Loathsome Characters Wiki:Rules

These are the rules for Loathsome Characters Wiki. Please read them carefully.

General

 * 1) Please follow Miraheze's Terms of Service and Code of Conduct. Do not encourage others to break Miraheze's Terms of Service or Code of Conduct either.
 * 2) If users are uncivil, unclear or go as far as trolling, do not engage. Be the better user and bring the matter to admins to resolve.
 * 3) Do not mini-mod. This means acting like an administrator or moderator even though you aren't one. If a person isn't behaving, tell the administrators who will resolve the issue, you don't need to type in all caps at them.
 * 4) Do not send any foe requests to other users, as that will likely cause drama. Sending foe requests to admins may result in an indefinite ban.
 * 5) Mainspace pages should be written decently and cleanly, with minimal swearing, caps and out of place wikitext.
 * 6) Pages should use categories that are appropriate. If there are multiple options, select the best one. Sandboxes and blogs should not have categories removed. If not, comment them out or fake them. If you're unsure, ask or leave it to someone else.
 * 7) All pages are required to be under 50,000 bytes. Any page with a number over that amount of bytes should be shortened.

Uploading images rules

 * 1) All images uploaded onto this wiki should directly relate to the scope of the wiki (which are images of characters, or images featuring the characters' parts in them). All other images not related to characters will be deleted on sight.
 * 2) Do not upload any NSFW images of characters (whether it be them naked, having gory injuries, etc). Such images will be deleted on sight if uploaded.
 * 3) When uploading images of characters, make sure that they are of high quality. Low quality-images are allowed, but only if they're not of minimal quality.
 * 4) Fan-art of characters should never be uploaded onto this wiki, no exceptions. Only upload official art (screenshots, concept art, promotional art, etc).

Page-making rules

 * 1) DO NOT MAKE PAGES OF:
 * 2) * Any characters already on the Great Characters Wiki: This should be self-explanatory. Exceptions are if the page is addressing a particular bad incarnation. As the rule says, contact us if you feel a character should be switched.
 * 3) * Minor characters with minimal screentime: Please do not add minor characters that appear for less than a couple of minutes. Exceptions can be made for those that have a bad reputation among fans. Otherwise, one-time characters are allowed if they are important to the episode or media they come from.
 * 4) * Episode-based pages for recurring characters: A recurring character being out-of-character, flanderized, or poorly written in a couple of episodes of a show does not warrant a page on this wiki.
 * 5) * Real-life people: This wiki is intended for fictional characters only. Exceptions are self-insert characters and fictional incarnations of real-life people.
 * 6) * OC/fan-made characters: They are not official characters, and they lack a personality. Such pages could also cause drama.
 * 7) * Parody characters: Especially those based on official characters and are intended to be unlikable. Such characters are meant to be jokes and they could clog the wiki if we allow them.
 * 8) * Any Drawn Together characters: All of the characters are not meant to be taken seriously and similar to parody characters.
 * 9) * Any GoAnimate/Vyond or Scratch characters: Their personalities are very inconsistent, which would make it hard to make a page on them in the first place. They also may count as OC/fan-made characters.
 * 10) * Any .exe characters (except Sonic.exe): They're just parodies of Sonic.exe with overall generic reasons.
 * 11) * Pages that were previously deleted: If pages that were deleted for being poorly written get recreated without notable improvement, it will result in a temporary block.
 * 12) * Hate pages of well-liked characters that you personally dislike.
 * 13) If the page is unfinished, please move it to your sandbox. Otherwise, it will be deleted.

Editing rules

 * 1) If a page has custom headers, it should be on the "Why He/She Sucks" section. Customized headers cannot be added on "Redeeming Qualities", or "Bad Qualities" and "Good Qualities" for Average characters. If the characters are intended to be loathsome (aka hate sinks), the header should read "Why He/She Intentionally Sucks" or "Intentional Bad Qualities". For the best results, do not capitalize short prepositions, conjunctions, or articles in the custom headings, unless they are the first word of the title. For example, write "Why She's the Worst of Both Worlds” instead of "Why She's The Worst Of Both Worlds".
 * 2) Do not add duplicate categories, as they could likely clog up the wiki.
 * 3) Vandalism is not tolerated in any shape or form. It nets a permanent ban if done repeatedly.
 * 4) Make sure your grammar is accurate when editing pages.
 * 5) Quotes such as "This spawned the X meme(s)", "he/she/they are poorly animated", "X is rolling in their grave", "Wasted the talents of...", and "depending on your view" are forbidden due to being unoriginal and overused. Any of the said quotes will be removed immediately.
 * 6) Try to be professional when writing an article. That means do not go overboard with bold writing, capital letters and red writing, or it'll easily seem like a hate page, and make sure most of the information is correct. Biased contributions to bad pages give bad impressions.
 * 7) Please do not add in any indications that the characters you don't like deserve to die, as doing so will make it look like we're celebrating deaths of characters. Even if a well-hated character does deserve it, just don't do it.
 * 8) If a pointer you're thinking of adding is based on your personal view, especially if you're alone on it, don't add it. If you think a certain edit based on your personal view should be added, explain it to someone among the staff or ask others.
 * 9) Please do not add pointers just to make comparisons to other characters from other media as bad or redeeming/good qualities, unless they are characters from the same TV channel, franchise, or someone who is very similar to the character. One good comparison is Peter Griffin to Homer Simpson who are similar characters from long-running animated sitcoms.
 * 10) If you see a short page or a page with messy writing, add a cleanup tag to it so people can work on expanding it.
 * 11) If a pointer you're thinking of adding is based on your personal view, especially if you're alone on it, don't add it. If you think a certain edit based on your personal view should be added, explain it to someone among the staff or ask others.
 * 12) If a page has a gallery, please add no more than 15 images. This is not an image-sharing site, this is a site about characters that are poorly written and or unlikable.
 * 13) If a page has a videos section, the videos should be in English (especially since this is an English-speaking wiki). Foreign language videos are not allowed and will be removed if added there.

User page rules

 * 1) Do not list users as enemies on your user page.

Blogpost rules

 * 1) Blogs should be used for civil discussion, not to annoy other users.
 * 2) If you see a page that is marked for deletion, do not move the page to a blog to circumvent deletion. This is known as "blog-moving" and you can expect a warning or be blocked for doing this repeatedly.
 * 3) Do not add categories to blogs, as that will flood and mess up the categories.