The Wayfarer's Guide Wiki Use Rules

1. **Adults Only**: The Wayfarer's Guide is a fantasy fiction setting with erotic content. Fandom's rules and regulations require that all works be kept to a Safe for Work nature. However, the subject matter of the setting is such that minors should not consume it. If you have not yet reached the age of majority in your area, do not peruse this wiki.
2. **Do not post porn**: The Wayfarer's Guide, as mentioned, is an erotic setting. It is not exclusively such, but sexuality plays a major role in the work. As such, it goes without saying that there will be sexual content on the wiki. This should be kept to erotica and Safe for Work imagery. Refrain from any form of actual nudity or depictions of sexual acts in your additions and edits. This is especially true considering that the setting acknowledges and allows for, and in some cases incorporates, sexual elements and themes that can be deeply disturbing or offensive to others. Actual depictions of sex and nudity are to be removed from the site. Text may remain, within reason.
3. **Keep it civil**: Do not make personal attacks on other people. If you need to criticize another user’s argument, do so without attacking them as a person. Likewise their creations. Do not use bigoted language, including slurs which degrade another person or group of people based on gender, race, sexual orientation, preference, or identity, nationality, religion, political views or affiliation, etc. Further, the broader Monstergirl fan community is fractious and often hostile. This wiki and its related content are intended as a peaceful meeting ground for the community to come together around and be able to interact with each other in a respectful manner. Leave existing grudges and drama on other sites and off the Discord Server. Do not seek to "purge" other members or their views and content.
4. **Be a productive member of the wiki**: Contribute to the wiki in line with the established processes and conventions. Need help? Ask an administrator! Disrupting the wiki with “edit warring” over differing opinions of a topic with another user or group of users is not productive. This is what the Discussion page for each article is for, as is the Discord chat (among other uses).
5. **Show restraint**: Do not edit existing pages without the permission of the creator, excepting in cases of grammatical correction. Use the Discussion page to request changes, additions, or removals.
6. **Respect the Canon**: Do not declare work created by individuals other than Twelveseal to be "canon" to the setting unless they have been deemed canon by Twelveseal and appropriately recategorized. Tag all unofficial content with the Unofficial Category and the creator's Name as a Category. Unofficial content that has been reviewed and deemed suitable for addition to the canon of the setting by the author may be given the Canon category by Twelveseal, be they small or large changes.
7. **Respect other people's creations**: The Wayfarer's Guide is a multiverse within its own canon. One with a theoretically infinite range of possible variations. Content creators are encouraged to create their own variations and interpretations of the setting to fit their personal tastes and needs. These are not considered canon to the core setting, but they are still accepted works. Do not disparage non-canon content. Criticism is fine, so long as it is constructive, but understand that simply disliking someone else's creation or interpretation is not grounds for ostracization. Their content is just as legitimate as any other on the wiki, even if you find its subject matter or quality lacking in comparison to the works of other creators. Further, don't go around intentionally using people's creations inappropriately as a means of harassing them.
8. **Do not engage in excessive self-promotion**: The wiki is a collaborative community resource for the topic at hand. It is NOT a free place to advertise your related website, YouTube channel, blog, social media account, etc. Have a question about whether your link would be welcome? Ask an administrator!
9. **Do not harass other users**: If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their wall, respect their wishes. It is their wall. Even beyond their private walls, just don't harass people in general in here. I repeat this, but I do so for a reason. The broader community has a history of this kind of thing.
10. **Do follow community guidelines for formatting**: When a community has established formatting, it’s important to adhere to that, especially when spoiler content is involved.
11. **Do not post plagiarized content**: This is a setting with similarities to other works, some of which are known for being very protective of their properties. Beyond that, it's just wrong to post things that aren't yours while claiming them to be. Only post materials you have the authority to use, whether by your own creation or commission.
12. **Do not post material you intend for exclusive use**: Whether for personal or other application, don't post content you want exclusively for some other use. Any materials posted to this Wiki have the potential to be incorporated into the canon and may be included in published works. By posting content you have ownership or use rights to, you are authorizing the Wiki and its contributors to use and reuse said content without charge or legal action in the exclusive context of works within the Wayfarer's Guide setting, both canon and non-canon. In essence, you are agreeing to make your content "public use" by incorporating it into this wiki and accepting that it may be reinterpreted or altered by other users, though not within the original postings without your permission.
