Content Guidelines

**Welcome to the Disney Group Of Authors Wiki!**

We're a collaborative community where anyone can Publish and discuss Fanfictions! Here you can write any fanfiction related to anything of the Walt Disney Company. This page is for the guidelines and rules have to follow in order to publish the fanfiction. If you have any questions regarding any rule, please feel free to message wall any of the administration. This is about content guidelines, Please see Community Guidelines for general rules.

### Page Guidelines

* Parody/Joke Fanfics are allowed as long as they are actual fanfics posted. For example you can have a Disney Satire fic page. The only rule in regards to this is that if it contains offensive/risky humor, Please at least put a content warning on the page that it may not be suitable for all readers and/or may contain subjective humor subjects. Swearing, while not banned from the Guidelines, is discouraged unless its in a qoute.
* OT Pages are not allowed. There is a thread for OT Discussions but Any OT Posts, Pages or Polls will be deleted and locked.
* For the sake of preserving the empathizes on Disney animation, Marvel and/or Star Wars or other non Disney or Pixar content will not be allowed on the platform and will be considered OT.
* **Canon Page Policy: Every canon character page must have some canon information about them and it has to come from the original Disney source. If the character is based off of a external source (ex: greek myth) the info MUST be regarding the Disney version only.**
* All pages must have a link that leads to the fanfiction.
* All fic/story pages are required to be credited with the name of the author so we know whose stories/pages are whose. If there is no clear name, then the page is subject to deletion.

#### Page Tags

* Excessive tags on a page are not allowed, pages are only allowed to have a max of ten tags.
* Tags can not have the author's name in it.
* You can not name a tag a name of a character.
* Canon characters cannot have "author's characters" in a tag as said fanfic author does not own the rights to those characters.
* Pages must be put in the appropriate tags. Please do not put pages in the incorrect tags.
* Tags cannot be one word.
* Only put the stub tag if the page lacks content. If the page is fulled with content do not put the stub tag.
* Please add the stub template to the page AND the tag, not one or the other.

### Comments Guidelines

* If you are going to leave a comment or a review on a fanfic page, be kind and respectful. Bullying and Harassment is not permitted on this wiki and we will block any user(s) responsible for bullying or harassment. If you are being bullied or harassed by a user, Report it to our staff.
* No Spamming. Spamming content is not allowed and you will be given a warning and then a block if continued.
* If a comment section gets to a point of no return in terms of toxicity, It is at the administrator's discretion the choice to disable the comments on a page and can overrule the decision of the page writer.

### Picture Guidelines

#### Naming A Picture

* When naming a picture please label it something that makes sense and that people can read easily. Example: Dizzy.png Bad Example: w9eopui23rdo2u3230.png
* Also, when naming images, **please don't include the number of pixels the image has on the filename**. For example, "300px-VanellopevonSchweetz.jpg". In that case, "300px-" should be omitted and the filename must become "VanellopevonSchweetz.jpg". If an image with that kind of filename is found, it will be renamed and a warning will be sent to its uploader. If there is no response and more files are uploaded with similar names, the images will be deleted and you will be alerted to upload a different version with a proper filename.

#### What Pictures are allowed

* Screenshots
* Posters
* Fanart and fanposters

#### Not Allowed Pictures

* Inappropriate/sexual pictures
* Extreme gory pictures

### Announcements

* Announcements are used pretty regularly on the wiki to inform wiki users of new updates and announcements in a easy way. To avoid spam, Announcements are limited to only staff announcements or updates. Fanfiction promotions, videos, ect are not allowed to be a announcement. IRL/Personal stories are also not permitted to be announcements as those stories are not related to the GOA Wiki in any way.