Stoneworks MC Wiki:Wiki Rules and Guidelines

Truthfulness
All encyclopaedic articles on the wiki are serious and truthful reflections of Stoneworks’ history and lore.

Vandalism
Knowingly vandalising the wiki will result in being blocked from editing the wiki. Vandalism is defined as making pages or parts of pages illegible, uploading, depicting or describing inappropriate or offensive content, using overly offensive language in pages or posts, spamming pages or posts and attempting to interfere with the wiki moderation procedure.

Acts of vandalism are considered severe if they endanger users of the Stoneworksmc wiki.

Non-original entities and events
Explicit references to real life entities and events and entities and events taken from other pieces of media will be removed from the wiki. This specifically includes, but is not limited to, references to real life religions, place names and organisations as well as characters, races, nations, wars and factions taken from other pieces of media.

This rule does not concern generic terms, concepts, tropes, entities and events. An entity or event is considered generic if it does not possess any specific attributes which unambiguously differentiate it from other entities or events of the same name.

Neutrality
Accounts of lore and events are to be presented from a neutral and unbiased point of view of an uninvolved and indifferent third person observer. Editors are to present all relevant information available to them without omitting, suppressing or needlessly discrediting information. Opinions of actors involved in the subject of an article may be referenced but are required to be marked as such to distinguish them from objective information.

All editors of an article are to be notified about major adjustments to the content of said article in order to prevent disputes between the editors. An edit is considered a major adjustment if it significantly alters the content of an article.

The wiki moderation possesses the authority to resolve any dispute of two or more parties regarding the content of an article through rulings. Cases will only be considered if all good faith attempts at communication between the disputing parties have failed. To facilitate the communication between the disputing parties, the wiki moderation possesses the authority to protect disputed articles from being edited until the dispute has been resolved.

Blank pages
All pages that are blank or quasi-blank on creation will be deleted on sight by the wiki moderation. Pages that do not contain coherent content and are not marked as work in progress are considered quasi-blank. Blanking pages created or edited by other users will be considered vandalism and may result in being blocked from editing the wiki.

All pages blanked by their original authors that have not been substantially edited by other users and are not referenced in other articles will be deleted on sight by the wiki moderation under the assumption that their author requests their deletion.

Formatting
All articles in the main namespace are to be formatted according to the formatting guidelines and common practice. The wiki moderation has the authority to adjust any article’s formatting according to the formatting guidelines and common practice at any time and without the consent of or notice to the articles’ editors.

Stonework Rulebook
Where applicable, the rules from the Stonework Rulebook apply to the Stoneworksmc Fandom wiki. The wiki moderation does not possess the authority to determine as to whether content on the wiki is in conflict with wiki rules but will remove any content ruled to be in conflict with the Stoneworks rulebook by a senior member of Stoneworks’ staff.

Content moderation
The wiki moderation does not possess the authority to alter the content of any article except when said article Is in conflict with wiki rules. All information contained in an article is considered its content. Members of the wiki moderation may still alter the content of an article but will be considered the same as users when doing so.

All articles in conflict with wiki rules will be marked by the wiki moderation prior to being deleted to allow its editors an ample amount of time to adjust their pages according to the wiki rules, except in cases of severe vandalism or when stated otherwise in the wiki rules.

Should an article contain sections of content in conflict with wiki rules that are not essential to the meaning of the article, the wiki moderation will remove the content in conflict with wiki rules rather than marking the article for deletion.

Stubs
Stubs are pages that are not of sufficient length to provide encyclopaedic coverage of their subjects. Pages that are smaller than 758 bytes or contain less than three body paragraphs of text are automatically considered stubs and will be marked accordingly by the wiki moderation or through automated processes. Pages marked as work in progress that are not edited for seven days in a row are considered abandoned and will automatically be marked as stubs. This change is automatically reverted if the article is edited after said period.

The wiki moderation will conduct mass deletions of all stub articles every time there are more than 500 pages in the stub category but at least once every six months. Users will be notified about this measure at least fourteen days in advance to provide them with ample time to properly expand their articles.

Maintenance marks
All editors possess the right to mark articles using the official. A list of all current official notice templates is attached to the wiki rules.

Currently, the official notice templates consist of the Delete, Firstperson, FirstPersonDisclaimer, Format, FormattingDisclaimer, Hub, Lit, Literature, LiteratureDisclaimer, Neutrality, NonCanon, Ongoing, Outdated, Stub and the WIP template.

