Wiki Rules

## General Rules

**Be nice and treat other users with respect**. Cyberbullying is far from ok. Bullying can hurt other user's feelings. By being rude, disrespectful, insulting, putting others down, discriminating (example: race, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc.), intimidating others, harrassing, calling others inappropriate names falls under the category of bullying.

**Cursing** This rule applies to every user, including non-English speakers. Any form of profanity, vulgar language, sexual terminology, or offensive/inappropriate terms are not allowed and will not be tolerated.

**Keep your personal information confidential**. Your security is really important for us, and we don't want anything bad to happen to you. While discussing with other users, please do not give out any personal information. Includes your full name, address, school, and phone number.

**Any kind of inappropriate material are far from allowed**. Inserting any sexually explicit content or images can get you blocked anywehre from a month up to a permanent ban.

**Do not spam on this wiki**. Spamming includes posting/commenting the same thing over and over again, usually to get achievement points. Commenting the same thing more than once or twice or editig a page once every word just to gain achievement points falls under the category of spamming.

**User pages are only to be edited by the user**. In case you want to revert vandalism, correct grammar, spelling, punctuation errors, etc., please get the user's permission first before editig their page.

**You must be 13 years or older in order to create an account.** Due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and laws about child internet safety, Wikia says you must be 13 years or older to have an account. Please be aware that if you are caught under 13 by Wikia, this will result in you being globally blocked.

**Notify an administrator in case if any user breaks a policy.** If yo want a page or comment to be deleted; or in case you want to close a thread, please notify an administrator. In an addition, warning templates, blocking templates, and banned from chat templates are only to be used by Maddie Ziegler Wiki staff.

**Do not take part or participate in any argumentative wars**. This is are not tolerated on this wiki. Make sure to state your opinions in a polite way, and try to agree to disagree.

**Please do not remove any photos from a page without asking an administrator first.** They have put a lot of work into finding the images of this wiki and removing photos without their permission is disrepectful to the work they have put into to.

**Make sure to follow the rules on the wiki**. By not having read these policies is no excuse. In case you need help or you don't understand a policy, feel free to contact an administrator for further information.

**English is the official language for this wiki**. All edits must be in American English. If you are not an English native speaker, please use a translator to add information to pages or ask another user to help. When commenting, using the chat and using the forum, you still have to do it in English.

## Editing Policies

**Do not create/remove templates without notifying an administrator**. Make sure to notify an administrator if a certain template is needed in order to create it, otherwise, the template will be deleted. In addition, do not remove templates from pages unless they are falsely added, and please refrain from drastically changing templates unless it is necessary.

**Do not remove information unless you know it is false**. Removing content based on your dislike of a particular pairing or any other topic is considered vandalism. If you are removing outdated information, please specify that it is outdated when it asks what you have changed.

**Do not create a page with false information**. Don't create pages with false information or pages that are completely irrelevant to Maddie Ziegler; also don't add unnecessary categories to pages. Adding duplicate pages is not allowed either.

**Do not rename pages into something useless**.

## Unnecessary Edits

**Unnecessary editing is defined as making edits that make no contribution to the page whatsoever**. The following list contains different edits that fall under the category of unnecessary:

1. Changing the Infobox picture from pages.
2. Rewording sentences without a valid explanation.
3. Taking off and adding back punctuation marks without any reason.
4. Taking off information then putting it back on.

Take into account that an administrator can determine whether the edits made by users falls under this category or not. If you disagree with the decision taken by the administrator, feel free to start a discussion about the problem in the Admin noticeboard, so other admins can check on it and determine what to do with your case.

## Chat Policies

### Chat Rules

1. Absolutely no profanity or inappropriate language.
2. No inappropriate topics.
3. Be careful with giving out personal information.
4. Do not offend users.
5. Do not scare users.
6. No cyber-bullying (no name calling, making fun of, bullying, intimidating).
7. Do not talk about any disturbing topics.
8. Do not spam in chat!
9. Agree to disagree.
10. Accept the opinions of others.
11. If you ever feel uncomfortable about a certain topic being discussed, politely tell the user. If a user tells you this please respect their feelings and try to change the topic. However, the uncomfortable user should also make the option to leave chat open. If you are uncomfortable, just excuse yourself for a little while.
12. If someone is bothering you, quickly find a chat moderator (a user with a star next to their name) and tell them or leave the chat and send an chat moderator or admin a message on their wall.

### Image Policies

**The image policy** explains requirements and suggestions for image files, their quality, and uploading them to galleries.

#### Uploading images

Images can be uploaded from Special:Upload. When uploading an image, make sure it is of the best resolution possible. If there are duplicate images, the image of better quality will be kept.

The file must follow the following file name and sourcing requirements if it is to be used in an article or gallery. Images for personal use, such as profiles and message wall threads, are exempt from these rules.

We thank you for your cooperation in following the rules of the wiki. Have a wonderful day!

All credits go the same for Kenzie Ziegler Wiki