Community Guidelines

Welcome to the Group of Authors wiki, a wiki where you can publish and discuss fanfictions!

By using our wiki, you automatically agree with our Community Guidelines and agree to obey the rules and accept the consequences if these rules are broken. These rules apply to General Discussions. For content policies see Content Guidelines.

## **General Rules**

1. Treat all Users with kindness and respect. Bullying and Harassment is not permitted on this wiki and we will block any user(s) responsible for bullying or harassment. If you are being bullied or harassed by a user, Report it to our staff.
2. Do not share and/or ask for any personal information such as anyone's address, age or name. The price will be fatal.
3. Only enter Council Meetings when assured you can by either a mod or admin. Do this by making a post and tagging one. They will get to you when possible.
4. Please do not excessively request to join the administrative or moderation team. We will open up positions when necessary.
5. Listen and cooperate with the administration team at all times, obay all instructions and warnings when given/
6. Do not create personal pages, those can go onto your profile page.

## Deletion Policy

If a page is going to be deleted, it must have the deletion tag on it. If you do not know how to do this, read along to find out. If you don't want to bother going through the steps, Categorize it in "Candidates for Deletion" and leave this comment on the page:

*Hello. The page (Page's Name) is violating (What? What Rule?). Please note that this page is Marked for Deletion, and if not given a strong supportive reason, this page will be deleted!*

*Thank You,*

*(Admin's Name)*

**\*\*If you want to learn how to do Marked For Deletion tags, please open Source Editor, type in the tag below {{Delete}}.**

## **Blocking Policy**

In order to comply with FANDOM's new Blocking Policy, The DGOA Wiki has a new strict Ban Policy for blocking Users. Violation of these rules can have the said admin demoted. The User must also get a warning that they may be in danger of a block so they have a chance to redeem themselves. This warning must be issued within 30 Days. All blocks will be manually reviewed by the DGOA Board.

* Abusing your admin power in order to act superior or blocking people who disagree with you will not be tolerated
* The Board has the final say on the block. If they all agree, then the user will be blocked. If even one member of the Board vetoes the Ban, then a 30 day extension will be provided until we can find a conclusion we all agree with.
* Now, You can't just say that this user did something and then block them. Please provide our administration team with some sort of proof (screenshots and links are the most helpful) so we know that your claim is legit.

### Ban Nomination

Now Regular users have a say in who gets banned and if a large amount of people nominate a user, raises the chances of it being brought to the Board's attention. Keep in mind nominations must have attached screenshots, a statement of why this user should be banned, and a link to their profile in case we need to contact them.

### Ban Reasoning

To make things fair, We also have a restriction on why users get banned. If its something severe like death threats or NSFW Content then our Admins reserve the right to ban you on the spot. However if its only minor offenses like maybe unintentional spam or slipping out a swear word, that is not grounds for a User Block.

## Block Duration & Reason

### Multiple Minor/Major Violations

#### One Hour

**First-time minor policy violations.**

* (Admins): Editing A Post made by someone else without the Consent of the OP
* Spam
* Obsessive Swearing (Meaning extreme swearing like racial slurs. Minimum Low or Medium Profanity is fine)
* Stealing Another User's Fanfiction or Fanfiction Idea

#### One Week

**First-time or several moderate rule violations, which includes but not limited to:**

* NSFW or Gory Imagery
* NSFW/Sexual Language
* Light Bullying And Harassment (such as name calling, mocking them for petty reasons, ect)

#### Two Weeks

**First-time or several major rule violations, which includes but not limited to:**

* Repeated violations to minor policies prior to given a final warning period.
* First-time violation to a major policy with or without prior warnings.
* Hosting spam discussion post(s) to reach to the Hot Page on Discussions
* Harassing users
	+ e.g., users who target a user for declining a trade by spamming or an attempting to discourage others to trade with the targeted user

### Severe Violations

#### One Month

**First-time violation to a major policy with or without prior warnings, which includes but not limited to:**

* Using a personal incident to attempt to manipulate user's expectations for a trade or giveaway.
* Intentional Scamming
* Sockpuppetry
* Alt accounts (Only alt accounts)
* Plagiarizing Art

### Extreme Violations

#### Indefinite

**First-time or several extreme rule violates, which include but are not limited to:**

* Posting content for mature audiences (e.g., pornography, abusive, etc.)
* Trolling (e.g., Negative user upon joining wiki, posting phishing links, etc.)
* Being a negative user that has continuously been disruptive to the community
* Promoting suicide
* Abusing multiple accounts
* Evading Block(s) (including 1 hour-block warnings)
* Cross-Wiki Harassment
* Underage User (users under the age of 13)
* Impersonation of a Staff Member
* Self Promotion
* Homophobia, transphobia, ethnic/racial slurs, religious intolerance, or content that encourages criminal conduct
* Violation of Fandom's Terms of Use or other FANDOM policies
* NSFW or Sexual Language/Contact/Communication with Minors (Under the age of 18)
* Admin Power Abuse
* Created Alt accounts