Rules

**Rules**

These are general guidelines to what rules you must follow while on this wiki. Note that, upon staff discretion, you may be blocked for something that is not on this list, so long it is severe enough to warrant a block.

There are three main tiers of rules. The first one requires a warning, the second one is a limited time block while the third is an instant permanent block or a temporary block until the user meets the listed requirements. Block times are generally in the time frame indicated, though repeat offenders (in a short period of time) may see a greater block time.

Getting blocked **eight** times for Tier II or temporary Tier III rules will result in a permanent block.

Trying to make loopholes or bypassing the rules will result in an appropriate action.

You can appeal your block by contacting the Wiki Staff that blocked you through message walls or Discord. For Discord, all the Wiki Staff can be found in the official PvP Legacy Discord Server.

The **Rules** were last revised on 23 March 2023.

**Tier One Block Rules**
Breaking these rules will result in a warning, followed by a block (1-7 days) if the same rule is broken again (within a month).

* **Misuse of Article**: Creating a page for the wrong purpose, for example, suggestions or reporting bugs.
Use the discussions for ideas, and if needed, your own user blogs for personal articles uses.
* **Posting Large Images**: Posting an image that takes up a large portion of the page.
Remember to check how big it will appear on the page before posting it. Restrict it.
* **Adding useless/false information**: Adding joke tips/trivia to pages.
Make sure what you are placing is useful and truthful. For suggestions, use discussions instead.
If there is clear intent of vandalism, then this rule is ignored and a straight block is used.
* **Not reading the Manual of Style**: Self-explanatory
Genuine mistakes are not punishable. However, if there is a clear article within the Manual of Style that clearly forbids an editing style, then the user is eligible to receive a warning. Two warnings are required; first in the next edit's summary then a message wall warning.
* **Deleting Warnings**: Deleting warnings posted by a Wiki Staff from your message wall, regardless of how much time has passed since it was posted.
* **Spamming**: Excessive repetition of a message, or performing an action designated to disrupt communication or take up space. Examples include:
Sending the same message randomly to people, or simply reposting the same message over and over.
Flooding a page, post or comment with large amounts of irrelevant or unnecessary text or images. This includes copypastas.
Flooding a page, post, comment or message with an unnecessarily huge gap of blank space.
Creating multiple discussion posts with little to no effort, with no intent to start constructive feedback or discussion.
Creating multiple replies or posts that can easily be edited into one. This action consumes an unnecessary amount of discussion space and also clogs the user's activity feed.
Encouraging other to spam or copy and paste messages onto different posts or pages is not allowed either.
Mass-upvoting posts or comments indiscriminately with the sole intent of flooding another user's notification bar.
* **Low Effort Posts**: Creating an unnecessary, low effort post that does not contribute to the discussions and/or is irrelevant.
Creation of such a post will lead to its deletion, continuous creation of low effort posts will result in a warning and then a block.
* **Provocative Topics**: Aggressively discussing about topics that have the potential to become toxic.
This includes (but not limited to) things such as politics, religion or sensitive topics.
Do not create or encourage any kind of drama.
* **Deliberate Necroposting**: Intentionally necroposting for the sole purpose of aggravating people is not allowed
Accidentally posting on a post that has been inactive for multiple weeks is not punishable.
* **Impersonation**: Impersonating other users, famous people or people that are known in the PvP Legacy community.
If your username is trying to impersonate someone, you will be asked to change it. Failure to do so will result in a indefinite block until you change it.
* **Plagiarism**: Taking someone else's work, such as art, idea, story or strategy and claiming it as yours.
Posting someone else's work with credit is usually not allowed either.
* **Leaking Classified Information**: Leaking anything that only developers or a select group of people should know. This does not include official leaks from official sources (like Twitter or the announcement channel on Discord).
Leaking what may be in the next update is an instant ban, while leaking what secret locations are will result in a warn then a ban, **UNLESS YOU HAVE PERMISSION FROM A MAIN DEVELOPER**.
If you are involved in exploits which reveals classified content, implicitly or not, **this is a permanent block**, with your information being handed over to the developers. This applies to offsite links (like YouTube).
* **Spam Edits**: Creating multiple unproductive edits to pages, generally with the intent to increase the user's edit count.
An example of this would be removing a single character from the page, re-adding it, and repeating this multiple times.
* **Edit Conflicts**: Editing pages to a past revision multiple times after they have been reverted.
Administrators and Wiki Moderators have the final say on whether information put onto a page is progressive or factual. If a revision is reverted by a moderator, it must not be reverted to said revision.
If you think there was a mistake in the revision, you can inform another moderator and state your reasons why.
You will get a warning upon your third revision.
* **Speaking Different Languages**: This is an English-speaking wiki only. Continuing to speak in other languages after you have been asked to stop will result in a warning and then a block.

