Thread:Icecream111/@comment-34448838-20180116210828/@comment-24808960-20180125005203

Asking about a new ship page (I think) was set up in the earlier days of this wiki when many people did not know how to properly create pages and so this was simply set up to guide users who were uncomfortable creating a new page themselves to get help. I can see why this is confusing though and is not really a necessary guideline now that many people are confident editors! Because of this I have removed that part of the guidelines :)

The blocking thing is difficult, so mostly it is up to your discretion. Typically I look at a person's contributions and see how often they are creating problems. In the case of just adding 'hi' (number 2 on your list) I would just get rid of the edit without much discussion about it as this is a harmless change and mostly just an aim to get attention in my opinion. If they have done multiple small changes of this sort I'll send them a warning and if it continues I'll block them for two or three days.

For someone who changes things drastically to be 'funny' (case #1 on your list) I'll put a warning on their wall and block for a week. If I seen they've done this multiple times I'll block for two or three weeks.

Fanfiction/ fan art/ theory pages are harmless and usually just a sign that someone is new to the wikia or learning the rules, for them I just send a message (it does not even have to be a warning) explaining the rules of the wikia and telling them their page will be deleted. If they continue to add pages like this I will send an official warning and if it continues again I'd block them for a couple days.

Blocking is tricky because you have to take into account if the changes were from a new user who didn't know any better, if they were a one time thing for attention, or if they were meant to be hurtful/ generally stupid but you also have to take into account how often this occurs from that particular user. I personally try to give people the benefit of the doubt by starting out blockings as small and working up. There was once a user added really horrific details to a page and I blocked them permantly right away. In this case it was an editor making terrible comments to purposefully upset younger users of this site. I have only seen this once though so I do not think it is something you;d have to worry much about.

Hope this helps and sorry it's so long!