Fiction-Mayhem's FAQ

**Notice**: This page will likely not be finished until early 2023.

## Do's and Don'ts (Members)

### Description

* This page will be provided for the community as a helpful guide on what you as the members of the wiki are allowed to do and the list of restrictions that explains what you cannot do as well as the procedures that you must follow as given to you by the staff team.

### Do's

* Create discussion threads to start a conversation in the Discuss section (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website) and delete them if you wish to not continue using them anymore
* Create and delete your own blogs/sandboxes
* Create and delete your own pages, which includes pages for multimedia franchises and superpowers as well as profiles for characters, equipment, transportation, weapons, etc.
* Create and delete your own replies from a discussion thread
* Create and delete any of your own opinion and straw polls
* Create and delete your own respect threads
* Report any rule violations being made on our public pages:
	+ Primary Staff: Rollbackers
	+ Secondary Staff: **Content-Moderators**, **Administrators**, and **Bureaucrats** (including the Founder) only
* Report any post or replies you find in Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website) that contains repetitive insults, spam, NSFW, cursing, untrustworthy website links and files, intentional taunts (baiting), discriminatory terms, etc. to members
	+ Primary Staff: ThreadModerators
	+ Secondary Staff: **Administrators** and **Bureaucrats** (including the Founder) only
* Request a **admin**, **bureaucrat**, or the Founder himself for permission if you wish to speak on any discussion threads from the "Staff Discussions" section in Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website)
* Request assistance from any available staff member to remove anything you created or uploaded on the wiki (only **content-mods**, **admins**, or **bureaucrats** (including the Founder) can do this) or privately discuss about a particular topic through their message wall
	+ Reminder: If there's available staff members to assist you with any specific wiki problems that they are in charge of managing, then you would not need to directly request any admins or bureaucrats to do this since they will only focus on doing these secondary roles for **emergencies only**.
* Upload your own files (e.g. images, gifs, videos, etc.) to the wiki

### Don'ts

* Keep in mind that on "Staff Discussions," you **cannot** reply to them if the permission requests to speak on any discussion threads in that section or make revisions on profiles and pages other than your own (permission requests will **not be accepted by any rollbackers** (as the only staff members with the authority to do so are **threadmoderators**, **content-moderators**, **administrators**, or **bureaucrats**, including the Founder himself) are either ignored or denied
* Members are **not** allowed to remove any specific categories, such as "**Candidates for deletion**" as it should only be allowed to get removed by **content-mods**, **admins**, or **bureaucrats** (including the Founder) after reviewing any of their pages to ensure that they fixed the noticeable issues first before taking action on it
* Members **cannot** perform any management actions, such as making revisions on any page that is linked to the "Important Pages" category and creating discussion threads in the "Staff Discussions," "News&Annoucements," "Page Verification," or the "Calc-Group Threads" section, which should **only be created by the staff members** depending on their staff position of what sections they may be restricted to
* Members are **not** allowed to move profiles and pages to other sections of the wiki that the staff did not approve of or delete the ones other than their own without the permission of a **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)
* Members are **not** allowed to revert any revisions with the **accepted changes** made by a different member or someone from the staff team for any of the profiles and other pages that they own without the permission of a **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)

### Miscellaneous Rules

The consequences are listed and explained for you in the following rule pages:

* Discussion Rules
* Page Creation Rules
* Staff Rules
* Wiki Rules

## Page Verification

* Members are **required** to wait through the verification process in discussion threads created in the "Page Verification" section from Discuss where all pending profiles and blogs are being currently verified by the **content-mods**, **admins**, and **bureaucrats** (including the Founder himself) until the submission is accepted before you can publish them as a public page
* Members are **required** to censor any explicit images in their profiles and other pages that were improved by the **content-mods** due to Fandom giving out a **permanent ban** for anyone who does not follow their guidelines that prohibits any NSFW from being shown on their domain and what happens at this point is beyond the staff team's control, so we **highly recommend** that you should all remember to follow this procedure to avoid putting yourself into this inescapable situation

## Staff Guidelines

### Descriptions

* This page will be provided as a helpful guide on understanding the restrictions for each position of staff management you may be bestowed with by the Founder of the wiki.

