Rules for the Wiki

## Introduction

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The Oudated Pastas Wiki (OPW) is for users to share old and new versions of their
creepypasta characters. To ensure we keep this wiki friendly to everyone, make
sure to follow the rules.

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## Community policy

* **Be respectful-** We all came from somewhere, we've all had rough beginnings. Please don't mock people for their old work, and especially don't bully people for their current work.
* **Be helpful-** When someone is asking for criticism, ***be constructive***! Of course include what doesn't work with the story or character, but sometimes you just need to let them know what does work so thet can keep it in mind for other stories or characters.
* **No harassment-** No one enjoys being annoyed or harassed, keep it off of the wiki. ***If you are found to be harassing someone, it will earn you either a temporary or permanent block from the wiki depending on the severity.***
* **No spamming-** Don't make blog posts with only one word, or repeatedly post the same content. It's annoying and serves no purpose. Repeated spamming will earn you a one week block.
* **No trolling-** We know it's rather common for people to troll it comes to bad creepypasta. We don't tolerate that, and by extension we don't tolerate trolling other users.

## Page guidelines

* Use proper grammar where applicable. This won't apply to old stories that have already been written. This isn't anywhere near a punishable offense, but if you want more enagement with your work you always want to use proper English.
* Do not under any circumstances make one page for a character and a story. Feel free to get descriptive with your character's backstory if you choose to write one, but don't make it a story.
* **Do not post pages for newly created characters or stories.** This wiki is about improving on something old. So unless you've created something new recently but redesigned it, post them to a different wiki. Continued failure to follow this rule will earn you a week long block.
* **Don't post a page for a character with little info, unless they're an old character you either lost the info to or didn't write much to begin with.** Even in this case, make an attempt to flesh out the page, including things like why you created them, and your plans for them in the future.
* ***No trollpastas or troll stories***, unless you've already created something **genuine** out of it. Don't have anything yet but want feedback? Use blogposts for that, and provide links to your work.
* Leave a link to your old character or story if you're sharing an improved version. If you don't want to link it, at least leave a mention anywhere on the page about who the character used to be, or the title of the old story.
* Share images of your character and use infoboxes. Don't have any artwork of your character? I'll draw you a free headshot of your character, or you can use dress up games (as long as you give credit). Visit my Deviantart page  for examples of my artwork.
* **Only share characters or stories that you made! Period.**

## List of categories

These are the current list of categories you can apply to your pages. Contact me or any staff member for suggestions, **and do not create your own categories.**

* Old Stories
* Old Creepypastas
* New Stories
* New Creepypastas
* Requesting Advice

All categories that have been suggested will not appear on the popular pages tab, unless 60% of users agree it should go there. We will keep this list here updated.

## And lastly

Always follow the guidelines from the Fandom wiki, and have fun!