Wiki Rules

Welcome to the Wiki, before you begin editing please ensure to read this Wikis Rules, which will be noted in a heading below.

## **Rules**

Rule 1: No bullying other users who come to this wiki upon discovering it.

Rule 2: No harassing other users who discover this community.

Rule 3: No posting explicit content (if it's part of a song title you must place the first letter and the last letter of the word and place asterisks (\*)'s 'in place of the other letters).

Rule 4: No threatening anyone else who discovers this community.

Rule 5: No posting any form of dirty photos of stars. If this is done you will be blocked for a month.

Rule 6: No violent behaviour towards others. If this is done you will be blocked for a month.

Rule 7: No adding random categories without first discussing them with an admin.

Rule 8: No creating blank pages otherwise they will be deleted. If this is done then you will be blocked for a month.

Rule 9: Every time a singer or musician who at the very least has a Wikipedia page is mentioned on a page they must be linked (regardless as to whether they have a page or not). This rule if not followed will bear no punishment unless 20 pages are left completely unlinked, as if this is done you will be given a warning and asked to do so, however if you still do not do so you will be blocked for a week, and if this occurs continually your blocks may extend.

Rule 10: No Vandalism of pages. If you are spotted as having vandalised upon the wiki, your edit will be removed from the page that you vandalised, and a message will be placed on your message page, alongside a link to this page (In the case of anonymous users your edits may need removing manually or if you do several at least one may need to as that way you will be tagged and linked to this page), however if you are seen to continue in vandalising the wiki, this will lead to a block that is at least a month in length. In a similar vein, vandalism such as threats of harm or spam and these actions later being carried out and any kind of hounding, baiting or trolling will also result in a warning before leading into a block that is at least a month in length.

Rule 11: If a page is made for anyone famous who has nothing to do with singing or music in general then these pages will be deleted. If this is done continually or in excess of 20 pages you will be given a warning, before later being blocked for 2 weeks.

Rule 12: No usages of infoboxes as this site does not use any kind of infoboxes upon it's pages.

## **Additional Guidance**

- Do not too opinionated and claiming that one famous singer or musician is better than another in order to overpower someone else's preference.

- Always be both polite & civil towards others especially when discussing subjects upon discussions boards or blog posts. In a similar vein, you must ensure not make any kind of personal attacks against other people and find a polite way to criticise another user's argument without attacking the person if you believe that you need to be critical surrounding an argument made by another user, and in doing so ensure never to use any form of bigoted language such as slurs which may degrade another person or group of people based on several factors such as their gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, or religion etc. In addition to this, do not use this Wiki as a platform in order to promote your own Wiki or any kind of social media or YouTube channels which you may have (Whilst it is fine to message a friend on here to show them a wiki, social media or YouTube channel you believe they might be interested in is fine, messaging the site's entire active user base is definitely not).

- If you make an edit which is not to the wikis standards you may be asked why and will then be informed of the wikis standards in order to try and help you comply with these in future edits.

- If you are unsure how to edit something ask for an admin to explain how to do so to you.

- Before you make a page ensure to check to see if a singer or musician already has a page, and before you link to a page ensure you spell the name of the singer or musician you are linking to correctly so that confusion is not caused.

- Do not rename a page without a valid reason to do so, and if you do so with a valid reason ensure to change the singer or musicians name name and links upon any other page that their name is visible upon as it is likely it was also be linked here. People do not need to ask an admin if they can change a pages name as they can do so and state why as a valid reason on the reasoning as to why they renamed the pages, however it could perhaps be helpful if they were to then discover every place the singer or musician was named and / or linked upon so that way it would save both other users & admins the time of having to do so, however if a user renames a page and does not have time to change links or the singer or musician name everywhere they are linked upon or simply forget to do, admins and other wiki users will be able to do so upon their behalf.

- Take any suggestions that any admin or any other member of the community gives you into account.

## **How Do I Get Promoted?**

1. Being active and creating and editing pages for a minimum of six months.
2. Ensuring that you read the rules page and ensuring to follow the rules at all times, and reporting anyone who you believe needs reporting for breaking the rules to the bureaucrat.
3. Being polite & courteous when interacting with others within the community.
4. Creating new pages for Singers & Musicians that grab your interest and helping to support with the growth of this wiki's community.
5. Reporting any vandalism that you see on pages or any vandalous pages that you notice that have been recently created to the bureaucrat, and informing them as to whether you have or haven't reverted the vandalism (Sometimes a rollback is more effective at reverting vandalism then manually undoing edits, yet other times manually undoing edits does prove effective. Additionally the bureaucrat will delete any pages that are created just for the pure sake of containing vandalism, as only the bureaucrat and admins can delete pages).
6. Whilst making mistakes are fine, and it takes little time for the bureaucrat to revert them and explain mistakes, this is not the case with vandalism as the bureaucrat may have to revert edits on a more frequent basis, before going on to take the relevant steps that are noted within this wikis rules. As such, if you consistently break the rules by clearly vandalising pages, and are warned and blocked for such behaviour several times, you will not be eligible for the position of admin or another kind of role such as Bureaucrat or Content Moderator, as whilst you may have met the other pieces of criteria, you will be unlikely to have met the third stage of being polite and courteous towards others within the community and you definitely will not have met the sixth and final stage of the criteria for adminship or becoming another kind of role such as a Bureaucrat or a Content Moderator, which is not being a frequent vandal and being warned and blocked for vandalism on a frequent basis due to that.

