Gaiapedia:Policy

Welcome to the Gaiapedia official policy lists, which also links to guidelines and rules that contributors should consider following. Although some of these are not set in stone it would, however, be considerate to follow the basic principle of them, as to not cause disruption for the wiki.

Any of the policies can be discussed, please use the talk page or forum.

Types of Policies
This is a simplified version of the detailed polices. The current Administrator of the wiki recommends viewing the page to at least skim the more detailed version of the linked policy.

General policies
 * There shall be...
 * No Plagiarism Of Wikipedia Or Other Site's Articles/Pages without permission or at least citing, please credit the original source by some means.

Vandalism
 * No Spam and Vandalism can be tolerated to a point, however, if blatant and continuous it will result in warning or blocking.

Prohibited actions
 * No Bullying or Harassment
 * No Insulting Other Peoples' Race, Religion, Nation, Color, Or Gender
 * No Offensive content, Inappropriate images, Explicate words and Disturbing content
 * No Creating Accounts For Vandalism Purpose aka (Sockpuppets)
 * No Using Gaiapedia to break Gaia Online 'Terms of Service'

What Gaiapedia is not
 * No Advertising Sub Pages, Websites, Wikis, etc... Gaia Online-related websites and media are the exception.
 * No Completely Off-Topic Content. Images and Videos that are unrelated to Gaia Online will be deleted.

Guidelines

 * Manual of Style
 * Layout Guide

Other Policies
Community You are responsible for your Wikia Account
 * User page
 * Privacy policy
 * Image policy
 * Blocking
 * Protection policy
 * Deletion policy

The Gaiapedia Wiki/Wikia

 * Help:Index
 * Help:Contents
 * Templates
 * Wikia Community Guidelines
 * Simplified Rules

Reference

 * Wika's Terms of Use
 * Wikia policies
 * Wikia's "Not" Policy
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Wiki - Songpedia / The Sims