Policy

*This page states the general rules and guidelines that every user who contributes to the Myths and Folklore Wiki must abide by. Please note that Fandom's wiki-wide rules do apply to this wiki, even though not stated here. Also note that every rule here is subject to change at any time without warning. Any user account is subject to banishment if they break any of these rules, but the conditions and form of punishment varies depending on which rule you've broken.*

### Mission Statement

**This is intended to be an expansive collaborative universe filled with captivating narratives, epic battles, and intricate character development. Users have the creative freedom to submit virtually anything, adding their unique contributions to shape a grand-scale storyline. From a cosmology, a world-build, a power system, and more!** All work here is deemed to be under the GNU Free Documentation License**.**

## Basic Editing

In order to begin editing pages on the Divinity Wiki, you must first sign up as a member of the wiki. This requirement is meant to prevent anonymous people from maliciously editing pages. Once you've signed up you'll have access to edit the majority of the content on this site with the exception of **Protected Pages**.

### Protected Pages

Protected pages are pages that are only able to be edited by **Admins**. These pages are protected to prevent vandalism or mistaken editing. Protected pages include but are not limited to:

* High-visibility pages, such as the Main Page
* Official Divinity guidelines
* Pages including legal texts
* Site templates
* Pages that are heavily and/or frequently vandalized

### Justifying Edits

Before completing an edit for a page, make sure to write down a justification for your edit at the bottom of the editor page where it says "Describe what you changed." This helps avoid confusion and conflict by letting other users, including admins, know what you are doing.

### Avoiding Stubs

Out wiki believes that creating too many empty stubs without adding any content can be detrimental. Therefore, we would ask that you add a minimum of 3 sentences, or 1 paragraph, when starting a new page along with {{stub}} to automatically categorize it as a page that needs work. Pages that haven't been expanded upon and remain stubs after an entire year may potentially be subject to automatic deletion by admins. This also ties into the effort rule.

## Story Attributes

### Effort Rule

The effort rule is a standard that everyone should follow when creating ideas or attributes to the story. Our page is dedicated for people to collaberate and create storylines using a mutual world, but we take the writing experience seriously and thus will only generally accept creations with effort put into them. Effort is evaulated by length (Should be lengthy), and content. (Ideas should be original and avoid heavy other canon based.) This mainly means someone can't just make a different version of Goku, or use DB's power system, implanted into here. The exception of this rule would be claims, see below.

#### Tiering

Falling into the effort rule, making an OP character with an absurdly high tier is NOT allowed. If your character happened to be someone with high scaling, it must be a part of their plot rather than an excuse to be strong. This is not a matter of who is strongest, so it shouldn't be anything above universal. OMNIPOTENCE is never going to be accepted either just from the sheer generalization and vague defination.

### Claims

A claim is something taken from a canon character or off the internet. Now, not everyone is an artist or a writer, some things you just want to re-use, and here that is perfectly fine. A claim must be said it's a claim to prevent plagerizing or taking credit from others. A photo from the internet, whether it's a OC art or canon art, credit must be given. (You can do this in image upload). AI art is not a claim but is allowed. There's nothing wrong with AI Art in my opinion so feel free to use it. It's also worth noting, that while it's not prohibited, it's recommended to NOT use the same claim as someone else.

## Other stuff

### Utilizing Bots

Bots can be useful tools for performing large amounts of mundane edits that would normally be very time consuming. They also can cause big problems if those edits go awry. Because of this only admins are allowed to create and use bots on the site.

### Deleting Pages

For pages themselves, only admins can delete entire pages. Pages that may be deleted by admins without warning include:

* Empty pages
* Stub pages that are over a year old.
* Redundant/unnecessary pages
* Pages lacking sources
* Pages that are off-subject, or do not fit into our mission statement

### Requesting Deletion

Even though regular users cannot delete entire pages, there are multiple options for users to notify admins if a user believes a page should be deleted. For certain pages, it can easily be discerned that they should be deleted immediately. Such pages are considered to be **candidates for speedy deletion**. A full list of criteria for pages that would be candidates for speedy deletion can be found by clicking the bold link in the sentence prior, but some notable examples of candidates for speedy deletion are:

* Pages that are purely vandalism
* Pages filled with nonsense characters/jumbles of letters/word salad
* Leftover test pages

If you think that a page is a candidate for speedy deletion, simply add {{delete}} to a page to tag it so an admin can quickly review and delete it. Otherwise, if a page you want deleted does not fit the critera for candidates for speedy deletion, please contact one of the **Admins** in order to explain why you feel the page should be deleted.

## Conduct

Here at Divnity Wiki we expect users to follow a basic code of conduct when using this site. This code of conduct is first and foremost meant to ensure users have a safe and enjoyable experience on the site. Secondarily it is meant to protect the site from all forms of vandalism and misinformation.

### Enforcement

Admins have the authority to enforce Fandom and Divinity Policy. This authority includes banning users from the site. Below is a chart showing the typical disciplinary action per offense:

 2nd Offense
 3rd Offense
 4th Offense and higher

**NOTE**: Each individual edit counts as one offense. For example, if you edit a page twice and both times they are vandalizing edits, you will be issued 2nd Offense enforcement automatically without a 1st Offense punishment being issued.

#### Religious Tolerance

One of out core values is religious tolerance. There can be a large amount of overlap with religion when discussing the story, and people's views on social politics can be greatly linked with their strongly and sincerely held religious beliefs. Because of this we ask all users to use the utmost respect when discussing any particular religion specifically.

Since this is a scholarly site, we do not favor any one religious view, perspective, or tradition over another, and maintain an impartial perspective when writing our storylines. Any users found to be using this site to promote their own particular religious tradition while referring to other religious traditions as "wrong," or maintain that their one religious tradition is not a "myth" because they believe it is "true" while maintaining that all other religious traditions are "myths," are potentially subject to permanent bans.

### Vandalism

Vandalism is against every wiki's policy on Fandom. Any user that is caught doing any kind of vandalizing on any page here at the Myths and Folklore Wiki will be subject to termination from the wiki.