Angry Birds Fanon Wiki:Rules

Rules

Here are the rules. Please adhere to these for a good standing. If you are new to this wiki, please read all of these rules before doing anything else. They are very important. Disobeying the rules will result in a warning, and continuing will result in a ban.

General Rules

• Always assume good faith. This means that all edits should be made to help and improve the article, and not hurt it.
• Recolors of the Original Angry Birds are allowed if your art skills are below average, but you need to give them something original such as different powers or personality.
• Under the Wikia's Terms of Use, you must be 13 or above to create an account. If you are secretly underaged, do not tell anyone. If your age is revealed, you may be reported to wikia staff to shut down your account
• Do not make anything not suitable for young people. We want to keep this a low PG-rated wiki, not anything PG-13 or above.
• Page titles and headings should be in title case (capital letters at the beginning of every word) instead of sensitive case (a leading capital letter at the start of the first word only).
• Do not post comments not related to the page you are commenting for.
• Refrain from starting religious, political or racist discussions. Those could lead to conflict between users.
• Do not be a troll. You will be blocked when you do this.
• Do not claim that you are an admin or bureaucrat when you actually aren't. Ask a bureaucrat to be either an admin or bureaucrat, and with a good reason.
• Do not add images not related to the page where you are adding the images. Like rule #2, this makes other users who look at the image become confused.
• Do not swear when discussing or in an article without covering them with *’s. Do not use swear words to insult people, or a lot of times when you comment as some users may be young and sensitive to swear words. If you do use them on an article, you must use the '''{{Mature}}''' Banner at the top of your page.
• Do not necrobump. This is not really a rule, however, it's not a necessary thing to do. Reply to recently posted comments and refrain from replying to comments that have been there for a while.
• Do not create more than one account to evade a ban. This is called sockpuppeting. If you wish to create another account because your original one cannot be accessed, please make sure the original account is stated somewhere.
• Do not post or create anything completely unrelated to Angry Birds. This is an Angry Birds Fanon Wiki.
• Do not delete any userpages, with the exception of the user being blocked with unusual or babyish content.
• Do not vandalize any pages or blogs by adding immature content, spam, useless categories, etc. with ill intent. You also may not spam on message walls, comments, or blogs. So this means to not do this in any activity.
• Regarding the above rule, unless if the edits are made with good intention to expand the page, it would not be considered vandalism.
• Do not copy in mass or steal. This is called plagiarism.
• Do not make your own version of somebody's game without their consent. This is also considered plagiarism. It is not considered plagiarism only if both users coincidentially come up with the same name.
• Do not recreate articles that are already deleted unless you're improving it. If your page was deleted, it was for a reason. Unless there's any sign of improvement, you may not recreate it.
• Respect all users, especially ones who are new to this wiki. Do not harass, flame, bully, or insult any other users. We definitely won't tolerate that kind of behavior here, definitely if you are under 13.
• Do not ever ask for a password and don't take advantage of any revealed passwords. Getting somebody else's password to do inappropiate stuff and make other users blame the person who actually runs the username will give you an immediate block for 1 month.
• We have quality standards here, and we expect pages to be organised and have decent quality with proper grammar. If help is needed to organize page structure grammar, please contact an administrator to help. Personal pages, such as user pages or user blogs are exempt from quality standards as they are not official articles. As long as these pages maintain a civil attitude and follow every other rule, they will be allowed.
• No immature or "baby-ish" content (like Teletubbies and such).
• Make sure you categorize your pages correctly, only use only selective fanon categories. For example, if you are making a page about a bird or pig, you should categorize it correctly, for example: Fanon Birds, Male/Female Birds, (INSERT COLOR HERE) Birds, Birds, Birds by (YOUR USERNAME) and Characters.
• Do not spam categories or use categories with the same meaning, for example: Birds, Bird, Fanon, Fan-made, Fan Birds, Fan species, Fanon birds, and any other useless categories like those. Do not spam the categories, or make useless ones.
• Pages need to make sense. If your page is very low quality, but seems like it can be improved upon, the Wiki Cleanup template will be added to the page. If the page is nonsense, please designate it as a joke article if needed - if not, the page will be deleted.
• Do not make any birds bigger than Mega Giant Bird. The birds have been getting too big. This isn't really a strict rule, but it is unnecessary for birds to be that big. 
• Stop making giant pigs, too. It has been going on for a while, and it is getting crazy.
• Do not advertise any other wikis unless given permission to do so by an administrator.
• Ask the creator permission to edit a page before you do - the exception being correcting grammar/spelling mistakes. However, in any situation - if a user asks you to not edit their page, please respect this. If you feel as if an article (besides personal pages) is not meeting quality standards, report this situation to the administrators. If it is a Public page, anyone can edit, as long as the edits meet the quality standards of the wiki and are not vandalization or spam.
• Do not ever post links to pornographic sites, shock sites, strong sexual content, extreme graphic violence, major scariness, or extreme language.
• Be wise and civil when commenting. Do not comment on pages just to be rude. Leave some constructive criticism, and be nice about it.
• Do not blacklist users by blocking out their messages through CSS, Javascript or in any other way.
• Even if you are under 13 on the wiki, you must not be immature, not be rude or harass other users, or spam on any pages. Usually other users can tell if a user is underaged by acting like it in comments and pages. You'll get blocked for doing this.
• Do not reveal any personal information about you, including your age. If you are under 13, do not tell anyone.
• Ignore trolls, vandals or spammers. This means that you should not talk about them, add them as an enemy in your game or mention them in any other way. Doing this will "feed" them and make them troll others more. For more information, please go here.
• Do not use the {{ProtectedPage}} template on your pages unless you are an administrator who wants to lock a page in order to stop vandalism, spam or for any other reason. Do not use this template for no other reason than that.
• Do not post blogs with little information. At least give some context. And make sure your blog posts are informative, and not something completely unrelated and random.
• Do not spam edits on others' articles for the sake of badges. Making such edits are not allowed with the exception of adding legitimate categories, fixing grammar mistakes or adding deletion templates.
• Respect the admins, bureacrats and other members of the staff. Even if they are a small member like a content moderator, they should still be respected.
• Do not issue warnings unless if you're an administrator. Administrators are the only users who can issue official warnings. You can still tell them to stop doing something, but unless you're an administrator, do not give them warnings.
• Do not boss staff to revive a page. You can consult an admin about why the page was deleted, though, threatening them to revive one is not allowed.
• Please limit crossovers to a minimum. This may also not be a serious rule but remember that this is an Angry Birds Fanon Wiki and not a crossover wiki. Do not create a crossover combining too many franchises.
• If you see a template on your page, don't remove it unless if extremely necessary! The template tells you how to improve your page or gives a notice to other users.

