User blog comment:New Dalek Paradigm/Urgent - Regarding a New "Chat Rule"/@comment-4845243-20130402185643

Now, I'm a little confused here. There is no such rule. Moderators are not allowed to ban just anyone they think is a dupe, unless there is evidence. Nothing in the rules says that at all, and none of the admins have told us that we are allowed to do that.

The Norvik incident was a little more severe than you might know. He created several dupes, but it wasn't until he teamed up with Cricket that he stopped using dupes that had something Norvik-related in the name.

The result of the extreme amount of dupes used by the trolls is not that moderators can ban at will with no actual proof. However, we do usually question new users a little bit about how they heard of the wiki, and some CMs *coughalemascough* go by the policy 'guilty until proven innocent", though I disagree with that.

Anyways, no such rule exists. Written or unwritten.