Difference between revisions of "WUW:Wiki Guidelines"

Revision as of 17:24, 27 November 2013

Before you read this, please read our standards. A lot of it applies here(apparently, none of us follow any of them), so look over it twice. Look over it until you memorize it. However, there are a few rules that you should follow here to make things more enjoyable by everyone. Use this template to report rule-breaking fanstuff. Not that you will. We know your type.

1: General

These rules generally apply to all fanstuff.

1.1

• Any article here is written for the public. Anyone can edit whatever they want, unless it is protected by an administrator. However, please try to improve, not do work for other people. If a user reverts your alteration to his or her fanstuff, please respect that. Please don't get overprotective over your work or add a "Do not edit this page" notice to it.

1.2

• Don't be a dick. Even though we all are one.

1.3

• If doing a story using a script format, remember to CAPITALIZE AND BOLD the speaker's name and use {italic and curly brackets} for non-spoken actions and establishing shots/scenarios

1.4

• Use good grammar and spelling. Make sure your stuff is legible. Slight errors can be tolerated, but horribly written text needs to be rewritten correctly. If you don't know how to spell a word, Dictionary.com is a good place to find out.

1.5

• For fanstuff that uses multiple pages, you need to use subpages. This includes but is not limited to email shows, multi-chaptered fan fictions and text adventures. If you do not know how to use subpages, the paragraph below will teach you.

Say, for example, you have a fanstuff called Generic User Fan Fiction, and you have different pages for every different chapter, then each chapter page must be a subpage of it - so Chapter 5 should be called something like Generic User Fan Fiction/Chapter 5, and not called Chapter 5.

1.6

• When using other people's characters with official set personalities, you need to make them act in character. Only rare exceptions are allowed and only when it makes sense with the plot of the story.

1.7

• Do not copy large amounts of text off of any other non-original source, including transcripts of toons. Do not copy off of other people's fanstuff without their permission. Do not duplicate your fanstuff on multiple pages. Do not take images and claim them as your own. All of these are plagiarism.
  • If a fiction, concept, plot, character or picture is deemed too close or too similar to another (as seen by majority of users) and doesn't have its own category in Wiki User Fanstuff, the item must be changed or deleted, unless the original creator says otherwise. In the event of a dispute, whichever item was created or thought up first will be seen as the original.

1.8

• Don't revert wars. Revert wars are when someone makes a revert on one page, and then another person reverts that revert, and the two just go at it and at it, like two children tugging at a toy. This is not only annoying, but floods the recent changes page and may very well crash the wiki like The Hindenberg.

1.9

• Do not put files that automatically play sound anywhere unexpected. This includes userpages.

1.10

• Don't stuff beans up your nose.

2: Signatures

A signature, or sig, is the writing that you sign after talk page comments by using three or four tildes (~~~ or ~~~~). When you press the "save page" button, the tildes are converted to your sig. To set your sig, log in, go to Preferences, and put what you want for your sig in the "Your nickname" box. However, it must follow the below rules. If you use a template for your sig, then the template must follow the below rules too.

2.1

• Your sig cannot be longer than either YOUR USERNAME + 6 NORMAL-SIZED CHARACTERS or YOUR USERNAME + 12 SMALL CHARACTERS. This is normal sized text. This is small text. You can mix it, and have normal sized and small characters, but remember that 2 small characters equal 1 normal sized character.

2.2

• Your sig cannot contain characters larger than text this size. All big text must be shrunken.

2.3

• It's recommended that you use a template for your sig, to make it easy for you to change your sig. However, the template must be a subpage of your userpage, for example, User:YOUR USERNAME/sig. If that's where your sig is located, then using {{User:YOUR USERNAME/sig}} will make your sig appear. Do not use Template:YOUR USERNAME's sig.

2.4

• If you choose to have an image in your sig, it must be no more than 15 pixels tall. To have your image automatically resize, make it like this: [[Image:IMAGENAME.art|15px]]. This will not work on images that are much taller than wide. Images whose width is 10 pixels or less count as one normal-sized character. Anything wider counts as two normal-sized characters. Images that stretch lines extra high or low must be resized to not do so.

2.5

• Bright colors such as the default yellow and white text aren't allowed in signatures. If you wish to use similar colors, goldenrod and gray are possible alternatives.

3: Userpages

These rules apply specifically to userpages, which is anything in the User: namespace.

3.1

• No "hate", "dislike", "on notice" lists about users or anything related are allowed. Lists listing "liked" users and such are okay.

3.2

• No advertising that you are a Moderator or Sysop unless you are.