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  • Common block reasons
    • Simple duplicate account
    • User request
    • After a warning: Blatant and obvious violations of the Citizendium neutrality policy, or other fundamental policies.
    • After a warning: Insults or personal attacks that aggressively impugn the moral character, or personal or professional credibility, of a project member, whether using Citizendium or other resources.
    • After a warning: Disrespectful characterization of others' work beyond mere criticism of a position or a forceful reply.
    • After a warning: An author (or an editor acting as an author straightforwardly ignoring or disobeying content decisions made by an editor expert, even if the decision is under appeal.
    • After a warning: Deleting 50 words or more without explanation; or deleting Citizendium-sourced content to start a new article, without broad agreement or a positive editorial decision.
    • After a warning: Uploading of copyrighted material that is not properly licensed for reuse.
    • Threats, either of physical harm or of other egregious aggression, whether against an individual or a group of individuals.
    • Extremely offensive insults or personal attacks; direct and harsh attacks on the moral character, or personal or professional credibility, of a project member in good standing; or any application of particularly crude and vulgar epithets ("four letter words") to project members in good standing. It does not matter whether these attacks are made using Citizendium resources or other resources.
    • Defamation; making what a reasonable person should know are false or unproven (and therefore legally actionable) claims about a person that affect the reputation and/or earning potential of that person.
    • Use of an unapproved pseudonym, or falsifying credentials.
    • Sockpuppetry.
    • Vandalism.
    • Writing or uploading clearly obscene, horrifically violent, or (in general) patently offensive text, images, or sounds.
    • Public posting of private, personal e-mails of Citizens.
    • Use of the wiki to sell goods and "spam," including, but not limited to, writing or editing articles about one's own company or organization, as well as adding links to websites with which one is associated.
    • Deliberate and malicious misuse of the
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