Policies and Guidelines

## User Page Policy

* **No illegal, inappropriate or offensive content**
	+ You may place whatever you want on your own User Page, so long as it is not illegal, inappropriate, or offensive.

* **No user is allowed to edit another user's User Page without their expressed permission.**
	+ A user may, of course, ask for help with their page, and you may offer your assistance on their Message Wall if you believe that they are having difficulty. If another user edits your User Page without permission, you can report it to an Administrator. The only exceptions to this are Administrators and Content Moderators if they are editing the pages to do maintenance for the site or to fix something that violates policy.

* **No user is allowed to copy a character's article and paste it on their User Page**
	+ Similarly, no user is allowed to use categories for their User Page that are also used on articles on the site.

* **No user is allowed to fabricate info that directly affects the site**
	+ For example, no user may say that they are an Administrator/Roll Back/Bureaucrat/etc. when they are not.

* **Do not steal another user's profile page content**
	+ This means do not use templates/special codes/information from another user's profile page and claim that it is yours unless he/she had granted you the permission to do so. If you spot a user who stole your profile page content, do not be afraid to ask that user about his/her actions or alert this situation to the administrators if the matter is serious.

## Talk Page/Comment Policy

* **Sexually Explicit Refrencing**: Commentary of the sort is not permmited on the wiki; failure to abide will result in being banned from the wiki.
* **Offensive Behavior & Language**: This includes racism, profanity, religious intolerance, xenophobia, homophobia, etc. Either a warning or a ban will be issued depending on the severity of the offense.
* **Spamming**: This includes writing a large amount of nonsense, such as random letters and/or repeated sentences. Warnings may be administered, however, if the issue is deemed severe enough, an immediate ban will be given without notice.

## Image Policy

### General

* Any image considered to be inappropriate (nudity, sexual activity, gore, etc.) is to be immediately deleted and, depending on the severity of the offense, the user may be blocked from editing the wiki.
	+ Before getting an administrator/content moderator to delete an unused image, you must check if there is a page where it can be included, and include it if that is the case.
	+ Galleries do not count as a valid use by itself. Galleries are only a collection of images already used in other places.
* Images should not have subtitles and watermarks of any kind on them.
* Manga panels should not have any dialogue written on it.
* All profile pictures on character info box should be squared as possible.

### Naming

The image's filename should be a brief description of the action or character that the image is showcasing.

* ya-boy-kongming-House-1813129.jpg

Ridiculous names:

* Kate is bae.png
* Best gal Eiko.jpg

Examples of a good filename:

* Kongming\_and\_Eiko.png
* Chapter 12 Clean.png

## Spoilers Policy

Due to the nature of the work, everything that is not immediately obvious upon first introduction of the character should be considered Spoiler, and should be put under the spoiler tag.

For spoiler-y text sections, use the spoiler collapsible template with/without the spoiler warning template.
For pages that have heavy spoilers or have too many spoilers, use the spoiler header template.

## Discussion Policy

* No spamming, trolling, racial slurs or manga spoilers allowed.
* Please avoid using profanities. If you REALLY can't help yourself, censor them with astericks (\*).
* Non related Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Koumei) conversations will be deleted.
* Impersonation of admins, content mods, other users or famous people will not be tolerated and the user will be warned or banned from the wiki.
* If you have been banned and return on a new account, your posts will be deleted and your new account(s) will be banned.
* NO uploading of one-time used images, explicit images/videos that shows pornography, nudity or gore.
* Threads and posts that solicit upvotes will be deleted.
* If you are just posting a discussion to reach out to certain users, like the admins or content mods here, please contact them individually.

## Blog Policy

* **Other series:** No blog on this site should be solely centered around other series. This is the **Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Koumei)** series. If you wish to mention other series, that's fine, but it shouldn't be the sole purpose of your blog.
* **Offensive behavior:** Your blog should **never** include anything that can be considered racist, religiously intolerant or offensive, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, etc. If it does, the offender's blog will be deleted immediately and the offender will be warned by an Administrator. This includes blog comments.
* **Spamming:** Do not write a lot of nonsense as your blog's content like random letters or repeated sentences, unless if you are writing lyrics, story or poem.
* **Blank blogs:** No blog should be published if it does not have *some* content. The blog should have at lest 4 sentences or 1 paragraph.
* **Double blogs posts:** Do not post a blog with information or discussions that already take place in another blog, unless your blog is able to provide new, updated or additional information in regards to the topic.
* **Advertising:** No blog on this site should be advertising products for sale. You also cannot post a blog with the purpose of advertising a website solely to attract visitors.
* **Random information:** No blog on this site should just copy and paste random information from articles, Wikipedia or any other site for that matter with no purpose.
* **Wrong information:** While it's perfectly fine to post a blog or a blog comment with your predictions, speculations or theories in regards to the series, claiming that the info you post is a fact without providing a valid proof, or purposely spreading fake information is not allowed.
* **Heavy use of vulgarities:** Due to the fact there are users under the age of 13 who visit the wiki, we do not wish for any bad influence through use of swear words for the younger users. If you wish to use vulgar languages, please censor the words with **asterisks** (**\***). If there is excessive use of vulgarities, once spotted by the admins, a warning will be sent to you via your message wall.

## Vandalism

**Vandalism** is when a user deliberately messes up edits, images, or other parts of the wiki. This is not tolerated and will result in punishment by the wiki administrators.

### **Actions Considered Vandalism**

* Removing previously accurate edits of editors and/or adding incorrect information.
* Creating false information.
	+ This includes adding information unrelated to the series in inappropriate sections.
* Edit warring with another user.
* Mass completely unnecessary categorization.
* Including content in languages that are not English or Japanese, unless it is in context with an element from the work.
* Removing content from a page for no good reason.
* Messing up content from a page.
* Creating pages that do not meet the minimal amount of content to justify their creation.

*Behavior which may be considered vandalism that is not listed here is up to the discretion of the admins and moderators to determine a suitable punishment. Policies are subject to change without prior notice.*

These policies are inspired by the [1] wiki policies.