Animalpedia:Rules

Welcome to Animalpedia, a database about animals were people is free to join.

However, every user who contributes must follow these rules, failure to follow these rules may result a warning or suspension from the wiki. These rules will try to help contributors who are confused.

General Rules

 * 1) Animalpedia: To start of, this is Animalpedia, an encyclopedia of animals, our goal is to become the largest encyclopedia of animals, currently, we have articles, you can help Animalpedia to achieve this goal, so if you are interested in joining, you can create an account for free.
 * 2) Plagiarism: Only post original content rather than copy-and-paste from other sites such as Wikipedia, as not only it would give us a bad reputation but also yourself. Just because something is on the internet doesn't mean it is right to claim it as your own (it should be noted the plagiarism is illegal as it is a type of theft). If we find an article that has plagiarism, it will be deleted and the creator will be warned.
 * 3) Grammar: Articles are meant to be read by people in a clear way. Please keep in mind this is the English version of Animalpedia, foreign versions currently do not exist.
 * 4) COPPA: In order to comply with it, you must be at least 13 years old (16 in certain countries) to contribute. If we catch you underage, you will be blocked until you are old enough to edit.

Content

 * 1) Sources: Sources are optional, however, in order to make the wiki more reliable, it is suggested to use them. However, if an article contains unreliable sources, the such information from the source will be removed and the user who added the source would be noted. It should also be noted that if you add something on an article that we are not sure is true, make sure you provide a reliable source.
 * 2) Do not add articles about induvial animals or humans: This is a wiki solely based on animal species, their taxonomy, and other info, not for induvial animals or humans, Captivepedia exists for induvial animals in captivity and many wikis exist for induvial humans.
 * 3) Do not add off-topic information: Adding things that have little to nothing to do with animals will be deleted and the user will be warned.
 * 4) No mythical creatures: This wiki covers about animals, both extant and extinct on the REAL world, not the mythical world.
 * 5) No made-up species or similar things: As said in Content Rule #4, this wiki is only for animals in the real world.
 * 6) Do not recreate an article that has been deleted: When an admin or other users that have the right to delete a page, it cannot be recreated without a valid reason and/or admin approval, anyone who does this will be warned, if continued, expect a ban.
 * 7) Do not create blank pages or "one-sentence" pages: We do not allow laziness, almost every article must contain at least three sentences. Articles with such content (such as an article with only a picture and nothing else) it will be deleted if not expanded soon. For "one-sentences" articles, the ONLY exception is that if their is a lack of info from other sites about the topic. If the user makes articles like these, they will be warned.
 * 8) Article titles: All articles about a modern species (both living and extinct) MUST have their common name as the page title unless if no common name has been used for the species or having a common name used for multiple species. However, if a prehistoric species is commonly referred by their scientific name, rather than their common name, use their scientific name for the article.
 * 9) Unfinished pages: Do not publish an unfinished page, doing so would make the page deleted and moved to the creator's sandbox.

Behavior

 * 1) Vandalism: We do not allow vandalism of any kind such as replacing content with nonsense, inserting gibberish, removing content without a good reason, or adding nonsense on articles, vandals will be banned in sight.
 * 2) Spam: Like vandalism, we do not allow spam of any kind, spammers will also be banned in sight.
 * 3) Harassment/Cyberbullying: No one likes bully, anyone who is caught harassing another user will be banned, if the user dares to harass a manger, expect a longer block.
 * 4) Ban Evasion/Sockpuppeting: When your banned, users will have to wait until they can edit again (unless if it is set for an infinite block), however do not create sockpuppets, as they would only cause the main account to get blocked longer and the sockpuppets being permanently banned.
 * 5) Requesting: Do not request users to do things you can do yourself as this can be considered annoying, if you want to do something but you can't do it for some reason, contact the admins.
 * 6) Trolling: Trolls, whether it is for harassment or other things, is not tolerated, this wiki is a wiki, not a troll site, if you are caught trolling, you will be permanently banned.
 * 7) *Do not feed the Trolls: If you see a troll, report the troll to the admins, feeding the trolls will result flamewars and would make it harder for admins to undo the damage.
 * 8) Death Threats: We have no-tolerance of death threats, if you are seen death-threating, you will be permanently blocked.
 * 9) Swearing: This wiki is family-friendly, therefore, refrain from using profanity, if you use profanity, you will be warned. If you REALLY need to swear, use use asterisks "*".
 * 10) Foe Requests: Do not send foe requests to other users as not only this could cause drama, but also counts as harassment, we currently have no way to remove foe requests, doing so would result the user blocked without a warning.

Pictures, Links, and Categories

 * 1) Gallery subpages: All gallery subpages must have at least 20 pictures, any thing less than that will be deleted and the images will be moved to the main page
 * 2) Videos: Only add videos on this wiki if they cover the topic, otherwise, they will be deleted.
 * 3) *Do not add too many videos: We only allow 20 videos on each article, anything more than that will be deleted unless if they are a Wikimedia Commons Video for the article.
 * 4) No Fan-Art: We only allow art made by professionals and not users, anyone who does this will be warned.
 * 5) Do not link to sites that have little to nothing to do with animals: Any site that does not have anything to do with animals that is linked to one of the articles will result a warning.
 * 6) Do not remove an image from the infobox without a good reason: Infobox images must be high-quality unless if no high-quality image of the topic can not be found and contains a photo of a living specimen unless if none can be found, doing so will result a warning.
 * 7) Do not add certain categories on species pages: To prevent extremely large categories that would make things hard to navigate, we do not allow this, for example, the category "Animals" does not need to be on every single page on the wiki, subcategories exists for this.
 * 8) Do not add categories about animals from being in fictional media: We should mention this wiki should only contain categories about the real world and not the digital world, anyone who adds these kinds of categories will be warned.
 * 9) Upload only good-quality images: All files must be at least 300 x 300px, any file smaller than that will be deleted.
 * 10) No off-topic images: Unless if they are used for userpages, off-topic images will be deleted.
 * 11) No NSFW/NSFL images: As mentioned above, this wiki is family-friendly, so do not upload such images, such as pornography (Rule 34 counts), excessive amount of blood and/or gore, excessive violence, drugs, nudity, alcohol, and sexual content. Anyone who uploads these kinds of pictures will be blocked without a warning. Due to Miraheze's content policy, images of ivory counts as these kinds of images as well.