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Please follow these policies, or risk facing the "ban hammer".

Wiki editors of the AMS... Time they made a move.

Welcome to The Wiki of the Dead, a comprehensive database for Sega's House of the Dead media franchise!

Please follow these policies to keep the wiki informative and friendly for everyone. Contact our staff if you have any questions. Happy editing!

User conduct

  • Respect staff and fellow editors. Don't troll, spam, or make threats.
  • Communicate.
    • Check your talk pages for messages.
    • Write edit explanations; that way, your changes are easily understood.
    • Contact staff if you have questions or issues. We're here to help!

Accounts

In order to edit pages and post comments, your user account must follow these policies:

  • Be verified. Anonymous editing is disabled due to abuse.
  • Be ages 13 or older. This is per FANDOM's guidelines and the law of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act).
  • Have an appropriate name and profile. Anything trollish or vulgar is forbidden.

There are other expectations for accounts:

  • Don't sockpuppet. Only one editor per account. Don't sockpuppet to troll, vandalize, or evade bans.
  • Don't impersonate staff. Examples include giving yourself staff categories or copying usernames.
  • Don't edit other users' profiles. This is only okay if permission is given.

Editing

Wiki content

  • Avoid non-canonical or speculative information. This includes:
    • Fanfiction.
    • Making claims of something existing without proof that the developers intended it, such as:
      • Pop culture references.
      • A character resembling somebody else (real or fictional).
  • Don't link to nonexistent pages. Only link if you intend to add relevant content.
  • Cite your sources. Citations give "proof" to information shared here, and establish credibility. These sources may consist of:

Writing

  • Write in English. We only use Japanese for translating names or for citing Japanese sources or excerpts.
  • Maintain good spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
  • Write from a neutral perspective. Please keep your personal opinions in the comments, your account page, or a different site.
  • Write concisely. Avoid unnecessary details, adverbs, adjectives, flowery phrases, and/or overly complex sentences that add little overall. This a public wiki, not a novel; it must be written in an encyclopedic, to-the-point manner.
    • Wordy: After a brutal battle, Magician, riddled with bullets, convulsed violently as he pointed an outstretched arm at the victorious AMS agents. Weakly, he warned, "You...haven't...seen...anything...yet!" He screamed as his body began bursting into flames, and in a flash of brilliant yellow light, he exploded into nothingness.
    • Concise: The agents defeated Magician, who, before exploding, warned that they "haven't...seen...anything...yet!"

Article comments

Any article comments with the following content will be deleted:

  • Pornography.
  • Excessively profane language.
  • Discussion of controversial topics, like religion and politics.

Images

Users with 15 or more edits may post images.

Images are important

Good images

  • Screenshots.
  • Content from manuals, guidebooks, flyers and interviews.
  • Concept artwork.

Bad images

  • Fanart.
  • Pornography.
  • Small or blurry images.
  • Camera photos of content on a computer screen.
  • Watermarked images.
  • Images with unnecessary text, like URLs.
  • Screenshots from YouTube Let's Plays that show the commentator's face.

Before uploading an image...

  1. Make sure the image doesn't already exist. The lowest-quality duplicate images will be deleted. Uploading a better-quality image of one currently on the wiki is welcome.
  2. Keep the filename clear. No gibberish--it looks messy and makes the image difficult to search for.
  3. Make sure it's categorized properly. Before categorizing an image, please browse Category:Images in order to find the correct place to put it.
  4. Make sure to receive permission. If you are retrieving an image from a third-party source, make sure you are granted permission from the owner before uploading it to the wiki.

Uploading images to customize profiles

You may upload images (House of the Dead-related or not) to customize your user profile. However, please follow the below policies:

  1. All images must be appropriate. No pornography, hate speech, and/or overtly violent imagery.
  2. When you upload an image for your profile, please list it under Category:User profile images. It will otherwise be deleted after three days.
  3. Please keep these images off wiki pages and blog posts. They must stay on your profile page.
  4. Do not abuse this to troll, spam, or vandalize. Your account will face blocks and/or bans.

Vandalism

Vandalism is user conduct that defaces The Wiki of the Dead's quality and integrity.

Examples include:

  • Spam.
  • Needlessly replacing words and names.
  • Creating or renaming pages with vulgar content.
  • Removing all content from a page.

Vandalism is done maliciously, rather than by mistake. All vandals will be banned with no warnings given. Bans typically are permanent, but minor cases of vandalism may result in shorter bans.

Writing false edit descriptions to hide vandalism is also disallowed.

Penalties

Penalties and how they are issued depend greatly on the issue at present. Members who simply don't comply with minor regulations will have the following strikes below applied; more serious offenses, such as vandalism and attempts at causing disruption, may lead to a permanent ban with no exceptions.

  • First Strike: The offender will be notified and given a friendly warning, as well as a link to this page to refresh any memories. For first offenses, if you feel that the warning is unjustified, don't be afraid to plead your case with a reasonable response, and it will be considered.
  • Second Strike: The offender will be given a more serious warning, along with the threat of a ban.
  • Third Strike: The offender will be banned for a week.
  • Fourth Strike: The offender will be banned for a month.
  • Fifth Strike: The offender will be banned permanently.
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