Ban-worthy offenses
- Vandalism, such as falsely inserting or removing information.
- This includes swearing in edits or edit summaries.
- Spamming:
- Excessive undoing or redoing edits.
- Redacting articles or creating blank pages excessively.
- Badge farming (making edits for the sake of getting badges).
- Engaging in "edit wars".
- If you need help, ask the staff
- Don't be afraid to talk to your fellow users about edits.
- Being disruptive to the workings of the wiki.
- Pornographic content may not be posted, uploaded, or linked to.
- Attempting to evade bans, blocks, or warning count in any fashion.
- Multiple accounts are not allowed.
- Having an account while under-age is considered breaking Terms of Service.
- Breaking other policies as defined by Fandom Terms of Service.
- Not following community guidelines for formatting.
- Repeatedly not following the community guidelines.
In regards to users
- Excessive self-promotion.
- Users who do not contribute should not excessively edit their user page.
- Abusing user rights.
- Harming other users:
- Offensive or misleading usernames/avatars.
- Impersonating another user.
- Editing another user's userpage.
- Posting personal information of users.
- Content which may be gory or bloody, unless from the series.
- Content which may upset/distress people, unless from the series.
- Being uncivil to others.
- Swearing is allowed, unless directed at other users, minorities or other classes of people.
In regards to articles, files and edits
- Do not upload fan edits, fan art or other fan media.
- A file's name and description are subject to the guidelines.
- Uploading pages or files that violate copyright and/or guidelines.
- Uploading a page/file not relevant to the wiki (External References to FLCL, is the only exception)
- Uploading excessive and unnecessary files for personal use.
- Uploading a file you do not intend to use.
- Improper use of the licensing feature.
- All significant changes (e.g. article reformatting) must be discussed with the staff first.
How are bans handled?
If a user is found to be doing any of these, warnings will be given. At the first offense, users will receive a warning of the disallowed action(s). They will receive three warnings total and a ban afterwards. Warnings are removed after one month of good behavior. Ban lengths will be scaled to offense levels, of which admins have full authority to determine on a case-by-case basis. Warnings may be skipped entirely for certain offenses. If you feel you've been unjustly banned and would like to discuss an appeal, you may post on your message wall. If you've been banned from doing so, staff can be contacted on their Community Central pages. If it is still not resolved to your liking, you can then submit a ticket to Fandom with a link to the discussion(s) you've had already.
Reminder: External Fandom staff do not exercise their power on wiki disputes. Involving them is a waste of their time and your own.