Policy talk:Universal Code of Conduct

Misrepresentations or disinformation not covered?

I have been dealing with a user who makes personal attacks, but also surely deliberate misrepresentations of my contributions. I notified him of numerous failures to respect the CoC, yet I ended up failing to show clear violations of the CoC for both of these issues, which I consider the gravest. In particular, I am surprised the Code does not explicitly prohibit misrepresentations of actions of colleagues, or at least―more generally―disinformation. Wikipedia does have a guideline against misrepresentation, but for Meta-Wiki behavior, I ended up with nothing stronger/clearer than the last paragraph, which merely invokes section 2 (expectation of collegiality).

Am I missing something, or does the CoC not declare misrepresentation nor disinformation in general as unacceptable? Chealer (talk) 02:06, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Deimmunization

One problem I've faced is when a user is warned against or prevented from pursuit of a remedy for offensive comments by someone in a position of power. Does this need to be included in a bullet point itself:

• Endorsing uncivility: Intentionally deterring or stopping another user from dealing with comments they could reasonably perceive as uncivil. We expect that users are able to respond reasonably to comments that they object to and that their concerns are validated if reasonable, particularly by people with community authority because unaddressed uncivil comments may harm the health of the community.

Or is this already implied by the existing points?

Consider these declined and U4C-misinterpreted cases:

• Systemic failure to provide UCoC protection by ENWP admins
• 中文维基文库管理员Midleading对红渡厨的封禁争议 第二次
  • I believe that this case's filer has left Wikimedia because of the dispute :(

Faster than Thunder (talk) 00:55, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry

I have a question. Where in the Universal Code of Conduct is sockpuppetry forbidden? I see sections forbidding harassment and content vandalism. Sockpuppetry isn't either harassment or vandalism, although sockpuppets are often used to harass or vandalize. Have I missed something, or is there another code, or is sockpuppetry only forbidden in all of the local projects? Robert McClenon (talk) 22:04, 8 April 2026 (UTC)