Tamil Cine Wiki: Policy & Rules

There are a few **policies** which apply across all Fandom. These can be found on Community Central at Wikia:Category:Policy.

Adding `[[Category:Policy]]` to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. This is found here.

# Tamil Cine Wiki Policy

*The following rules are all guidelines, not hard rules. Staff are tasked with preserving the safety or our community and promoting a positive culture. They are authorized to take any measures deemed appropriate at a given time.*
*If you have any questions or feedback, reach out to a staff member.*
## Why have policies?

No one likes to think they have to follow rules, but rules have their place in most organizations. Wiki communities are no different. Wikis often have **policies** that talk about what kinds of pages you can write, how you should act in messages to other users, or how and why an administrator can block you. In general, policies are very simple codes of conduct that make sure wikis run as smoothly as possible. What should policies be like, though?

They form a manual of style for pages so people know how to write. They make sure that vandalism, spam, and trolling are known to be unacceptable. They ensure that people are polite and respectful to one another. There are all sorts of policies that can be created, but it's important to remember a few things before you set about creating them.

## A policy should accomplish something

Policies should be clear and concise overviews that guide the editing process and the interactions of the community. To do that effectively, policies need to be practical solutions to actual problems. That's something communities often make the mistake of forgetting when they create policies like "you cannot have more than 20 user-boxes on your user page," "you cannot have more than one video on your user page," and "you need a category on your article or the entire article will be deleted."

Do those sound like real problems, and do their solutions seem necessary? They were all made based on the preferences of the admins rather than the need to fix real problems. That brings us to another very important point.

## Final thoughts

In summary, keep things simple. Don't try to solve problems that don't exist. Avoid instruction creep. Everyone learns at their own pace, so make sure you're making things as easy as possible for people so long as it doesn't detract from the business of the community.

Do you need further help in the policies? Feel free to check out the discussions.

## General Guidelines

* **Be friendly.** This is, after all, the Tamil Cine Wiki. Do not bully, troll, personally attack, harass, or otherwise antagonize other users. If you do, you will be given a warning, then a block if it continues.
* **Respect privacy, both yours and others'.** Do not share your personal information, especially specifics like your real name and location. Do not ask others for personal information either. Posting others' personal information without their permission may result in an indefinite block.

* **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.
* **Be appropriate.** Do not post anything inappropriate or obscene. Do not swear or use explicit language.

* **Quality content only.** Do not spam article pages, comments, message walls or Discussions. Do not vandalize existing articles. Spam or vandalism will usually result in an immediate block.

* Articles should be in clear, grammatically correct English (to the best of your ability). Articles with a paragraph or less of content should be marked as `{{stub}}`. Apply categories appropriately.
* **Cite your sources.**
* **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.
* **Don't make a scene.** If you disagree with a moderator or rollback's actions, speak to an administrator *privately*. Arguing with a moderator on the spot is never helpful. If you disagree with an admin's actions, speak to Mialivialf.
* **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!
* **Do not harass other users:** If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their wall, respect their wishes. It is their wall.
* Using alt accounts ("socks") to evade a block will only hurt your case.
* **Do follow community guidelines for formatting:** When a community has established formatting, it’s important to adhere to that, especially when spoiler content is involved.

## How blocks should be appealed

### Admins

We encourage admins to leave blocked users’ walls open on most block instances so that they can appeal their block. There are, of course, exceptions, such as:

* Spammers
* Terms of Use violations
* Major disruption concerns

### Editors

Have you talked to the admin on your wiki yet? If not, make a good faith effort to have that conversation on wiki or here on Tamil Cine Wiki. Good faith means actually giving the admins time to respond. Escalating to staff when you’ve not given the admins a fair amount of time to respond will not be seen as a good faith effort. At least 24 hours is sufficient.