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Do not make legal threats or Pseudo-Legalistic threats on Wikipedia.

You should always first attempt to resolve disputes using Wikipedia's dispute resolution procedures.

If you must take legal action, we cannot prevent you from doing so. However, we require that you do not edit Wikipedia until the legal matter has been resolved – one way or the other – to ensure that all legal processes happen via proper legal channels. You should instead contact the person or people involved directly. If your issue involves Wikipedia itself, you should contact Wikipedia's parent organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation.

If you make legal threats you may be blocked from editing so as not to exacerbate the matter through other than legal channels. Users who make legal threats will typically be blocked from editing indefinitely, while legal threats are outstanding.

Users who make Pseudo-Legalistic Threats are also subject to blocking. Pseudo-Legalistic threats are threats between users to take some form of adverse action through the Framework of Policies on Wikipedia. Users tend to react to both forms of legal threats the same way.

The bottom line is that users should not ever make threats against one another in any form, legal or otherwise. If you feel strongly about a situation and wish to pursue legitimate complaint channels on Wikipedia, please just go ahead and do so without making threats. Threats erode trust and eventually damage the collabortive environment necessary to create a good encyclopedia.

Legal threats and Pseudo-Legalistic threats are subject to a mandatory 12 month block, subject to appeal and review by a steward or the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Cherokee Wikipedia. In other words, they are not to be tolerated.