Using the Wiki

Fandom wants us to have an Official Rules page. This is it.
The TrekCreative wiki is a smorgasbord. All ideas are welcome. We ask that a few simple rules are followed. 
We are here to have fun, to gather our trekrical stuff together to enjoy. Use the wiki in that spirit.
==Please Join==
The Trek Creative mailing list. This is a repository for the users of that list. Material by non-list users is subject to removal.
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==The Two Principles==
1: Be excellent to each other.
2: Don't make us make a rule.
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==This is a Treknical list==
Please do not place stories or story outlines here. A list of stories found at other sites is fine. Mediawiki is a really bad format for stories.
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==English is the Official Language==
Grammatical, correctly spelled English is preferred. If the Admins cannot read it, it is considered a glitch and removed. (All of us are ignorant Americans that know only English (barely))
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==Label your work==
Use the categories. Create one of your own if needed. Don't be shy about using as many as you feel it needs. If you have an example of a Continuity by all means make a category for it. There are over 900 pages on this Wiki. Categories are the directory.
Before you create another category, see if one exists.clicking on the "Categories" tag will take you to a page that lists the ones that exist. Try to avoid fragmenting a subject. I spent an hour merging the "politics" and Political units" categories for example.
Use categories on pictures as well. We didn't to start with. There is a huge backlog on this matter.
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===Conflicting Information===
The rule is everyone's ideas are equally good, and no one view of Star Trek is correct over another. 
If you run into a circumstance where your view conflicts with someone else's view the correct method is to split the article by adding headers to separate the areas. Examples of this would be the Starfleet article, the Federation article and others.
Place things in alphabetical order. Athena comes before Epiphany Trek comes before Outwardly Mobile. "Star Trek" in the title is treated like the article "the". No pissing matches over precedence.
Under no circumstances do you remove someone else's view and replace it.
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===Errors of Fact===
Some articles are factual. Articles on specific publications or biographies of real people. If you find an error of fact by all means correct it. Say why in the discussion part of the page.
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===Stuff from other places===
TrekCreative is not the only Star Trek wiki by far. Memory Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and more. If you find a good article on the subject in one of those, just link to it. Don't lift wholesale. If you want to make substantial changes, lift away.
Links to outside sources are not the Great Satan™. They do not have to be relegated to the bottom of the page, sprinkled with holy water, or ringed with garlic. If you used an author's name in a article, by all means link it to their web page or wikipedia bio.
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==Style and format==
This is not Wikipedia. It isn't Expanded Universe either. We don't do edit wars, we don't care about a specific unified writing style. In fact, we specifically recommend against it. This wiki was started because Expanded Universe is run by edit nazis.
Write your articles your way, format them as you see fit. (Please do not abuse white space, it's in therapy already.) It is preferred that you use grammatical English. It is suggested that corrections for spelling and grammar are always in order.
To that end respect someone else's stylistic approaches. If they undo your corrections for spelling and grammar, it was for a reason, drop it.
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==Violation==
Is reason for blocking. I never have blocked anyone. I'm saying this because Fandom wants me to.
Tesral (talk) 19:06, November 11, 2013 (UTC)
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