Rules/Policies

The following set of rules and policies must be adhered to by all participants of the Navy Simulator Wiki, both staff and contributors. These policies help maintain the high standards of the wiki, encourage positive contribution, and promote a friendly community. 
For editing rules and formatting, consult the Manual of Style.
==Strikes==
This wiki runs on a 3-strike system, receiving 3 warnings from staff for breaking any rules will result in a permanent block. Each warning will result in a one-week block.
The 3-strike system may be adjusted depending on the severity of the infraction. Two strikes may be applied at once rather than one for a single infraction, and the amount of time a block lasts from a warning can be adjusted to a maximum of three months. If seen fit, a permanent block may be applied immediately, as well as potentially being made unappealable immediately. Breaking Rule 4 extends the maximum block to one year.
The only exceptions provided are directly from Aaron or Goofgoofbarkbark under rare circumstances, and permanent blocks may only be appealed following a premise of "a final chance" (which will lead to an unappealable permanent block if broken once again, no matter how minor.)
==General Rules==
#Treat every wiki participant with respect. Do not use slurs of any kind, regardless of the situation. Do not disrespect anyone for any reason, for example; rank, wealth, avatar, or anything. Do not threaten staff, or other contributors for any choices they made.
#*No racism, homophobia, religious intolerance, or discrimination of any kind. These are not grounds to attack someone else. Find fair constructive criticisms and possible improvements instead.
#Contribute constructive information. This wiki is not for memes or jokes, it is for accurate information about Navy Simulator. Do not knowingly contribute false information.
#*Do not vandalise a page by deleting accurate information or by contributing nonsense. This compromises the accuracy of the wiki and does not achieve anything. More info can be found in the Contribution Clause.
#* Do not plagiarise any work, from any source without explicit permission. Instead, rephrase it, or come up with your own ideas. This includes the old Navy Simulator wiki. ("Explicit permission" means from the original owner, not us.) This includes plagiarising our own work without our permission. Taking inspiration of format or information, or correcting non-factual knowledge from other sources, as well as writing the same thing in small doses is fine, but copying and pasting large portions of others' work is not acceptable.
#Only upload relevant images. These are images that will be used in articles and are taken in, or related to Navy Simulator.
#No NSFW content. Gore, porn, nudity, etc. Uploading such stuff to this wiki will result in a 1 year ban from the wiki.
#No underage users. Much of Navy Simulator's player base consists of players under FANDOM's minimum age requirement of 13. These players will not be allowed to edit the wiki.
#No advertising. Promoting anything on the wiki, including but not limited to divisions, events, or any external sites or apps, is strictly prohibited. This wiki is for information, not advertising.
#No asking for Robux/In-game Cash or any ranks/staff positions. This goes against the purpose of the wiki and is extremely annoying to others.
#*Do not ask for special pages for yourself, nor on behalf of anyone else/ any divisions. This wiki is not intended to provide info about specific people nor about any specific divisions as it can easily be bent into advertisements and propaganda, or otherwise a "tribute" towards a particular person or group which is also not the intention of this wiki, unless it is not "community-made", which only applies if a division does not have any rally quota whatsoever. Absolutely zero exceptions otherwise.
#Follow the rules of SEA. This particularly includes rules specific to SEA and not just general guidelines, such as not telling others to kill themselves or threatening to kill yourself, whether you are joking or not (Rule 16). All the rules of SEA can be found here. Breaking SEA rules may not only result in punishment here, but may also result in punishment within the SEA Military Discord. The only exception against the SEA TOS is towards appealing, as appealing any moderation actions here to a HC, Marshal, or Commandant will not apply here under any circumstance, as well as rules which are completely irrelevant and impossible to apply such as Raid Rules.
Protection Clause: Moderators reserve the right under their own discretion (with oversight) to perform any necessary action against you within their jurisdiction if it is found that you are intentionally or negligently causing trouble, hold a notorious reputation towards such things, or are creating overall discomfort and grief without breaching any specific rule stated here, or within the SEA Discord. This includes the use of loopholes to breach a rule.
Participation Clause: The Navy Simulator Wiki, despite following SEA rules, is considered to be a separate entity from the SEA Discord with its own separate moderation outside of the discussion page, regardless of the possibility of receiving punishment in the SEA discord for breaking certain rules here. Though this is a SEA affiliated property, this does not correlate to the discord server itself as its primary purpose is to present information for all players of Navy Simulator regardless of discord membership status, and as of such, members who are banned from the SEA Military discord are not forbidden from partaking in the wiki in terms of both giving information, or removing information, provided they do not use the discussion page or comments, and are not raiding, unless decided otherwise by an administrator. Likewise, a person banned from participating in the wiki may not necessarily be banned from the SEA Military discord. This clause does not apply to status, staff status as well as the ability to participate as a staff will be lost if banned from the SEA Military discord.
Contribution Clause: Any use or contribution to The Navy Simulator Wiki automatically agrees to the rules and that any contributions made or information provided to the wiki falls under as The Navy Simulator Wiki's collective property. As of such, a user may not withdraw any information or contribution that they provided for an invalid reason, nor under the reasoning of it being "their contribution and as of such their property" or "their right to control". The wiki is intended for public use and contribution to provide constant factual information to the player base of Navy Simulator, not to create individual ownership over a piece of information. Any removal of information for a non valid reason, regardless of the potentiality of the person removing said info being the one who contributed such info or article in the first place, can be considered as raiding as the information does not fall under their own property in which they hold the right to withdraw and keep from the wiki. Removing information based off this reasoning too purely from a reasoning that indicates spite, such as being banned from the SEA Military Discord or receiving a warning on the wiki, etc. will be seen as an attempt to raid by causing damage in an attempt to seek revenge towards SEA Military. Moreover, a valid article piece of information can not be kept as a "trademarked secret" and used for leverage in any way by purposefully hiding and withholding information for the sake of any personal gain or for the sake of anyone else's gain. This does not remove the possibility of receiving payment for providing information.