Rules & Conditions

**Rules & Conditions**
A list of rules and conditions that must be upheld in order to enter the wiki.

## Base Rules

### Vandalism

Vandalism is making unwanted changes to pages that harm the Wiki. Blanking an entire page's content, replacing it with gibberish or spam, adding paragraphs of nonsense or profanity, etc.

Note that it is **NOT** vandalism to remove content from your own pages, for obvious reasons.

### Spam

Spam is leaving unwanted, pointless messages or creating unwanted, pointless pages.

Spam includes, but is not limited to:

* Pestering staff to be promoted to chat moderator, rollback, or admin - We have a dedicated page for those interested in becoming staff.
* Flooding the site with irrelevant or gibberish comments. (IE: Posting slight variations on the same comment on as many pages as you can find)
* Flooding the site with irrelevant or gibberish pages.
* Uploading irrelevant images, except for those which are for use on user pages.

#### Shipping real life people

While we really shouldn't have to tell anyone not to do this, someone already has so we have to add a section here. Do not create pages, or blogs, or anything like that trying to "ship" real life people who are not in a relationship. This includes Youtubers and other social media personalities.

This is harassment and will not be tolerated here, you will receive an indefinite ban.

### Flaming

Flaming is insulting and demeaning another user to an unreasonable degree.

Context is important and flaming in response to flame-bait made specifically to get that reaction may simply be deleted with no ban time.

### Trolling and Flame-bait

Trolling and flame-bait are statements made solely to provoke flaming or similar reaction from another user. For instance, making a racist article in the hopes of causing an argument in the comments section.

### Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the theft of content without attribution to the original creator. Do not plagiarize other pages, or any other site/wiki. If you are caught doing so, you will be permanently IP banned.

If you use someone else's work, you need to credit them **by name**. IE: If you take an image created by "LostinIKEA" and use it in your article, then caption it "Credit to the original creators!" instead of "Credit to LostinIKEA," you have not credited the original creator.

Note that this does **NOT** mean you cannot incorporate other user's content into your articles. It would not be plagiarism to, for example, create a new entity and say that the Employees spawns there, while linking to the Employees page. It would be plagiarism, however, to take the image and content from the page and present it as your own original creation.

If you are unsure if something would be plagiarism, you can ask an admin, or simply ask permission from the original creator. If you don't know who the original creator is, you can use the "History" function (click the arrow to the right of "Edit" and select "History" instead) to see a list of every user who has ever edited a page.

### Advertising

Advertising is not allowed. Whether that be for products, for other websites, other wikis, etc.

The following exceptions apply:

* Attribution - You can (and must, if you do not have express permission to use the image) credit an image or idea to its original creator.
* Your User Page - You may advertise your personal creations and content, as well as your accounts on other websites, on this page.

### Falsely claiming to be a staff member

Do not falsely claim to be an admin, bureaucrat, chat moderator, or Wikia staff member.

### Misc.

1. Do not ask for another user's password. The user who asks will be given a permanent IP ban. If the user gives another user their password, They will be perma-banned, but will be allowed to create a new account.
2. Do not give out your private information either by selling it or for free.

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