The reasons as to why an article was marked are to be explained in the edit summary, a comment or on the article’s talk page, if they are not immediately apparent. Attempts to subvert the purpose of maintenance marks will result in being blocked from editing the wiki.

Page recovery
Since the Stoneworksmc wiki uses Mediawiki, all deleted pages remain accessible to the wiki moderation which is unable to irreversibly delete any content on the wiki.

All users may request to receive a text file of the latest revision of any deleted article in a wiki ticket on the official Stoneworks discord. Articles will only be restored if their deletion was not in accordance with the wiki rules and guidelines. The wiki moderation may deny providing a text file of the latest revision of a deleted article in cases of severe vandalism.

The wiki moderation will report any content that endangers users of the Stoneworkmc wiki to Fandom staff and request the irreversible deletion or obstruction of said content to make it unavailable to the wiki moderation.

Language
All articles not primarily written in English will be deleted on sight by the wiki moderation. Users that wish to contribute translations of articles into other languages are encouraged to notify the wiki moderation of this endeavour to facilitate the creation of a language specific wiki.

Interference with moderation procedure
Deliberately and knowingly interfering with the moderation of the Stoneworksmc wiki and the enforcement of its rules and guidelines will result in being blocked from editing the wiki. User interference will be considered deliberate and knowing if the user in question fails to adjust their behaviour in accordance with the wiki rules and guidelines despite being made aware about them by the wiki moderation.

Rule exemptions
Entities and events created prior to July 21, 2021, are considered exempt from wiki rules on non-original entities and events and may retain their names provided they are taken from other pieces of media and not real life entities and events. Entities and events created prior to February 27, 2021, are considered exempt from wiki rules on non-original entities and events.

Articles on the wiki may reference entities and events considered exempt from wiki rules on non-original entities and events. Entities and events that are derivations or iterations of entities or events considered exempt from wiki rules on non-original entities and events are likewise considered exempt form wiki rules on non-original entities and events provided they reference the same non-original entities and events as the entities or events they derive from or are an iteration of.

Marking
All articles concerning entities and events within or related to a specific Tremons season are to be marked using the Tremons template and the appropriate season parameter.

Non-Tremons entities and events
The lore and history of each Tremons season are considered entirely separate from the lore of other Stoneworks worlds and Tremons seasons. Thereby, articles concerning entities and events within or related to a specific Tremons season should not contain references to entities and events from other Stoneworks worlds or Tremons seasons and vice versa.

Any references of this nature will be removed for being in conflict with wiki rules on purposefully inserting false information which may result in the deletion of articles.

Kylorne wiki rules
Since June 26, 2023, all articles concerning entities and events within Kylorne are considered legacy articles. This does not apply to entities originating in Kylorne that migrated to Rathnir or Eldham. Users are free to reference articles on entities and events within Kylorne in articles concerning entities and events within Rathnir or Eldham.

Page names
The page name of a page is provided upon page creation by the user creating the page. It is part of the page's URL and can only be adjusted by moving the page through Special:Move. The display title of a page is the title that displays at the very top of the article. It can be adjusted by using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word.


 * Only create articles in the main, user and user_blog namespaces.
 * Do not start pagenames with an article except where strictly necessary.
 * Keep pagenames as concise as possible. Adjust display titles when appropriate.
 * Do not use special characters or punctuation marks in pagenames.
 * Do not use bracketed text in page names, except when distinguishing different entities of the same name.
 * Do not leave behind redirects for orphaned pages when moving a page.

Headings
All text on a page that is wrapped inside of wikitext heading markup or h tags are considered headings. The level of a heading is always identical to the number amended to the h tag.


 * Do not use headings identical to the article’s title.
 * Do not use level one headings except to indicate the beginning of in-universe literature in literature articles.
 * Omit headings deeper than level four.
 * Remain consistent with heading levels. When using subheadings, always use the next deeper heading level.
 * Do not use vague language in headings. Be concise and descriptive.
 * Do not use multiple identical headings.
 * Do not refer back to the title of an article or an earlier heading in headings, except to distinguish headings that would otherwise be identical.
 * Always capitalise the first word in each heading. Otherwise, sentence case applies.
 * Do not start headings with an article except where strictly necessary.
 * Do not use links in headings.
 * Do not use punctuation marks in headings.
 * Omit headings without content.
 * Do not use more than one line-break when putting a subheading below a heading without body text.
 * Do not use boldface, underlines, italics or other text decorations in headings.

