Submission Guidelines

To keep everything in order, the following guidelines concerning page submissions have to be followed.

## Fan Characters

### Acceptable Monster Parents

To keep everything crystal clear about what type of Fan Characters are allowed on this Wiki and which aren't, check the following list.

* Any kind of monsters that can be found in mythology, folklore and fairy tales are allowed.
* Some monsters from classic literature are allowed as well.
* Crossover Characters are NOT accepted. The only exception are characters based on fairy tales (e.g. Ever After High characters.)
	+ But you are, of course, free to use them as inspiration for your Fan Character. Just don't state them as parent(s), friend(s), etc.
* Human Characters are NOT accepted. This also includes human characters from fairy tales. However, if your character is a half human half monster hybrid, that's fine.
* [read more]

### Other Creations

Other Fandom Creations, such as fan made schools, are accepted, as long as they follow the above rules.

## Artwork and Images

* All art posted by you on this wiki has to belong to you. [read more] Art specifically drawn for you (eg. requests, commissions or art trade pieces) has to be credited accordingly.
* Art from public domains, such as Wikipedia, is allowed.
* We do not accept recolors, doll-maker or dress-up art. These images will be removed immediately and without any further warnings.
* Traced art / base art is now allowed as long as it has a certain quality, but has to be approved. You can get your work approved. [read more]  Please note that if your traced/base art wasn't approved before you officially uploaded it, and it fails the quality check, that WILL happen eventually, you might get a strike for breaking our rules.

## Page Categorization

Categories are not tags. So the rule of thumb here is to use as few as possible, but as many as necessary. Please also note, that the Creator Category is **JUST your username** that will eventually be linked to your account (or you can create the redirect yourself if you want to help us out :D). Pages that still use categories such as *Username's OC* and *Original Character(s)* are migrated pages that haven't been updated to the Lab's categorization system yet.

Because of the migrated pages causing a lot of confusion about page categorization, we have formulated an additional post on categorization in hopes of clearing up some of that confusion. You can find it **HERE**.

### Character Pages

Every character page should have the following categories:

* Creator (e.g. your wiki username)
* **Characters**
* Gender (e.g. **Females**, **Males**, **Nonbinaries**)

#### Monsters

* Monster Type/Species (e.g. **Vampire,** **Werewolf, Siren,** …Please use the SINGULAR here!) If your FC is a hybrid, please also use the category **Hybrid**.

#### Deities

* Name of the God/dess (e. g. **Zeus, Anubis, Venus, Shiva**...) If your FC is a demigod, please also use the Category **Demigod.**

*Please make sure to "make them monster", as this is a MONSTER High Wiki ;)*

#### Fairy Tales

* Monster Type/Species (e.g. **Fairy, Mermaid, Beast, Witch** ... only fairy tale "monsters" allowed!)
* Name of the Fairy Tale (e. g. **Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan,** ...)

### OPTIONAL categories are

* Sexual Orientation (e.g. **Homosexual, Homoromantic, Heterosexual, Heteroromantic, Bisexual, Biromantic**)
* School Name (if divergent from “Monster High”, e.g. **Nether High**, **Yokai High**, …)
* If your FC isn't a student categorize them accordingly: e.g. **Parents, Teachers, Staff, Pets.**

### Other Pages

#### School Pages

Every school page should have the following categories:

* Creator (e.g. your wiki username)
* **Locations**
* **Schools**
* Location Name (e.g. **Nether High, Yokai High,** ...)

*If you use our tabber to organize your school page with subpages, please only categorize the tabber page!*

#### Text page categories

* Creator (e.g. your wiki username)
* **Fanfictions** or
* **Diaries**

#### Fanon Pages

* Creator (e. g. your wiki username)
* **Fanon**

*If you use our tabber to organize your fanon page with subpages, please only categorize the tabber page!*

### Contest Categories

Contest categories are individual categories created by the host of the respective contest for maintenance purposes and will be asked to be used on the entry pages. But because these categories can get super long and are not really nice to look at, they **will be hidden as soon as the contest is over**. This means that the category is still there but won't show on the pages that it is used on. **Please do not delete these categories from your page(s)** as they keep their purpose after the respective contest is over and are used to archive and list all previous contest entries!