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There are very few policies which apply across all of Wikia and they can be found on the Central Wikia in the policy category page. The policies specific to the **Encyclopedia SpongeBobia** as well as the explanation of our community first approach are found below.

## How to Be Part of This Community

Our community means everything to us, so if you are granted some of Wikia tools, you need to behave in a way that fits them if you would like to be part of this community. To help you with that goal, below are guidelines that implements the first element of our community first approach: "mentor mindset". The mentor mindset means that you are there to support the growth of people who have lesser Wikia tools than you have.

### Editing User Roles

* **Regular User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}
* **Rollback User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}
* **Assistant User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}
* **Administrator User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}
* **Bureaucrat User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}

### Social User Roles

* **Regular User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}
* **Chat Moderator User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}
* **Thread Moderator User** - {mentor mindset regarding this user role}

## This Community and its Rules

As any community, this community must have its rules and the rules of this community should be followed, which brings us to the second element of our community first approach. You may not follow some rule if you think that following that rule will threaten well-being of community or your well-being, since you are also part of community, but there still can be consequences. If some user thinks you went too far and is unable to on peaceful matters resolve it with you, that user is allowed to start a conflict resolution discussion.

The conflict resolution discussion is the third and final element of our community first approach. If some user is unable to on peaceful matters resolve an issue that user had with you, that user can start conflict resolution discussion where everyone will give their opinion on the matter and then bureaucrats will consider everyone's opinion and conclude what should be done. However, if it comes to conflict resolution discussion then both users in conflict are not protected and they can both be concluded to have consequences for not being able to resolve issue on peaceful matter. That is not because we do not like to resolve your conflicts, it is because we for the sake of other users on the wiki do not want to have conflicts on the wiki.

About the rules itself, the rules are broken down into articles, which categorize a particular policy category and are designated by Roman numerals: I, II, III, etc. For organizational purposes, each article is broken down into sections designated by capital letters: A, B, C, etc. For further organizational purposes, sections may be divided into a clauses designated by numbers: 1, 2, 3, etc. and clauses may be divided further: a, b, c, etc. and i, ii, iii, etc.

*This is where current rules of the Encyclopedia SpongeBobia go.*

## Where to Go from Here

If you are not sure how to proceed, do not worry. There is the procedures page that explains how we do many things that we do on this wiki like discussions for instance and there is the guidelines page that presents the Manual of Style for the wiki in regards to content formatting, templates, etc.