### Restrictions (Rollbackers)

* Any list of staff roles that are managed and restricted to only **threadmoderators**, **content-moderators**, **administrators**, **bureaucrats**, and the Founder
* In "Staff Discussions," the **only** discussion threads you are allowed to post are **Rule Violations**, so you must wait for any other staff member with a higher role or the Founder to make an important discussion thread that you request to be created.
* Rollbackers **cannot** create any discussion threads in the "Calc-Group Threads" section from Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website) as the only staff members who have the permission to do so are **threadmoderators**, **administrators**, or **bureaucrats** (including the Founder)
* Rollbackers **cannot** create any discussion threads in the "Page Verification" section from Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website) as the only staff members who have the permission to do so are **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)
* Rollbackers **cannot** accept any permission requests from regular members to make revisions to a page that the members who are requesting it did not originally create or do their requested revisions themselves as the only people who are allowed to do this would be the **Author** of the page, established **researchers**, and staff members with the position of a **threadmod**, **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)
* Rollbackers are **not** allowed to move or delete pages without the permission of a **content-moderator**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)
* Rollbackers are **not** allowed to do revisions to pages that goes beyond just only organizing the page right back to the way that its supposed to be shown without the permission of a **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)
* Rollbacking pages **cannot** be used for personal reasons that the staff team does not approve of or simply because you don't like the latest revisions being added to a page as rollbacking is **only** meant for vanadalism and nothing else.

### Restrictions (ThreadModerators)

* Any list of staff roles that are managed and restricted to only **rollbackers**, **content-mods**, **admins**, **bureaucrats**, and the Founder
* Threadmods **cannot** create any discussion threads in the "Page Verification" section from Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website) as the only staff members who have the permission to do so are **content-moderators**, **administrators**, or **bureaucrats** (including the Founder)
* Threadmods are **not** allowed to move or delete pages without the permission of a **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)
* Threadmods are **not** allowed to organize the pages they do not own or have any granted permissions for them as that role is restricted to **rollbackers**, **content-mod**, **admin**, or a **bureaucrat** (including the Founder)

### Restrictions (Content-Moderators)

* Any list of staff roles that are managed and restricted to only **threadmods**, **admins**, **bureaucrats**, and the Founder
* Rollbacking pages **cannot** be used for personal reasons that the staff team does not approve of or simply because you don't like the latest revisions being added to a page as rollbacking is **only** meant for vanadalism and nothing else

### Restrictions (Administrators)

* Any list of staff roles that are managed and restricted to only **bureaucrats** and the Founder
* Rollbacking pages **cannot** be used for personal reasons that the staff team does not approve of or simply because you don't like the latest revisions being added to a page as rollbacking is **only** meant for vanadalism and nothing else

### Restrictions (Bureaucrats)

* Any list of staff roles that are managed and restricted to only the Founder
* Rollbacking pages **cannot** be used for personal reasons that the staff team does not approve of or simply because you don't like the latest revisions being added to a page as rollbacking is **only** meant for vanadalism and nothing else

### Description

* This page will be provided as a helpful guide on what roles for each position of staff management allows you to do when handling these important responsibilities.
* Reminder:
	+ Primary Roles: The main roles that a staff member must prioritize **first** before doing any of their secondary roles.
	+ Secondary Roles: The other roles that a staff member is also assigned with should only be focused on when any other individual or group of staff member(s) in question are temporarily unavailable to manage on the wiki.

