Editing Guidelines

**This page is dedicated for everyone who has no experience in editing, until the writers of the script of the Pinkpedia Wiki.**

This guideline is set to organize editing. There are two goals for establishing this guideline. Their goal is to establish basic critiques and advanced administration tools.

Guidelines provide common practice and safety for your concern, as Editing Guidelines may also apply to the Rules, For the second goal, the editor's goal is to make sure that the wiki easier for readers and editors alike.

It is recommended that new users must join in to ensure that they don't break any guidelines or policies.

## HOPE Wiki

The user should know that this will apply to the HOPE Wiki as well, you can redirect to HOPE's Guidelines here:
Guidelines Guidelines for HOPE

## General rules and Guidelines

* You must be at least 13 years old or older to contribute to this wiki.
* Do not vandalize any pages.
* Do not make any troll edits.
* Do not create spam articles.
* Do not add pages to categories that they do not belong to.
* Do not abuse multiple accounts.
* Try not to use profane language as much as you can on the page comment section or on other places of the Wiki.
* Avoid creating or causing wiki dramas.
* Do not harass or bully other users.
* Please do not spoil livestreams or new Episodes until 72 hours of their creation.
* We are only creating official content so do not add any fanmade stuff into Wiki.
* Before you add information to any page, make sure that the information is correct.
* Do not add additional categories to your blog posts.
* Blog posts that are too short and/or deemed nonsensical are subject to deletion or editing.
* Discussion within the blog comments must relate to the content found within the blog. Off-topic comments are subject to deletion.
* You are not allowed to say negative things about other users on your profile.
* Only staff members may have the staff category on their profiles.
* Do not edit another user's profile page without their approval, if a user page has content that is against the rules, notify a moderator/administrator to fix it.
* Do not remove admin/moderator warning messages from your message wall.
* Violation of personal privacy will result in a ban.
* Linking to blatantly NSFW content will result in an instantaneous ban. Linking to pornography, gore, anything that is really unseemly, and graphic discussion is absolutely forbidden. Slight innuendos and jokes are allowed.

### Information adding

All information to this wiki must be valid. Content-based on assumptions will be deleted, because this will not provide the reader with standard quality-information.

### Message Wall

Any user can provide their own guidelines but it must link to the policy and/or Guidelines. (Staff and Bureaucrats don't count)

### Comments

Comments can lead to be as free and easy, but will still apply to the policy and Guidelines, Also one who is creating a comment must relate to the comments if they want to talk about it, if not replying to someone else. If someone wants to reply to a person, they must use the reply button.

## Spam

This is the overview of the guidelines surrounding spam. This isn't allowed on the wiki.

Wiki-wide, this is the definition:

* Saying random things without a legitimate reason.
* Extremely long comments with the use of spacing that don't actually say anything. (the same phrase repeated over and over again/is completely blank)
* Posting images that are unrelated to the subject.
	+ Posting morbid or Gruesome images without warning are also spam.

### Categories

Categories that are added without providing a benefit in the organization of articles is spam. It is to be avoided, along with stuff like:

* Pointless categories.
* Duplicate categories. (two or more for the same thing)
* Single-Article categories.

## Staff Members

Staff Members have the right to be the guardians of the Wiki, whether permanent or not, instead of being blocked, they'll lose their rights to be a staff.

### Vandalism

Vandalism is a severe offense and could lead to a ban or demoting staff.

* Removing large amounts of stuff for no reason.
	+ This includes blanking the pages.
* Changing or removing the facts of an Article.
* Trolling/Ruining pages