Betrayal.io Wiki:General Guidelines

The General Guidelines are more than just suggestions for users of Betrayal.io Wiki: they are mandatory to follow.

Basic Rules

 * 1) Follow FANDOM's Terms of Service and be aware of their Privacy Policy. If any of these policies violate the Terms and Privacy Policy, follow those guidelines instead of the following.
 * 2) The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would like to have done unto yourself.
 * 3) Stop When Told To: stop means stop.
 * 4) Appropriate Use of Language: Only use language to be respectful to others; discriminatory words do hurt.
 * 5) Discrimination: Discrimination against people because of their race, ethnicity, culture, sexuality *, romantic interests, gender identity, gender assigned at birth, beliefs, and nonbeliefs is not permitted in any way. * Mockery by creating a unique sexuality or one not recognized by true members of the LGBTQIA+ community is also not permitted.
 * 6) Keep Child Friendly: All content should be made with the verified viewer rating of G, PG, or PG13+.
 * 7) This is a community for a children's game, not a site to share NSFW, R-rated, X-rated, mature (M), and/or NSFL content.
 * 8) Responding to posts that do not follow this guideline without reporting them to content moderators disregards and condones the situation.
 * 9) Do not curse or use replacements for curse words.
 * 10) Malicious Activities: Do not spam, cyberbully, troll, or vandalize.

User Page Guidelines

 * 1) Appropriate Name: All users' usernames must be appropriate for child audiences.
 * 2) Appropriate Avatar: All users' avatars, whether .GIF files or static images, must be appropriate for child audiences.
 * 3) Impersonation: Impersonating other users, whether with malicious intentions or not, is not permitted.
 * 4) Sharing Private Information: Sharing one's own or someone else's private information, including their real name (if they do not wish to have their information shared), occupation(s), address(es), monetary income information, real family member(s) and connections, and real likenesses is not permitted.
 * 5) No Blacklists: Users should not make a list of users they dislike or wish to discredit on their user page. Betrayal.io Wiki should keep a positive editing environment and users should not blast other users on their user page.
 * 6) Message Wall Greetings: Users must self-update their message wall greetings whenever they become unportable, otherwise a content moderator, administrator, or bureaucrat will do so for them and do not need to provide notice.
 * 7) Blogging: To make blogs continue to be important, the minimum length of a blog at the first time of its publishing must have valuable information about either Betrayal.io, Fishington.io, or the wiki in its current time and must be at least 2,000 bytes in size. They may face deletion if not properly created.
 * 8) Editing Others' Profiles: Only edit your profile unless you have permission to edit.
 * 9) Profile Policing: Profiles violating guidelines can be reported to a moderator, and there is no need to edit them yourself.
 * 10) Fair Use Images: Users may use up to three properly used copyrighted images on their user pages as long as those are being used on content articles. Users may not upload said images for use only on their user space, threads, or for blog purposes. Certain exceptions apply, such as using features similar to sandboxes for the purpose of improving articles.

Use of Code

 * 1) Clear Permission and FANDOM Code: If you get someone's permission to use their code, provide a credit to them somewhere where the code is present. If it's from any code made directly by FANDOM, then credit FANDOM.
 * 2) Code Theft: Do not use user page codes if it's labelled "not free to use" or similar accordingly. This includes copying, minimally editing, and/or passing off as one's own. Report to a moderator if it is possible that your code was taken. Users breaking this rule will receive a warning and removal of the code from their page(s).
 * 3) Removal Requests: If user pages are not marked with "not free to use", and the code is taken, but the user wants it removed, then they can contact a moderator to remove it. The person who took the code will receive a notice that they can no longer use the code, but no warning can be issued.
 * 4) Transformative Code Rule: If you took your code from someone else, you can't claim it as stolen from you. Only the original owner of the code can take issues with it.
 * 5) Maximum Personal Templates: A single person, whether they encompass one or more user, may have a maximum of ten personal templates specifically for their own use.