### Rollbackers

* Primary Roles:
	+ Adding the "Candidates for deletion" category on public pages so that the **content-moderators** can check for anything on the page that has or does any of the following:
		- Blacklisted website links
		- No credible sources
		- No credit to the artist who owns any fanmade images and other content that were used on the page
		- No respect threads to be found (only applies to specific pages that requires them such as character profiles)
		- Plagiarism
		- Unknown website links that the staff team did not approve of
		- Youtube links

The content-mods would then decide to either move the page into the blog section that belongs to the person who created it, giving more time for the creator of the page to fix the noticeable problems that were found, or delete the page in its entirety without question.

* + Review and revert the changes of any files or pages with the "Disorganized Files and Pages" category that shows noticeable coding errors, volume settings being set beyond what was allowed by the staff, and grammar mistakes to an older version of the page without these problems
	+ Rollback any page on the wiki that has shown noticeable signs of vandalism, which also includes making unauthorized revisions to profiles, such as the ones for characters, without the permission of a staff member (rollbackers cannot accept permission requests from regular members to add any revisions to pages, especially when it involves any members who are making the requests did not originally create) from the "Character CRTs" section in one of the discussion threads you were recently involved in
	+ Using the "Staff Discussions" category after clicking Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website), create any rule violation threads there when needing to report a list of users that committed vandalism on any of the public pages on the wiki so any available admins or bureaucrats (including the Founder) who do hourly, daily, or weekly checks on these discussion threads can handle the problem accordingly

### ThreadModerators

* Primary Roles:
	+ Accepting or denying the permission requests from regular members who wish to reply in the "Staff Discussions" section.
	+ Create a new discussion thread and continue with what was recently discussed from the previous one only when it has reached somewhere around 150 to 250 replies on the thread
		- **Note**: The reason why the idea of the number of comments per discussion thread should be reduced to a fixed amount of no more than 250 is to make it easier for the ThreadModerators to review through the discussion threads while also making it less time consuming for them since the idea of having to constantly read over 250+ comments for each discussion thread tends to eventually get mentally exhausting.
	+ Deleting blog comments
	+ Editing article comments by shortening them (only when posts and replies that are being shown in the form of verbosity or gibberish) or deleting them (only do so for anyone who either post or replies with content that contain NSFW images or untrustworthy website links and files)
	+ Hide deleted replies on discussion threads
	+ Locking discussion threads by closing the replies section when they have been concluded or is requested by any staff members (**excluding** rollbackers)
	+ Managing the discussion categories, which usually involves adding the corresponding category that relates to the discussion thread and removing them at any time when necessary
	+ Moving posts from one category to another
	+ Removing discussion threads when being requested by the **majority** of the staff members with **legitimate reasons** to do so
	+ Reopening the replies section of the discussion thread when requested by a member or someone from the staff team if its needed for **important reasons only**
	+ Review reported posts and social activity feed, give warnings to members who is continuously causing problems in the discussion thread, and report directly to any available **admins** or **bureaucrats** (including the Founder) so they can punish them once the discussion thread gets out of control or when the actions of the member(s) involved cross a certain boundary to the point that is considered to be deemed unacceptable and **cannot be tolerated**

### Content-Moderators

* Primary Roles:
	+ Adding a "Disorganized Files and Pages" category for the **Rollbackers** so they can organize the selected list of pages and files
	+ Deleting pages and files (images, gifs, music, and videos)
	+ Editing and moving protected files (images, gifs, music, and videos)
	+ Editing and moving protected pages
	+ Managing the page categories by either adding and removing them, which includes the ones from any important blogs and profiles that are a part of the public pages
	+ Patrolling pages and files for any major changes
	+ Protecting and unprotecting pages with the correct permissions
	+ Undeleting pages and files (only when its requested by a member or someone from the staff team if its needed for important reasons)
	+ Verify calculations, profiles, respect threads, etc. created by members in the "Page Verification" section from Discuss (or simply click our wiki's icon at the upper left corner of the website) while also making sure that there aren't any noticeable signs on these pages as listed in the following:
		- Incorrect or outdated information
		- No credible sources
		- No credit given to your contributor(s) if any pages of fictional universes, respect threads, or calculations are created from a collabration of people besides you
		- No credit given to the artist(s) for any fanmade images and other content that they own
		- Potential plagiarism of content ripped directly from other wikis that the staff team did not approve of
	+ Verify your own profiles and pages you created without waiting through the verification process
* Secondary Roles:
	+ Full permission to do all staff roles that were previously listed from **Rollbackers** only

