Policies and Guidelines

Hi! Before you edit anything, please make sure to read these policies and guidelines. If you see anyone breaking them, please report the user, their offense, and the place where they did it to an Administrator.

## Rules

* General Rules
* Copying, Crediting, and Plagiarism
* Editing
* Conduct and Behavioral Rules

1. **No harassment, name-calling, or any other form of bullying** will be allowed.
2. **Do not post 18+ content**. Whether words or pictures, it is not allowed.
3. If you want a position, there is more information here. You must fit all the exceptions for the position you want,

- **Copying or any other form of plagiarism is banned**. This includes copying codes, images that other users made, as well as text from other sites, like Wikipedia, or other FANDOM sites. If you do copy, please quote or paraphrase.

- **Credit images**. When you make an image summary, please credit the image.

- **Do not take credit for other people’s work**. It’s rude, and plagiarism, which can get you banned.

- **Don’t edit other users’ things unless given explicit permission**. This rule is pretty self-explanatory; no editing things like message walls, badges, or profiles if they are not yours.

- **Pages should follow a general style**. For example, infoboxes should be on the right-hand side, at the top, and the text should be on the left-hand side. They should have good grammar, and not include spelling errors, misinformed/unproven facts, etc.

- **Categories are only to be created by admins**. You should still add categories to pages, just *don’t make them.*

- **No vandalism**. Putting irrelevant information, images, etc, is a form of vandalism. If you delete words and replace them with words that make absolutely no sense, that is also vandalism.

- **No spam**. Any form of spamming (i.e. chain mail, edit farming, etc.) is not tolerated and should be reported to admins immediately.

- **Respect users' privacy**. If someone doesn't want to give you their personal information (i.e. name, age, location, password, email, etc.), don't badger them for it, and do not continue to ask. When asking for personal information, always make sure that the user is okay with giving it to you.

- **Use good grammar and correct spelling**. Don’t use acronyms/abbreviations on articles either.

- **Short Articles**. If something’s short, don’t add TBA. Add the {{Stub}} template.

- **No repetitiveness**. Don’t repeatedly write the same thing, phrased differently or not. It confuses people, and takes up space.

- **Don't spam or write unnecessary posts**. This is touching on an aforementioned rule, but if you're going to write an insanely long post, or one with an abundance of capitalized words, make sure what you're saying is meaningful, necessary, and won't hurt anyone.

- **Consider others' feelings**.

- **Debate respectfully**. It's okay for people to think differently than you do. This doesn't mean that you should mock or belittle them. Friendly debates are encouraged, however, we would prefer if debates didn't get to heated or personal.

- **"They did it first!" is not a valid excuse for being rude.**

- **Forgive and forget**. Don't constantly remind someone of a mistake they made, or something that they apologized for.

Once a user breaks a rule and is reported, they will get three warnings before being blocked.