Scarlet and Ivy Wiki:Rules

Thank you for coming to the Scarlet and Ivy Wiki! Before moving on, please be sure to read our guidelines here.

As long as you contribute to the development of the Scarlet and Ivy Wiki, you are required to abide by the guidelines on this page. These rules apply to everything, including adding images, creating pages, editing the wiki, posting, and everything in between. These rules do not encompass ***all*** community standards and are subject to change at any time. Depending on the severity of the violation, breaking the guidelines below can result in a temporary or permanent ban.

## General Rules

1. **Users must be 13 years of age or older to edit.** Due to Fandom's policy, users under 13 are not allowed to be editors on the wiki. If a user is revealed to be underage, please ***calmly*** report it with evidence to a staff member.
2. **Observe civil behaviour.** Please do not argue, insult, threaten, harass, purposefully offend, or disrespect users or their opinions. If you must critique another person's viewpoint, do it objectively and without making personal accusations.
3. **Respect the staff.** If a staff member asks you to stop doing something harmful or disruptive, please follow their instructions.
4. **Treat every user with respect.** All users, regardless of status, are expected to show respect to others at all times. No slander, harassment or insults will be tolerated at any time.
5. **No insulting or Cyberbullying other** **users.** It is the right of any user to remove, or request the removal of, any comment, blog, forum, or message wall post that is insulting or slanderous to them personally. Harassing users in this way will result in lengthy blocks. This includes insulting or making fun of those who do not use proper grammar for not being fluent in English.
6. **No discussion or sharing of sexually explicit content.** As this is a wiki to document mystery book series made for kids and pre-teens, anything NFSW that shows up will be deleted immediately.
7. **No hate speech, ethnic slurs, or any other form of discrimination or racism.** Whether you have the right to say any ethnic slurs or not, it is highly discouraged.
8. **No advertisements.** Please refrain from advertising another wiki or any other content unrelated to the wiki, such as content that requires users to pay for or sign up for said content. If you need assistance, head to Community Central. If you wish for your wiki to become an affiliate with this wiki, leave a message on an active staff member's message wall.
9. **Do not impersonate or fabricate false information about other users.**
10. **Do not support or encourage vandalism or breaking of the rules.**

## Discussion Guidelines

*Note: These guidelines also apply to blog posts and message walls.*

1. Many of the general rules apply to discussions
2. Posts made solely to gain upvotes will be deleted
3. Off-topic posts will be deleted. However, posts about crossovers with other fandoms that include Scarlet and Ivy or Violet Veil are allowed.
4. Please refrain from posting personal information. Whether your own or another, it is for the safety of the community.
5. Please put your posts in the right category. Posts that aren’t will be moved to the correct one.
6. When posting or sharing fan-made content, please credit the original creator.
7. **No spamming or trolling.** Spamming and trolling are not practical to the overall discussion and will be deleted.
8. **Do not harass other users.** This applies to discussions, comments and message walls. Spamming messages on a user's message wall is also prohibited, regardless of their content.
9. **Do not threaten anybody.** Whether it's a joke or not, threats to other users are not allowed.

## Editing Policies

1. As this is an English Wiki, any contributions must follow a dialect of English. Formal language is also expected to be followed when writing articles. Proper grammar, spelling and punctuation are expected but are not a major priority if English is not an editor's first language.
2. Any image can be uploaded to the wiki, as long as it is related to the topic at hand.
3. When making a page, include at least ***one*** paragraph or sentence and do not leave it vacant. Please do not make a blank page, as an article should have at least one sentence or paragraph upon creation.
4. Please do not add false or unconfirmed information to a page.
5. References are encouraged to be added to a page if any are available to link back. Notes for trivia mentioned in the books are also allowed.
6. Adding fan-made content (such as fanfiction, fanart or original characters) is not acceptable to be edited onto any articles. However, it is allowed to be shared in discussions, message walls or blog posts.
7. Don't mess up with the wiki, regardless of the intent behind your edits.
8. Please do not remove large chunks of information from articles. This is considered vandalism.
9. Please do not add unneeded, random, or unnecessary pages, categories, or edits. This includes rearranging paragraphs when unnecessary, adding random capital letters to words that don’t need them or writing the same information in another paragraph when it has already been written.
10. Please change a red link to the appropriate page if it shares a name with an already existing page. If the page hasn't been created yet but is still required, go ahead and create it. Remember to refer back to #3 of the Editing Policy when creating a new page.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to read the rules for the Wiki. Don't forget to contact an active staff member if you need assistance. Take care and have fun exploring and contributing!