South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki:Policies

This following is a list of South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki Policies. All users, regardless of status or position, are to respect and obey these rules at all times or risk losing their editing privileges, which is known as a block.

As a general rule of thumb, editing is considered to be a privilege and not a right.

Anyone who does not agree with our policy listed below is welcome to propose changes or removal in policies on an administrator or bureaucrat's talk page. Because this Wiki is not active enough to warrant its own Community Noticeboards, users who wish to report violators or make a suggestion in policy should report directly to RedIgnite via his talk page. If you have any questions regarding any policy, please contact RedIgnite as he tries his best to help editors.

Disclaimer
This Wiki is not associated with the South Park Game Wiki or South Park Archives Wiki, we are an independent encyclopedia. The South Park: The Fractured But Whole Wiki reserves the right to block anyone of choice if staff votes in favor to ban a particular user. However, our administrators and bureaucrats are advised to block rule-breakers, cyberbullies, or if suspicion is going on with an account that a block might be considered necessary in order to investigate without disruption. We will only unblock users upon the demand by Fandom staff or if the user is granted an appeal.

No one operating South Park: The Fractured But Whole Wiki has either Checkuser or Revision Delete rights. We will contact Fandom for support if necessary. We also do not have Bots, or will we ever have one in the future.

No one on this Wiki owns any right to South Park or South Park: The Fractured But Whole nor are we an "official" encyclopedia for South Park content. There is no official South Park representation on this Wiki. All rights to South Park belong to Comedy Central, while the rights for South Park: The Fractured But Whole are reserved to Ubisoft. All images and videos uploaded to this encyclopedia are used for educational purposes that include, but are not limited to: the use of web-resolution screenshots, for identification and critical commentary on the game in question or the copyrighted characters or items depicted on the screenshot is what we believe qualify as fair use under United States copyright law. Our gallery does not significantly impede the right of the copyright holder to sell the copyrighted material, is not being used to generate profit in context, and presents ideas that cannot be exhibited otherwise. This Wiki is also protected by the "Communications Decency Act 230" which states that we will not be held liable for our registered users' misactions. Such issues shall be referred directly to Fandom staff.

User Conduct

 * Remember, we are a community of South Park: The Fractured But Whole fans and enthusiasts; we are all here to document all knowledge South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
 * The character template is meant for, as the name suggests, character pages.
 * South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki may not be used to advertise businesses or boost SEO rankings. Links to external sites for personal gain, that are irrelevant to the wiki, can be removed at any time for any reason.
 * Be polite when interacting with other users. We are all here to work together as a team and as a community. Being polite will go a long way and will make South Park: The Fractured But Whole a friendlier place to edit.
 * Follow the manual of style, the preferred way of how things are to be organized. While the help pages will help you to understand how to use basic wikia markup, the manual of style will tell you how to apply it on South Park: The Fractured But Whole Wiki according to how everything else is organized.
 * The manual of style is located here: Manual of Style
 * Do not start edit wars. Be ready to discuss your changes with others. If you disagree with another editor, discuss the issue on either the user's wall or article's comments. Repeatedly reverting each other's changes, known as "edit warring", is bound to aggravate the conflict instead of solving it. If you cannot reach a consensus, ask an Administrator to mediate.
 * Do not flame or insult other users. Send them a polite message if you have a dispute with another user. Talking things out and working out your differences can go a long way towards a mutual understanding.
 * Do not, under any circumstances, harass South Park The Fractured But Whole users outside of South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki.
 * Do not edit others' user pages, as they are generally considered property of the user. You are, however, more than welcome to put whatever you'd like on your own user page, so long as it doesn't violate any rules or isn't offensive. If you have an issue with another user's user page, contact an Administrator.
 * Do not vandalize any page. Do not remove all the content from a page. It is considered vandalism to remove all the content from a page or to add irrelevant information to the page. This wiki has a strict zero-tolerance policy for vandalism.
 * Do not plagiarize content from Wikipedia. Write it in your own words. The goal is to write the key ideas in your own words so that you don't plagiarize. This improves your overall credibility.
 * Do not boost for the achievement badges. Badges are meant as a guideline and are in no way to be considered as status symbols. Use them for yourself and feel proud of yourself, do not use them to impress others.
 * What is Boosting? Boosting is the process of making either useless or malicious edits just to heighten the count of edits they have made.
 * What is not Boosting? Some things may appear to be boosting, but is not always so. Edit wars between a normal user and a vandal, who is trying to vandalize a page, and the user who is quickly undoing his edits. If the user is signing in and out to vandalize/undo, we can tell by the IP address.
 * Additionally, valid contributions with the aim of garnering an achievement are allowed. Contributors should exercise great caution in ensuring that these additions are pragmatic, useful, and accurate. Such instances will be investigated and reviewed by an administrator.
 * Multiple accounts used for block-evasion are strictly forbidden and are against Wikia TOS. If you create an addition account to evade a block, it will be permanently blocked and your primary account runs the risk of having it's block duration extended indefinitely.
 * If you wish to utilize a secondary account for another purpose, please contact an Administrator.

