Rules

**This is a policy page. If you don't have staff privileges, please do not edit or rollback this article. Contact an admin to have your suggestions noticed if you wish to have the rules here changed.***Remember to keep looking here to check changes on policy pages. Reread them often so you don't break any of these rules!*
Thanks! ~Staff of the EMFARPG Game Wiki Community

These rules are for the wiki's sake and for everyone's safety. Please do not break these rules otherwise you will be forbidden from editing and/or commenting, and a possible Blocking.

## Main Rules

These rules must be followed no matter what circumstances.

* **"I did not read the rules" is not an excuse.**
* Please don't request codes of any kind.
* You will be chastised for breaking the rules!
* Please, no impersonation of any other users or people in real life.
* Please don't advertise on this wiki unless with staff permission.
* Respect everyone as though you would respect other children. This site is child-friendly.
* Do not spam, vandalize, hack, or troll on the wiki, or any of the relating websites to this site.
	+ Spamming is when you have to comment on something that's useless, repetitive, short, or has a simple opinion (not like an explanation. You would need to elongate your opinion on a comment for it to count!).
	+ Vandalism is simply anything that is disrespectful.
	+ Hacking is using code for an evil purpose.
	+ Trolling, well you get the idea, but it is disrespect in any way towards anything existent online.
* Add bias/opinion only on your User Profile, Discussions, Live Chat, Forums, and Message Walls.
* Do not give out personal information, this is dangerous.

## Editing

* Ask a SYSOP permission to upload an article, image, gif, icon, or video first. Without permission, it is considered vandalism.
* Edit only your own profile, unless you are a staff member.
* Have full "right judgement" when submitting your edit, as anything from there can be purged and punished.
* Fix all typos you see.
* Only add necessary categories to articles.
* Only add blue-colored links to articles.
* Only add clean, transparent-background images (unless full-screen-screenshots) to articles.
* Only add red links with permission of a staff member.
* See more in the Manual of Style for more information, a link to it is below on this page.

## Image Rules

* Keep them child-friendly.
* Absolutely no art theft! Images that aren't yours shouldn't be posted unless for the good of the wiki.
* All images here that you post become property of FANDOM.

## EMFARPG Game Wiki Roles and Guidelines

### Rollbacks

* Rollbacks have the ability to instantly undo edits.
* When using this right, contact an administrator (unless you are one) if a big edit has been made or there's a problem you need help with for your role.
* If someone made a null edit, PLEASE revert it/undo it using your power. Give the user a message warning.
* You have permission to give other users warnings via message walls about the following topics:
	+ Null edits, only adding or deleting spaces or doing nothing to a page.

### Chat/Discussion Moderators

* Chat and Discussion Moderators are able to delete comments and ban regular users from chat.
* Do not delete comments just because they are contrary to your beliefs.
* Unless they absolutely need to be deleted, do not delete them. More comments make the wiki seem friendly, and not like a deserted wasteland.
* You have permission to give other users warnings via message walls about the following topics:
	+ Severe spam, using repeated spam or spam for harshness.
	+ Disobedient to Commentary Rules, if there's commentary rules a user doesn't follow, warn them.
	+ Message farming, or simply and randomly landing a message to another user to intentionally earn an achievement badge.
	+ Blog farming, or adding blogs that have uselessness or are renegades to the rules.

### Sysops

* Sysops are Content Moderators, Administrators, and Bureaucrats.
* When starting big projects, notify at least half of the staff (currently just tell at least three other staff members).
	+ If they do not wish for the project to continue, do not continue with it.
* Do not change the wiki theme without permission of our bureaucrat.
* You have the right to warn others about anything if they disobey the rules.

### Bureaucrats

* Bureaucrats are the highest rank on a wiki, excluding FANDOM Staff.
* This applies to the bureaucrats, and these laws still are unable to change, even though their bureaucrat ancestors and predecessors have defied them.

## Privacy Policy

*Please see Central Wikia Privacy Policy. We abide by THEIR rules. This also belongs as a snippet of **Rules**.*

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Date of Last Revision: July, 2017

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#### Sharing Your Information

Wikia, Inc. only shares your information with others in the following circumstances:

1. As described above
2. With our subsidiaries and affiliated companies, contractors, and vendors. We require these parties to process your information in compliance with this policy.
3. As required by law enforcement agencies
4. As we, in our sole judgment, deem necessary to investigate a breach of security

If the Company becomes involved in a merger or acquisition or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice to you, via an update to this policy, of any personal information to be transferred and/or subject to a different policy.

We may also share with third parties aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of new user registrations over a specific time period or the number of users who edited a particular community.

## Maintenance Category Help

There are a group of categories reserved for the use of making the articles with them better in specific ways. There are currently many, but with the power of our strong and strengthening community, these maintenance categories should be deleted from articles that are helped out and no longer deserve the categories.

## Footnotes

Thank you for reading this page. If you have any questions or comments on this page, contact a staff member of this wiki. If you comment here, you are unlikely to receive a reply for a long time.