Wiki Rules & Blocking Policy

## Introduction

Welcome to the official Annihilation: Pioneers of Tomorrow 1st Edition Wiki & Handbook. This page details our rules and blocking policies. Please make sure to abide by these rules, and if you have any questions, contact the administrator.

## Basic 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 also refrain from general rudeness, judgmental terms in edit summaries, especially when it comes to undoing edits, and belittling other users due to their writing style, or what they choose to include.
2. **Do not harass other users:** If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their talk page, respect their wishes. It is their talk page
3. **Follow the community guidelines for formatting:** When as community has established formatting, it's important that you adhere to that. Pay attention to the overall Wiki style and edit the content according to it.

All users are required abide by Fandom's Terms of Use and the additional guidelines found there. This also includes the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule stating that users must be 13 years of age (or 16 years of age for California and the European Economic Area) to be online.

## Blocking/Banning

The following explains the blocking procedures performed by the administrators and block lengths. Blocks may only be issued for violations of the stated rules of the Wiki or Fandom's Terms of Use. Keep in mind the block lengths are merely suggestions, and not concrete ban lengths as admins reserve the right to ban a user for a specific length given the context of the ban.

### Grounds for blocking

1. **Vandalism** - Vandalism is defined as any bad-faith edit with the intent to disrupt Wiki articles or purposely damage their credibility, or adding fake edits on purpose. Those who are found guilty of vandalism may be blocked for one (1) week or more. If they continue to do so, the ban will be extended.
2. **Spam** - Posting irrelevant spam links in articles, making bad faith edits that make no sense whatsoever, or creating useless articles are grounds for a short-term ban. Those who are found guilty of spam may be blocked for one (1) week or more. If they continue to do so, the ban will be extended.
3. **Inappropriate account names** - If there is a slur used in someone's name, or in general an inappropriate username in terms of rudeness / personal attacks, this is grounds for an immediate, no-warning infinite block.
4. **Disruption** - Users who purposely join the Wiki just to cause chaos will be blocked permanently. Those who are found guilty of disruption may be blocked for one (1) week or more. If they continue to do so, the ban will be extended.
5. **Personal attacks** - If any user is caught purposely attacking a user, insulting them, or being rude continuously, a ban will be issued to them. It will be up to the admin who is distributing the block to decide the length.
6. **COPPA violation** - As stated previously, all users are required abide by Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule stating that users must be 13 years of age (or 16 years of age for California and the European Economic Area) to be online. While no member shall ever ask for personal information, if any user willingly and without prompting discloses they are underage, they will be banned until they are of age. This is either 13 or 16 years of age depending on their geographical location, but the default will be 13 years old.
7. **Safety of the community** - Administrators can block a user if they are a danger to the community/communities. Examples include predatory behaviour and outside Wiki behaviour such as the Discord.

## Page protection

Page protection is a technical feature in the MediaWiki software that enables administrators to restrict who can edit, move, or create a particular page. Although the nature of a Wiki is that most pages are not open to editing by all since it is necessary to protect certain pages for various reasons.

 Semi-protected
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