Warriors: The ShoreClan Chronicles Wiki:Wiki rules

Below is a suggested set of rules to follow when editing this wiki. Administrators of this wiki should read these rules and adapt them as necessary.

## General rules

1. **Keep it civil**: Do not make personal attacks on other people. If you need to criticize another user’s argument, do so without attacking them as a person. Do not use bigoted language, including slurs which degrade another person or group of people based on gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, etc.
2. **Be a productive member of the wiki**: Contribute to the wiki in line with the established processes and conventions. Need help? Ask an administrator! Disrupting the wiki with “edit warring” over differing opinions of a topic with another user or group of users is not productive.
3. **Do not engage in excessive self-promotion**: The wiki is a collaborative community resource for the topic at hand. It is NOT a free place to advertise your related website, YouTube channel, blog, social media account, etc. Have a question about whether your link would be welcome? Ask an administrator!
4. **Do not harass other users**: If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their wall, respect their wishes. It is their wall.
5. **Do follow community guidelines for formatting**: When a community has established formatting, it’s important to adhere to that, especially when spoiler content is involved.

## Civility

**Civility** and **kindness** is necessary if you are editing talk pages, making edit summaries, or contributing to discussions on talk pages. Even if you do not like some of your fellow users, you still must make an attempt to be as civil as possible. Try your best not to create tension wherever you are.

### Examples of incivility

1. Rudeness
2. Judgmental terms in edit summaries, especially when it comes to undoing edits (please take in mind when new users edit)
3. Belittling other users due to their writing style, or what they choose to include (this includes types of articles written)

Some more **serious examples** include

1. Personal attacks
2. Sockpuppetry to evade bans or to continue personally attacking the person
3. Constant fighting even after being asked to stop

### Why does this happen?

1. During an edit war, people may be convinced they are right, and unwilling to consider otherwise.
2. Genuine tension between the two users, not caring whether they insult them or not.

Most of the time insults are used in a heated conflict. They often are ways to end discussions, or a foolish way to try and get their point across.

In other cases, the editor is doing it on purpose, either to distract others from the issue, or simply to drive said user away from the Wiki. Another reason may be to push the other user to the edge where they will say something that will get themselves banned.

### General suggestions

#### Preventing arguments and edit wars

1. Prevent edit wars. If you have an edit you disagree with, contact the user who made them, or a third party, or the project where said edit would be underneath.
2. Admins may lock certain pages that have edit conflicts with them.

#### Reducing the impact

1. Do not answer offensive comments, even if you feel implied to, or you feel as if you are inferior by not doing so. If you avoid answering them, you prove yourself to be stronger than said person. Forget about the edit, do not escalate the conflict even more. You are letting them win.
2. Ignore incivility. It will be dealt with.

### Managing incivility

Sometimes, two people may be unwilling to negotiate something that will work for the both of them. In some cases an administrator may need to intervene, but it is best if they do not. A dispute resolution may also be necessary, in which a user would post a discussion on the talk page of a project the edit would be associated with. It is best to clear the issue as soon as possible.

## Grounds for blocking

**Blocking** is by the means of which an administrator prevents a user account/IP range from editing Warriors Wiki. Block duration may vary depending on the severity of the rule that was broken.

1. **Vandalism** - Vandalism is defined as any bad-faith edit with the intent to disrupt Wiki articles or purposely damage their credibility, or adding fake edits on purpose. Usually, the editor must be warned prior to blocking, but if the editor decides not to comply, this is grounds for a ban.
2. **Spam** - Posting irrelevant spam links in articles, making bad faith edits that make no sense whatsoever, or creating useless articles are grounds for either an infinite ban or a long term one, since it is quite clear that the user is not here to make any useful edits.
3. **Inappropriate account names** - If there is a slur used in someone's name, or in general an inappropriate username in terms of rudeness / personal attacks, this is grounds for an immediate, no-warning infinite block.
4. **Disruption** - Users who purposely join the Wiki just to cause chaos will be blocked permanently, although a warning should be placed on their talk page prior.
5. **Personal attacks** - If any user is caught purposely attacking a user, insulting them, or being rude continuously after being asked to stop, they will be warned on their talk page. If they refuse to stop, a ban will be issued to them. It will be up to the admin who is distributing the block to decide the length.
6. **Sock puppetry** - If there are users who have been found to have more than one account, for *any* purpose that is not explicitly approved by an administrator, they will be blocked and have an IP block placed upon their accounts. Using more than one account to influence a vote, spam, or evade an existing block will result in action taken.
7. **Any rude messages** left on talk pages, whether it be about the Wiki, about a certain person, etc.

## Asking to be have a ban lifted

As of 2021, If a user wishes to have their ban lifted, they are permitted to message any administrator on neutral territory. On Fandom, Community Central is considered such a place. Go to the message wall of one of the administrators and calmly explain that you wish to have your ban reviewed. If found that you have not done any actions that would warrant the ban staying, your block will be lifted and you will be permitted to return to the wiki. Users wishing to return and edit in good faith are encouraged to talk to the administration team to appeal their block.