Rules and Guidelines

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Current revision as of 03:26, 12 May 2007

IMPORTANT: THESE RULES APPLY TO EVERYBODY AND SHOULD BE FOLLOWED TO AVOID ANY OFFENSIVE MATTER

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1: General

These rules generally apply to all Grundy Media.

1.1

• Any article here is written for the public. Anyone can edit whatever they want, but please try to improve the articles, not do work for other people. If a user reverts your alteration to his or her fanstuff, please respect that. Please don't get overprotective over your work or add a "Do not edit this page" notice to it.

1.2

• Do not use any words/themes/etc. that would be considered offensive (swearing, extreme violence, etc.). Any minor cases of this will get a warning, but extreme cases will be blocked and the media will be deleted. Any censored or abbreviated swearing/cussing will be treated the same way as if it were uncensored.

1.3

• When transcribing stories, emails and other media, remember to CAPITALIZE AND BOLD the speaker's name and use {italic and curly brackets} for non-spoken actions and scenarios, and please remember to try to use proper grammar.

This means: make sure your stuff is understandable. Slight errors can be tolerated, but horribly written text needs to be rewritten correctly. If you don't know how to spell a word, Dictionary.com is a great place to find what you need grammar-wise.

1.4

• For media that uses multiple pages (Grundy emails, text adventures, fan-fictions, etc.), you need to use subpages. If you do not know how to use subpages, the paragraph below will teach you.

Say, for example, you have a fanstuff called A Grundy Story, and you have different pages for every different chapter, then each chapter page must be a subpage of it - so Chapter 3 should be called something like A Grundy Story/Chapter 3, and not just called "Chapter 3".

1.5

• You are not allowed to sell anything from the wiki to make money, even if it is your own. Unless you get a license directly from The Brothers Chaps themselves, profiting in any way from their work is illegal.

1.6

• Do not use the terms "admin", "administrator", "sysop", "reservist", "bureaucrat", "proprietor", or "developer" in your fanstuff when not referring to users with those titles. These terms are reserved for official use only.

2: Grundy Emails

These rules apply to Grundy Emails

2.1

• All emails must be at least 10 lines long, not counting blank spaces, summary, easter eggs, fun facts or the email the character receives.

2.2

• If you have not yet owned an email show, you must try out first. Any email shows created without an owner tryout will be deleted on sight. The try-outs are to see if you understand what is expected in the Grundy Emails. Information on what is expected is located at rule 1.3.

2.3

• Remember, SUBPAGES! If your email isn't a subpage, it will either be moved of deleted, depending on its quality.

3: Signatures

A signature, or sig, is the writing that you sign after talk page comments by using three or four tildes (~~~ or ~~~~). When you press the "save page" button, the tildes are converted to your sig. To set your sig, log in, go to Preferences, and put what you want for your sig in the "Your nickname" box. However, it must follow the below rules. If you use a template for your sig, then the template must follow the below rules too.

3.1

• Your sig cannot be longer than either YOUR USERNAME + 10 NORMAL-SIZED CHARACTERS/15 SMALL CHARACTERS. This is normal sized text. This is small text. You can mix it, and have normal sized and small characters, but remember that 2 small characters equal 1 normal sized character.

3.2

• Your sig cannot contain characters larger than text this size. All big text must be shrunken.

3.3

• It's recommended that you use a template for your sig, to make it easy for you to change your sig. However, the template must be a subpage of your userpage, for example, User:YOUR USERNAME/sig. If that's where your sig is located, then using {{User:YOUR USERNAME/sig}} will make your sig appear. Do not use Template:YOUR USERNAME's sig. If your sig is using a page like Template:YOUR USERNAME's sig, it will be deleted on sight, no warnings.

3.5

• If you choose to have an image in your sig, it must be no more than 15 pixels tall. To have your image automatically resize, make it like this: [[Image:IMAGENAME.art|15px]]. This will not work on images that are much taller than wide. Images whose width is 10 pixels or less count as one normal-sized character. Anything wider counts as two normal-sized characters. Images that stretch lines extra high or low must be resized to not do so.

3.6

• Your signature should include your username or something similar to it. You are allowed to abbreviate, make minor alterations to, and add additional words and symbols next to your name, but it must be easy to tell it's still you.

3.7

• Bright colors such as the default yellow and white text isn't allowed in signatures. They are either too hard to read, or impossible to read. Any member with a signature that is spotted with yellow or white lettering in it will get a warning.