Sonic Animenia Wiki:Rules and Guidelines

On Sonic Animenia Wiki, we enforce the following rules and guidelines. Everyone is expected to accept and obey these. Those who disobey will face punishments.

Be kind to everyone.
Keep this in mind: Everyone of all kinds will see what you've done. Treat others what you wanted to be treated.

Biting the newcomers is never tolerated. Examples include calling them "noob", ignoring them, and exclaiming that they will do horrible edits. Remember, you were once new. Instead, welcome them kindly and warmly and help them whenever.

Harassment, flame wars, and trolling are not acceptable.

Bullying and personal attacks are absolutely a no-no. Instead of bashing a user, try to kindly say why you disagree with what they did.

Hate speech, which includes ethnic slurs and biasis based on a person's race or gender, is disallowed.

Keep this wiki kid-friendly.
Since Sonic the Anime and Sonic the Hedgehog are kid-friendly, we expect kids to be hanging around here. That means all content on the site will have to be kid-friendly.

Content forbidden on this site includes: Excessive blood and gore, intense violence, sexual content (also counts nudity), swearing (partial censors aren't allowed either), and encouragement of drugs and alcohol. If you want to post something with swearing or excessive blood, you have to censor those first.

If the content has mild inappropriate content, such as mild blood, you can post it, as long as you begin it with a warning.

Encouragement and demonstration of illegal activity, including linking to pirated material, also counts as inappropriate.

Discussing problems that need counseling, such as self-harm and suicide, counts as inappropriate too.

Keep your personal info private
Personal info includes street address, school you go to, phone number, e-mail address, full name, and birthdate. You must keep your personal info to yourself and never share it online. There have been stories of online predators getting hold of random internet users, because they shared their personal info.

Asking for personal info is also disallowed, as it links to online predator behavior.

Don't spill the beans.
(This is directed to anyone on the production team.) You may post articles about upcoming episodes and arcs, as long as they don't extend to a whole season and don't reveal any spoilers.

If an article has a spoiler, place a spoiler warning on the section which has the spoilers.

Follow the Manual of Style
The Manual of Style was designed to ensure that the articles are professional, easy to read, and convenient. Users are encouraged to use their spelling and grammar skills at their best, know what's eligible for a wiki article, and fix others' mistakes.

Stay official
Sonic the Anime, of course, is fan-made and has Sonic the Hedgehog fan content in it. However, that does not mean you can add unofficial information into the articles. If you want to influence what the anime contains, why not join the team today, if you have a Scratch account?

Make sure the images are eligible for the wiki
To prevent the images from being a mess, we've set up guidelines for the images uploaded here. Images uploaded must not be one of these:
 * Images with one of the following names below:
 * Names only consisting of numbers
 * Names starting with "Tumblr" and being followed with a string of numbers
 * Names starting with "Screenshot" and being followed with the date of the shot
 * "Image"
 * Low-quality images (userpage images are an exception)
 * Non-Sonic-the-Anime images that are not categorized under Category:Userpage Images
 * Inappropriate or disrespectful images

Be responsible of your account
If your account gets banned and you claim that some evil guy hacked your account, please provide much evidence as possible, or else your account will stay banned. Such excuse that a hacker got into your account is somewhat like the "My dog ate my homework" excuse.

If you don't want your account to be hacked, keep your password safe and secure. Use a password that is easy to remember but hard to guess and never share your account with someone other than a trusted adult.

Don't attempt to get around your ban
If your account gets banned and you declare yourself guilty for it, stick with the ban and learn from it. Attempting to get around your ban, through creating another account and pretending to be another person (known as sockpuppetry), will get you banned right on the spot. We can even ban your IP address from registering more accounts.

Punishments
Failure to obey these rules and guidelines will result in some sort of punishment. They can be found here.