General rules[]
- BE BOLD! in updating pages. Go ahead, it's a wiki!
Encourage others, including those who disagree with you, likewise to BE BOLD! - Disruptive editing is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, vandalism (including hoaxes), spam/promotion, and edit warring. Pages being subjected to excessive disruption may be protected to prevent further disruption. Pages whose sole purpose is to disrupt this wiki will be deleted. Test edits in articles will be reverted; use the sandbox for tests.
- Be civil to other users at all times. This includes, but is not limited to: 1) no queerphobia (including homophobia, biphobia, aphobia, and transphobia), heterophobia, etc. 2) no disparagement of persons based on their race, gender, religion, etc, or use of racial slurs, etc. 3) try to avoid excessive profanity. Repeat violators[Notes 1] are likely to be blocked from editing this wiki.
- No personal attacks. Don't write that user such and so is an idiot, or insult him/her (even if (s)he is an idiot). Instead, explain what they did wrong, why it is wrong, and how to fix it. If possible, fix it yourself (but see above).
- When in doubt, take it to the talk page. We have all the time in the world. Mutual respect is the guiding behavioural principle of Fandom and, although everyone knows that their writing may be edited mercilessly, it is easier to accept changes if the reasons for them are understood. If you discuss changes on the article's talk (or discussion) page before you make them, you should reach consensus faster and happier.
- Respect copyright. This wiki uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. All text you contribute must be compatible with that licence. Copyright violations are taken very seriously; violations within pages will be removed, and pages whose entire content and history are pure copyright violations will be deleted. Repeat infringers[Notes 1] will be blocked. See also Dungeon Keeper Wiki:Copyrights.
- Files should have appropriate copyright tags (see Category:Copyright tags). Those used under fair use should be tagged with
{{Fairuse}}
. It is good practice to also include a rationale to justify its use. Free files (such as those in the public domain or licensed under a free licence, such as the Creative Commons Attribution License) are strongly preferred over fair use files. In general, fair use files should only be used if it increases an article's informational value and there is no free file that can serve the same purpose, and should only go in a gallery if it cannot fit elsewhere. See also the Licensing policy and the Fair Use and Image Licensing blog on Community Central.
- Files should have appropriate copyright tags (see Category:Copyright tags). Those used under fair use should be tagged with
- Decent edit summaries are encouraged, but not compulsory. It is useful for other editors to understand your process, and it also helps you yourself to understand what you did after a long leave of absence from an article. Please state what you changed and why. If the explanation is too long, add more on the discussion page.
- Assume good faith; in other words, try to consider that the person on the other end of the discussion is a thinking, rational being who is trying to positively contribute to the project — unless, and only unless, you have firm, solid, and objective proof to the contrary. Merely disagreeing with you is no such proof.
- Particularly, don't revert good faith edits without a good reason. Reverting is too powerful sometimes. Don't succumb to the temptation, unless you're reverting very obvious vandalism (like "LALALALAL*&*@#@THIS_SUX0RZ", or someone changing "1+2=3" to "1+2=17") or disruption (see above). If you really can't stand something, revert once, with an edit summary something like "(rv) I disagree strongly, I'll explain why in talk." and immediately take it to talk.
- Be graceful: Be liberal in what you accept, be conservative in what you do. Try to accommodate other people's quirks the best you can, but try to be as polite, solid, and straightforward as possible yourself.
- Sign your posts on talk pages using ~~~~, which gets replaced by your username and timestamp when you hit Save. But don't sign on mainspace articles.
- Material not related to Dungeon Keeper may be deleted at any time, unless there's a legitimate use for it.
Blocking rules[]
Users may be blocked on this wiki for the following reasons:
- Severe or recurring disruption (see above)
- Severe or recurring harassment, including hounding, personal or legal threats, posting of personal information, repeated messaging and ignoring their request to be left alone
- Severe or recurring personal attacks (see above)
- Sockpuppetry
- Recurring copyright violations
- Fandom Terms of Use or Community Guidelines violations
There are no firm local rules regarding the length of blocks, but first ones are likely to be short, with subsequent ones being increasingly longer. Long-term repeat offenders or those who have committed a particularly serious offence may even be blocked indefinitely. However, per Fandom's policy, IP addresses are not to be blocked for longer than 3 months at a time. Block evaders may receive further sanctions (e.g. an extension of the original block), at administrator discretion. Blocks must only be done as a preventative measure, never a punitive one.
Protection rules[]
The majority of pages on this wiki will remain unprotected to encourage all users to edit. Pages will only be protected if there is a specific need, such as:
- Persistent vandalism or other disruption
- Protecting the proper display of the wiki (i.e. wiki logo, frequently used templates, the main page, policy pages, etc.)
Pages are never to be protected because of a disagreement, to reserve a page for later editing, to mark a page as complete, or to preserve one's "preferred" revision of a page. To request protection for a page, or for a page's protection to be reviewed, ask an administrator or content moderator.
Deletion rules[]
The following pages may be deleted without discussion:
- Vandalism (including hoaxes)
- Spam/promotion
- Test pages
- Copyright violations
- Attack pages
- Off-topic content
- Redirects that are not used and not likely to be
- Fandom Terms of Use or Community Guidelines violations
- Pages that are otherwise disruptive to the project (see above)
- Pages that need to be deleted for technical reasons or to housekeep the project
More ambiguous cases (e.g. noteworthiness) should be discussed first. You can use the {{delete}}
template to flag a page for deletion. Be sure to give a reason for deletion, as described in the template's documentation.
Deletion can only be performed by administrators and Content Moderators. Do not pseudo-delete a page (e.g. by blanking it); that is disruptive and may result in a block.
See also[]
- w:c:Community:Help:Wikitext - guidance on wiki formatting.
- Dungeon Keeper Wiki:Administrators - details on the role and powers of administrators.