Ferretwings Wiki:Rules

Personal attacks
Users should never personally attack other members of the wiki community on any part of the site. Comments should focus on the content, not the person. Wiki users should try to calm the situation, and contact an admin. Hate speech will be removed.

Assume good faith
If a wiki editor makes a mistake due to human error, the fact that they are new to the community, or any other honest reason, fellow wiki community members must assume good faith. Rather than insulting, berating, or lashing out at the editor, community members should approach situations like these with a helpful and understanding attitude.

Edit warring and reaching consensus
While contributing to the wiki, it is possible that a user may disagree with how the information on a certain page is presented. It is expected that the two users will reach a consensus when they are in disagreement by using a talk page rather than constantly editing and/or reverting changes. Edit warring may result in a page lock by an admin while wiki editors discuss the issue on the article's talk page.

Vandalism
Wiki vandalism will be defined as intentionally adding, removing, or changing content to the wiki in order to compromise the integrity of the site. It is strictly prohibited.

Examples of vandalism include but are not limited to:


 * Inserting nonsense/gibberish into page content.
 * Uploading offensive images.
 * Blanking page content.
 * Spamming links to external sites unrelated to the content of the wiki.

Article and page guidelines

 * U.S. English only.
 * Article names should reflect the English style and spelling as used in the anime/manga.
 * No profane, sexually explicit, or any inappropriate language except for informing usage in the anime/manga.
 * Formal English. No colloquialisms or contracted forms.
 * "Encyclopedia" style. No first or second person perspectives, opinions, subjections, or any personal bias.
 * New information about Odd Tax must be sourced by an official statement.
 * All videos must comply with the video policy.

Stubs
When an article is fist created, it will often have the   template at the top of the page. This is meant as a temporary measure, inviting editors to contribute to the page. Once the infobox has been filled out, and the article subject has been described to a reasonable degree, the   should be removed.

Talk pages

 * When making comments or asking questions on a talk page, be sure to sign the end with four tildes.
 * Always remain civil during discussions.
 * An article's talk page is intended for discussion or questions regarding the article's content. It is not a forum for casual discussion. Personal stories, shout-outs, etc. will be removed.
 * Generally, other users' contributions should not be edited, except for maintenance tasks like fixing links or templates.

Privacy and security
Wiki users must protect themselves, and the privacy of others.
 * Wiki users should not share addresses, school names, or photos of their friends and family.
 * While it is acceptable for a wiki user to use a photo of themself as their avatar, it is not necessary, as any photo will do.
 * Wiki users should never share their own account info, nor should they ask for other user's account info.
 * It is especially important not to try and get personal or account info from people under 18.

Sockpuppeting
Registered users are expected to use a single account for all editing under most circumstances. The use of more than one account by a single individual is known as "sockpuppeting".

A second account can be used in certain rare circumstances by longtime established, trusted users. Some valid reasons to use a second account may include:


 * Technical testing
 * Bot (automated) accounts
 * Administrators who want to use non-admin accounts in less secure editing situations.

In those cases, it must be made absolutely clear that the accounts are operated by the same individual.

Individuals found to be operating multiple accounts, in an ongoing manner, for the purposes of mimicking different personas or the like, will have all of their associated accounts permanently banned.

The use of a registered account and an anonymous IP address (editing while logged out) may also be considered bannable sockpuppeting behavior, if this appears to be a deliberate attempt to fool others or circumvent rules. Occasional anonymous edits performed by an individual with a registered account, but with no ulterior motive, are not a problem.

Files
All the uploaded files on the wiki shall respect the following rules:


 * They must be related to Odd Taxi and/or might have a purpose on an article
 * If not, they shall be used on user pages
 * Any file should feature a copyright template in order to inform its legal use (Please refer to the copyright documention to see the list)

Any file not respecting these rules might be deleted without any notice and abusing the system might result in a block.

Signatures

 * This policy is substantially based upon Wikipedia's custom signature policy. More details and explanations behind some of these rules, as well as other custom signature considerations, can be found on that page.

Custom signatures must comply with these specifications:


 * Signatures must not be obtrusive or difficult to read.
 * Signatures should not interfere with how nearby text displays. Avoid increasing font size and do not insert line breaks.
 * Your signature must contain one obvious link to your userpage. It may also optionally contain a link to your user talk page.
 * Your talk page link is included in the default signature. You are permitted to remove it if you prefer to use your enhanced user profile page for communication.
 * Do not link to pages not related to you, and do not link to external sites.
 * Signatures cannot contain any images, transcluded templates, or categories.
 * Your signature must be static. It may not contain any animations, interactive elements (aside from links), or dynamic elements.
 * Your signature must not display any more than 33 additional characters of text (not including your username and talk page link). The standard time and date stamp are also not included in this limit.
 * Do not make signatures which result in excessively long code. 255 code characters should be considered the maximum in most cases. Note that the software will automatically truncate both plain and raw signatures to 255 characters of code in the Signature field of your wiki preferences.
 * Its final output must be no taller than 30px.
 * Your signature must clearly and obviously display the actual username for your wiki account, without any character alterations.
 * For example, the username "BillSimpson" may not be displayed as "Harry", or even as "BillySimpson".
 * Non-Latin scripts, such as Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic scripts, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Thai and others, are illegible to most other contributors of the Terraria Wiki. Not everyone uses a keyboard that has immediate access to non-Latin characters, and names that cannot be pronounced cannot be retained in memory. As a courtesy to other contributors, users with such usernames are encouraged to sign their posts (at least in part) with Latin characters. For instance, a user such as User:クリス should sign as クリス/Chris.

Above all, signatures are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Users whose signatures are found to be inappropriate will be asked to change them.

The Don'ts

 * Do not do anything illegal, or encourage other people to.
 * That includes linking to illegal content (including links to copyrighted movie or TV shows).


 * Don't post hate speech.
 * We do not allow homophobic language, ethnic slurs or religious hate. That means no language or content that encourages hatred or violence, or that disparages others on the basis of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, country of origin and so on.


 * Don't post porn, shock images, or explicit descriptions of sex.
 * On most wikis, this includes nudity (including bare breasts and butts). Artistic nudity may be allowed - for example a classical painting, or a small amount of nudity from a game screenshot.
 * For text, content that just mentions characters have sex is likely to be OK. But content that describes exactly how they have sex, is not. Content that describes violent or non-consensual sex is expressly prohibited.


 * Don't pretend to be other people.
 * Don't try to fool people into believing you are someone else. That means don't impersonate other users, or anyone else - including famous people.


 * Don't spam.
 * It's not okay to use Fandom to advertise other sites or services. A link to another site might be useful information on a page, but not if it's purpose is to advertise that site. Even worse is if you are adding the link repeatedly, or in places where it's totally off-topic
 * "Spam" can also mean repeatedly pasting the same thing on wikis or in chat, even if it's not an advert. Don't do that either.