Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective Wiki:Policies

Welcome to **Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective Wiki**! In order to maintain order and ensure uniformity, there are certain **policies** which have to be followed by *every* editor. The breaking of these rules will either lead to a warning or block.

For policies which apply to every wiki, please refer to Wikia:Category:Policy.

If you have any questions regarding these policies, contact an administrator.

## General

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.
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, etc. Have a question about whether your link would be welcome? Ask an administrator!
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. **Do follow community guidelines for formatting:** When a community has established formatting, it is important to adhere to that, especially when spoiler content is involved.

## Image policies

**This wiki does not accept any images in .jpg/.jpeg format.** Instead, every image has to be in .png format. The reason for that is that, .png is a "lossless format" .jpg is a "lossy format." This means that images in .png format, generally, have a better quality than images in .jpg format.

**Images uploaded in .jpg format will be quickly deleted and replaced with a .png version.**

GIFs should not be used in mainspace articles but can be added to user pages and blog posts.

### Official/fanart

**This wiki only allows official art in mainspace articles.** Thus, only art from Akira Amano is permitted. If she releases art which is not part of the manga proper but still belongs to *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective*, e.g., sketches or illustrations from artbooks, those images will either go on her image gallery page (e.g. sketches) or on the pages of the respective artbook.

The only pieces of official art that should *not* be added to the wiki are the unlockable bonus sketches. *Only* if they become unobtainable by entering the correct answer in the site anymore, they may be be uploaded to the wiki.

Fanart related to *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* and images unrelated to it, as long as they do not violate other image or general wiki rules, may only be added to user profile pages, discussions, and such. These images have to be put in the Category:User images.

### Naming rules

Every image has to possess a proper, clear, concise, and descriptive name. Images whose name is simply gibberish or are made of long strings of numbers will be deleted and, if needed, replaced.

* **Volume covers:** Volume [volume number].png
* **Volume bonuses:** V[volume number] [description of the kind of bonus].png

Example: Volume 1.png or V1 Back cover.png
* **Chapter covers:** Chapter [chapter number].png
* **Chapter images:** Ch[chapter number] [a brief description of the picture; can just be the name of a character on it].png

Example: Chapter 1.png; Ch1 Totomaru.png or Ch1 Ron drinks brown sugar syrup.png
* **Episode title cards:** Ep[episode number] Title card.png
* **Episode images:** Ep[episode number] [a brief description of the picture; can just be the name of a character on it].png

Example: Ep1 Title card.png; Ep1 Totomaru.png or Ep1 Ron compels the barber.png
* **General *RKDD* images:** RKDD [a brief description of the picture].png

Example: RKDD Release date announcement.png
* **For images sorted into the Category:User images:** [Your user name] [a brief description of the picture].png
* Any other images should be given a proper name as well.

### Other rules

* Images are not allowed to contain pornographic, offensive, inappropriate, gory, and/or explicit content. Uploading such an image will result in the immediate deletion of it and a warning.
* Uploaded images which have not found any use (either in mainspace articles or user pages/blog posts/discussions/etc.) will be deleted after a while.
* Always upload images in the best quality available. If a higher quality duplicate of an existing file is found, the image of the lower quality will be replaced.
* Pictures should remain largely untouched. For example, they should not be stretched vertically or horizontally, and they should not have adjustments to the color and larger portions of the background should not be cut out.
* When adding images from the manga, please remove the dialogue/the text passages beforehand. This rule does not apply to official preview pages.
* You are only allowed to replace images if the one you are uploading is essentially identical to the image you are replacing and has a better quality. Do not replace images just because the name you have given to your file was already used.

## Community policies

**User attacks and discrimination are strictly prohibited**. Treat others with respect and do not threaten, attack, or insult them for any reason. May it be wiki-related or personal.

This rule applies throughout the entire wiki—the discussions, the message walls, the editing.

All regarding parties will face consequences.

If you have any problems with a fellow user and/or you are unable to settle the conflict yourself, contact an administrator.

### Discussions

Discussions is there to exchange yourself with fellow fans and/or editors.

### Talk pages

Talk pages should only be used to discuss suggestions for the article's improvement. Discussions about the article's topic itself belong to the discussions.

Furthermore, it is required that every post made on a Talk page has to be signed with four tildes (~~~~), or by clicking the signature button, and that every new article discussion needs a heading accompanying it.

## Vandalism and spam

"**Vandalism** is 'action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.'"

Wiki-wise, vandalism is the deliberate deletion of a lot of content, switching facts with gibberish, adding curse words, messing with code, and everything related to these things.

"There are three main types of **spam** on Wikipedia. These are: advertisements masquerading as articles and contributions to articles; external link spamming; and adding references with the aim of promoting the author or the work being referenced."

Furthermore, spam can also mean the abuse of the image and video upload function, the excessive creation of unneeded, unnecessary articles, and everything related to it.

**Keep in mind:** If you engage in vandalism and spamming, you will receive a warning. If, after having received it, you continue to vandalize the wiki, you will either be warned one more time or be blocked afterward, depending on the severity of your actions. You may be blocked immediately and without warning if your first offense was severe and/or extensive enough to warrant it.

### Fanon articles

The creation of fanon articles is considered spam if they were created as mainspace articles.

However, fanon articles are **only** allowed if they are created as user page subpages. Such pages have the following naming standard:

* User:[Your username]/[The name of the page you would like to create]

Please, refer to the image policies to find out how to name uploaded "personal" images.

## Blocking policies

By editing this wiki, you are agreeing to our policies. **Any violation of these policies** will result in a **warning first**. If you, even after receiving a warning, still disregard the wiki's policies, you will be **blocked**. How long this block will last depends on the severity of the deed and especially severe cases might be blocked without a warning.

## References

1. ↑ "What are the differences between .GIF, .JPG, and .PNG?" — Quora
2. ↑ "JPEG vs. PNG: When and why to use one format over the other" — Digital Trends
3. ↑ "Difference Between JPG and PNG" — Difference Between
4. ↑ Wikipedia:Vandalism
5. ↑ Wikipedia:Spam