Rules

These are the rules created by the four admins of the Hetalia Oc Character Wiki, if anybody has any problem with them, please talk to either Ash Witherspoon, Cherrial Arctic, Emma Cherrial Winsomer, or Lulu.

**NOTE**: Unless two admins + a community vote, or three admins agree on it, then the rules regarding abilities will not be changed. Please do not keep asking an admin on changing magic rules; if a user asks and the question is within reason, then the chances are that they're already discussing it- this especially goes for multiple users at once.

## Rules

Welcome to the Hetalia Oc Character Wiki! This is the place to let your ideas well forward, if they are unexplored ones feel free to put it on here! All users who come here are waiting and watching for people to look forward to the dedication and sleepless nights that they spent working on characters. However, like all organizations, there are a few guidelines.

## Rules and Regulations

### Simplified Ruleset

1. Be **civil** to other users at all times
2. **Respect** copyright
3. **State** your sources
4. When in doubt or just have a question, pose it on the talk page or write a blog
5. Be **BOLD**! If you want to express yourself go ahead!
6. Decent edit summaries and clear and transparent explanations are universally appreciated. Other editors need to understand your process, and it also helps you yourself to understand what you did after a long leave of absence from an article. Please state what you changed and why. If the explanation is too long, add more on the discussion page.
7. Assume good faith; in other words, try to consider that the person on the other end of the discussion is a thinking, rational being who is trying to positively contribute to the project — unless, and only unless, you have firm, solid, and objective proof to the contrary. Merely disagreeing with you is no such proof.
8. Don`t **insult** other people, seriously don`t. It leads nowhere.
9. Use the preview button; it helps prevents edit conflicts and mistakes.
10. Sign your posts on talk pages using Sherrie 19:55, 5 July 2021 (UTC) which gets replaced by your username and timestamp when you hit Save. But **don't** sign on mainspace articles, makes it hard to differ from actual character articles, blogs, and posts and so on.
11. Video game images that show off graphics. These should be saved for video game fanon wikis—here, they appear out of place and rather off-putting to some users, so it would be wise to just use anime and manga images instead. As long as it looks 2-D and not offensive, obviously, it is perfectly fine. No racist images please.
12. No terribly edited images. There's bad work, and then there's just throwing colours on pictures. More often than not, it is both. These images strain the eyes, so it would be best for the community if no horribly edited images were to be posted on this wiki.
13. No concept plagiarism. This term revolves around using the same images as another user's article and then having the same personality/history/powers. This is forbidden, as others have put a lot of work into their character and would not like it one bit if another user had stolen their idea for their character and simply put it in their own words. There is two exceptions- magic can be shared between articles with the same images, obviously, and it is allowed to use the other article's spells with permission. In addition, if a user asks to make a similar character with permission, this rule can be voided as it is a 'tribute'. Any attempts to do directly copy from another user's concept will result in a warning, and then a three month ban if the perpetrator does not remove the information.
14. No sexual content: Don`t do it, or else. We will swiftly ban for you for a specified time period that seems appropriate for the offense you committed.
15. Date, Time, and Month; we **emphasize** that you record the date, time, and month in which an event happened so that anybody visiting this wiki will able to find it on the timeline (which is in the process of being drawn).
16. Capitalization; always use **appropriate** capitalization (self-explationary).
17. Research. **Please** always research the time period when writing characters and use other articles for reference when writing. We have high standards here for articles.