Animal Crossing Wiki:Rules

 The Animal Crossing Wiki Rules

The following rules apply to all users. They cover the expected user conduct and basic Wiki rules.

If you need help understanding the rules, please use the talk page. All changes and proposals to the rules must be discussed.

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 * style="color:#000;" | 1. Talking to other users


 * 1) Talk politely to other users.
 * 2) Do not post comments such as 'Hi!' or 'I'm bored'. Doing so may result in you being sharked.
 * 3) Do not swear. If you want to use a bad word, then use it nicely and put *s after the first letter. Try to use this as little as possible.
 * 4) If you swear at another user, you will be blocked, depending on the way it was used.
 * 5) It is not acceptable to post one word replies such as 'OK' or 'yeah' because they add nothing to the discussion.
 * 6) It is okay to post your personal information such as name, age and location (no more specific than state/province level (e.g. Tennessee is okay, Nashville, TN is not)
 * 7) Posting information of other users is not acceptable and will result in bans.
 * 8) It is acceptable to discuss topics of sexuality as long as no pornographic content is posted or linked to without a clear warning.

 2. User page content


 * 1) No offensive and/or pornographic content on user pages. If a user is found with pornography on their page, or has uploaded said material, they can be blocked for at least 6 months, if not longer.
 * 2) No racist content.
 * 3) No content which may be gory or bloody.
 * 4) No content which may upset/distress people.
 * 5) Do not edit another user's user page. Only administrators are permitted to do this, unless it says so on the page.
 * 6) You must be logged in to edit your userpage.
 * 7) It is acceptable to discuss topics of sexuality as long as no pornographic content is posted or linked to without a clear warning.

 3. Spam and vandalism


 * 1) Vandalism is the insertion of rubbish/gibberish into pages. Spam is where one posts links to a site repeatedly in articles, to promote said site.
 * 2) Users who vandalise are punished the same as users who spam.
 * 3) If the spam links to a website containing a) gory b) offensive c) pornographic or d) screamer videos, the length of block will multiply by the number of times the links are blocked.
 * 4) Persistent vandals a) need a life, and b) will be blocked.
 * 5) Multiple IP vandals, see clause 3. That's a range block, by the way.
 * 6) Persistent posting of material that is deemed sharkable (see section 1, clause 2) is deemed spam.

 4. Spelling and grammar


 * 1) DO NOT speak in chatspeak, or textspeak. e.g. "Are you well, thank you for the gift, Susan" is preferable to "r u ok, thx 4 th gft suzn" - that is hard to read and annoying.
 * 2) Plurals are not spelt with an apostrophe. Compare: 'The trees' to 'The tree's'. First one, correct; second one, the tree's what? What does the tree have?
 * 3) Do not use the word 'you'. Replace 'you' with 'the player'. Note that 'player' does not need to be capitalised. Because the gender of the player can be either male or female, replace with he/she, him/her or, more preferably, 'they'. 'One' is also acceptable.
 * 4) The American spelling of words is preferable. Compare: 'humor' (USA) to 'humour' (UK).
 * 5) Make sure you're using the correct phrase relating to a character's gender: I've seen some users use 'he' instead of 'she' and 'him' instead of 'her', and probably the other way around too.
 * 6) Don't confuse 'affect' and 'effect'. Compare: 'The rain affects his hair' (verb: to affect) and 'The rain has an effect on his hair' (noun: an effect). 'The rain has an affect on his hair' and 'The rain effects his hair' are incorrect.
 * 7) No conjunctions, always spell out the word. Example: they're should be they are.
 * 8) Only proper nouns or words at the beginning of a sentence are to be capitalised. We Do Not Capitalise Words Like This In British Or American English. Or Australian, For That Matter. It's annoying. However, on blogs, we do permit you to capitalise all letters in a noun for emphasis. e.g. "When Jeremy and I went into the haunted house, it was VERY scary!" See?
 * 9) A comma always comes before the 'and' or 'or' in a series, for example: Bob, Kitty, and Kiki are all cats. Not using the comma would result in a pairing of Kitty and Kiki, removing the use of a series in the first place.

