ResourceWiki:PolicySandbox
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Behavioral
Administrators
Administrators, like all users, are not perfect beings. However, in general, they are expected to act as role models within the community, and a good general standard of civility, fairness, and general conduct both to users and in content matters, is expected. When acting as administrators, they are also expected to be fair, exercise good judgment, and give explanations and be communicative as necessary.
Bots
Programs that update pages automatically in a useful and harmless way may be welcome, as long as their owners seek approval first and are careful to keep them from running amok or being a drain on resources.
Civility
Being rude, insensitive or petty makes people upset and stops a wiki from working well. Try to discourage others from being uncivil, and be careful to avoid offending people unintentionally. Mediation is available if needed.
Editing policy
Improve pages wherever you can, and don't worry about leaving them imperfect. It is advisable to explain major changes.
Edit warring
If someone challenges your edits, discuss it with them and seek a compromise, or seek dispute resolution. Don't just fight over competing views and versions.
No legal threats
Use dispute resolution rather than legal threats, for everyone's sake. We respond quickly to complaints of defamation or copyright infringement. If you do take legal action, please refrain from editing until it is resolved.
No personal attacks
Do not make personal attacks anywhere in the ResourceWiki. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Nobody likes abuse.
Ownership of articles
You do not own articles outside of your userpages. If you create or edit an article, know that others will edit it, and within reason you should not prevent them from doing so.
Sock puppetry
Do not use multiple accounts to create the illusion of greater support for an issue, to mislead others, or to circumvent a block; nor ask your friends to create accounts to support you or anyone.
Three-revert rule
Do not revert any single page in whole or in part more than three times in 24 hours. (Otherwise an administrator may block your account).
Vandalism
Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. It is, and needs to be, removed from the encyclopedia.
Content and style
Attack pages
A ResourceWiki article, page, category, redirect or image created for the sole purpose of disparaging its subject is an attack page. These pages are subject to being deleted by any administrator at any time.
Naming conventions
Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers worldwide would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.
Neutral point of view
Articles, including reader-facing templates, categories and portals, should be written from a Neutral Point of View.
Deletion
Category deletion policy
Deleting categories follows roughly the same process as articles, except that it is described on a different page. Categories that don't conform to naming conventions can be "speedily renamed".
Criteria for speedy deletion
Articles, images, categories etc. may be "speedily deleted" if they clearly fall within certain categories, which generally boil down to pages lacking content, or disruptive pages. Anything potentially controversial should go through the deletion process instead.
Deletion policy
Deleting articles requires an administrator and generally follows a consensus-forming process. Most potentially controversial deletions require a three-step process and a waiting period of a week. DnDResources.com reserves the right to speedily delete an article temporarily in cases of exceptional controversy. Page revisions can be deleted for legal reasons.
Enforcing policies
Banning policy
Extremely disruptive users may be banned from DnDResources.com. Please respect these bans, don't bait banned users and don't help them out. Bans can be appealed to The Webmistress, depending on the nature of the ban.
Blocking policy
Disruptive users can be blocked from editing for short or long amounts of time.
Protection policy
Pages can be protected against vandals or during fierce content disputes. Protected pages can, but in general shouldn't, be edited by administrators. Also, pages undergoing frequent vandalism can be semi-protected to block edits by very new users.
Resolving disputes
first step to resolving any dispute is to talk to those who disagree with you. If that fails, there are more structured forms of discussion available.
Legal and copyright
Outside of policies, such as those below and the office actions policy, DnDResources ResourceWiki does not censor itself of content that may be objectionable or offensive, or adopt other perennial legal proposals, so long as it obeys the law of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Legal issues are raised by filing a formal complaint with the The Webmistress.
CheckUser
CheckUser is a tool allowed to be used by a small number of users who are permitted to examine user IP information and other server log data under certain circumstances, for the purposes of protecting DnDResources against actual and potential disruption and abuse.
Copyrights
Material which infringes other copyrights must not be added. The legalities of copyright and "fair use" are quite complex.
Copyright violations
DnDResources has no tolerance for copyright violations on our website, and we actively strive to find and remove any violations.
Image use policy
Generally avoid uploading nonfree images; fully describe images' sources and copyright details on their description pages, and try to make images as useful and reusable as possible.
Libel
It is DnDResources policy to delete libellous revisions from the page history. If you believe you have been defamed, please contact us.
Non-free content criteria
The cases in which you can declare an image "fair use" are quite narrow. You must specify the exact use of the image, and only use the image in that one context.
Reusing ResourceWiki content
ResourceWiki material may only be reused under the license given to the material on this site, be that GFDL, OGL, or other license. Be sure to read the terms of the license before reusing content.