Rules

Welcome to the wiki, Everyone. there is a rules... you may follow the rules.

## General

* Be friendly and try not to be be rude to others. This includes an explicit ban on general bigotry, including the following: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, LGBTQphobia of any kind, antisemitism, ableism, etc - that is, slander/discrimination against social minorities and the like. This also covers slurs, and therefore excludes these words from the allowed swearing rule, even if implicitly disallowed before.
* Please read the Signature Policy.
* Please speak English at all times. We can communicate easily if we would.
* Don't plagiarize. Don't grab a pic/creation and claim it as yours. Always say where you found it, or preferably, create your own content.
* Don't troll and/or flame.
* Don't spam and/or vandalize.
* No cursing or swearing at another user. In general is fine.
* Always follow Wikia's Terms of Use.
* Don't talk about sensitive/controversial subjects. These can include:
	+ Religion
	+ Politics
	+ Controversial subjects in the news
	+ Crime
	+ Suicide, homicide and death
	+ Drugs
	+ Sexual content
* Don't pressure users into violating rules, you'll get a 3 day block for this if you violate this regularly.
* Don't pretend to be other people, unless it's a roleplay.
* Respect other's privacy.
* Don't edit other people's work without permission. Exception is adding categories and fixing grammar.
* Don't fluff edit. Fluff editing is the act of putting content little by little just to rise up your edit count. Doing this will result in a block.
* Do not falsely use templates and do not use unsuitable templates elsewhere from pages.
* Do not take actions that can be seen as acting against the wiki. (Facilitating its downfall, discouraging users from joining, diverting attention away from the wiki)

## Photos/Videos

* Don't post explicit content.
* Don't post content which could count towards bullying.
* When naming a file, please don't make it gibberish like: ryfuksgeyfawgfdoulff call it something like: Peashooter\_PVZ2.png
* Do not upload other people's content without permission.
* Don't upload blurry images.

## Page Making

* Stub pages will be marked for deletion.
* Do not create lists of multiple ideas.
* You are allowed to make different versions of an existing plant in the PvZ series, but please remember to use all page making rules. Please don't use images without permission.
* This wiki is about ideas for Plants vs. Zombies. This includes new plants, worlds or areas, zombies, or new games.
* TV Show and Comic pages are not allowed.
* Simply creating a list and having people add the content for you is not allowed.
* Please do not use someone else's content without permission for articles. Credit does not count as permission.
* Please finish at least 75% of your page before publishing.
* Use proper formatting for wiki articles. (infoboxes, headers, etc)
* Make sure that nobody already has your idea. If it already exists, make a version of the plant (ex. *Plant Name (User)*) and make sure that both ideas are different from each other.
* Game pages should be planned thoroughly before creating the page. Game pages with just a list of plants, zombies and worlds will be deleted.
	+ No original PvZ sequels (like PvZ 3). You can create sequels of your own games though.
	+ Think of a new story, new mechanics for the game, like how PvZ 2 introduced Plant Food.
	+ After you created all new plants and zombies, write a draft for your game page in Notepad or any other text editing program. When you think the game is ready, copy-paste everything into new page and create it.
	+ No creating another game if you have unfinished one.
* Pictures help in stopping a page from being a stub.
* Crossover plants go to the PVZ Crossover Wiki.
* No joke pages, these will be deleted on sight.
* Nothing created should be unoriginal, overpowered, or otherwise badly created (this includes pages that are ill-formatted).

## Chat

* General rules apply to chat too.
* Swearing is allowed when not used obnoxiously or without reason, or used against another user, e.g. "fuck you."
* Don't door spam. Door spamming is the act of entering and leaving chat repeatedly. This can cause lag for some users.
* Don't backseat mod or minimod. Backseat modding is the act of telling chat moderators what to do. Minimodding is taking the role of a staff member when you are a lower rank. These can be considered rude.
* Don't disrespect or backtalk to chat moderators - they are only doing their job.
* Don't take on the role of a staff member when you are not. This applies outside of chat too, the only punishment for this is a kick.
* If you believe that your punishment is unfair, appeal on a member of staff's message wall.
* Private messages cannot be seen by other users in the chat, and aren't recorded on chatlogs, so you may ignore the rule when private messaging, *as long as the other users involved in the private message are fine with it.*
* Don't spam emoticons or commands.
* Don't overuse capital letters, 3 strikes an hour ban.
* Don't spam gibberish or force the sidescroll to appear.

### Violation punishments

* Written Warning - spam, rude, doorspamming etc.;
* Kick - swearing, super spam, inappropriate language and links;
* Short Ban [1 minute - 1 day incl.] - Repeated cases of warnings, minimum 1 kick should be issued.
* Long term ban [3 days - 1 year] - Repeated short bans (minimum 1 short), heavy distribution of malware or inappropriate links (especially by unknown, never-seen before users) might cause this immediately;
* Permanent Ban [infinite] - issued in cases of severe ban evading - sockpuppets of users who have been blocked/banned for severe violations.

#### Important notes:

* Ban times depend on the severity of rule violation, but usually start with lowest ones, increasing in time in case of repeated violations.
* Penalty for *unintended* doorspamming is always 1 minute ban, this also **doesn't affect** chat ban history for going to candidate for staff rights.

## Community and Threads

### Fanbase

* Don't hate/harass/discriminate users who are fans of things you don't like.
* Don't annoy/pester/force people into joining your fanbase.

### Users

* Don't pester users to make art for you, a one day block can happen from disturbance of other users.
* Don't create material of users that they may find insulting, disturbing or make them uncomfortable.

### Threads

* Always put a reason when supporting or opposing, neutral votes don't need a reason but it would be nice if you did add one.
* Do not necrobump a thread - this means posting on them after long periods of time (roughly 4+ months). 2 strikes and it's a block.

## Staff Policy

* Never abuse power. Don't block/ban users for a reason that does not violate the rules. (e.g. Blocking users because you don't like him/her)
* Always do your responsibilities.
* Be a good example to the users.
* Always add reasons for deleting a page or punishing a user.
* When adding a new rule that users may disagree with, please check with other staff first.
* The above rule goes for the same with MediaWiki.
* Warning before punishment, please.