Close Enough Wiki:Rules

This is the wiki rules page for the users of Close Enough Wiki, for those who are require to take heed of the rules that implies to most of the users including admins and bureaucrats.

Strikes & Steps

If you are able to edit on the wiki, you are able to be civil being. Frequent rule breaking will result in heading to "Srikes & Steps"

STRIKES

STRIKE 1: Warning. A moderator will inform you about what you have done and give you a warning.

STRIKE 2: Banned for a month. Should you continue to break rules, you will be informed once again by a moderator, and a block will be placed on you for a month. No exceptions.

STRIKE 3: Permanent banishment. If you continue to break the rules, you will be permanently banned from editing the wiki. After six months, you can appeal by doing the following steps.

STEPS

STEP 1: You must appeal by filling out a special form, explaining all of the errors of your ways and how you plan on improving.

STEP 2: All moderators must approve of your appeal. If all appeal, the block will be lifted, if not, your banishment will continue for three months before you can appeal again, and so on.

STEP 3: Once un-banned, you will be treated as a new user for a month, afterwards you will be given full freedom. If you fall into the strikes again, you will be permanently banned and will be unable to appeal.

Basic Rules

• No spamming.
• No trolling.
• No sockpuppeting (Creating multiple accounts to dodge a ban).
• No hosting links to full episodes of the show.
• Do not swear on the main site (unless its in context to the series)
• No swearing in the episode or Character comment section or the Discussion page.
• Do not swear to other users.
• Do not necropost (The act of posting on threads that have gone at least a month without replies).
• Users must only comment 5 times per day and if they go over past 5, they will recieve a warning.
• Do not post comments or edits that are deemed insensitive or subject to discrimination against users or characters based on any characteristics. (e.g gender, religion, race, orientation etc)

Editing Rules

• Do not vandalize articles or other users' profile pages.
• No edit wars (Reverting edits back to their old form to spite another user).
• Do not badge hunt or milk edits.
• Do not make useless edits.
• Do not add or upload files such as videos, images, etc that is either inappropriate or has nothing to with the show.

Chat/Thread Rules

• Do not idle for too long, idling for more than 5-6 hours will result in a kick. If this becomes a recurring issue, bans will be placed.
• Do not post ASCII art or Zalgo text, this counts as spam.
• Do not swear to other users.
• Do not post long links, lyrics or any other text that will flood the chat.
  • If possible, shorten long links by using TinyURL

Image Policies

• Images and videos must be related to Close Enough. No fan art is permitted.
• Any images that are not related to the show will be swiftly deleted. Chat screen shots are permitted. However, chat shots used as evidence of rule violations will be deleted after a call is made on their content.
• All images must be used. Unused images will be deleted daily.
• If an image features any characters (main or minor), that image must be placed in character's respective gallery and also the episode gallery where that image came from.
• Images must be licensed, and no image may violate any copyright. This means that you must have permission from the source to display an image here. Just because an image is on the Internet does not mean it can be used on the Wiki.
• No images from Tumblr will be permitted. Tumblr has their own copyright policies, and taking pictures from Tumblr without their consent is a copyright violation.
• Do not upload images with letterboxing (black bars).
• Do not upload images that are already on the Wiki (duplicates).
• Do not upload gifs.
• Do not upload low-quality or small images.
• Do not upload images with watermarks or logos.
• Do not upload episode images without using the accurate naming for them. Example:S#E##Descriptionofimage.png.
• Users will be warned if they upload unrelated images. If the behavior persists, they will be blocked.

Galleries

• Keep images in chronological order.
• Do not add captions to gallery images.
• No fan images should be in any gallery.

Credits to the Clarence wiki.