Breaks

 * Do not put more than a single line break after a section.
 * Do not put html breaks when also putting line breaks.

Images

 * Do not use the same image multiple times in one article.
 * Always use slideshow galleries when using more than one image per section.
 * Put images not immediately relevant to a specific section into a gallery section at the bottom of the article.

Author’s notes
All text providing commentary from an article's author are considered author's notes. This also extends to text directly addressing other editors.


 * Do not put author’s notes as visible body text.
 * Always put author’s notes as comments.
 * Mark articles as work in progress using the WIP template instead of an author’s note.

Links

 * Always use hyperlinks. Do not provide raw urls.
 * Do not link to articles that do not exist.
 * Do not link to the same article more than once in the body text, except when linking to different sections of the same article.
 * Omit multiple links directly behind one another in the body text.
 * Do not link to disambiguation pages in the body text.
 * Do not link to external web pages when their content can be displayed on the article through other means.
 * Do not link to google documents. Upload the document to the wiki instead or create a literature page.
 * Do not link to discord servers, channels, embeds or messages. Upload a screenshot to the wiki instead.

Body text
The body text of an article is all coherent text in an article's paragraphs. Headings, lists, tables and infoboxes that are not contained within article's paragraphs are not part of the body text.


 * Always use an introductory paragraph at the top of the article above the first heading.
 * Do not alter the font, font-size, colour, background colour or text decoration in the body text.
 * Do not use emojis at any point in an article.
 * Always write out numbers shorter than three words.
 * Do not use colloquialisms or contractions.
 * Always use quotation marks instead of parenthesis.
 * Always use the third person.
 * Always use present tense to describe entities currently existing in-universe.
 * Always use past tense to describe entities that no longer exist in-universe or events that have happened in the past.

Italics

 * Do not use italics for emphasis in the body text.
 * Use italics for titles of larger works of media and literature.
 * Use italics for non-English words that are neither commonly used nor proper names.
 * Use italics for scientific names of plants, animals, races and other biological organisms.

Boldface

 * Do not use boldface for emphasis in the body text.
 * Use boldface for the first instance of the article’s title in the introductory section.
 * Use boldface for the first instance of alternative names of the article’s subject in the introductory section.

Other markup

 * Do not use big, small, strong, strike, em, b, u or any other html markup tag in the body text.
 * Only use the sup tag for ordinal numbers longer than two words.
 * Only use span and div to assign style properties where strictly necessary.

Quotation marks

 * Do not use quotation marks for emphasis.
 * Always use quotation marks for direct quotes.
 * Always use quotation marks for the English translations of non-English words.
 * Always use quotation marks for quasi-quotations.

Quotes

 * Always use the quote template for quotes longer than two lines.
 * Do not use quotes without context in the body text.
 * Do not create sections solely consisting of quotes.
 * Always put works of in-universe literature in separate articles.

Lists

 * Do not use lists to format paragraphs
 * Do not use lists without context in the body text.
 * Do not create sections solely consisting of lists.
 * Only use lists for content that cannot be expressed in body text or tables.

Tables

 * Use the wikitable class for tables.
 * For small tables, set the float property of tables to right to display the table next to the body text.
 * Do not use tables without context.
 * Do not use tables in place of portable infoboxes.

In-universe literature

 * Articles representing pieces of in-universe literature are not subject to regular formatting guidelines apart from these specific guidelines.
 * Always put sections representing pieces of in-universe literature in separate articles.
 * Always mark articles containing pieces of in-universe literature using the literature template.
 * Use a level one heading identical to the title of the piece of in-universe literature to denote the start of the content of said piece of in-universe literature.
 * Always write an introductory paragraph above the level one heading providing information on the piece of in-universe literature represented in the article. This introductory paragraph is subject to regular formatting guidelines.

Disambiguation pages

 * Always add “(disambiguation)” to the end of the pagename of disambiguation pages.
 * In the introductory line, link to the entity most relevant to user searches of the term being disambiguated.
 * Do not create disambiguation pages for terms with less than four articles. Use hatnotes instead.
 * Only list entities that possess articles on the wiki.
 * Only list articles, the name of which is identical to the term being disambiguated or that are commonly referred to using the term being disambiguated.
 * Do not add descriptions to the listed entities beyond very brief context of less than a sentence.