Chat Rules

Chat is a fun way to hang out with other users! Just remember to follow these rules. Most of these are tied with the general rules. If any of those are broken, you could get banned from using chat.

• Don't spam messages. It's unfair for others who want to chat. Also, don't spam emoticons. Emoticons are fun to express emotion, but spamming them is not allowed.
• Don't swear to insult users. Swearing is not allowed even in chat, as it is not a nice thing to do.
• Do not post links to pornographic or sexual content. Remember that we want to keep this below PG-13 or above.
• Do not insult or flame other users. We want every user to be happy on this wiki, especially ones which are new.

Admin Rules

• Please ask Utkar or Yoshi before making any changes pertaining to the wiki itself (I.E, Main Page, Rules, Wiki Design, Wiki Theme, CSS).
• Don’t abuse your power. Examples of power abuse is blocking people for no reason and demanding people to do whatever they want. Admins are supposed to be people that help the community, not harm it.
• Use the ban system first. Block is a last resort, unless it’s a troll intentionally trying to vandalize the wiki, then use the indefinite block.
• Do not act like you’re better than everyone.
• Lock any important pages you find or make to Admins and Content Mods.
• Delete any pages that aren’t needed, alongside their images.
  • Also, please remove all categories and templates (mainly banner templates) from the pages before deleting, otherwise the deleted pages will still be shown in any categories it was linked it.
• Do not promote any other users without asking before.
• Remember to protect any important templates to prevent vandalism. Template vandalism is rare, but it can still happen.
• Please try to leave most of them wiki’s holiday themes to Yoshi unless he forgets or asks for ideas/help.
  • Please refrain from editing the Main Page once a Theme has been selected. Because once the holiday is over, the page’s holiday change is undone automatically.

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