**Tier Two Block Rules**
Breaking these rules will result in an instant block for the specified time.

* **Toxicity and Harassment**: Inciting action or behavior to stir up drama. **[1 week - 1 month]**
Do not harass or discriminate against anyone or any groups (ex: furries, weeaboos, LGBTQ+, autistics, etc) or promote a discriminatory message using any form of media.
Do not use over exaggerations or stereotypes of a user's behavior to ridicule or revile a user.
Do not encourage hate speech.
Do not tell other users to kill themselves, regardless if it was a joke or not.
Do not flame or dox (leak personal information) anyone.
* **Slurs**: Racist, homophobic, or derogatory terms are not allowed, even if they are not directed at someone. **[2 weeks - 1 month]**
* **Vandalism**: Deliberate act to disrupt wiki pages, posting obscene or unrelated content. **[2 weeks - 1 month]**
New and alt accounts that perform vandalism will be permanently blocked.
When editing a profile page of another user, make sure you have permission from them that allows you to edit it. Additionally, make sure to follow any additional rules listed by them, if there are any. Otherwise, you will be blocked for vandalism.
* **Leaking Classified Information**: Leaking anything that only developers or a select group of people should know. This does not include official leaks from official sources (like Twitter or the announcement channel on Discord).
Leaking what may be in the next update is an instant ban, while leaking what secret locations are will result in a warn then a ban, **UNLESS YOU HAVE PERMISSION FROM A MAIN DEVELOPER**.
If you are involved in exploits which reveals classified content, implicitly or not, **this is a permanent block**, with your information being handed over to the developers. This applies to offsite links (like YouTube).
* **Scamming**: Posting scam links or trying to recruit people into a dishonest scheme. **[1 month]**
* **Fandom Crashers**: Do not post anything that would crash Fandom on any device. **[1 month]**

**Tier Three Block Rules**
Breaking these rules will either result in an instant permanent block or a temporary block until the user meets the listed requirements.

* **Malicious Offsite Links**: Posting an offsite link whose content regards potentially harmful hacking activity or contains malicious trojan viruses.
* **Raiding Wiki**: Using multiple accounts to spam comments or vandalize pages.
New and alt accounts that perform vandalism will be considered raiding.
* **NSFW**: Posting images and pictures that can be considered 18+ or not for public consumption.
NSFW includes gore, pornography and shock content.
Posting links that direct users to NSFW content is also not allowed.
* **Underage User**: You must be 13+ to have an account on FANDOM, or 16+ if you are in the EEA (excluding the United Kingdom) or California. The United Kingdom follows the same age regulations as anywhere in the world that is not the EEA or California.
Note that people who are <13 years of age can still browse the wiki.
This is a temporary block until the user meets the required age.
* **Inappropriate Username or Profile Picture**: Having a username or profile picture that breaks any rules.
This is a temporary block until the offending item has been changed.
* **Alternative or Troll Account**: Using an alternative account to bypass a block.
Alternative accounts are still allowed, as long as they are not used to break the rules.