## **How To Be A Good Bureaucrat / Admin / Content Moderator**

* You should be open towards other users and responsive to the queries of new users who may need both guidance and advice. In addition to this, you should also be approachable and able to address users quickly in order to create an open & welcoming environment.
* You should not act as if you own the wiki if you have been promoted, as all this means is that you are trusted to use some excess tools which are not available to the entirety of your community in order to improve the community as a whole.
* You should not protect large numbers of content pages, as you want to encourage all of the users within the community to edit, and all page protection should be used for is for the improvement of the community such as in order to prevent vandalism or edit warring. In addition to the above you should not protect pages in order to lock a page to a version you prefer, and instead allow the community to edit the page as it can always be improved.
* You should not revert edits that are made in good faith without explaining why you undid them. Due to this you should first try and reword what someone has wrote, yet if you cannot do this then you can restore a prior revision of the page. If edits are incorrect or cannot be reworded nor revised and you decide to RollBack a users edit, then you must clearly explain why you reverted the edit to the user who made the edit by dropping them a message on their message wall.
* You should respect the opinions of others and never shut them out, as everyone within the community should feel both encouraged & empowered to speak up and engage in reasonable discussions surrounding topics that have relevance to the wiki, and this also includes if their opinions differ from those of a Bureaucrat, Admin, or Content Moderator.
* You should never play favourites and provide all editors with the chance to learn and grow within your community.
* You should be able to understand your limits as whilst being promoted to a Bureaucrat, Admin, or Content Moderator can be rewarding, it can also be tiring. If you require a break or to leave the wiki, then it is okay to do this, yet you should make the other users who have received promotions aware of this by dropping them a message on their message wall which surrounds this.

## **Locking Policy**

### *Pages upon this Wiki may be locked at any given time for the following reasons:*

- If any of this wiki's pages is severely vandalised at any given time, then it is highly likely that it will be locked, otherwise the locking of any kind of pages is highly unlikely.

- Any pages wherein an admin notices an edit war occurring will be locked temporarily, until an agreement can be reached as to how a page wherein an edit war is occurring should be written is come towards by users involved in an edit war coming to a compromise as to how a page should be written. If an admin notices an edit war occurring due to someone incorrectly formatting or updating a page, then they can lock the page and explain to the person who was wrongly formatting or updating a page as to how they should have gone about their edits.

- In addition to this pages such as the rules page and the home page will also be locked in order to prevent vandalism and preserve the proper display of the Wiki.

### *Pages will not be locked under any circumstances if:*

- An admin or moderator disagrees with another admin or moderator as this can be seen as a conflict of interest.

- In order to preserve a revision of a page that an admin or moderator likes for them to continue editing later.

- In order to mark a page as done - there may always be extra information that can be added to a page!

### *If I believe a page's protection level is too strong, who do I contact in order to request it be reviewed?*

In order for the level of protection upon any protected page to be reviewed, you must contact an administrator or content moderator on their local message wall. If they do not respond within at least a week to a month's time period, then it is advised that you message the administrator or content moderator on their message wall on Community Central. If you believe that an admin is abusing their powers at any time (e.g. by consistently locking several pages with seemingly no reason), it is advised that you report their actions to Fandom Staff via Zendesk with links regarding their actions as screenshots are not accepted when making such reports to Fandom Staff.

## **Suggested Rules**

Rules can be suggested through the comments section of this page. If the bureaucrat believes that a suggested rule should be added then they will go on to add it, yet if they believe a suggested rule should not be added then they should respond to the comment left by the user who suggested the rule on the comments of this article, to suggested why they do not believe their suggested rule to be a necessity.

## **Blocking Policy**

Users may be blocked due to:

* Recurring vandalism or spamming
* Deliberately misgendering (i.e. using the wrong pronouns) and otherwise disrespecting people's stated facts about their person and identity.
* Recurring harassment, including hounding, personal or legal threats, posting of personal information, repeated messaging and ignoring another users request to be left alone
* Continual edit warring
* Making a personal attack on another user
* Sockpuppetry
* Asking other users personal information such as age, location, etc.

Each of these rules bar Rules 5, 6, 10 & 11, If broken will first be linked to this page with a warning, and then later blocked for two weeks, however if this form of behaviour occurs on a continual basis then your blocks will begin to extend. In terms of Rules 5, 6, 10 \* 11 being breached you will first be given a warning, before then being blocked for at least a month.

## **If I Am Blocked How Do I Appeal?**

If you believe you have been unfairly blocked, you should leave an admin a message on your message wall, and they should be able to respond in order to help clear up any kind of misunderstandings that may have lead to your block. If an admin does not respond to your message on your message wall after a prolonged period of time, then you should drop them a message on their message wall on Community Central and give them at least twenty four hours to respond, yet if you know they will not be available when you leave the message and that they may need longer due to being away for example, then you should give them a slightly longer amount of time of at least a week to respond. You should only send a Support Ticket to Fandom through ZenDesk surrounding blocks if you have made your best effort to discuss your block with the wikis admins, or if you cannot manage to discuss the block, and if the block is longer than a two week period. If you meet the conditions surrounding ZenDesk then Fandom will review your situation, however when making the report a link to said discussion or discussions should also be presented.