GaleemDharkon Wiki/Wiki rules

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Below are the rules you must follow:

## General rules

1. **Keep it civil**: Do not make personal attacks on other people. If you need to criticize another user’s argument, do so without attacking them as a person. Do not use bigoted language, including slurs which degrade another person or group of people based on gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, etc. **Please do not use inappropriate or offensive language** (this *includes* **inappropriate acronyms** and **curse/swear words**) on this wiki, as the GaleemDharkon series is meant for younger audiences, especially when compared to the SMG4 series. **Keep things PG**.
	* Please be aware that censorship of curse language in the form of: (a. replacing a vowel with the apostrophe (\*) symbol, (2. replacing a vowel with a number, along with any similar variation, WILL count as inappropriate language. This means that censorship of curse language is not enough, and that you must completely refrain from using ANY sort of inappropriate language in general.
	* Although it's best to share feedback directly to the creator of an episode, you may still share *constructive* critisism, your opinions, and thoughts. Just make sure to be respectful when sharing what you feel about an episode or topic.
2. **Be a productive member of the wiki**: Contribute to the wiki in line with the established processes and conventions. Need help? Ask an administrator! Disrupting the wiki with “edit warring” over differing opinions of a topic with another user or group of users is not productive.
3. **Do not engage in excessive self-promotion**: The wiki is a collaborative community resource for the topic at hand. It is NOT a free place to advertise your related website, YouTube channel, blog, social media account, scratch projects, etc. Have a question about whether your link would be welcome? Ask an administrator such as GaleemDharkon! But you may advertise your websites, YouTube channels, or wikis on your user page. Social media links are not permitted in this wiki.
4. **Do not harass other users**: If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their wall, respect their wishes. It is their wall.
5. When you make an opinion, **please make sure that it is respectful towards others.** This doesn't mean you CAN'T have an opinion. It just simply means that if you have a negative opinion of someone, please keep it to yourself.
6. **Do follow community guidelines for formatting**: When a community has established formatting, it’s important to adhere to that, especially when spoiler content is involved.
7. **Do not reveal yours or anyone's personal info.**
8. **Please do not treat the wiki as a chat room** **or a joke**, as it is not intended to be that.
9. **Do not share links to unmoderated chat/sites** or send codes to unmoderated chat/sites.
10. **Sockpuppetry is NOT allowed.** Do not create another account to pretend to be a different individual intending to gang up, harrass, or do anything with a malicious intent. This will automatically lead to the banning of your alts AND main account.
11. **Do not commit crimes.**

## Discuss

1. **Don't spam**: This one is easy. Do not spam external links or unnecessary content in discuss. Additionally, please refrain from replying to any posts that have not had a response within a year; that is considered necroposting.
2. **Keep things friendly**: Do not use inappropriate language, and do not intentionally start an arguement. When disagreeing to opinions, please be respectful to maintain a happy and cheerful community.
3. **Make sure to categorize posts properly**. Don't worry though, if you put your post in the wrong category, a mod will happily change it and you won't get in trouble. :)
4. **You can post things from unmoderated chats as long as you don't promote them,** name them, or in any way display anything inappropriate.

## User pages

Feel free to add to your userpage! It's always awesome to have a new contributor to the wiki! Just follow these rules:

1. **Please do not insert any harmful language or inappropriate content into your user page or other user pages**
2. **Do not spam external or inappropriate links on your user page.**
3. **Refrain from editing other people's user pages without permission.** You can do it if you are removing inappropriate content, however.
	* Be aware that an admin CAN edit your userpage for something reasonable, such as moderation or the addition of top user navigations.

If you do remove inappropriate content from a user page, please report the innappropriate content to an admin.

## Alternate accounts

You can use alternate accounts on this wiki as long as you are not using them to break any rules or cause harm.

## Editing pages

Editing pages is the main goal! Adding information is always helpful! Just follow these rules:

1. **Please do not insert false information into pages**. Inferences or predictions are fine, however. Just make sure that there is some uncertainty in the prediction, as it may cause people to believe that what you think might happen is truly what happened.
2. **Do not blank out entire pages**. Duh, that does the complete opposite of help.
3. **Do not use articles for conversations**. Message walls exist for a reason.
4. **Don't vandalize in general**. Bottom text.
5. **Do not create unnecessary pages.** Click to insert text
6. **Do not gossip** about people or spread rumors. Only include information about someone if they are comfortable with it, and if it is something positive, and nothing insulting. When writing controversy sections about episodes, please do not name anyone or any group specifically, but instead refer to the general public. If it requires any details, please keep the details as vague as possible to prevent any assumptions of involvement of specific people or groups.
7. **When editing a page about a person**, please do not add any information about their personal life. Only list their awesome contributions and support to the creation of the GaleemDharkon series.
8. **Please refrain from using opinions or being biased when making edits and adding info.** Please keep the pages as factual as possible.
9. **Do NOT PLAGIARIZE**. When adding information, make sure that it is written in your own words, and not copied over from somewhere else. If you ever spot plagiarism, please add the following template to the page:

This page contains plagiarized content!   PLEASE REMOVE ALL PLAGIARIZED TEXT, AND REPLACE THEM WITH PARAGRAPHS CONTAINING INFORMATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS, NOT COPIED OVER FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
### Minor edits

Minor edits should be marked on edits that do not change the information about the topic of the page. For example, if you fix a spelling/grammatical error or add a notice template, you should mark the edit as minor.

### Templates

1. Please do not create **unnecessary templates**.
2. Do not add a template to a page if **it is not necessary**.

#### What if I don't wanna be mentioned in pages?

If you are a contributor to the GaleemDharkon series, just contact an admin and tell them. Your username will be removed from as many pages as possible, and you will likely be referred to as gdpr0000064 if necessary.

## Images

1. When adding images to the wiki, please **fill out image licensing**. You can always fill it out later though. It is possible that someone may fill out licensing for you later, however you should *not* rely on that.
2. **Do not upload inappropriate images**. Duh.
3. **Unrelated images are discouraged**, however you can add them to your userpages. Please only upload an image if it is going to be used somewhere.

## Blogs

Just like when you make discussion posts, keep things friendly and do not use inappropriate language. Blogs can be used for anything, such as sharing episode ideas. Please do not write any spam or unnecessary blogs.

## Blooket policy

You **may** link to live blooket games, but before you do so you must check with an admin. Simply provide a link to the blooket set, and if the admin approves that set, then you may share a live link with other people in this wiki. Additionally, please check out the approved blooket sets list. You may post blooket game links in this blog post, however it is not a requirement.

If you are banned, please do not create a new account or attempt to **ban evade**. Retaliation against moderation actions will only make your ban times longer. Additionally, you should not hijack another person's account in order to evade a ban.

## See also:

* Rules for admins and mods
* User blog:GaleemDharkon/I've made an important decision.

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