Club Penguin Pookie Wiki:Policies

This page is to explain the policies and rules of the Club Penguin Pookie Wiki.

General User Behavior

 * All users are expected to be respectful of one another. This means that in chat, on articles, in edit summaries, in forums, in comments, and on talk pages, you, the user, are expected to treat every user with respect, regardless of your personal feeling towards them. Hate speech (one that attacks a person and/or group based on their race, religious beliefs, sex, a disability they may have or one's sexual orientation) is also not tolerated, and if one persists such behavior after warnings, will result in a block from the wiki and/or ban from the chatroom.
 * Comments, forum posts, and talk posts are expected to be appropriate. No inflammatory, irrelevant, or insulting posts are allowed. No cursing is permitted. This includes the chat.
 * Insulting or harassing other users is never permitted. This includes general statements about groups of people. Insulting or harassing others will lead to swift and severe blocks. This includes the chat.

If You Are Blocked or Banned

 * If you have been banned or blocked here, you may appeal it using your own or an admin's message wall. If you are unable to do so, you may contact any admin using their wall on Community Central Wiki.
 * If you are blocked or banned here, it is NOT appropriate to follow any admin to another wiki to complain. This will result in an extension of the block or ban here, and likely a block on the wiki in question.
 * If you are blocked on another wiki, it is NOT appropriate to follow an admin here to complain.

Your Message Wall

 * Do not remove, or otherwise try to obscure, any thing that others post on your message wall. Exceptions to this are vandalism or any message that violates the policies. In this case, you may either remove the message yourself or ask an admin to remove it for you.

Vandalism

 * Vandalism is not tolerated. This includes adding gibberish, nonsense and blanking pages or sections. Vandals' edit(s) will be swiftly undone and will be blocked.

Categories

 * Do not add new categories to the Wikia. Please, get an admin's permission for this.
 * Do not add categories that are not relevant to the article.

Fluff Edits

 * A fluff edit is any edit that has no effect on the appearance of a page. This includes changing minor code, or adding or removing whitespace (blank lines). Fluff edits are not tolerated, and may eventually lead to blocks.

Trivia

 * Trivia in general is allowed. However, please present the trivia in a neat and organized fashion. Also, do not present unrelated-to-the-article trivia.

Image and Video Policies

 * No posting unrelated images/videos in mainspace pages. Unrelated images/videos can still be posted in forums, blogs, user pages and chat.
 * No posting creepy/scary/disgusting/gore-related images/videos in the wiki. Ignoring this rule will result in the image/video getting deleted and the user posting it being blocked for one day.

Swearing

 * Swearing in general is allowed. However, swears directed at others, such as "Fuck you, bitch", are clearly meant to insult, and therefore are not allowed in that case. Saying the same swear multiple times in one sitting can also be a form of spamming, which is also not allowed.

Sockpuppeting

 * Sockpuppeting is the creation and/or use of an additional account to get around a block or chat ban. Sockpuppeting is not permitted on this wiki. The second account will be blocked infinitely, and the original account's block or ban will be extended at moderator discretion.
 * You may, however, create another account for yourself if used for other purposes, such as losing your password on your original account or simply feeling the need to start off fresh. Another exception are bot accounts. Currently, this applies only to C H U N K Y and his bot, CHUNKYbot.

Inappropriate Links
Do not link anything that includes any of the following:
 * Insults/slander
 * No nudity, inappropriate body parts or porn
 * Anything that is reasonably inappropriate, as determined by chat moderators.

Spamming

 * Spamming is not permitted in chat. "Spamming" is a subjective term and what constitutes spam will be decided on a case-by-case basis at moderator discretion. Spam includes things like posting song lyrics line by line, ASCII art, abusing emoticons, and repeating the same string repeatedly.
 * Claiming your actions are not "spam" is not a defense against spamming, and will likely get you banned, or your ban extended.

Mini-modding
Please do not mini-mod, meaning acting like an administrator/moderator when you are not one. Examples of mini-modding would be: "Please don't spam, Don't be mean to other users, etc.". Please, leave it to the administrators/moderators. It is their job to protect the chat, after all. However, if all the administrators and moderators are away or if they appear to not be watching chat, it is perfectly fine to alert them when a rule breaker is on. If done however for the first time, you will receive a 3 day ban. If continued enough, you will be banned forever.

Kicking

 * Being "kicked" from chat means you are removed from chat, and may come back immediately.
 * The Club Penguin Pookie Wiki uses kicks as a form of warning.
 * If you are kicked from chat, you may return, and a mod will explain why you were kicked.
 * It is NOT appropriate to argue about being kicked. This will almost always result in an actual ban from chat.
 * Kicks may be given after warnings, or may be given in place of a verbal warning, at moderator discretion.
 * Admins might kick people for no official reason, for example "I kicked you because it was a game, I kicked you because I don't like you" and more. Please, do not do this, as most users find this offensive.

Banning

 * Being "banned" from chat means you are removed from chat and may not return for a specified period of time.
 * Bans range in length from three days to infinite.
 * Bans will usually come after a kick has been given and ignored. However, bans may be given after an ignored warning, or without a verbal warning, at moderator discretion.

Blocking

 * Violations of these policies will results in warnings, and, when necessary, blocks. The length of a block will vary, and depends on the severity of the offense, any previous bad behavior, and the blocking mod's discretion.
 * Severe offenses may not get warnings, but skip straight to blocks. This is to be decided at admin discretion.