User:Magicmason1000/Sandbox/Rules

On the Zelda Wiki, we have rules to ensure that everyone here can feel safe and that work on the wiki can always be productive. This article is about the general rules of the wiki. If you wish to read the rules on how to edit the wiki, see the Guideline pages.

Basic Rules

 * 1) Keep it civil: Follow the Code of Conduct. Do not make personal attacks on other people. If you need to criticize another user’s argument, do so without attacking them as a person. Do not use bigoted language, including slurs that degrade another person or group of people based on gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, etc. Act like you would if you were in public, because you are.
 * 2) Be a productive member of the wiki: Contribute to the wiki in line with the established processes and conventions. Need help? Ask an administrator! Disrupting the wiki with “edit warring” over differing opinions of a topic with another user or group of users is not productive.
 * 3) Do not engage in excessive self-promotion: The wiki is a collaborative community resource for the topic at hand. It is NOT a free place to advertise your related website, YouTube channel, blog, social media account, etc. Have a question about whether your link would be welcome? Ask an administrator!
 * 4) Do not harass other users: If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their wall, respect their wishes. It is their wall. Do not directly annoy or disrespect another user through their talk page or your own.
 * 5) Do follow community guidelines for formatting: All users should format their content in the style listed by the Guidelines. A full list of guidelines for each individual topic can be found here. New users will be directed to the guidelines and will be given additional help, and will not be blamed if they are not able to find or understand the guidelines quickly.

If you have any questions about these rules, we ask that you please contact us on our Discord server ! We can respond quicker on Discord, but if you are not able to use Discord, we will still respond to our talk pages. See the staff list for who to contact!

Block Times
This section will highlight how long a person will be banned, based on the severity of offense.

Explanations

 * Using Alt Accounts — Users should stick to using only a single account, but if multiple accounts used by the same user are found, then a warning will be issued to the original user asking to remove their second account. If the warning is ignored, then the second account will be removed by staff.
 * Edit Warring — Two or more users that continuously undo each others edits in an argument is considered . An edit war is designated after an edit is undone and redone three times consecutively. A staff member should be contacted in order to resolve the situation.
 * Ignoring Rule-Based Directives from Staff — If a user is aware of a certain rule but blatantly goes against it. This is different from a new user not understanding different rules or guidelines, and directions will be given in that matter. This is where a user directly goes against what a staff member has asked them to do.
 * Advertising — Any links or redirects to other media that is not used for citations or interwiki links. If you are unsure about your link being classified as an advertisement, ask a staff member!
 * Ban Evading — Using any method to try and get around a ban before the ban time is up.
 * Vandalism — Adding / replacing content with gibberish, blatantly false information, or anything generally unhelpful. This is different than Non-Zelda Content in the way that this is not trying to add things from different media, but just outright spamming.