 5. Article style


 * 1) No point of view. This is like saying: 'Rosie is really nice and i like her lots'. Aside from being considered vandalism, it can cause more and more users to do it. It just gets annoying. Info like that goes on your user page.


 * 1) Most Projects have a special manual of style that they wish for you to use. If you have any questions, please ask the project leader.


 * 1) No huge blank spaces.


 * 1) No 'claims of authorship' - nobody wants to know who wrote the third paragraph, etc. You don't see it on Wikipedia, so don't do it here.

 6. Images and files


 * 1) Please do not upload images if you are not going to use them on an article, userpage or whatnot.
 * 2) Same applies with music files.
 * 3) Please use a licensing template for each image/music file.
 * 4) No uploading of idiotic pictures that you were not going to use anyway, such as, a picture of a fat man holding a toy car. It is unnecessary.
 * 5) Upload only appropriate images.
 * 6) No personal villager images. Only add new images for villagers, or in-game screen shots.

 7. Dealing with spam


 * 1) Just remove the spam from the page. Simple as.
 * 2) If it's a spam/vandalism page, mark with the Delete template like this: delete at the top of the page, and leave a note at Animal Crossing Wiki:Deleting.

 8. Admins and rollbacks


 * 1) Yes, we all know admins and rollbacks are insanely cool :P, but don't constantly beg people so you can be an admin. It's considered a form of spam, and it makes you even less likely to ever become an admin or rollback.
 * 2) There's not much to be jealous about if you've been refused an admin place. All you get is a delete button, a block button, and a fancy undo button. And don't worry, the community listens to all users, be they admins or non-admins.
 * 3) Becoming an admin or rollback: Animal Crossing City:Promoting. Go there and leave your name under the headings. People will vote for or against you. Once you get 3 'support' votes, you become what you applied for.
 * 4) To see a list of current admins and rollbacks, head to Animal Crossing City:Administrators
 * 5) One must make sure one is eligible to become an admin or rollback.

 9. Linking


 * 1) To link to a page on THIS wiki, just put the page name in  and.
 * 2) To change the text that appears on the page, just put wanted text.
 * 3) To link to an external site, just coy the entire url to the page.
 * 4) To change the external link text, just put [url wordsonpage] . Notice the space between the url and the appearing words.

 10. Capitalizing


 * 1) Usernames and proper nouns should always be capitalized.
 * 2) 'Player' should not be capitalized, unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.
 * 3) 'City' should be capitalized.

 11: Blog posts and message walls


 * 1) General chat must be kept on blog comments or fourms.
 * 2) Talk pages are for wiki related discussion only.
 * 3) That means no opinions about villagers.
 * 4) Threads may be locked if they are posted on after six weeks of inactivity.
 * 5) The sole exception to this is this one which serves as a general chat thread.

 12: Voting


 * 1) There are five voting pages on the wiki; Deleting, Promoting, Proposals, Moving and Merging.
 * 2) Three  votes means the proposed action will take place, likewise if a debate gets three  votes, the proposed action will not take place.
 * 3)  votes will not affect the vote.
 * 4) Any comments need to be indented an extra time and have a.
 * 5) On the Promote page, if a user is nominated by another user, the action only needs two votes for to be passed, because the nomination counts as a vote for.

 13. Chat


 * 1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 apply in the chat.
 * 2) Swearing in the chat is discouraged but not forbidden.
 * 3) We ask that chat users keep the chat PG-13.
 * 4) Section 4 does not apply but users are encouraged to follow it.
 * 5) Admins may promote users to Chat Moderators without following procedure at the Promotion page.
 * 6) Abusing these rights will result in a ban from the Animal Crossing Wiki.
 * 7) Abusing your rights as Chat Moderator will result in a ban from the Animal Crossing Wiki.
 * 8) Breaking a chain (3 or more of the same post) will get you kicked. <3
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