Wiki Guidelines

Given the nature of the Timelines wiki’s content, the Wiki Administrators have established the following Guidelines in regards to content creation, editing, attribution, and usage. Expectations for user conduct will also be listed here. It must be kept in mind that all users and administrators will be held to these Guidelines.

Users, Administrators or Moderators whom are found to be in violation of any of these policies may be reviewed for being blocked from making edits or comments on the wiki for a duration of time. Repeated offenders may receive a permanent ban from wiki contribution.

All Administrators and moderators will also be held to the Staff Code of Conduct. Those who do not uphold the Guidelines written will be reviewed for removal from the Wiki Staff team.

### **Guidelines**

#### **Conduct and Harassment**

Both users and the Wiki Staff of the Timelines Wiki are expected to be respectful to each other and refrain from using excessively vulgar or inappropriate language in their discussions. Users are also expected to refrain from making attacks on groups of individuals based on their race, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability.

All instances of harassment or malicious attacks on said groups, documented in the form of screenshots or other tangible evidence, will be handled by the Wiki Staff on a case-by-case basis. In all cases, evidence of the harassment will be reviewed of context and severity. Victims of direct harassment will have and opportunity to provide more evidence when a case is presented, but anyone found guilty of falsifying evidence will be banned for a period of time no less then one year.

Users accused of harassment will be confronted with the evidence before the Staff make a decision. If the administrators collectively agree that the user is guilty of harassment or malicious attack, he or she will be banned from making edits on the wiki for no less then three months. Repeat offenders may receive permanent bans from wiki contribution.

#### **Vandalism**

Any articles or edits that is considered libelous or defamatory by making false or harassing accusations shall not be tolerated by the wiki staff and will be promptly dealt with. Users who are found to maliciously vandalize others’ articles will receive a minimum of one month ban from contribution to the wiki. Repeat offenders may receive a permanent ban from wiki contribution.

#### **Removal of Content**

Users are allowed to remove their own created content from this wiki or request for it to be removed from the wiki by staff. Users may not remove content from other users articles without expressed permission by the respective author. Users who are found to delete others content without justification may be banned from editing on the wiki on the grounds of Vandalism.

#### **Modifying Articles**

Pages that are not dedicated to member-created stories or characters may be freely modified following the above rules. Member created fan-fiction Documented or Character pages should not be edited to the extent that the original ideas are altered. If you are unsure if a change will alter the original context, contact the author for permission. Authors of such pages reserve full rights to request to have a page locked and unlocked from editing by Administrators.

Please wait at lest an hour after an articles creation when making a spelling or categorical edit to a page that is not your own. Editing minutes after an article being created can result in the original author losing work if they were still in the middle of editing their page.

#### **Attributing Content**

If your article contains writings or images that you did not create yourself, you must add an attribution section to your article that credits the original source, either by name or an external link. Please check out [Crediting Content article] for more information about how to do so in this Wiki.

#### **Article Naming**

Articles should follow the established [Article Naming Guide]. Articles that do not follow the naming guidelines will be renamed by the Wiki Staff.

#### **Fan Fiction**

Any content that is canon lore may be edited by anyone on the wiki. Users may contribute fan-fiction additions to canon characters, events, organizations, etc. So long as they follow the following:

#### **Hierarchy of Wiki Lore**

1. Lore has been established and confirmed/ declared as canon by reliable sources.
2. Lore that is considered Non-canon or fan fiction is must be declared to be so in that article as a disclaimer to the article. Any non-canon/fan-fiction to main events must be placed in a different article with the disclaimer in that new article.

Many articles from different fan-made extra-canonical works are not to be included on this wiki. There will be times when two different accounts of fan-fiction disagree. In such cases, the account presented on this wiki will either be compiled to be a reasonable combination of multiple cases provided, or a disambiguation of the differing accounts in question. Feel free to contact and Wiki Staff in such cases.

If a page is considered a canon lore page, it is required to consult the Wiki Staff to add your own writing to it.

You are not required to ask for permission to edit a page that belongs to lore (Such as the military pages etc), and it should be noted that if permission is needed to be asked; please contact a Staff member if the author of the fan fiction is unavailable to aid with an issue.

#### **Neutral Writing**

Information in articles authored by members should, within reason, be relevant and neutrally written based on facts and not on writer’s opinion. Articles that are explicitly written as journal entries or in-character accounts are exempt from this expectation. Articles that are deemed to be overly biased in their presentation may be reviewed for editing by the Wiki Staff to reflect a neutral account.

#### **Content use Elsewhere**

Please read the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License and follow its articles if you intent to use content on the wiki elsewhere.