Policies and Guidelines
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The Visionary Universe Wiki has some general policies and guidelines that have been put out specifically by Visionary Comics Studio and the project's moderators. Please read through the policies below to become familiar with them. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please post them on the talk page.
The Policy Changes page will be updated with any new, proposed or suggested policy changes, as well as points of clarification. Add that page to your watchlist in order to be informed when such occurs.
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[edit] General Policies
The Visionary Universe Wiki is first and foremost the comprehensive reference guide to the fictional Visionary Universe. As such, it and its community is dedicated to the referencing of canon or published material, as well as the supplemental expansion of new material adding depth and richness to the whole.
It is not an uncontrolled experiment in meta-literature, going wherever directed at random, but instead an attempt to create a rich and varied fictional world.
Please consult the following specific policy and procedural guideline pages:
- Editing Policy: A guide on how to edit articles, and how to style them.
- Naming Conventions: How to name new articles.
- Disambiguation: For potential article title conflicts.
- Image Use Policy: On the rules for uploading images.
- Copyrights: That unavoidable legalese...
- Etiquette: Useful advice for when disagreements arise.
- Deletion Policy: For when deleting pages becomes necessary.
- Canon Policy: What we accept, and what we don't accept.
- Apocryphal Policy: Where we bend the rules on expanding into the unknown.
- Spoiler Policy: Let the reader beware!
- Redirect: On the rules for using redirects.
- Moderators: On the roles and powers of the Mods.
[edit] Enforcement
In general all participants should feel free, during day-to-day operations to politely point out and correct mistakes, or to expand, add or update entries, both dealing with Visionary Universe Canon or published material as well as new material created exclusively for the wiki.
The project is also overseen by C. Edward Sellner the creator of the Visionary Universe, and its prime overseer. When necessary he will make changes in order to not conflict with planned development, or mapped continuity. He also reserves the right to lock any article, change content, or delete when needed.
[edit] Specific Guidelines
[edit] General guidelines
- Contribute Based on Knowledge
- Create Based on Expertise
- Adding Pages
- Updating Pages
- Proposing Alterations to Pages
- Community Solutions
- Build the Web
- Explicit Omissions
- What Links Here?
[edit] Behavior guidelines
- Talk Posts
- Personal Attacks
- Logins
- Usernames
- Bans and Blocks
- Protecting Pages
- Consideration
- Professionalism
[edit] Content guidelines
- Quality
- Perfection
- Supplementary Material
- Reasonable Extrapolation
- Define and Describe
- Establish Context
- Explain Jargon
- Patent Nonsense
- Point of View
- Checking Facts
- Citing Sources
- Making Articles Useful
- Blanket Statements
- Inform and Entertain
- External Links
- Internal Links
- Stub Articles: Finding and Fixing
- Category Sorting
- Using Templates
[edit] Style guidelines
- Manual of Style
- Copying Primary Sources
- Orphan Articles
- Summary Fields
- Highlighting Conventions
- Balance Pages
- Subpages
- Using Templates
- Consider writing articles in news style
