Wiki rules

## Important Rules

1. No bullying.
	1. This includes harassment or targeting a user in any negative way.
	2. Being slightly rude does NOT count as harassment unless someone calls you something incredibly inappropriate. Which can get them banned.
2. No spamming.
	1. To clarify, spamming can be considered a text wall or a long list as well as repeating the same words/phrases repeatedly for an extended period of time.
3. When rules do not prevail, common sense will. Finding loopholes in the rules is impossible because a staff member has the power to enforce unspoken rules, as long as it would arguably be obvious without the rule being listed here.
4. Of course, vandalism is not allowed as it isn’t very friendly or normal behaviour so too speak. So please don’t act like a member of Osoro’s gang and behave yourself. You don’t want too get yourself banned. Or do you? Well you don’t. That’s my answer. Vandalism will give you three warnings that will appear on your message wall. If you continue too vandalise you will be permanently banned and or blocked in return for your “kind” favour 5. Remember that edits fixing improper grammar are always allowed. If a user makes an unwanted edit besides grammar, categorization, or other constructive edits, you are allowed to revert it. The user in question must not re-edit if this happens, or they will face three warnings until they are banned **forever**.
5. The Quality Standards (which have not yet been added) are mandatory.
	1. However, the consequences of not conforming to the Quality Standards are vastly different and less severe than the consequences of a rulebreak.
6. Sockpuppeting is forbidden.
	1. If you don't know what that means, sockpuppeting is the act of creating alternate accounts with the intention of deceiving others. For example, after being blocked, a user creates an alternate account. They evade their ban and fabricate a new identity. That is sockpuppeting, and thus a breach of this rule. If you do, do this too deceive others you will be banned **permanently** on all accounts. Kind of like a twitch shadow ban.
	2. Even if no accounts are created to deceive others, you are allowed a maximum of 5 accounts here (I know it’s a lot). If you make any more, the new accounts will be **permanently banned**. Changing your name by contacting Wikia is still acceptable, because you are only able to change it once per useable, non-blocked account.
7. Offensive jokes are not allowed on overall public pages, such as character pages, forums and comments, but they are permitted on your profile and on the talk pages of those who do not mind offensive material. You are not allowed too make Sayori hanging jokes or anything of the sort. So please be aware that suicide is not a joke and don’t act like it is. It’s very serious and it kills more than a thousand people per year. It’s disgusting and upsetting really.
8. Do not share anything NSFW as there are kids on this wiki and things that includes music with explicit lines in them. If there are inappropriate things on the wiki it will result in a warning for the person who did it. After three warnings you will be **permanently banned**.
9. No necroposting.
	1. Necroposting is posting on a very old thread when it ended/was already solved over a week ago, which bumps it up in wiki activity and sends everyone previously involved in that thread a notification. This is really annoying.
10. Non-staff users should not give warnings to other users. Friendly advice and tips are one thing, but only admins will give out warnings. Admins like Beans2017 who made this page.
11. Do not request personal information and do not give out the personal information of someone else against their will. As I’m pretty sure you can get arrested for that if you live in a place like England! Haha! Aren’t the police (mostly) great? I thought so too! (Sorry back too the rules)
12. Do not create redirects when deleting pages unless absolutely necessary. If you do this for no reason, we’ll you are going too confuse everybody as if you made a really inappropriate page well it should be redirected should it carol? No it shouldn’t. So shut up Carol. You a **not** getting your page back! Carol is meant too represent this wiki’s trolling members that we absolutely do not like!
13. Do not publicly complain about other users unless they are doing something against the communities rules.
14. Do not derail threads.
	1. Anything that could be made into another thread is considered derailment. Off-topic posts should be deleted, and a warning should be issued.
	2. This rule only applies to the Suggestions, Announcements of the Fanon Wiki, Fun and Games boards (under certain circumstances), and Apply For Staff boards.
	3. This applies to the Fun and Games board when you go in there to spread negativity, complain about it, etc.
15. If you see someone breaking any rules, and a staff member does not notice them, politely inform a staff member.
16. Music on pages is permitted, *as long as it does not play automatically*. Any music players that play automatically will be modified to include a play button. Also we don’t want fanon too get fined or removed from existence so please don’t use copyrighted music. It ruins the wiki’s **quiet** vibe.
17. Anyone above the age of 18 on the wiki is forbidden to "date" children here. You will be banned for this as this is literally illegal! So you can be reported too the police for this!
	1. Most users here are children, so the reason for this rule is because this is considered predatory.
18. If you harass a user of this wiki offsite, steal something from the wiki offsite, etc. You will be subjected too an instant ban. No warnings no nothing. You are just immediately banned.
	1. If, for example, you harass someone not involved with the wiki, you would not be subject to this punishment.
	2. This is to prevent people from using other platforms to bully members of the wiki. **We do not ban people for actions outside of the wiki unless it involves another person here.**

## OC Rules

Be sure to follow the Quality Standards (that have not been created yet) as well!

1. Only the owner of the OC can control or change information their OC, the only exception being if you share an OC or you obtain permission from the owner. Or too correct grammar, e.c.t.
2. If the owner of an OC does not like the relationship another OC has with theirs, they have the right to remove the relationship.
3. You may not take an existing character(s) and claim them as yours. For example, you may not take Yuno Gasai and claim her as yours, however, you may base the character off of her. This has been a problem on other wiki’s before. Someone even created their own wiki (which is against fandoms conditions of service!) too do that kind of stuff. This will result in an immediate ban if reported too beans2017 or any other moderator (however there is only me at the moment).
4. You may only adopt another OC if you shared the OC or the owner gives it to you. You cannot adopt an OC out of the blue. If you do this is **you won’t get permanently banned just banned for a couple of days**. Do this more than five times and you will be given a **permanent ban**.

