Editing Rules and Guidelines

### Do Nots

**Any and all breaches of the rules and guidelines of the 'Do Nots' catogery will result in an automatic ban from the wiki**

1. Do not delete any previously written content unless it is for grammatical corrections *or* you are a certified administrator/meme scholar
2. Do not vandalise anything in this bible
3. Do not advertise companies, services or products unless it is relevant to the page you are editing
4. Do not plagiarise - make sure to cite or directly credit any authors, creators or pieces of work which you use in your editing

### Content

**Breaches of the rules and guidlines of the 'Content' category may result in an administrator messaging and reminding you of what you should and should not be writing about, but will not usually result in a ban or warning unless multiple reminders are blatantly ignored**

1. When writing, try to include as much fiction and fan theories as possible rather than just pure facts of memes and their origins. i.e. when speaking about Dat Boi, you should write in the spirit of *"Dat Boi is a legendary frog that partakes in unicycle riding"*, instead of *"Dat Boi is a meme that originated on a Facebook page and can be found in the Animal Factory Essential Collections 3 software"*. It *is* acceptable to talk about the literal use and origins of memes when necessary, however it shouldnotbe the main focus of the bible, and should be attempted to be incorporated and referenced into fiction wherever possible.
2. When writing about fiction, you must use already existing theories and writings rather than inventing your own, unless you are providing an interpretation. The fiction you decide to use must also be widely accepted or hugely popular/canonical in some way, i.e. the Skeleton War derives from multiple online writings as found in these citations. Good places to search for canonical/popular fiction includes www.knowyourmeme.com, www.reddit.com, www.wattpad.com and highly viewed YouTube videos. The only time this rule may be broken is if a certified meme scholar or administrator has gained permission from the creator of the Bible of Memes for various reasons.
3. When writing about your personal interpretations on meme fiction, you should not reference yourself as the one creating the interpretation. Instead, you should refer to the interpreter as 'some/many meme scholars/individuals interpret this as ...'. For personal credit, you may cite any of your external work such as reddit posts or YouTube videos by inserting a formal citation like so.

### Style

**The rules and guidelines of the 'Style' category must be attempted to be kept and followed, however will not result in bans or warnings if breached**

1. When publishing edits or entries, try to use professional terminology and concise forms of writing, i.e. instead of *"JJ was a black cat that never really told that many people about how he felt, it was very weird"*, an entry on this Wikia should read something like *"JJ was a cat who famously did not express his feelings, much to the confusion of others."* Do not worry if you fail to write in this way, as meme scholars and administrators will routinely proof read and clean up any edits in the bible to make them more universal, however an effort on your part makes the job of doing so easier. If stuck, read some already written pages and try to emulate the style as much as possible.
2. Avoid writing in first or second person terminologies, only use third person. i.e. do not use the words 'I, we, you, us, you're' unless in quotations.
3. Try to be as grammatically correct as possible, either according to the United States or the United Kingdom forms of grammar, i.e. both 'color' and 'colour' will be accepted. Once again, meme scholars and admins will routinely proof read the bible to correct grammatical mistakes, so do not worry too much about making spelling errors.
4. When creating citations, a direct URL link or the title and author of the work is all that is required (see the bottom of this page for citation examples).

### References

1. ↑ http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/skeleton-war
2. ↑ https://www.wattpad.com/story/27727568-the-skeleton-war-a-brief-history
3. ↑ http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/tumblr-skeleton-war/
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEIj1UX5ZRg