Rules

This page is to describe the rules/guidelines of the site.

Community Policy
These sets of guidelines to follow alongside when adding, editing or suggesting on the wiki are to be listened to and followed out by every member of the wiki. Please bring any concerns that may be troubling you or other members of the site towards any active staff-members.

Please Do

 *  Be Friendly - Everyone should be friendly to the others in the community. Being friendly is more welcoming than not being friendly.
 * You can always leave a friendly greeting to someone or just enter the live-chat for a short conversation. Please don't hesitate to have a few heart-to-heart DMs on Discord either, this wiki as well as the server are to make fans feel welcomed.


 *  Be Helpful  - You should be helpful when it comes to the newcomers' who need help doing things like making a page, or making edits, or even uploading things. Everyone should be helpful. Not just the administrators of the wiki.
 * Anyone can assist in the development of someone's pages. But please do not take this kindness from a stranger for granted and only try to assist in a creation if the creator wants the help. Harassing them about the matter is not okay, and not everyone wants assistance with their page.


 *  Set A Good Example  - Everyone should set a good example to others.
 * Please, under any circumstance, do not attempt to steal artwork from their original creators without giving credit as well as using people for writing your pages' contents and ignoring their efforts to pass credit as your own. It is rude and shows a toxic side of the site we do not condone. Also, handling situations accordingly is greatly appreciated than returning toxicity to the situation.


 *  Be Welcoming - Everyone should be welcoming in the community.


 *  Ignore The Trolls And Don't React To Them  - Everyone should always ignore the trolls and not give a reaction. Just report them to the site's administrators so the required blocks can be given out.


 *  Stand Up For Others  - Everyone should stand up for anyone who is being victimized.
 * If you suspect a close friend or someone you don't truly know is being harassed and treated unfairly on the site, please talk to the staff team about the matter and it will be looked into with careful judgement.

Please Don't

 *  Don't Be Mean  - No one likes to be mean to others. Being mean will only make other people feel down and then they'll end up leaving.
 * Being mean is quite a simple task to do but won't usually result in a ban unless the matter begins to get out of hand. This does range from insulting a creator for simply creating a page to continuously harassing the user outside of the site by using the wiki as a foundation. The matter will be taken seriously if worsened. If you spot someone sending unwanted harassment to a user or have been experiencing this yourself, report the matter to staff straight away.


 *  Don't Vandalize  - Any vandalizing users will be banned for a few hours to weeks. And, if the matter begins to worsen (with the warnings given), a possible permanent ban might be set if the user has merely continuously harassed/vandalized users. Anyone who has been vandalized or witnessed vandalism is advised to report the matter to staff immediately. Accounts suspected to be vandal-accounts will be blocked permanently from the wiki.


 *  Don't Troll  - Honestly, no one likes to be trolled, or trolling someone. It's very hurtful. It sometimes can even get emotional too. Trolls like to see the victims reaction and feed on it.
 * Do not feed into reacting towards a troll. If you think someone is trolling a user or you yourself are being trolled, report the matter to staff immediately.


 *  Don't Impersonate Other People  - No one likes to be impersonated by trolls, and these accounts usually will lead to more harm if they take on the appearance of a long-lasting member of the site.
 * Don't attempt to engage with obvious impersonators. If you suspect a user is impersonating, report the user to the staff and do not continue any conversations with the troll(s) involved. Avoid giving out any personal/private information with said accounts as well.


 *  Don't Spam  - No one likes to be spammed and neither does this wiki. This may include spamming page creations, blog-posts, discussion-posts, etc.
 * Depending on the level of spamming, bans can range from a mere few days to even weeks/months. However, all spammers must be reported to the staff so they may take charge of the situation. Accounts suspected to be spam-accounts will be blocked permanently from the wiki.


 * Don't Abuse Kindness - Now, this is the golden rule of the site towards any newcomers wishing for a better page and requesting help from more experienced users of the wiki.
 * Other examples of this may include using the staff-members' rights against them to receive a promotion, grant another user a demotion, requesting and stealing artwork, etc. In other words, if someone is kind enough to grant you something, be grateful towards them and don't perform the worst in the situation.