### Administrators

* Primary Roles:
	+ Blocking members, including rollbackers and threadmoderators (only if the reasoning or evidence of why these specific types of staff members should be banned is justified), from editing and doing other actions
	+ Editing MediaWiki system messages on the wiki, such as the MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user page
	+ Granting the threadmoderator role and revoking it away from members
	+ Unblocking members
		- Reminder: Any urgent conversation that is requested from the blocked person **must only last for a temporary amount of time** as the member cannot be unbanned for any longer than 3 days if they were supposed to be waiting out their ban time.

If any banned member(s) are found unbanned past the allowed time limit, then their ban duration will be extended by at least **1 week** + the remaining length of time of their ban that they originally have left right after the discussion has been finished or has no more active responses.

* Secondary Roles:
	+ Full permission to do all staff roles that were previously listed for **Content-Moderators**, **ThreadModerators**, and **Rollbackers**

### Bureaucrats

* Primary Roles:
	+ Creating user bots and removing user bot statuses if there are any noticeable signs of malfunction
	+ Granting and revoking rollback from members
	+ Granting any member with a role up to Administrator
	+ Revoking admin and any lower staff position away from members
* Secondary Roles:
	+ Full permission to do all staff roles that were previously listed for **Administrators**, **Content-Moderators**, **ThreadModerators**, and **Rollbackers**

### Founder

* Primary Roles:
	+ Editing the community's skin and format
	+ Promoting any member with any type of role without restriction, including the role of Bureacrat
	+ Promoting staff members with higher roles and removing any staff roles from a staff member without restriction
* Secondary Roles:
	+ Full permission to do all types of staff roles that were previously listed

## Wiki Rules

* If you violate at least 3 listed things found under any single one of our wiki rules, then you will receive the punishment instantly.
* If you receive another ban for violating the same rule(s) that you've been previously been banned for will result in severe consequences that leds to warranting a ban duration of **twice the duration length** and this process will always repeat with each ban duration being extended to a longer timeframe than before
* Each important term for their own respective rule has a wikipedia link that redirects you to the page that provides an in-depth explanation of what its about, so that way the staff team does not always need to explain the description of these terms if Wikipedia does the explaining for you. Also, under each section of the rules will provide descriptions that focuses on the actions that you must avoid doing while also mentioning the consequences of failing to follow the rules on our wiki.
* In regards for blacklisting (which may involve anything that either occured on the wiki or just offsite controversy in general), if you are listed on the staff team's blacklist, which mainly happens if there are multiple eyewitness identification or **reliable evidence** of you causing any form of sexual harrassment, cyberbullying towards someone, or being considered as an **untrustworthy person** on this wiki that has committed any other unjustly actions to the point that it cannot be tolerated, then **only final warnings will be applied for all future rule violations you commit** as instant bans will be given right after breaking them as well as **doubling the ban duration** as a reminder to not do anything to get yourself blacklisted by the staff team and there will be **no exceptions** out of this once you are on this list.
* Staff members that have received **temporary** demotions will be put in probation for a given amount of time that has been decided by the Founder and how probation would work will be explained in **Fiction-Mayhem's FAQ**
* Anyone in the staff team or the Founder himself will notify you about having **final warnings** being applied for whichever rule violation(s) that got you banned **only once** for first time bans when the duration of the ban is over since **we will not be constantly reminding you again** if you were to receive any future bans that occurs after we make sure you were already given awareness about it