Polandball Wiki:Rules

The rules for this Wiki are as follows, please read them carefully:

Essential Rules

 * 1) Essential Rules override every other category. Bear this in mind.
 * 2) Follow Fandom's Terms of Service. Do not encourage others to break Fandom's Terms of Service either. Punishment: 3 day block for every offense
 * 3) This cannot be stressed enough. You  WILL  be banned from this Wiki for broadcasting unwanted personal information of other users (doxxing) Punishment: 2 weeks ~ infinite
 * 4) Do not insult or bait other members of the community. Punishment: 3 days
 * 5) Do not insult or bait the Fandom Staff: 1 week block, possible global block
 * 6) Do not make fun of a user's depression/mental health: 1 week block
 * 7) If you insult, vandalize, spam, threaten, create spamming-sockpuppets, type inappropriate information and insult other wikis, we will ask Staff/VSTF to global block you. Punishment: Globally blocked
 * 8) Do not declare "war" or start a "coup" against the Polandball Wiki. If you are unhappy with how the wiki is run, please say what you don't like about it and the staff will try to fix it. Punishment: 1 month block
 * 9) Discriminatory speech, especially discriminatory slurs are banned, as it violates Fandom's Terms of Use. This includes Anti-LGBT, Religious hate, Ethnic hate, Racism and many other forms of prejudice Warning, 3 day block, possible global block
 * 10) Genocide denial is a special exception because of it's association with ultra-nationalism and the audacity of the action. Punishment: 1 week block for first offense, permanent block for repeated offense (denying the same genocide)
 * 11) You must be 13 years or older to be on this wiki, according to Fandom's Terms of Use. Punishment (if under 13): Banned until 13th birthday or until join date when the user is projected to be 13 (if birthday is non-disclosed)
 * 12) Side note, the ban may last for a bit while you are 13 if the latter is the case, since the mods won't know when you will turn 13.
 * 13) Pressuring a user to reveal their age when they declined to do so is prohibited - Punishment: 3 days
 * 14) DO NOT MINI-MOD. This means acting like an admin/chatmod even though you aren't one. If a person isn't behaving, tell the admins, they will resolve the issue, you don't need to type in all caps at them. Punishment: Warning
 * 15) Do not send false reports. The admins at Polandball Wiki volunteer at their job and you wasting their time is not helping anyone. Attempting to report a staff member to the VSTF wiki because you are butthurt about being banned also counts. Punishment: 1 month per false report.
 * 16) Treat other users (especially staff) with respect. If your actions, despite not breaking any previously mentioned rules, have been deemed unacceptable by the admins (Ex: Sarcasm, Satire), you may be punished. Punishment: Warning
 * 17) Immaturity is an extension of this rule. If enough of your actions have been reported as immature, staff might vote on whether to punish you on it or not. Punishment: 6 months

Rules about other wikis

 * 1) Do not raid other wikis on behalf of the Polandball Wiki. Punishment: 1 month block (first offense) or permanent block (second offense), if mods find out about the raid via discovery or complaint by another wiki; possible global block
 * 2) Do not spread drama from other wikis to the Polandball Wiki, and vice versa Punishment: 2 week block
 * 3) While you can make your own wikis, please keep them as distinct from the PB Wiki as possible, as meta wikis (i.e. wiki about PB Wiki users) are prohibited. Punishment: Founder gets permanently block until wiki is closed by Fandom

Uploading and creating images rules

 * 1) When uploading an image of a countryball, make sure the countryball doesn't use circle-tool, line-tool, curve tool, and copy-paste. The exception to this is if it is your Wiki avatar, although it is discouraged. Punishment: Deletion, then warning
 * 2) Brush tool has been a topic of controversy due to the rise of smartphone artists and photoshop users. We'll mostly allow it unless the image is too hideous to be associated with Polandball.
 * 3) If you upload an image, comic, or artwork that was made by another user (Wikia, Reddit, etc.) other than yourself, please give credit to that user in the image's description. Punishment: Warning
 * 4) You can use any painting program that has the ability to draw countryballs and not just MS Paint (Paint.NET, Photoshop, GIMP, etc.).

Page-making rules
Further Reading: Polandball_Wiki:Rules/Pages
 * 1) DO NOT MAKE PAGES OF:
 * 2) Fictional country you made up. Punishment: Deletion and Warning
 * 3) Something that isn't/wasn't a political entity (country, city, state, etc.). This excludes militaries, political parties and religions. Punishment: Deletion and Warning
 * 4) Something that was recently deleted. Punishment: 1 week per previously deleted page
 * 5) If you believe that you have a good enough reason to remake a page, contact an admin first to get permission.

Editing rules
Further Reading: Polandball_Wiki:Rules/Categories
 * 1) Vandalizing is not allowed in any way or form. Punishment: 3 days ~ 6 months
 * 2) Edit warring on any pages is not allowed. Punishment: 1 day ~ 1 month
 * 3) Actively changing gender of countryballs is a form of vandalism/edit warring, albeit a milder one.
 * 4) Do not add spam/duplicate categories. Punishment: Warning
 * 5) Changing the infobox image of a countryball that already has an infobox image is only allowed with approval from a moderator. Punishment: Warning
 * 6) Do not add a family section on a countryball page. There's already the relations section. Punishment: Warning
 * 7) Do not make pages that have previously been deleted without admin permission. The wiki is undergoing projects to cut back pages, there will be no mercy for this rule. Punishment: One week per page.
 * 1) If a page needs to be cleaned up, please add the "Cleanup" category.
 * 2) If a page has propaganda, misspelling or just has horrible formating, please add the  template.
 * 3) If a page contents that will change (e.g.: ISISball, USAball) make sure to add
 * 4) If a page needs to be deleted please add the  template but please don't remove the contents of the page, the admins need to check what the page was about before deleting it.
 * 5) If a page has 5 or more templates, it is OK to have the combination template, so the templates of that page are all in one single expandable template. If a page has 4 or less templates, the page's templates are separate from each other and the combination template is not allowed.

Userpage Rules

 * 1) Having enemies listed is not allowed. Punishment: Warning, then manual deletion and 1 day block

Blogpost Rules

 * 1) Making nonsense blogs/blogs for badge farming/clogposting is not allowed. Punishment: Deletion of blog as a warning

Discussion Rules

 * 1) Do not start or engage in drama. Punishment: Warning, possible block to biggest culprit
 * 2) Pointless bickering is banned, especially political. Seriously you're on a political satire FANDOM website, grow up. Punishment: 1 day Warning, deletion'''
 * 3) Don't post or make polls excessively. '''Punishment:
 * 4) Low-quality posts will be deleted, and if done excessively, you may receive a block under lines of immaturity.
 * 5) Due to a wiki defect, images posted directly in Discussions cannot be deleted. To combat this, we will delete your entire thread and also warn you.
 * 6) Poorly drawn art will be deleted due to being an eyesore, but we'll redirect you to the discord where you can improve.
 * 7) Do not necropost (revive inactive threads) if they haven't been active for a week. Punishment: Warning to 6 hour block

Punishment Rules

 * 1) Punishments listed are of first offenses. All punishments, aside from remaking deleted pages and immaturity, are malleable. For every offense after the first, the punishment is upgraded to the next default provided by FANDOM. Additionally, it may be altered or even elevated according to severity and previous contributions to the wiki.
 * 2) If said users are extremely suspicious (having little to no normal edits but a lot of rule breaking ones), the initial ban time may be elevated to the next tier or the tier after that.
 * 3) Do not make alts to surpass bans. Punishment: Permanently Banned (the Alt), banned for a longer time the original account)

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