 *  Don't Farm Edits  - This is more so the wiki's personally shared notice across Fandom. But - since it applies to every user - edit-farming is essentially when a user commits themselves to certain pages carrying out edits through each step solely to increase their edit count (e.g adding one paragraph per save, filling out the infobox's sections individually - saving each time - and adding categories individually).
 * As to be expected, any and all users caught committing to edit-farming will be warned/blocked depending on the quality of the offense itself. If it seems to be a typo or genuine mistake, then staff-members are to assume in good faith. However, if the incident is repeated across several pages in the same span of time, then it will be considered as edit-farming.

Page-Guidelines

 * 1) Since the majority of users who access the site speak English fluently/accurately, please attempt to keep the majority of the creation within English. This is to ensure that the page is somewhat readable to the majority of the users and can be searched easily if needs be. And yes, this includes some of the encrypted titles of Battington's videos as well (which may be named Tape ??? or by their decrypted titles rather than H4PPY_N3W_FRIEND5!).
 * 2) Page titles have to be capitalized.
 * 3) Remember to check for grammar/spelling mistakes. If your page has many grammar/spelling errors, it can ruin the quality of your work leading to the loss of interest to many users and this may cause your page to receive a "Candidates for deletion" category.
 * 4) Some pages which are considered for deletion will contain the "Candidates for deletion" category. Users can prevent his by following the advice sent by staff-members.
 * 5) Users caught attempting to spam random pages that are either contain: OC creations or spin-offs, advertisement of other wikis/Discord servers, excessive/inappropriately-placed NSFW content, etc, will be banned between just a few weeks to even a year depending on the content made/shared.

Candidates For Deletion
If the category "Candidate for deletion" is on any page, then that page will be deleted by our administrators/content-moderators after a 2 week notice. If your page gets this category, do NOT remove the category. If it is removed, the page will be deleted on the day the category was removed. Only the administrators/content-moderators of the wiki can place or remove this category.

Why Is My Page A "Candidate for Deletion"?

 * 1) Unrelated to the site in general.
 * 2) Characters outside of the Harmony & Horror series (e.g potential OCs, unofficial spin-offs, etc). Please create/find a more fitting wiki to do so, this is strictly for existing, official content produced by Battington related to his series "Harmony & Horror".
 * 3) Having no words/content on the page.
 * 4) Just having an infobox on the page.
 * 5) Being requested (unless there is a valid excuse behind the request).
 * 6) Stolen picture or art that credit was not given to the original artist.
 * 7) Inappropriate page creation (automatic deletion if spotted by an administrator or content moderator and a 3 day block).
 * 8) Not following the Page Guidelines.
 * 9) An extreme amount of grammar and spelling mistakes which makes the page hard to read.
 * 10) Only serves for the purpose of advertisement.

Blog-Guidelines
Blogs are a fun feature of the wiki as you can communicate with other people, advertise your page, and introduce yourself! However, there are of course rules to this feature. And these are a some of our rules for the blogs!

You Can

 * Use blogs to introduce yourself either by Q&A, other wikis you might attend, simple discussion of the site's creations, etc.
 * Use blogs to advertise other wikis, so long as the advertisement is short and is not an attempt to shame/harass this site in the process (e.g insulting this site, harassing other users to join the advertised wikis, etc).
 * Use blogs to advertise your page as long as you provide a link to it and not paste the whole page on the blog.
 * Use blogs to showcase OCs, spin-offs, fan-inspired series via comic dubs, webtoons, etc.
 * [For moderators, administrators, and bureaucrats] Use blogs to announce as long as it isn't for something unimportant.

You Cannot

 * Use blogs to point out bugs. Report the bug to FANDOM Staff via Special:Contact.
 * Use blogs to place down repeated or new (confirmed) information about the series. Either edit the page or produce another one (if not made already).
 * Use blogs to bully/harass/threaten users on the wiki. It is against the Community Policy.