Forums

 * Forum messages may discuss any topic related to South Park on two conditions. The first being that the information is relevant to the show and the second being that the message is placed in the correct board for the subject.
 * If your message wall becomes too large, you may clear it out by clicking More and then Remove on each message. Messages, such as warnings, from administrators should not be removed without permission. You may contact any administrators involved in the message thread.

Discussions Policies

 * Be nice and treat people with respect. Keep discussions civil and be open-minded about differing opinions.
 * Threads and posts that solicit upvotes will be deleted.
 * Off-topic conversations will be deleted.
 * Impersonation of other users or famous people will not be tolerated.
 * If you have been banned and return on a new account, your posts will be deleted and your new account(s) will be banned.
 * Spamming, trolling, or vandalizing of any kind will be deleted and will lead to your account being banned.
 * Ask for help. Notice something that doesn't seem right? Or do you just have a question? Contact FANDOM staff through "Give feedback" on the Settings screen.
 * Have any other questions or concerns? Message RedIgnite.

Content

 * All content must be related to the video South Park: The Fractured But Whole. All other South Park content should be referred to South Park Archives.
 * All content must be objective. Use the forum to discuss your opinions. For example, it would not be okay to add "I think Craig is a really cool character and he is the most popular character ever!" to Craig Tucker's page.
 * Use the edit summary as you submit your edit. It lets others know what changed in the article, even if it's just a minor change. This makes it easy for users to back track a page's history.
 * Characters' ages, birthdays, and dates of birth must be backed up by a valid and credible source. There are no exceptions to this rule and this should be considered a zero-tolerance offense. If you don't have a valid source, then you do not know the information, regardless of how 'sure' you may think you are. If you are unable to format a citation, contact an administrator for assistance.
 * For Trivia, Wikipedia is known for controversially banning Trivia. However, South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki allows Trivia, but at the same time discourage it, preferring all possible, trivial information be integrated into the article rather than posted in its own section. Another reason for opposition to Trivia is because some editors tend to add very obvious trivia (For example, the Grass is Green) which end up being removed. For more information, refer to our Trivia policy page. When adding Trivia, you should always address the following questions prior to adding new details:
 * Is it interesting?
 * Is it obvious at a glance?
 * Does it fit anywhere better in the article?.

Categories

 * Users are not to create new categories without gaining approval from RedIgnite. For additional information refer to our No New Unauthorized Categories.
 * Users should not create categories to boost their edit count (also known as boosting) a example of this would be creating the category: "Episodes with  Kyle Broflovski" and "Episodes With Kyle Broflovski" in the same article page.
 * Users should double check if a category they wish to add already exists, and if it is a necessary category to add.
 * Users are to not recreate or restore categories/category pages deleted by admins, this may result in the user getting a temporary block from editing on South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki.
 * If users need help with categories or have a category suggestion, they should seek RedIgnite for assistance.

Becoming an Administrator
Because this Wiki is low-active, at this time, we do not need any additional Sysops. If you're still interested, however, in becoming an administrator, you must demonstrate you have the appropriate editing standards and the willingness to patrol the wiki. In order to become an administrator, familiarize yourself with this policy page and contact RedIgnite for possible promotion.

Rules for Administrators

 * If an administrator is involved in an editing dispute, he or she should not use admin abilities or status to solve it. Ask another user or admin to mediate.
 * Administrators are allowed to undo each other's administrative actions. However, it is expected that the one who reverts an action explains the reason for the revert. If consensus cannot be reached, a third admin should be asked to mediate.
 * Admins should ask other admins to mediate if they feel a user should be blocked or banned for any reason. Vandals and users with unacceptable names (i.e. users that have flaming or personal information in their name) are excluded from this rule.