Wiki Rules

# Wiki Rules & Guidelines

## General Wiki Rules

### No shitposting / trolling

While jokes and memes are allowed, articles must be serious and real reflections of the server's happenings and lore.

### No erasing others' perspective

What happens in game will obviously be political, so people will want to change others' stories to fit their own narratives. This is not an excuse to rewrite others' sides, though.

### Do not vandalize wiki pages

This can be anything from sticking your name on top to removing the entire page. Do not remove content from pages unnecessarily. Doing so will result in your account being blocked from editing the wiki.

If this occurs you can open a support ticket and either contest your ban or appeal it

### No intentionally writing false information

If something is wrong, you may change the page so that the wrong portion is stated as how one side views it, and you may give a counter view alongside it. As long as they're weighted realistically with how the server views the narrative.

### Do not use direct references to irl personalities or organizations

While we all use real life influences, we do not want to muddy the waters of our lore. Please refrain from any verbatim copies or direct references to irl religions, place names or controversial historical organisations. This rule is intended to clearly distinguish between what is an influence and what is a reference.

Articles and names that have been ingratiated into the server that violate this guideline will be decided on a case by case basis as well. Commonly known English modern names are less eligible to remain per this guideline than historical or other-language names, though it is ultimately the wiki moderator's decision.

### Check for existing categories before creating a new one

When adding a page to a category, if the category you intend to add the page to does not exist (IE- it doesn't suggest it in a dropdown box), use synonyms of the same and similar things in game before creating a new category. This keeps the categories organised and does not confuse them.

### Do not make major changes without prior discussion

The wiki gods can be cruel sometimes and just straight up break 20 links and 4 articles just because someone didn't like the name of an article and move it so it can be renamed. This is the worst thing you can do on the wiki except for vandalism.

## Wiki Guidelines

### Be objective

Ideally, we'd want to be able to write a textbook about the history and lore of Elysium.

### Don't whitewash events

Even the embarrassing, mean spirited, and wrongful actions taken by players are a part of the history, and we don't want to whitewash the story.

### Add pages to appropriate categories

The most important categories are Towns, Nations, Players, Characters, History, Lore.

### Do not create a blank page

If you plan on adding to it later, make it later. All blank pages will be removed.

### Originality

With the exceptions of certain fantasy tropes (Ie: Dragons, Elves, Human, Orcs) it is requested that you keep your pages entirely original. We will not tolerate: Characters, Races, Nations, or Factions plagiarised from real world media this includes; Well known books, movies, television or popular culture. Please don’t plagiarize.

### Do not redlink- don't link to a page that doesn't exist yet

The reason for this is that many people redlink to the same thing, but the redlinks call this same thing by different names. We then get many pages of different names on the same in-game object.

### Blanking Page

Do not blank pages of other users. If you wish for their page to be deleted, mark it with the “delete” template and explain your reasoning in the talk section instead. All pages blanked by its original author that have not been edited by other users and are not referenced in other articles will be deleted on sight by the wiki moderation. Blanking pages of other users will result in being blocked from editing the wiki.

## Formatting Guidelines

### Page Names

* Only create articles in the main namespace.
* Do not start pagenames with an article, except where strictly necessary.
* Keep pagenames as short as possible. Adjust displaytitles when appropriate.
* Do not use special characters or punctuation in pagenames.
* Do not use bracketed text in pagenames, except when distinguishing different entities of the same name.
* Do not leave behind redirects for orphaned pages when moving a page.

### Headings

* Do not use headings identical to the article’s name.
* Do not use level one headings except to indicate the beginning of in-universe literature.
* Omit headings deeper than level four.
* Remain consistent with heading levels. When using subheadings, always use the next deeper heading level.
* Do not use vague headings. Be concise and descriptive.
* Capitalise the first word in each heading. Otherwise, general rules of capitalisation apply.
* Do not use links in headings.
* Do not use punctuation in headings.
* Omit headings without body text.
* Do not use more than one line-break when putting a subheading below a heading without body text.
* Do not boldface, underline or italicise headings.

### Breaks

* Do not put more than a single line break after a section.
* Do not put html breaks when also putting line breaks.
* Put html breaks inside infoboxes.

### Infoboxes

* Do not create redundant infobox templates.
* Create non-transcludable infoboxes for use in a single article.
* Do not fill in parameters that you aren’t using.

### Categories

* Do not put text in category pages.
* Do not add new categories for single pages.
* Do not add irrelevant, redundant or unfitting categories to pages.
* Only add subcategories when appropriate.
* Always use the plural for categories, except when non-applicable.

### Images

* Do not use the same image multiple times in one article.
* Do not use more than one image per section.
* Put images not immediately relevant to a section into a gallery at the bottom of the article.

### Author’s Notes

* Do not put author’s notes as visible body text.
* Always put author’s notes as comments.
* Mark articles as Work in progress using the WIP template.

### Links

* Do not link to articles that do not exist.
* Do not link to the same article more than once in the body text.
* Do not put multiple links behind one another.
* Do not link to disambiguation pages.
* Do not link to external web pages unnecessarily.

## Rule Exemptions

Certain pages may be exempted from certain wiki rules. This may be done by Wiki Leadership or Server Ownership/Senior Administration. Pages that are exempt from Wiki Rules will be correctly marked with the exempt template. Exemptions are done on a case by case basis due to previous rulings made by ownership excluding pages from rules due to age, server impact or relevancy.