictures that no longer exist in our library, link fixes and code fixes.
Although you obviously have the right to ask an admin why he or she made a change to your user page, you should not revert an admin or bot edit on your user page.
Beyond trivial maintenance, admin may compel you to edit your page in certain material ways. But these conditions must be spelled out in our local rules, or through recent forum agreement.
Here's a concrete example. Let's say that you have a bot here. That means you will necessarily have two accounts, let's say Felicia and FeliciaBot. Local policy requires that you put a note at User:Felicia saying you control FeliciaBot, and a note at User:FeliciaBot saying that it is controlled by Felicia. So an admin can absolutely require you to put those notes up — and, in unlikely scenarios, even block you if you don't.
