Rules

## Crediting, creating and copying

1. If you have posted a base fill, meme or something else where the original base/meme doesn't belong to you, please credit the original creator. If you can't find the original creator, just state that you can't and other users can help.
2. If someone else has created art or a piece of writing, please do not steal it.
3. When creating digital art, credit yourself and/or add your own watermark or signature. so that users know you made it.
4. **Do not** steal someone else's fan tribe, they made it and you have no right to copy it.

## Trolling and spamming

1. Posting three times in a row is counted as spam. Both on the main thread (discussion page) and on post threads.
2. Posting images anywhere on the wiki that are disturbing or will make a user uncomfortable is forbidden- your account may get a ban.
3. If you create a fan-made page, it will be deleted by an admin unless it is a fan tribe page.
4. Everything on this wiki must be PG13.
5. Trends are also not allowed on this wiki. (See below.)

## Alternate accounts

It is fine to have an alternate account, but if you are using this alternate account to impersonate someone else for trolling/spamming, that account will be banned. If you have an alternate account, it would be useful to add a note of this on the user pages of your accounts. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't state your alternate accounts.

## Creating a page

1. At this stage, you can create a page for your OCs to share with the wiki. As the wiki grows, the rules will change. You may or may not have to delete the pages to make way for fan tribes. For now, please just have one page for all your OCs and name the page with your username.
2. Please do not make a page about something that is off topic or inappropriate
3. If you own a fan tribe, you may create a page for all the royalty. To be clear as crystals, one page for all the royals.
4. If you have a question, instead of posting it in the discussions, please put it on a mod/admins message wall.
5. Creating a page for fan fictions is allowed, but keep it to one page with all the chapters on it.

## Editing a page

1. It is fine to edit a page if there are grammar/spelling mistakes, but please run it through an admin before you edit the page. If you know who created the page, tell that user too.
2. Please don't delete a whole page just to be troublesome. User's work hard creating the fan tribe pages.
3. Do not ‘edit farm’, which happens when a user makes a number of small edits to pages.
4. When mentioning a book from the *Wings of Fire* series, please put it in italics: *the slanting font*.

## Guilt-tripping

Guilt tripping is when you try to make a user feel sorry for you by saying things like you are being bullied, abused, etc. Please do not guilt-trip on this wiki

## Necro-posting

Necro-posting is when you comment on a post that is 'dead' and people have stopped replying to it.

## Trends

Trends are a post on the wiki that lots of other users have posted. EX: "what type of artist am I?" They are banned on the wiki because of their spammy nature which clogs the discussions with the same repetitive posts

## More

Please keep basic internet safety in mind while on this wiki. Do not share personal information and photos of yourself. If someone is asking personal questions to you, please report them to a moderator/admin. You can find a link to some basic guidelines to help you here. If you ask personal questions to someone, they will report you to a moderator/admin and you will be asked to stop. If this continues, it could result in a ban.

If you are found to be under the age of 13, you will be asked to leave the wiki until you come of age. We do not have control of this, it is a general FANDOM rule.

There is zero tolerance for anyone who is homophobic, transphobic, racist and sexist.

Swearing is allowed as long as you keep it minimal and censor one or two letters with an Asterix (\*) or a slash (/). Words such as hell, damn or crap do not need to be censored. Please also cencor words such as homophobia, racism, sexist, etc.

Please do not advertise another wiki on this wiki. Advertising posts is also not allowed, but we will set up an Ad Thread so posts can be advertised.

Put a Trigger Warning (TW) if you are posting a dragon with blood, gore, horror or body horror. This goes for **any** art.

Posting spoilers for any new *Wings of Fire* books is strictly prohibited. For users who do not have the book, they can be spammy and annoying.

## Mentioning (pinging) moderators

If you need to ping a mod, don't hesitate.

Please do not ping a mod/admin if it is something small like forgetting to credit an artist. If the post is off topic or breaks any rules, just call a mod/admin and ignore.

Do not dogpile. Dogpiling is when someone has pinged a mod and people repeditivly do it.

If you see a troll or a spammer, please call the mods, unfollow post, and the mods will ping you when the troll/spammer has been dealt with. This is more directed to trolls.

Do not give the troll/spammer any attention; commenting, telling them to stop, etc. This will encourage them more.

## Becoming a Moderator/Admin

1. To become a moderator, go to an administrator or moderators message wall and state why you want to be a mod, what type of mod you want to be, and why you think you would be good moderator. You will also have to provide sufficient examples of good moderator behaviour on any wiki, as well as have a large number of posts on the WoF wiki. It will be announced in the next newsletter to the whole wiki.
2. You have to abide by **every** rule on this wiki
3. If you want to run for content moderator, you need to have good spelling and grammar. Content moderators **cannot** edit a users page that has their fan tribes or OCs on it.
4. To become an admin, you must have **1k-1.5k** posts (unless you are a current mod or admin) and you have to be a discussion moderator before running for admin
5. If you abuse your power, you will be stripped of it. This also goes for bullying.
6. To become a content/thread mod, you must have over 100 posts! As the wiki is a small community, not many people have loads of posts!
**NOTE: We are currently looking for *one* Thread Mod!**

Only a Content Moderator can edit pages such as the rules. Fan tribe pages can be edited by **only the owner** of the tribe. Admins can edit the rules and any other pages. Admins can also delete pages with offensive content on them, e.g. an OC page. Thread Moderators can edit pages if it contains offensive content.

**Any breaks of the more serious rules (such as being underaged or being a troll) and you will be asked to stop by a moderator/admin. If you are asked twice, you may face a ban, depending on what rule you broke. If you are underaged, you will be blocked. We have no control over this, that is FANDOM's choice. You must be 13 or older to be on Fandom.**