13. **Give credit where credit is due**: Do not edit out or crop signatures in work, and always cite the original creator and/or owner of content posted to this wiki that you use in your own works. Obviously, do not claim to have created anything that you haven't, and do not claim ownership of any content on this wiki save that which you actually have created or otherwise own. The Wayfarer's Guide is the sole property of Twelveseal, except in cases where content was created by other users and added into the canon, in which case they are the property of their original creators or owners and used by Twelveseal and the wiki community at large with permission.
14. **No Crypto, NFTs, or similar content**: This is a personal decision, but I consider such trends and practices open invitations for exploitation of those pursuing them. Nothing related to the wiki, its finances, its content, or the Wayfarer's Guide setting is to be involved in these practices.
15. **This is an *Inclusive* space, but *not* a "Safe Space"**: This wiki is open to everyone regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, culture, creed, sexuality, gender, preference, economic views, or politics. It values diversity, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and personal choice and agency, and constructive criticism as well, but it *does so* with the recognition that this demands a measure of decorum in the behavior of its users and respect in how they interact with each other and the creations thereof. Based and Woke are as welcome here as moderate and unorthodox views are, but everyone choosing to participate in this project, to post to this wiki, do so with the understanding that they have agreed to accept that there are others here that they *will not* see eye-to-eye with, but who are owed equal respect as they would like for themselves. The maxims are old but treat others as you would be treated and remember that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Expressions of dislike or disagreement and constructive criticism are fine. However, this is not a place for bitching and harassment. This is not a place for trolling, for flame wars, or Social Justice Warriors to crusade. It is not a place in need of Canceling or raiding or shutting down. It is a place for adults of different stripes who know how to *act like adults* to come together and enjoy themselves. If you do not like what you see here, don't force yourself to stay and make yourself and others miserable in the process, and don't vent your dissatisfaction by trying to harm the community, its members, or their works.
16. **This is not a war room**: There is a degree of animosity between various sectors of the broader Monstergirl fan community, some of it directed internally, some of it externally. This is not a place to use in furthering that animosity. It is not to be used as a place to organize any kind of abuse or harassment, and certainly not actual harm, directed at anyone else, be they members or not. No one should have to put up with that, nor should the wiki's members invite retaliation by misbehaving in such a manner. It should go without saying, but history has shown cases of people in the larger community harassing creators abroad and inviting collective punishment, instilling years of bad blood and ongoing hostilities. Do not make this piece of history repeat itself.
17. **Not compatible with Monster Girl Encyclopedia**: Kenkou Cross's work is the single largest inspiration for the lore of the Wayfarer's Guide, and my personal frustration with that setting's restrictions a major motivation for my creation of this setting and wiki. However, this does not mean that I don't understand and respect his stated intentions, or that I feel he should change his setting to conform to my wants. To that end, use of the rules and mechanics, as well as the lore of *this* setting are not compatible with his intention for his own work and how others use it. Don't post his content here, either. Unless Kenkou personally tells me otherwise, do not use the rules and lore of this setting with his content. Under the unexpected circumstance that he *does,* I will mark out this rule.
18. **Not a help hotline**: We are a community devoted to a form of entertainment, not a collection of therapists. Keep discussion of personal problems to a minimum. Few of us are likely to be qualified to help you if you are in a crisis and none of us should be expected to do so. Instead, seek professional help. There are many resources available to those with access to the internet. Please use them if you feel angry, scared, depressed, or suicidal. We would much rather you participate in the community than harm yourself or others, but it is up to *you* to seek out help from those who can provide it if you are in need.
19. **The Discord uses the same Rules as the Wiki *except***: The Discord has the same basic rules as the Wiki does, except that art posted there is *not* considered free use for the Wiki. You can post things there that you can't use on the Wiki for various reasons, be they your original works or not. As you can guess, the Discord is somewhat more lax in terms of identifying creators and ownership, though content that can't be used on the wiki still can't in there. The Discord is also more lax when it comes to porn, though it *does* have dedicated places for such things. In order to get anywhere past the Rules page into the Discord, though, you'll need a password. The average member can't just hop in there and start perusing whatever. You'll need to read these rules, find the password, and then send me a Direct Message on the Discord itself with said password for me to grant you the Member role and access to the rest of the Server. The password is *Magical Realm*. Because yes, I had to make that joke.