Rules: Controversial Topics

## Summary

This wiki is satirical in nature, and is meant to be wacky, out there, and poking fun at everything. However, even here, there are lines. Knowing that you're not crossing certain legitimate ethical lines should allow you to make the most of everything that is allowed, and having the rules clearly stated will allow you to feel free within the rules.

Should these rules change, it will be effectively communicated to all members of the wiki, and the admins will create a plan to hopefully replace, and if not remove content that violates the new rules.

## Following Basic Etiquette

We have a page for basic etiquette when interacting with others on the wiki. Now, those rules are regarding meta, out of character interactions. When writing about specific characters or events, you have a lot more leniency. Go ahead and insult and threaten the fictional characters and events you write about. Unnecessary profanity, Insulting fictional groups of people, go ahead.

However, a line is drawn when these things cross over into real life. That being said, slurs and hate speech against existing groups of individuals will still not be permitted within pages.

## Real People/Events/Locations/Groups

Tying in with that, we feel it's best for everyone if real people and specific real world events and locations are not mentioned by name in articles.

For example, if you want to make a page regarding the actions of Gamefreak. You may make generalizations about the average employee, you can make up an employee who works there, but you may not find the actual name of a Gamefreak employee and make an article about them.

The events and locations rule is a little bit more relaxed, but it effectively means don't refer to a specific office building, or any place that can be specified to an address. This is for the safety of everyone.

## Sexual Content

Sexual content is, as of now, not outright banned. However, it is limited to human characters over the age of 18 and any pornographic material is prohibited. This wiki is not for Pokémon porn, and Pokémon are not to be sexualized here. I assure you, there are better websites for that.

Human characters with sexuality as an important part of their personality are perfectly okay, and shipping of characters over 18, hell, that's encouraged.

## Violence

Violent content is allowed, as long as it is not sexual in nature, and does not reference any real world groups or people, even indirectly. It also must directly pertain to the content of the page. Outside of that, making jokes about Pokémon actually dying after battle, or Team Rocket shooting people, I mean, that's all established lore.

## Promotion

As long as a piece of work fits the theme of this sub, you are allowed to make pages on actual products, services or content you may be distributing, and place the links at the bottom of the page. Placing phising links or scams will result in harsh punishment, and an abundance of such links will lead to this rule being revoked.

## Copyright

Pokémon is obviously a licensed franchise, but, we want to take steps to ensure we stay around despite potential copyright concerns. Make sure to properly attribute any images you use, and don't claim images that aren't yours as yours. The writing itself is not a problem, but where images are concerned, have some care. Check our Copyright Work page for a little more information, and context about the state of copyright affairs on the wiki.