Rules

This is a wiki dedicated to fanfiction for the Warhammer 40k franchise. It is strictly unofficially and is a celebration of the franchise. There are several important rules that must be followed in order for content to stay on the Weirdhammer 40k Wiki. The following rules are in place though, ultimately, the implementation of the rules are at the discretion of the administration team.

## Rule Enforcement

This site operates on a 3 strike basis. A violation, given the severity, can earn you between 1-3 strikes.

* 3 or more strikes results in a permanent ban.
* If a user has violated a rule that can result in a strike the administration team will investigate and if they feel it is valid a strike or strikes will be applied to the user.
* Not all violations (such as grammar issues) carry strikes but repeated violations of that sort may result in strikes.
* A user may appeal strikes once. This is a single message or post to the administration team. The administration team may uphold the strike(s) or dismiss it.
* If a member of the administration team is accused of a violation they are not part of the process of their own investigation.
* The administration team may add temporary bans of up to a month or other restrictions as part of applying a strike.
* A strike, after a year, may be removed if the administration team feels the user has been in good standing.

## Material Must Be Unofficial Fan Material

The material presented must be fan content and should not diminish the Warhammer 40k brand or harm the integrity of Games Workshop or its affiliates. You may not profit from content written here, copyright material, or promote activities that could harm the game (distributing scans, leaks, 3D printing, etc.). Any request for removal of content by the IP holders will be complied with.

## Quality of Content

Effort must be made to present well written, thought out, material with no obvious errors. The article must be free of all site related errors (no naked code or manipulation of the site, etc), tagged with proper tags, and written in a respectful manner. Content on this wiki must not appear on other sites, wikis, or be copied wholesale from another source.

Articles must meet a 2,000 work minimum guideline. Articles not under active construction that do not meet this will be labeled as stubs and eventually removed if not worked on.

## Disallowed Content

The following kinds of content is not allowed on this wiki:

* **Crossover:** Crossover content is not allowed as this is a wiki dedicated to the Warhammer 40k franchise.
* **Adult Content:** While it can be graphic (this is 40k after all) we cannot allow explicit or adult artwork on the site.
* **Ads:** Don’t advertise here. If you wish to be featured on the site, please contact the administration team.
* **Politics & Religion:** Don’t involve real world religion or politics.

## Harassment Policy

Harassment: We have a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any sort. Harassment includes but it not limited to unwanted communication, discrimination, malicious editing, trolling, flaming, insults, bullying, etc. Harassment is never “in good fun” and you are expected to conduct yourself in good faith and in a mature fashion when on this wiki. Please bring any situation to the administration team right away. Identities of the harassed individual will always be kept secret. A valid harassment claim against a user will result in an immediate and permanent ban.

## Age

In accordance to COPPA, users under the age of 13 are not allowed to be editors on the Wiki. Accounts found to violate this will be banned until such time as they meet these requirements.

## Canon Policy

This wiki is unique in its canon policy. This wiki is expressly set up to allow for writers to explore material that contradicts established lore or at conflicts with it.
Specifically allowed topics include:

* Lost Primarchs
* Chapters/Legions of Lost Primarchs
* Space Marine Chapters of Traitorous Gene Seed
* Space Marine Chapters of Chimeric Gene Seed
* Space Marine Chapters of Any Founding
* Female Space Marines
* Squats
* Successor Chapters of Any Chapter
* Sensei & Starchild Material
* Thunder Warriors
* Oldhammer Stuff (1st Ed/Rogue Trader Material Welcome!)
* Hybrids
* Redeemed Cultists
* The Chaos God Malice

## Parody Content

Content should not primarily be of a comedic nature. You can, once in a while, write a parody/comedy article and, if you do, it must have the "Humor" category assigned to it.

## Specifically Disallowed Actions

* Spamming
* Use of bots.
* Hate speech, ethnic slurs, or any other form of discrimination or racism.
* Impersonation of another user or a member of the administration team.
* Posting content from other wikis/plagiarism.
* Use of malicious code.
* Don’t edit a user’s page without their permission. (Members of the administration team are allowed to edit in order to enforce rules.)
* This is an English-language wiki so the use of another language as the primary language for an article is not allowed.
* Sock-Puppeting/Ban-Evading: Don’t make a new account to avoid a ban.