Amaranth Legacy:Rules

The Amaranth Legacy Wiki holds a rather simple and easy-to-follow set of guidelines, which are expected to be followed on the wiki, as well as the Discord. Repeated violations of these rules, or violations of major rules, may warrant a block from the wiki and/or punishment on the Discord. Users which immediately and intentionally ignore rules will be removed without hesitation. Users are also expected to consistently overlook guidelines for articles, lore, and similar. The majority of these rules are common sense and should be no problem to follow.

1: Respect: Users are advised to show respect towards other staff, users, and their works. Harsh commentary, insults to other users, vandalism, and similar activity permits the use of punishment. Users who simply join to insult or demean others or vandalize will be blocked with no hesitation.

2: Setting: The Amaranth Legacy Wiki is contained within three fictional realms: Ambrosia, Cosmoria, and Galvyria. Each realm has different themes and articles taking place within them must abide by those themes unless an exception is granted. Direct real-world references are not permitted, though names (Example: Mars.) are welcome.

2.5: Notices: Articles in Ambrosia must have "{{AmbrosiaNotice}}" inserted into the first line of its source code. For Galvyria, the same is true but using "{{GalvyriaNotice}}." Currently, there is no such requirement (or notice) for articles taking place in Cosmoria. Articles without any headers are assumed to take place within the realm of Cosmoria.
(Update: Notices will be replaced with proper namespaces and themes soon, and thus will be redundant in due time.)

3: Article Quality: Articles should be written with substantial effort put into them. So long as the page was written with good faith and clear effort, the quality standards will be met. Under no circumstance should off topic content, especially 'joke articles' or similar, be written anywhere on the wiki. The same applies to user comments, and usage of the message wall/discussion board feature. There is one, and only one exception for our annual April Fools tradition.

4: Controversy: Please refrain from including obscene or otherwise offensive content in articles. Within stories, necessary content warnings may be used if the content calls for them. Pages which deal with history will usually delve into politics, however. So, use some caution when invoking political terminology.

5: Article Permissions: Articles are treated as if it is the property of their creator. Under few circumstances should they be edited without permission. It is expected that users ask active authors of articles for permission to edit. However, fixing things such as grammar mistakes are more than acceptable. Staff may also pass larger edits on articles, such as missing templates, categories, or general community agreement. These are rare, and staff will typically ask authors to add such content instead.

6: Plagiarism: Every writer is capable of coming up with their own ideas, such is the very premise of this project. There is no excuse for copying content from other articles, deleted articles, or other communities. Violators will be subject to a single warning before action is taken. Using copyrighted content, especially that derived from pop culture or other major media, will result in immediate action. No media exists in a vacuum of course. References, homages, or other content under fair use are allowed.

7: Lore: While reading up on the lore is not a strict requirement, it is most definitely recommended in order to make sure that user pages remain accurate with the flow. Users should make sure their lore does not contradict other lore as written on the wiki.

8: Stubs: Exceedingly short articles, called stubs, are not allowed if there are no plans to expand them in a timely manner. If a stub does not have enough size after a while, it may be coalesced into another page. The guidelines for stubs are typically case-by-case, and our general minimum size is ~5,000 characters of body content. Keep in mind this is very general, and may fluctuate based off the nature of a page.