Wiki Rules

## General Rules

**Be kind to other users and treat them with respect**. Cyber-bullying is far from ok. Bullying can cause other user's feeling to be hurt. Being rude, insulting other users, putting people down, discriminating based off of race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexuality, etc., mocking others, harassing, threatening or calling others users inappropriate names will fall underneath the category of bullying.

**Cursing also not allowed anywhere near this website**. This goes for every user, including the ones who are non-English speaking ones. Any use or form of profanity, or vulgar language, using inappropriate terminology, or offensive/inappropriate terms are not allowed and will not be tolerated.

**Keep your personal information private to yourself**. Your safety is something that really matters to us and we do not want anything bad to happen to you. While chatting with other users, please don't give out personal information. This also goes for your full name, address, school and phone number.

**All kinds of using inappropriate materials are not allowed**. Inserting explicit content or pictures will get you blocked anywhere from a month up to a permanent ban.

**Don't spam anywhere on the wiki**. Spamming is posting/commenting the same thing over and over again, usually just to get the achievement points. Commenting the same thing more than once or twice and even editing a page once every word just to get points falls under the category of spamming.

**User pages are only to be edited by the user**. Just in case you want to refrain from vandalism, correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, errors, etc., please get the user's permission first before editing a page.

**You must be aged 13 or older in order to create an account**. Due to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Laws about child internet safety, Wikia says you must be 13 or older to have an account. Please note that if you are caught under 13 by Wikia, you'll be globally blocked.

**Notify an administrator just in case if any user breaks a policy**. If you want a page or comment to deleted; or in case you want to close a thread, please notify an administrator. In an addition, warning templates, blocking templates, and banned from chat templates are only to be used by Maddie and Kenzie Wiki staff.

**Do not participate in any argumentative wars**. These will not be tolerated on this wiki. Make sure to state your opinions in a polite way, and try to agree or disagree.

**Please do not remove any photos from a page with asking an administrator first**. They have put a lot of hard work into finding the photos of this wiki and removing the photos without their permission is disrespectful to the work that they have put into making a great wiki.

**English is the only official language from this wiki**. All edits must be in American English. If you are not an English native speaker, please use a translator to add the information to pages or ask another user to assist you. When commenting, using the chat and using forum, you still have to do it in English.

**Make sure to follow these rules on the wiki**. Not having read these policies is not an excuse. In case if you need help or don't understand a policy, feel free to contact an administrator.

Make sure to follow this rules on the wiki**. Not having read these policies is not an excuse. In case you need help or you don't understand a policy, feel free to contact an administrator.**

### Editing Rules

**Don't create/remove templates without notifying an administrator**. Make sure to have notified an administrator.
Do not create/remove templates without notifying an administrator. Make sure to notify an administrator if a certain template in needed in order to create it, otherwise, the template will deleted. In an addition, do not remove any templates rom pages unless they have been falsely added, and please also refrain from drastically changing templates unless it is necessary.

**Do not remove information unless you know it is false**. Removing content based on your dislike of a particular pairing or any other topic is considered vandalism. If you are removing outdated information, please specify that it is outdated when it asks what you have changed.

**Do not create a page with false information**.

**Don't create pages with false information or pages that are completely irrelevant to Maddie and Mackenzie;** also don't add unnecessary categories to pages. Adding duplicate pages is not allowed either.

**Do not rename pages into something useless**- Like a wiki talk page, this will result into the admin having to redo the page, otherwise if the page is fine, just leave it alone.

### Unnecessary Edits

**Unnecessary editing** is defined as making edits that make no contribution to the page whatsoever. The following list contains different edits that fall under the category of unnecessary:

* Changing the Infobox picture from pages.
* Rewording sentences without a valid explanation.
* Taking off and adding back punctuation marks without any reason.
* Taking off information then putting it back on.
* Take into account that an administrator can determine whether the edits made by users falls under this category or not. If you disagree with the decision taken by the administrator, feel free to start a discussion about the problem in the Admin noticeboard, so other admins can check on it and determine what to do with your case.

## Chat Policies

### Chat Rules

* Absolutely no profanity or inappropriate language.
* No inappropriate topics.
* Be careful with giving out personal information.
* Do not offend users.
* Do not scare others.
* Cyber-bullying (no name calling, making fun of, bullying, intimidating).
* Do not talk about any disturbing topics.
* Do not spam in chat!
* Agree to disagree.
* Accept the opinions of others.
* If you ever feel uncomfortable about a certain topic being discussed, politely tell the user. If a user tells you this please respect their feelings and try to change the topic. However, the uncomfortable user should also make the option to leave chat open. If you are uncomfortable, just excuse yourself for a little while.
* If someone is bothering you, quickly find a chat moderator (a user with a star next to their name) and tell them or leave the chat and send an chat moderator or admin a message on their wall.

### Image Policies

The image policy explains requirements and suggestions for image files, their quality, and uploading them to galleries.

## Uploading images

**Images can be uploaded from Special:Upload**. When uploading an image, make sure it is of the best resolution possible. If there are duplicate images, the image of better quality will be kept.

The file must follow the following file name and sourcing requirements if it is to be used in an article or gallery. Images for personal use, such as profiles and message wall threads, are exempt from these rules.

We thank you for your cooperation in following the rules of the wiki. Have a wonderful day!