P.MysteryUniverse Wiki:Policy

Welcome to Pokémon Mystery Universe Wiki!

These are the policies, or rules, set in place for us. They exist to prevent misconduct and keep the wiki running smoothly.

They should be followed accordingly, alongside Fandom's global guidelines.

General

 * No vulgar language
 * Pokémon Mystery Universe itself aims to be family friendly. The same applies to this wiki, which some of its players will be engaging in. If there's something you shouldn't particularly say in the game or its Discord, you should not say it here either.


 * Respect one another
 * There is no reason to attack or be snarky to anyone else. Be patient and considerate when engaging in conversation. If you are asked not to do something, it is in your best interest not to bother that person.


 * Spamming
 * Outside the context of vandalism, spamming will be recognized as abuse of the message wall, comment, or discussions features. There is no reason to repeatedly post messages, especially incoherent nonsense, shady links, or unsolicited and irrelevant advertisement.


 * Sign your talk page posts
 * On a page in the Talk: namespace, use ~ at the end of a message so users know who made which message without needing to look at the page history.

Editing
All guidelines needing to be followed when directly editing content (i.e. any page that isn't your userpage, guild page (to an extent), a comment, discussions post or blog post) and files are stated in the manual of style.

Further editing polices are as follows:


 * Good faith
 * It should be assumed that edits are made with a positive mindset and to contribute something. Someone may not do something right 100%, but they had good intentions.


 * Reverting edits
 * Edits by other people shouldn't be undone for no justifiable reason. Good faith edits can easily be corrected if need be.


 * Discuss before making drastic changes
 * Highly encouraged before moving a page, completely rewriting it, moderately altering a widely-used template, etc.


 * Disagreement or questions on edits
 * Feel free to use the message wall of the editor, the talk page of the edited article, or reach out to an admin for a final say.


 * Avoid ! An edit war is when two or more editors make edits over each other, essentially having a war of what should be kept. This should not need to happen.


 * Edit summaries
 * It's understandable why usage may not be seen on especially minor edits, fixes, or template troubleshooting. It's easy enough to view a diff, so it can be more about summarizing why you made the edit, and less what you edited.


 * Vandalism
 * Vandalism is considered the act of editing with the intention (keyword there; an accident isn't vandalism) to put false information, ruin or remove content. It will never be tolerated. See Warns and Blocks.


 * Sandboxes
 * If you'd like to test edits, you're free to do so at your sandbox.

Bot Usage
User:Wiki Barry is the official bot account that administrators get access to. Anything that requires mass or automated edits should usually be left to the wiki staff.

However, usage of bot software or scripts isn't strictly banned. Should an editor find a way to contribute using automation tools, we wish to give that privilege. Just keep in mind; edits by accounts with a bot flag do not show in recent changes by default, hence why they are usually used for a large amount of automated edits. Local wiki staff cannot flag an account as a bot (nor do a users' main accounts tend to be). Please limit what you do to something productive to the wiki and takes less than 20 or so edits.

Use of automation for malicious intent is vandalism and will result in a block.

Warns and Blocks
Should a user explicitly and/or repeatedly be particularly disruptive in a way that also violates certain policies, confrontation by a moderator or administrator may go underway.
 * Ignorance of confrontation or direct refusal to stop the unjust behavior, on top of continuing to indulge in the action will warrant a block for a varied amount of time, ranging from hours to days.
 * Vandalism will warrant a three-day block without warning. Vandals know what they're doing, and someone who vandalizes tends to have never wanted to contribute in the first place.
 * Trying to evade a block will not extend the original block, but simply get the account used for evasion blocked as well.

A blocked user will have the reason for such given when the block occurs. The user will still be able to use their message wall, in order to make an appeal if they wish. Bringing complaints about being blocked to our Discord will undoubtedly get you muted.

When it comes to an edit, failure to follow a guideline is different from policy violation. As stated, edits tend to be made in good faith, and fellow editors should do their part to fix things after others.

There is generally no reason to block someone otherwise. A user banned from the game will not suffer any consequences on the wiki unless rules specific to the wiki are broken.

Adminship Criteria
As an editor, you may strive to become a moderator, bureaucrat, or administrator to widen your contribution capabilities. Because it is dependent on whether or not we currently are looking for new ones, there is no definitive process for becoming one. An individual user may be approached by staff of the wiki and asked if they'd accept a promotion. If we are specifically looking for new editors to take upon a certain role, an announcement and process will be created at that point in time. Randomly asking to be promoted likely won't have an effect.

As a general statement, the following qualities will play a factor in choosing someone for a role:
 * Overall activity on the wiki and the game. Do you check the wiki often? Are you reasonably active in the game or official Discord to monitor possible third-party reports? You don't have to log in to the game every day, but be responsive at the minimum.
 * Interest. Someone who doesn't edit the wiki at all has virtually zero probability. Someone who engages and makes edits therefore shows interest in helping the wiki and reliability in doing well in a given role.
 * Experience in wiki editing. If you understand wikitext, features such as templates, and so on, you're good to go. Of course, being part of a wiki team is an experience in itself! No one can know everything from the get-go.
 * Knowledge of the game. Compare a new player to someone who's played for around half of a year or longer, has familiarity with its controls and mechanics, and made respectable progress in the game.
 * Maturity. There's no age limit beyond the requirement to sign up on Fandom. However, someone who's seen to be able to handle people in a mature way with good manners, and has little record of starting problems in the community of the game is appealing.

Newly added higher ups will be required to join us in our wiki Discord server too, and will be given proper roles.

Adminship Rules
Administrators and other higher ups are to follow the same rules as any other user.

You should not use your status to intentionally:
 * Protect pages for no reason
 * Block users for no reason
 * Delete pages for no reason
 * Alter policies for no reason
 * Promote users for no reason
 * Threaten users
 * Abuse JS scripts

You should use your status to, of the applicable:
 * Protect users and pages from problematic people
 * Interact with users of the wiki; listen to their concerns or suggestions
 * Help editors with actions they can't do such as renaming files
 * Discuss ideas or changes that would improve the wiki to the other wiki staff
 * Patrol edits
 * Make use of JS scripts to improve your editing or moderation experience
 * Moderate edits, blogs, comments, talk pages and discussions
 * As a whole, maintain the wiki and make edits where you can

Protection of Pages
Page protection is the act of limiting who can edit a page. Wikis are open for anyone to edit, but the aforementioned vandalism can be a problem, which is why some pages still need a form of protection. A page may otherwise be protected when it's undergoing a lengthy edit or maintenance task.
 * All PMU 7 dungeon pages are semi-protected. Only autoconfirmed users can edit them. Dungeons are the main content in the game, making their information being safe necessary.
 * Articles in the Project (in our case, ) namespace such as this one, as well as the main page are fully protected. Only administrators and content moderators can edit them. Project namespace articles tend to be more on the scale of official information and statements for the wiki, thus it's important they can't be edited by just anyone.

Reaching Out
If you particularly feel something should change, whether here, about other policies or protected pages, have questions, or a problem, you can reach out:
 * To the present wiki staff via their message walls
 * Shadow Lucario (Admin)
 * Deleca7755 (Admin)
 * Veezo (Content Moderator)
 * By utilizing the talk page on an article
 * Through our Discord
 * Using Discussions.