Descendants Wiki:Policies

General Policies=



Content Policies=

red Make sure to notify an administrator if a certain template is needed in order to create it, otherwise, the template may be deleted. In addition, do not remove templates from pages unless they are falsely added, and please refrain from drastically changing templates unless it is necessary.

red Removing content based on your dislike of a particular pairing or any other topic is considered vandalism.

red Any content that lacks of valid proof, based on user's opinion will be considered to be spam. If any topic results to be ambiguous, please discuss with the staff team.

red Creating pages that are irrelevant or contain false information is not allowed. This includes making duplicates of existing pages.

red Renaming pages into something irrelevant or useless is considered spam.

Unnecessary edits
Unnecessary editing is defined as making edits that make no contribution to the page whatsoever. The following list contains different edits that fall under the category of unnecessary: Take into account that an administrator can determine whether the edits made by users falls under this category or not. If you disagree with the decision taken by the administrator, feel free to start a discussion about the problem in the Admin Noticeboard, so other admins can check on it and determine what to do with your case.
 * 1) Changing the Infobox picture from pages unnecessarily.
 * 2) Rewording sentences without a valid explanation.
 * 3) Taking off and adding back punctuation marks without any reason.
 * 4) Taking off information then putting it back on.

Graphic Content Policies=
 * 1) No inappropriate images will be allowed
 * 2) Do not add multiple screenshots where the images are barely different
 * 3) Make sure images you are about to upload already are in the wiki thus no need to reupload



Discussion Policies=


 * 1) No inappropriate language/profanity.
 * 2) No irrelevant comments.
 * 3) Do not give out personal information.
 * 4) Do not offend users.
 * 5) Do not put down other users for stating their opinion.
 * 6) Comments cannot contain inappropriate content.
 * 7) Not one form of cyber bullying will be accepted (no name calling, making fun of, bullying, intimidating).
 * 8) Do not ask questions that do not have to do with the page.
 * 9) Do not post any comments that will offend anybody and/or scare someone.
 * 10) Do not post any comments that may be offensive to other users.
 * 11) Agree to disagree with other users in a polite way.
 * 12) Do not post any disturbing comments.
 * 13) Accept the opinions of others.



Blog Post Policy=
 * 1) No inappropriate language/profanity.
 * 2) Do not give out personal information.
 * 3) Do not offend users.
 * 4) Blog posts cannot contain inappropriate content.
 * 5) No cyberbullying (no name calling, making fun of, bullying, intimidating).
 * 6) Do not talk about any disturbing topics.
 * 7) Do not make pointless blog posts.
 * 8) Agree to disagree.
 * 9) Accept the opinions of others.



Blocking and Warning Policy=

Procedures
Before a user gets blocked/banned, a three strike system will be operated where that user receives three warnings. These three warnings are meant to give said user a chance to amend their behavior and review the guidelines. If the warnings are not acknowledged then that user will receive a block. Warnings do not have an expiration date.


 * Strike One: Admins will remind user(s) to review the Descendants Wiki guidelines.
 * Strike Two: Admins will warn users about their behavior and tell them not to do it again.
 * Strike Three: Users will be warned that if behavior continues then they will be blocked (time varies based on violation)
 * Final Strike: Users are blocked from the wiki. Block lengths may vary depending on how severe the act is.

Exceptions
Although most cases will require to follow the three strike progress, not all of them do. There are two exceptions: extreme cases and minor cases.

Extreme cases: Extreme cases are situations that require immediate action without warning. The user will be blocked immediately. Extreme cases include the following:


 * Complete page vandalism.
 * Discrimination of any kind (racial slurs included). This includes but not limited to:
 * Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Ableism, Sexism and any other offensive and outdated views
 * NSFW content
 * Promotion/endorsement of any of the following immoral/illegal/dangerous acts which include:
 * Pedophilia, Zoophilia, Necrophilia or any other act harmful to minors and/or animals.
 * Murder, kidnapping, robbing or any other crime.
 * Suicide encouraging/pushing comments.
 * Death or doxxing threats.

Minor cases: Minor cases are situations where the user is new and/or has not been able to clearly understand the policies.

Rules

 * 1) All users must receive warnings for each offense they make.
 * 2) Each rule of the Descendants Wiki policies counts as a different offense. Therefore, a user cannot be warned then blocked for doing two different things. For example, if a user was bullying another and they got a warning, they cannot be blocked if they vandalize a page. They would receive another warning since vandalizing a page is a different rule broken.
 * 3) Users will be allowed to post on their own message wall while blocked. However, this privilege will be taken away if they cause trouble.
 * 4) The block duration increases each time a user gets blocked until it reaches indefinite time.
 * 5) Admins must check user block logs and warnings to decide whether the user should be blocked or warned and to decide the block duration.

Restrictions

 * "Prevent account creation" must be checked.
 * "Automatically block the last IP address used by this user, and any subsequent IP address they try to edit from" must be checked.
 * "Prevent logged in users from editing this IP address" must be checked.

Expiry

 * 1 day - This is the least amount of time a user can be blocked from the wiki.
 * 3 days - Most first time bullying or vandalism offenses should be given this amount of time at the very least. This is actually where most penalties should start for first timers.
 * 1 week
 * 2 weeks
 * 1 month - This is the most amount of time a first time offender can be blocked unless the issue is very serious (threats, scares, etc.).
 * 3 months
 * 6 months
 * 1 year



Fan Content Policies=

1. Fan content cannot be published in form of articles or pages. It can only be posted as personal blog posts or in Discussion threads.

2. Fan content must always respect PG standards. Mentions of potentially triggering topics (such as S-cide, A-use, ect) will require a proper warning message at the beginning.

3. No plagiarism.

4. Try to keep fanfictions as small as you possibly can.

5. Posting links to external sites is okay, as long as it is not scam links, or links to any other thing that is not fan content related to Descendants.

6. No NSFW Fanart.