Behavior

 * 1) No Minimodding: Making convictions and charges against another individual without the user rights to do so is minimodding and often results in a warning. Leave the jobs of moderators for moderators.
 * 2) No Necroposting: Posting a reply to a discussion thread, message wall, or article page comment after two weeks (14 whole days) have passed is considered necroposting.
 * 3) Drama: Drama between users on or outside of this wiki that either remain in the wiki or are brought into it is not permitted. Temporary blocks without warning may be used to mitigate drama.
 * 4) Sharing Hacked Accounts: Do not share hacked accounts or ask for any game account, not just Betrayal.io or Fishington.io games, to be hacked. When you share an account, whether it's an alternate account or main account, you expose personal information such as your name (if you use it), birthday (if used in your password), and your IP address (which applies to all accounts).
 * 5) Advertisement: Unless the service being advertised is part of or endorsed by FANDOM, are the games of Betrayal.io or Fishington.io themselves, or are an affiliate of Betrayal.io Wiki, please do not advertise.

Editing

 * 1) Complying with MOS: You must comply with the Manual of Style.
 * 2) English Writing: This wiki is in English, so you should only write in English, and use simple English that can be understood by most users.
 * 3) Moving and Purging: Do not move or purge the articles without stated permission by local staff.
 * 4) Categorization Changes: New categories will be reviewed by admins and content moderators, who will decide if they fit with the wiki. See the Categories section for rules on currently existing categories.
 * 5) Noncanon Information: Opinions and speculation are to be placed in article comments, not in the article itself.
 * 6) Red Links: Unless there is good reason to create empty referral links, please do not add links to pages that don't exist (they appear red in previews, so please check the preview before publishing).
 * 7) Gallery Credits: Galleries should credit the original artist unless the artist(s) are in End Game Interactive's game development team, to where these credits are automatically implied.
 * 8) Appealing Page Protections: If you believe that the protection level on an article is not right, contact an admin or content moderator.

Categories
The central goal of the category system is to provide navigational links to all Betrayal.io Wiki pages in a hierarchy of categories which readers, knowing essential characteristics of a topic, can browse and quickly find sets of pages on topics that are defined by those characteristics.
 * 1) Requesting a Category: Categories should be created when they can encompass a significant number of relevant articles. New ideas for a category should be brought to a discussion thread, where the community can decide whether or not the potential new category meets the necessary standards.
 * 2) Title Style: Standard category naming conventions apply (see the Manual of Style); in particular, capitalize all regular nouns and terms greater than 4 letters long, and capitalize the first letter of the first and last words in a title.
 * 3) Duplicate Categories: Having more than one category that serves the same purpose requires that either those that came after the first or those that are not encompassing of enough content be removed.
 * 4) Pluralization: Names of set categories should be plural. "Policy" should be made "Policies" according to this rule.
 * 5) Please Categorize: Every existing content article, category, template, module, and other page should have a category unless it falls under a talk page, user page, or MediaWiki.

Media
Media is considered any file (image, video, .GIF file, rich-text or plaintext file, soundbyte, etc.) that can be uploaded to FANDOM.
 * 1) Media Theft: When someone repurposes something that they do not have the license or fair use to use, they are stealing media. This media will be deleted unless it is an unedited screenshot of the games Betrayal.io or Fishington.io.
 * 2) Media Clearing: Media can be deleted (along with its edit log and other logs) at any time, for any reason, without notice. Betrayal.io Wiki is not an image dump.
 * 3) File Naming: Files should have an easily accessible and descriptive name based on what the image is depicting. If there is already a file on the wiki with the same name as the one you wish to use, the file's name should describe the scene it conveys in a condense manner rather than adding a number to the name. Names with "screenshot", "IMG," "image," plain numbers, a string of unusual symbols, and others that are considered nondescript will be renamed or deleted without notice.
 * 4) Fair Use: Every non-free image is used on Betrayal.io Wiki under the auspices of the fair use doctrine of the United States Fair Use law. This means that they are used for informational/educational purposes, meant to identify the subject of an article and to illustrate something directly relevant to the text in its immediate vicinity.
 * 5) Reduced Use of Images: Given the nature of copyrighted images, Betrayal.io Wiki tries to use them sparingly, and whenever possible on more than one single article, instead of using different pictures to illustrate the same subject unless more variations of the same subject are necessary. The use of too many images on the same article should also be avoided. Apart from the general consensus that it causes aesthetic problems, this practice also directly challenges the policy that we use images sparingly.
 * 6) Photographs: Photographs, with few exceptions (voice actors, production crew), should come from the makers of Betrayal.io and Fishington.io.
 * 7) Use of Fanart: Fanart may only be for Betrayal.io and Fishington.io and these pieces must be your own to avoid potential copyright complications with content moderators. Those of other franchises should be limited to other social media outlets.
 * 8) Keep Non-Free Images Unaltered: Non-free images must remain unaltered. Changing colors, adding watermarks, text, or making montages that corrupt the copyright owners' original work is considered to be an infringement, thus the image will be deleted. The only exceptions are in site images and when, in the lack of appropriate screenshots, we must resort to concept art images to depict an object in its respective infobox. In such case, altering the image to remove or alter its background is acceptable for aesthetic reasons.
 * 9) Enhancing the color levels, shading, brightness, contrast, and/or alpha of non-free images should only be done so as to improve their overall quality.
 * 10) Screenshots should preferably be submitted in their original ratio (4:3 or 16:9), unless they could benefit from cropping.
 * 11) If an image contains empty space or elements other than the subject being depicted, the image should be cropped to isolate the subject with respect given to the guidelines concerning closeups. If removal of these elements decreases the pixel ratio from standard when cropping an already uploaded image, re-sizing to adhere to said ratio will reduce overall fidelity.
 * 12) In order to conform to Betrayal.io Wiki quality standards, removal of such features must be performed with an equivalent unedited high-quality image and subsequently revised to fit these image ratio requirements.
 * 13) Replacement: Replacing (overwriting an image) can take place when the original file is of low resolution/quality. In this case, the original picture must be replaced by exactly the same version with better quality.

