My Story Animated Wiki/Wiki Rules

This is the list of rules in the **My Story Animated Wiki**. These must be followed by every user, whether registered or not. If you have any questions or concerns, you can always contact the admins. Breaking these rules will have their consequences.

## General Rules

1. According to the ToU of the Fandom platform, one needs to be at least 13 years old to own a Fandom account.
	1. Should you out yourself as anything younger than 13, you will be indefinitely blocked and your account will be disabled by the Fandom staff.
2. Vandalism is strictly prohibited, which includes, but isn't limited to: making undesired and off-topic edits to articles and making pages unrelated to My Story Animated.
	1. If you should spot a vandal anywhere, make sure to revert their edit(s) (do not engage in any revert wars, though) and if they don't stop, tell an admin.
	2. Anyone who encourages and supports the vandalism, will receive a more severe punishment than the vandals themselves.
3. We will not tolerate any Sockpuppet accounts used to evade a block, vandalism, harassing other users and or to create or instigate conflict. If you are caught creating a sockpuppet account to do any or all of these, the sockpuppet account will be infinitely blocked and the block on your main account will be extended.
4. Be kind, tolerant, and civil with everyone, including the Wiki staff/Admins.
5. Refrain from participating in necroposting (replying to posts that are over five months old).

## Ruling on Content

This is a Wiki Encyclopedia fully dedicated to *My Story Animated* and the MSA universe, which includes its stories and characters, meaning all the things stated here are canon/confirmed, so any fan work is **NOT** allowed, unless it's in the fan work category in discussions or in the fan work category of page galleries.

However, older users have to be aware that this Wiki is also targeted at younger children, meaning all content, including any type of discussion, whether on a message wall or in the Wiki discussion, have to be kept fully appropriate.

## Language

The main language of this Wiki is English, so obviously, one is expected to use proper language in articles and discussions. A few grammar mistakes here and there are completely fine, especially if English may not be your first language. If you should be struggling with English, don't be shy and ask someone!

Although contractions are allowed in articles, texting slang (e.g. "tysm" for "thank you so much") isn't, although your message wall and discussions are a different story. Similarly, any offensive slurs or curse words are strictly prohibited.

### **Clean-Ups**

It's in the name: A clean-up is when a user, an admin or anyone else edits a page to correct a mistake (usually a spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistake). It is encouraged to tell an admin about a clean-up and even more encouraged is to summarize your edit in the edit summary box.

## Ruling on Wiki Media

This Wiki is not any place to dump pictures and videos and all of them have to be related to My Story Animated, be it stories or characters. Fanart is only allowed in user pages, if it is related to My Story Animated, put in the correct galleries and aren't explicit or violent. If the fanart shouldn't be yours, credit the artist properly by linking the source of the image or their account.

## Punishments

### **Blocks / Bans**

Blocks are very rarely given on first offense.

Blocking, otherwise known as banning, is the worst possible punishment you can get on a Wiki. Being blocked means you're restricted from doing anything on this Wiki, except for reading pages. As mentioned before, creating a Sockpuppet / alternate account won't get you out of your mess. You'll just have to wait it out. Blocks usually last for a few days, not years, but being blocked is already a bad thing itself. It can be a big letdown to your reputation. The only people that are able to give blocks are admins, but users can also request for people to get blocked if they have offended rules, such as vandalized, ignored warnings, harassed users or used prohibited language excessively. There's an even worse version of the block, a global block. It's just like it sounds: You are blocked globally on any Wiki. Only Fandom Staff can place this type of block and they can do this only if the user has disrupted several Fandom communities.

### **Warnings**

Warnings are given by admins if you should have violated a rule. Just one warning isn't that of a biggie, but should be taken in caution.

Ignoring that warning will result in another warning and a weekly block. If you should've ignored that one as well, you will get yet another warning and receive a monthly block.

Warnings can be given for different acts/offenses. They normally count separately, but depending on different factors e.g. the amount of time between acts which deserve you warnings warnings, your demeanor regarding the warning and so on, may bring the admins to come to the conclusion that it is best to block you for a certain amount of time.

If you don't know specifically why you have been warned, you are allowed to ask an admin to elaborate your offense(s) and explain to you why you have been warned. If you believe your warning was unfair, you can go to another admin and let them reconsider it.

### **Warning/Blocking Systems**

If any rule has been broken, a warning (or in rare cases a block) will be given out to the offender.

1. If you have broken a rule for the first time, a warning will be post on your message wall. If the first violation is serious (e.g. multiple cases of vandalism) a warning will not be posted on your wall, and you will be blocked for a week, instead.
2. If you ignore your first warning and keep breaking rules, a block will be applied to your account. The block lasts **1 week**.
3. If you keep breaking the rules after your block, you will be blocked again. The block lasts **1 month**.
4. If you keep breaking the rules after your block, you will be blocked again. The block lasts **3 months**.
5. If you keep breaking the rules after your block, you will be blocked again. The block lasts **6 months**.
6. If you keep breaking the rules after your block, you will be blocked again. The block lasts **1 year**.
7. If you break the rules on more time after the 1 year block period, your account will be blocked infinitely.

If you feel like your block was unfair and you wish to appeal it and they haven't allowed you to edit on your wall, you can contact the blocking admin on their message wall at Community Central.