Underfell AU Wiki:Rules

This page is dedicated to outlining the rules of The Underfell AU Wiki.

It is required that all new users visit this page to ensure an understanding of the rules in place.

***Failure to do so (either on purpose or non-stop) is a ban-able offense.***

## COPPA

In accordance to the **Children's Online Privacy Protection Act** (**COPPA**), *users under the age of 13 are not allowed to edit on the wiki*. If a user is revealed to be underage, please report it to an **administrator** with evidence. An underage user will be blocked until they are of legal age to contribute (13 or older).

## Rules

### General

* You could use references from various AUs (as long that it's appropriate).
* Do not be disruptive to the workings of the wiki.
* Please refrain from starting **drama** anywhere in the Wiki.
* Do not advertise your own wiki. Talking about this wiki is fine, but please do not post a link to your wiki on any pages, posts, comments, discussions, etc.
* Don't make new Articles, templates, or Categories ***unless you are actually are gonna add accurate and proper information about them, use them***. (Unless if its your AU) Please don't make template have sections like "Row1, Row2, etc." or else it will be considered as spam.
* **Vandalism**, **trolling**, **spamming**, **discriminative**, and **not safe for work** (**NSFW**) content are all strictly prohibited. Any who does this will will be given an instant Ban.
	+ **Discriminative content** includes: hate speech, ethnic slurs, or any hateful action directed towards people based on their orientation, gender, race, etc.
	+ **Not safe for work** (**NSFW**) **content** includes: sexual or explicit content; generally anything that would be disallowed in a school or workplace.
		- NSFW discussion can be had if its done in the context of science, such as human anatomy. Keep in mind that admins are allowed to shut down these conversations at any time.
	+ **Please report vandalism to an admin** if it has not already been dealt with. It is also highly appreciated for any user to help and undo vandalistic edits. **Vandals can be reported here.**
		- As a basic precaution, unless an edit is blatant vandalism, please assume the edits a user makes are in good faith.
		- If you notice a vandal has been vandalizing multiple wikis across FANDOM, consider reporting it to the VSTF (Volunteer Spam Task Force).
* **Please be respectful and civil to other users**:
	+ Do not disrespect, offend, threaten, insult, or argue with other users.
	+ Please keep conversations and messages appropriate.
	+ This also include sensitive and controversial topics.
	+ Spamming is not allowed.
	+ If you wish to have a discussion with another user over conflicting view-points, please keep it a civil debate. Admins are allowed to end these discussions at any time if they start to get out of hand.
* Do not be disruptive to the workings of the wiki.
* **Listen to the staff.** If a staff member asks you to stop doing something that is considered harmful or disruptive, please do so.
* **No hacking.** Don't use hacking of any type, not even for something little. If it is about editing a protected page, message staff.
* **No use of sock-puppet accounts**: A sock-puppet account is when a user uses an ALT account to get past/protest a ban, or create an alibi. Any sockpuppet accounts that are caught will be permanently banned. If you want to discuss an unfair ban, talk to another admin about it.
* **Do not add false information.** It can mislead others, and this is supposed to be a legit and serious wiki.
* **No recalling the Wiki.** It's not good and if you do, you will face the consequences
* **No Advertising allowed** unless if you're an admin.
* **Do not Rickroll other Users.** It's annoying and is like spamming.
* **Do not start Raids.** this will get you permanently banned.
* **DON'T BE A "KAREN" OR A "TERRY"** (don't go complaining to us. Just politely talk to them.)
* **Don't bring drama from different Wikis here.** This will be considered as toxic.
* **Do not go in your way to Witch-hunt anyone.**
* Do not incite Drama.
* Do not start or cause fraudery of any kind.
* **Avoid doing pointless announcements in this Wiki**. It may lead to de-rankin and or a ban. ***(If you're going to do an random post, make sure you organize it to "Off-Topics".)***
* **If anyone sees raiders, make sure you ban them immediately.** If they succeed However, report them to FANDOM Community Staff.
* Please give credit to the original owner(s). if you don't own the stuff or it will lead to a 2 hour block.
* Don't randomly rank people or you will be de-ranked.

## Editing

### Rules for Articles & Images

* **No duplicate content**: Check to make sure that you are not creating a page that already exists or is identical to another, or upload an image we already have. Duplicate pages and images will be deleted.
* **When editing, do not make something centered around your opinion.**
* **No unnecessary editing**: Unnecessary editing is classified as making edits that make no contribution to the page whatsoever, often only done to gain credit and badges. This is not allowed. These edits are:
	+ Rewording sentences for no genuine reason
	+ Taking periods off sentences and putting them back on
	+ Taking off information and then putting it back on
	+ Adding the same information in different ways
* **No irrelevant categories**: do not add irrelevant or unnecessary categories into pages.
	+ In general; a category that can at best only cover 3 or less articles is considered unnecessary.
	+ If you find that a user has added irrelevant or unnecessary categories into pages, please remove them.
	+ If an admin removes a category that you have added to a page, do not revert the edit as this has been done either for the reason stated above or for another reason.
* **Edits should be constructive and have a certain level of effort.**
* **No edit farming**: Anyone who spams edits and pictures to get credit will be banned.

### User Pages

* **Users are free to customize their profiles as they see fit, as long as the content doesn’t conflict with the rules on this page.**
* **Do not edit another user’s profile without their permission!**. It is considered rude.
	+ The only time it is acceptable to edit another user’s profile is to undo vandalism, or to remove content that violates the rules stated on this page.

## Admin Rules

**These are the rules made specifically for the wiki's staff. If a staff member breaks any of these rules, please report it to the bureaucrat or a trusted admin, with evidence, so the situation may be taken care of.**

* **Admins are not to abuse their powers in any way.** Their actions should only be to benefit the wiki and not themselves. Administrators are in no way above normal users on the wiki, and are simply users entrusted with powerful editing tools. If an admin is caught abusing their powers, they will be demoted and potentially blocked depending on the severity of the situation.
* Admins should assume good faith from users. If a user makes a mistake, assume that they are *trying* to help the wiki. More can be learned here.
* Blocks may only be issued for violations of your stated rules or Fandom’s Terms of Use.
* Community members must be treated with respect. Abusing admin status to harass other community members will not be tolerated.
* Violations of this policy may be met with loss of local user rights and, in extreme cases, additional disciplinary action.
* Do not other-throw other Admins. Doing so will get you globally banned from the entire FANDOM Wiki and will also get you permanently banned from this Wiki.

### Chat Rules

* No toxicity Allowed in the Wiki.
* Please refrain from advertising Wikis in this wiki. It could become pretty annoying.

## Roleplay Rules

*For information about Roleplay rules, check here.*

## Consequences

If one of the rules or several of these are not fulfilled, they will end up with the user with a temporary block or a permanent Ban.