User:Mdm.Bla/Cautions and send-offs

An Austrian Wikipedian is shown the red card for offensive, insulting, or abusive language (severe incivility).

In association football, the referee may in some cases award cautions and send-offs to sanction players guilty of misconduct, and announces this to the players, team officials, and spectators using red and yellow cards. On Wikipedia, discussions can get heated, and editors don't always remember to stay cool, resulting in different forms of misconduct.

Cautions

A player Wikipedian is cautioned if guilty of:

• delaying the restart of play
• dissent by word or action
• entering, re-entering or deliberately leaving the field of play without the referee’s permission Not on Wikipedia! Anyone can enter, re-enter, or leave at any time.
• failing to respect the required distance when play is restarted with a dropped ball, corner kick, free kick or throw-in
• persistent offences (no specific number or pattern of offences constitutes ‘persistent’)
• unsporting behaviour:
  • attempts to deceive the referee, e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation)
  • changes places with the goalkeeper during play or without the referee’s permission (see Law 3)
  • commits in a reckless manner a direct free kick offence bold action
  • handles the ball to interfere with or stop a promising attack, except where the referee awards a penalty kick for a non-deliberate handball offence
  • denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick for a non-deliberate handball offence
  • commits any other offence which interferes with or stops a promising attack, except where the referee awards a penalty kick for an offence which was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball
  • denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by committing an offence which was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball and the referee awards a penalty kick
  • handles the ball in an attempt to score a goal (whether or not the attempt is successful) or in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent a goal
  • makes unauthorised marks on the field of play
  • plays the ball when leaving the field of play after being given permission to leave
  • shows a lack of respect for the game
  • initiates a deliberate trick for the ball to be passed (including from a free kick or goal kick) to the goalkeeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hands; the goalkeeper is cautioned if responsible for initiating the deliberate trick
  • verbally distracts an opponent during play or at a restart
• entering the referee review area (RRA) Not really relevant, although there are some pages that are unprotected but editing is limited to a few people.
• excessively using the ‘review’ (TV screen) signal

Sending-offs

A player Wikipedian is sent off if guilty of:

• denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by committing a deliberate handball offence (except a goalkeeper within their penalty area)
• denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by committing a non-deliberate handball offence outside their own penalty area
• denying a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent whose overall movement is towards the offender’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick (unless as outlined below)
• serious foul play
• biting or spitting at someone

• violent conduct
• using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or action(s)
• receiving a second caution in the same match discussion
• entering the video operation room (VOR)

So what does this mean for Wikipedia?

Pretty much nothing, but it is an interesting way to think about civility.