Thread:Ripto22475/@comment-878739-20160920034821/@comment--20160920231309

Usually in the instances of harassment, users are urged to contact Staff through Special:Contact/general. Staff are the ones who officially answer and resolve harassment.

Is there a reason you could never confirm your email? Even if you do not have a confirmed email on your account, it's still possible to contact Staff. You just need to logout of your "account" and view the Special:Contact/general page as an anonymous user. It will require an email for them to respond to though.

In regards to being able to do anything at this moment with Ivankaracheev, I don't think anything would be done. It appears they stopped messaging you months ago. So even if you did message Staff about them, they'd more than likely just say "This appears to be old, do message us again if they start again". So if they start to harass you again and it's clear you told them to stop, then Staff can get involved and investigate. If it's excessive and cross-wiki, a Vstf member "can" block them until Staff review the situation. We don't technically deal with harassment, but if it's extreme and it's to the point where they are doing it on a lot of wikis, then we view that as vandalism and can block for that.

Lastly, admins can set policies on their communities disallowing users removing messages on their walls/talk page (even if harassment). So if you tried removing a message off your talk page and an admin reverted it and wanted left on there, they technically can control that. It's not ideal for admins to do that, but if they want to set a policy for that, they can do so.

If I was on a community with a harassment message and I knew the admins didn't want anything "deleted" from a user's message wall/talk page then I would contact Staff and tell them about the message and ask if it can be removed (works best if the message is new and hasn't been removed yet). Sometimes they'll do it for you and admins shouldn't revert a Staff members edit. That's not saying they wouldn't though. If the admin was head-strong enough, they'd revert the edit anyway from Staff. Staff wouldn't demote them over it though. They might just say "oh well, the admin wants it there" or they'll go lawyer staff and cite the Terms of Use and tell the admin it needs to be removed. Depends on the Staff/and the situation.