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These are the rules that all users on the Craig of the Creek Wiki and Jessica's Big Little World Wiki, including the admins and bureaucrats, must abide by. As the wiki evolves, rules will also evolve as time goes by. Punishments for breaking the wiki's rules are decided on a case-by-case basis, depending on the severity of the offense and any previous violations.
"Staff" and "wiki staff" in this document are understood to be referring to privileged users on the wiki as listed in Project:Staff. "Fandom staff" refers to Fandom employees and volunteers with privileges across the Fandom network.
Last updated on August 3, 2023
COPPA
In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), users under the age of 13 are not allowed to edit on the wiki. If a user is revealed to be underage, please report it to an administrator with evidence.
If discovered, an underage user will be blocked until they are of legal age to contribute, usually 13 or older. Depending on the circumstances, the information may be forwarded to Fandom staff, potentially resulting in their account being blocked across the Fandom network. Otherwise, the expiration will be the earliest date upon which staff can determine a user will be the legal age of contribution based on pre-existing knowledge of their birth date. Users blocked for being underage will not be able to post on their message wall or edit their own user page. Attempting to avoid a valid underage user block will result in a permanent block that will not be lifted. Users who become of age but are still blocked may contribute using a new Fandom account. Users should never provide any sort of documentation of their age to users or administrators of this wiki, and will be blocked for their protection if they do so. Wiki administrators will only take action based on information known to be provided by the user.
In California and the European Economic Area, users must be 16 or older to edit the wiki. Users will be assumed to not reside in these regions unless they specifically state otherwise. This age may also vary depending on the user's country of residence.
General rules
- Vandalism, trolling, spamming, discriminatory, and not safe for work (NSFW) content are all strictly prohibited in all aspects of the wiki. Egregious instances of such material are forwarded to Fandom staff and may result in being blocked across the Fandom network.
- Discriminatory content includes: hate speech, ethnic slurs, or any hateful action directed towards people based on their orientation, gender, race, etc.
- Not safe for work (NSFW) content includes: sexual or explicit content; generally anything that would be disallowed in a school or workplace.
- Please report vandalism to an admin if it has not already been dealt with. It is also highly appreciated for any user to help and undo disruptive edits.
- As a basic precaution, unless an edit is blatant vandalism, please assume the edits a user makes are in good faith.
- If you notice a vandal has been vandalizing multiple wikis across Fandom or violating the Terms of Use, consider reporting it to SOAP (Spam Obliteration and Prevention). If you find yourself frequently reporting users, you may find the SOAPReport userscript useful.
- Please be respectful and civil to other users. Do not disrespect, offend, threaten, insult, or argue with other users.
- If you wish to have a discussion with another user over conflicting view-points, please keep it a civil debate. Admins are allowed to end these discussions at any time if they start to get out of hand.
- All editors must be proficient in English. This does not mean you must be fluent in English or that it must be your primary/native language. If, however, a significant portion of your edits are difficult to read due to grammar and spelling issues, wiki staff reserve the right to block you.
- Content should be all-ages when possible. The subject matter of the wiki is intended for children. Though children may not be allowed to create a wiki account, they are still allowed to view the wiki (and make up a significant portion of readers), so all content should be appropriate for them to access.
- Wiki articles are not censored. In the rare case that accurate and relevant information may be considered inappropriate, it will not be suppressed nor marked (unless in violation of Fandom Terms of Use).
- Listen to the staff. If a staff member asks you to stop doing something that is considered harmful or disruptive, please do so. Staff members may block users who are unresponsive on their message wall; this is not a punitive measure, but instead to make sure users read their messages.
- Do not engage in edit wars. Follow Wikipedia's three-revert rule.
- Original fan characters and stories are not allowed on the Craig of the Creek Wiki. Canon-based fan works are okay to share on user pages, discussions, blogs, and Message Walls, but completely original content based on Craig of the Creek does not belong on the wiki.
- The wiki is primarily for informative purposes. The primary purpose of the wiki is to inform readers about Craig of the Creek. Having a discussion platform about the franchise is only secondary. This wiki should be used for minimal off-topic discussion as it is not a general discussion forum.
- Follow the Manual of Style. In order to ensure that articles are consistently well written, all edits must be in compliance with the Manual of Style.
- Before creating a new article, draft it out in a user sandbox. You can create a subpage of your user page by prefixing your page's name with
User:Your username here
and use it to write articles that can later be added to the main namespace. Articles lacking in content in the main namespace may be deleted. This is to decrease the number of stub articles being created on the wiki. - Do not edit other users' user pages. The only instances in which this is acceptable are to remove red links to pages that should not exist, add a header indicating that a user is inactive, or fix formatting issues that were obviously unintended. This applies to staff as well.
- Additionally, do not create other pages for other users.
- User pages may be deleted if the user they belong to has been permanently blocked and they have not made any edits to their user page.
Comment rules
- Comments should be relevant to the article and/or its subject.
- Comments should consist of at least one full sentence.
- Excessively long comments may be deleted without warning.
- Do not abuse capital letters. This also applies to message wall comments.
- Be respectful of others.
- Do not debate the gender/sexuality of characters.
- Comments should be appropriate for the show's target demographic to read.
Comments that incidentally, rather than intentionally, violate these rules may be edited by administrators to allow the comment to stand.
Staff rules
These are the rules made specifically for the wiki's staff. If a staff member breaks any of these rules, please report it to the acting bureaucrat or a trusted admin, with evidence, so the situation may be taken care of.
- Administrators are not to abuse their powers in any way. Their actions should only be to benefit the wiki and not themselves. Administrators are in no way above normal users on the wiki, and are simply users entrusted with powerful editing tools. If an admin is caught abusing their powers, they will be demoted and potentially blocked depending on the severity of the situation.
- Any administrator that is inactive for more than a year is automatically eligible for demotion by any bureaucrat at any time without warning to the administrator or prior discussion with the administrator or other bureaucrats. A demoted admin has up to 30 days to request reinstatement of their staff position following demotion; after this period, they must be reconsidered to be promoted again. Any admin inactive for more than six months following a reinstatement request will be demoted, and will not be granted another 30-day reinstatement period. Activity is counted as making one edit to a main namespace article or taking any action as a wiki staff member. An administrator who knows they will be inactive for an extended period of time may notify a bureaucrat prior to the period of inactivity to be granted up to five years of inactivity without eligibility for demotion, depending on the circumstances. Longer periods will not be considered due to the security risk posed by an inactive privileged account.