The Art Club Wiki General Rules

## **Welcome**

Welcome to the Art Club Wiki! We are a PG, respectful, and kind community. You are required to read and comply with the guidelines (listed below). If you fail to comply with any of the guidelines, you will be banned. You **MUST** be 13 or older to have an account on the FANDOM site. However, we understand that not having an account can decrease the quality of your experience here and prevent you from taking part in certain things. So, you are allowed to have an account even if you are not 13+ yet. This rule applies for this wiki **ONLY**. If you're underage and using an account on other wiki's, the admins or bureaucrats will probably ban you since that's against COPPA laws and FANDOM's ToU.

## **General Rules**

● Our staff are responsible for keeping this community safe. Please follow the directions of moderators, administrators, and bureaucrats. You will be banned for disrespecting or demeaning staff for warnings.

● Every user is responsible for helping keep our community safe. If a user is violating the guidelines, notify a moderator, admin, or bureaucrat on their message wall. Do not engage in misbehavior such as submitting unwarranted reports, or the submitting the same report multiple times.

● Do not use inappropriate language. Using figurative speech, symbols, phrases, or different languages to censor them are also prohibited. Please indicate warnings of profanity used when sharing certain media, such as videos. Words such as "idiot", "damn", "hell", "crap", "stupid", "Jesus Christ", and "dumb" are permitted unless used to demean another user.

● Privacy is very important. Do **NOT** share or ask others for personal information. This includes ages, passwords, addresses, phone numbers, birth certificates, etc. Sharing certain information such as your age is allowed, and is an **optional** choice. Furthermore, do not reveal or search for any personally identifiable information of others (also known as "doxing"). This will result in an infinite block and is subject to further consequences with FANDOM.

● Be respectful to other users and the wiki staff. Do not insult, demean, or harass anyone. Swearing/slang directed at other users is prohibited. Racism, homophobia, sexism, or religious attacks are also prohibited Do not maliciously offend others or discriminate against groups of people. Slurs of any kind will result in a block. Users who are taking part in hate groups or hate speeches that violate the guidelines will be permanently blocked.

● Do not attempt to share, upload, or advertise pornographic material, offensive content, or illegal content. NSFW (inappropriate/suggestive/offensive content) and anything higher than PG-13 is not welcome here.

● Controversial topics, such as religion or politics are prohibited to avoid heated arguments. This wiki is not the place to preach and scream your opinion.

● Do not beg for administrator/bureaucrat/moderator rights. These rights are based off of the user's responsibility and other things. You are allowed request rights, but harassing staff for them will result in a block.

● Do not minimod. This is when a user who is not a moderator/administrator/bureaucrat/rollback/etc. tries to take authority of a staff role they do not acquire.

● Promotion of self harm or harm towards others will result in a permanent block and is subject to further consequences with FANDOM. This includes telling users to "kill themselves" or threatening to harm others. Additionally, all mentions of self harm or suicidal thoughts are prohibited and will result in a **block**. If you have suicidal thoughts, the wiki is **NOT** the place to get help. Seek professional help instead.

● Do not impersonate others for any reason. This means when a user pretends to be someone else with or without malicious intent, and may claim to be a famous person or a user on the wiki.

● Please refrain from engaging in cross-wiki drama. Issues pertaining to other communities, including bans, wiki changes, or conflicts must be handled on the appropriate wiki.

## **The Art Gallery**

The Art Gallery is a place where you can display your wonderful artwork for everyone to see! You can view other peoples' artwork, too! Just make sure that your art is PG. That means no gore, violence, discrimination of anything, etc. Do **not** remove other peoples' drawings without their consent, and **don't** change the description that's under it.

## **Commenting**

● We encourage you to talk with other users, make friends, and keep up to date with club information by asking questions. However, this is completely **optional**.

● Remember to be kind and respectful. Before posting a comment, read it to yourself, and think. *"Is this respectful? Would I be hurt if someone said this to me?"*

● You are allowed to spam, but refrain from doing it too much. For instance, please do not type “Hi hi hi hi hi hi” a million times in the comment section.

## **Editing**

Since we don't want this page to be too long, we decided to include all of the editing rules on a separate page. For further instruction on how to properly edit pages, you may use the editing guide page to help you.

## **Accounts**

● All accounts must abide by the guidelines. If they fail to do so, they will be blocked.

● Sockpuppets will be permanently **blocked**. Sockpuppets are wiki users who are using alternative accounts or anonymous IP addresses to go around a block, impersonating people, or they cause other problems on the wiki. You are allowed to own multiple accounts, just make sure that an admin knows which accounts are yours.

● Accounts used for the purpose of trolling and disruption will be permanently blocked. This wiki is **NOT** the place to annoy others.

● Accounts containing offensive/suggestive usernames, profile photos, user profiles, message wall greetings, or masthead information will be permanently blocked.