Deletion
There are several policies as to what type of pages can be created. Pages which fail to follow these policies will immediately face deletion.
 * 1) Criteria for All Page Types
 * 2) The item has an inappropriate title (a title including cursing, profane symbols or script, is unreadable, or contains discriminatory terms or slurs) that have not been changed to an appropriate one within 7 days and is not community-maintained.
 * 3) Advertising, vandalism or spam without relevant content e.g. "See my cool site" or "Betrayal.io is awesome!"
 * 4) Is categorized with an unusual category (one that is not a "user content" category, a category for a fanfiction or roleplay series, a maintenance category, or follows any of the other existing category types) not established through a discussion.
 * 5) Criterion for Templates: These will be deleted if redundant with another template or are otherwise useless.
 * 6) Criterion Categories: These will be deleted if they are unusual or not established through community discussion or by contacting a local staff member.
 * 7) Criteria for Media
 * 8) The media is a gallery or repository of media used to prevent their deletion e.g. "Gallery of Alpha Beta".
 * 9) The media is unused, obsolete, or otherwise violate our image policy.
 * 10) The media any content deemed to be over the PG rating by content moderators and administrators.

Pages that fulfill at least one of the above criteria should be tagged with  by non-administrators, and be simply deleted by administrator. As soon as a content moderator or administrator recognizes a page or uploaded object with an inappropriate title, they should contact the user that created or moved the object and inform them that, if they do not change or revert the title within 7 days of the change, the content will be be deleted.

Punishments
Punishments for violating guidelines, not just those of this page, will be enforced by either local staff or by global staff, depending upon the severity. Notices, warnings, and blocks may be used to prevent future damage and to provide often much-needed discipline to policy violators. Blocks may be temporary or indefinite and may affect whether or not the blocked user can edit their own Message Wall (provide posts for appeal to their block).


 * Notices: For very minor offenses, violators will receive notices. They may be turned into warnings if the violator is caught making multiple violations of the same or similar policy(ies) in under 14 days of the notice being issued. Notices themselves have no standing in determining whether a violator should be blocked.
 * Warnings: For minor offenses, violators will receive a warning. After receiving 3-4 warnings under most circumstances, they will be blocked, however, this block will most likely be temporary. Warnings expire after 2 weeks, unless specified otherwise in the message.
 * Blocks: For severe offenses or repeat offenses, violators can be blocked temporarily or permanently from Betrayal.io Wiki or from the FANDOM services altogether. Users accused of evading blocks by making sockpuppet accounts to repeat violations, and are successfully convicted by ban evasion by at least one member of staff, will be blocked. Users that wish to appeal their local block may do so via message wall to the staff members. This does not guarantee that the appeal will be successful in overturning the block. Global blocks are not appealable with local staff.

Other Policies

 * Other Policies