## Page Deletion

1. Upon creation, pages must be at least 1,000 bytes. Do not simply make a page saying "wip" or such, as most of these are never finished and clutter the wiki. You must actually add s*ome* content as soon as the page is created. Empty pages will be deleted or purged.
2. OCs are considered abandoned if their owner does not log on for a month AND the page is a work-in-progress (WIP pages are considered WIP if they have 1k bites or below.) If the last massage on the owners message walk says that it’s up for adoption since they are leaving or something like that you can take it for free, no problem. If it doesn’t you already know what will happen.
3. Once a page is finished and follows Quality Standards, it is safe from deletion forever unless the author requests it to be deleted.
4. *If an owner of an OC hadn't logged on for 4 months or more, WIP pages with below 1k bites will be deleted right away, while notifying the owner of their deletion.*
5. Once the page is abandoned, the owner will be contacted and if they don't respond within 1 month, their pages will be deleted. Remember that.
	1. If the owner replies after the page has been deleted, an admin will restore it.
	2. If a page is marked "WIP", be sure to check the numbers of bites and if the creator requested to delete it. WIP pages have 1k or have below 1k bites. If it have more than 1 300, don't delete it unless the creator requested it.
	3. Abandoned pages cannot be adopted without permission from the original creator(s) as of Sunday 3rd of July 2022. They must simply be deleted. This is the way it works unfortunately.

## Roleplay Rules

1. No godmodding.
	1. Godmodding is the act of breaking the universe's rules, controlling other characters, or making your character very powerful in order to bend the roleplay to your will.
2. Don't use Mary-Sues/Gary-Stus. This makes it unfair and kind of boring too the other role-players.
3. Leave some of the storytelling to others, in order to be fair.
4. When talking out of character, use bold text or parentheses. You can also use ( ), { }, [ ], or , , Too make your point.
5. Do not perform NSFW RPs on the wiki.
	1. Undressing, if it includes taking underpants off (saying your OC is changing clothes isn't really much), is already going off the limits. Anything beyond that is NSFW. This will result in three warnings then a **permanent ban**.
	2. If the user does NSFW in RP, they may first receive a warning, the second time they do that results in a five day blocking. If it keeps repeating the blocks will get longer, until it's a permanent ban.

## Theft Rules

1. Do not use someone's OC without their permission.
2. Do not use information or official files of a user's OC unless you have been first given permission by the owner.
	1. This includes Kisekae codes, or simply the OC’s name. You cannot reuse someone else’s OC name identically. Same with concepts and ideas. You can change the names slightly however they can still sound the same as the original name you are taking **inspiration** from.
	2. Material from outside sources, such as deviantART, must always be credited when used. Unless you made it yourself. Then you don’t have too credit anyone.
		* This also includes Kisekae codes.
	3. If this rule is broken, the file(s) will be removed and the user will receive a warning. If they continue too due this past three warnings the user will be **permanently banned**.
3. You must credit the original creator for every asset/code you use, whether it's portraits, MMD, Kisekae, or anything similar. Do not say "credit to the rightful owners" or your image will be deleted.

## Staff Rules

1. Notify an admin if you will be inactive due to real-life circumstances, such as school, work, family issues, or basically anything. You will be excused for **one month only**, and the Staff page will be updated with your activity status.
2. Minor things, such as changing the voting qualifications slightly, can be done without a voting thread with the permission of an admin. Major changes, however, must be voted on.
3. In chat, a warning must be given before a kick and/or ban.
	1. If you have substantial evidence the person is a sock who has already been banned/kicked according to the previous rule, they can be banned immediately without the warning.
4. This should be common sense, but as a staff member please always try your best to set a good example for others here on the wiki. Despite General Rule #1, being rude or talking smack about others here paints a bad image of our wiki and is just plain wrong.
5. All the prior rules apply to staff as well, and they will receive the same consequences as regular users.
	1. However, when a normal user would be banned (after a warning) the staff will lose their rights along with the ban, even after the ban expires. If this occurs, there will be no demotion thread. The rights will simply be removed as they have broken the rules.
	2. This is difficult to do for admins, so be careful to vote admins into power that are mature and will not break rules!
6. Users **must** be warned (thrice, in most cases) before blocked and, if blocked, must be allowed to edit their own talk page/message wall so that, if needed, they can **discuss with the admin(s) their ban.**
	1. This will ensure that no bans are unfair.
		1. But, if they were banned for something very severe, such as revealing personal info, they are an obvious troll, or you have substantial evidence the user is a sockpuppet, this is not needed.
		2. If a blocked user uses their message wall for another reason besides discussing with admins their ban, getting an admins contact info, or announcing something important, this right will be taken away.
		3. If an admin gives out an unfair ban, the ban will be revoked and the admin may be warned or it may count towards a demotion thread.
7. All warnings lose effect after a month.
	1. This is so that people who make a similar mistake/offense are not banned for it.
	2. If a user is warned multiple times within a month for the same offense, they can be banned.
8. Warnings must be issued for each rule broken. If they break two different rules in one month, that is two warnings.
	1. If they break the same rule twice within a three day time period, they may be banned under certain circumstances.
9. Someone must get a maximum of three warnings in a time period of a month to be banned.
	1. If they break the same rule within the a week, they will be banned.
10. After you make a staff application, whether it passed or failed, you cannot run for a position again for 1 month.
11. If a staff member steps down voluntarily and a week passes, they must go through the voting process again.