For Editors

This page or section is considered an official policy
on the Speculative Fiction Wiki. It has wide acceptance among editors
and is considered a standard that everyone must follow.

There are very few **policies** which apply across all Wikia. These can be found on the Central Wikia at Wikia:Category:Policy.

Other policies for this Wikia should be decided by the wiki community. It's generally best to keep policies as simple as possible, and not to introduce too many rules. A growing wiki can usually do well with a few simple policies and a lot of goodwill and cooperation.

Adding `[[Category:Policy]]` to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. This is found here.

1. **BE BOLD!** in updating pages. Go ahead, it's a wiki!
Encourage others, including those who disagree with you, likewise to **BE BOLD!**
2. **Be civil** to other users at all times.
3. **When in doubt, take it to the Discuss area**. We have all the time in the world. Mutual respect is the guiding behavioral principle of Wikia and, although everyone knows that their writing may be edited mercilessly, it is easier to accept changes if the reasons for them are understood. If you discuss changes on the article's *talk* (or *discussion*) page before you make them, you should reach consensus faster and happier.
4. **Respect copyright**. Wikia uses the GNU Free Documentation License. Everything you contribute must be compatible with that license.
5. **Decent edit summaries** and clear and transparent explanations are universally appreciated. Other editors need to understand your process, and it also helps you yourself to understand what you did after a long leave of absence from an article. Please state ***what*** you changed and ***why***. If the explanation is too long, add more on the discussion page.
6. **Assume good faith**; in other words, try to consider that the person on the other end of the discussion is a thinking, rational being who is trying to positively contribute to the project — unless, and only unless, you have firm, solid, and objective proof to the contrary. Merely disagreeing with you is no such proof.
7. **Don't revert good faith edits**. Reverting is *too* powerful sometimes. Don't succumb to the temptation, unless you're reverting very obvious vandalism (like "LALALALAL\*&\*@#@THIS\_SUX0RZ", or someone changing "1+2=3" to "1+2=**17**"). If you really can't stand something, revert once, with an edit summary something like "(rv) I disagree strongly, I'll explain why in Discuss." and immediately take it to the Discuss area.
8. **No personal attacks**. Don't write that user such and so is an idiot, or insult him/her (even if (s)he *is* an idiot). Instead, explain what they did wrong, why it is wrong, and how to fix it. If possible, fix it yourself (but see above).
9. **Be graceful**: *Be liberal in what you accept, be conservative in what you do*. Try to accommodate other people's quirks the best you can, but try to be as polite, solid, and straightforward as possible yourself.
10. **Use the preview button**; it helps prevents edit conflicts and mistakes.

 It's important to have fun... but try to make sure those around you have fun too!

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