Bloons Conception Wiki:Policies

Synopsis
'''This is a wiki where you can express all sorts of ideas for the popular Flash Game Series Bloons! Whether it's an idea for a new type of bloons, a new tower, a new agent, a new mechanic that affects gameplay, or even an idea for a new game in the series, or any crazy thing you can think of that's related to Bloons, is all acceptable!''' However, we still have rules, or Policies. Policies are the most important part of the wiki. All users, and contributors are expected to follow these policies. Here are the policies for Bloons Conception Wiki.

1.1. - Be Fair To Everyone
Everyone has their own ideas and have the rights to comment on your conception. No one has significantly more rights than anyone, and you shouldn't order other users just because you're higher-ranked than them.

1.2. - Respect
Be respectful to everyone and don't bully or annoy others. This is a friendly wiki. Unintentional annoyance will be forgiven if you follow what people advises afterwards.

1.3. - One to One
Everyone should have one account and one editor; that's all. You can contact Wikia to change your username if you want to, especially if your current/past username is badly recognized (like Wackycreeper15/LoverofAllThingsCute's case).

1.4. - User Processing
Be nice to new users and contributors; considerate. Any act of bullying or heavily criticizing a new user just because he/she hasn't get used to our rules, traditions and system yet will be warned and punished if needed to. Helping new users to get used to the wiki's community and system would be much appreciated.

1.5 - Everyone is Equal
All editors, regardless of status and position, are treated equally, and no one editor is more important than anyone else. Everyone's opinion is weighted as equal.

2.1. - Voting
Everyone is allowed to vote on polls. Feel free to choose your choice. However, on important polls, you would need to "vote" by commenting in the comment section, in order to prevent cheating.

2.2. - Country Language
This wiki is an English wiki. There will be  NO  other languages since other users can't translate them. However if you use a little amount of another language for humor and translate it yourself in the same comment/post so everyone can understand it, it's legal, but excessive use is not recommended.

2.3. - Discussions
Please don't delete the discussion page on articles. If you urgently want to delete it, contact the administrator or the bureaucrat. The same applies to forum threads and message wall messages.

2.4. - No Threats
Don't threaten anyone in this wiki. If you have good reasons, then you can  warn  (not threaten) other users though, whether you're an admin or not.

2.5. - Advertising
If you're gonna advertise something in this wiki, then you can, BUT please only advertise it if: If your advertisement violates any of the rules above, then it'll be flagged as spam and you may get a warning or a block.
 * 2.5.1. Advertise/Introduce Politely - Don't advertising just by saying "Come here: (post link)" or by shouting, that's very annoying and impolite, and maybe considered spam.
 * 2.5.2. Know What You're Doing - If you're gonna advertise/introduce something, then please first make sure you have an acceptable knowledge of it. Don't just advertise something then when people ask about it, you can't answer their questions.
 * 2.5.3. Don't Repeat Your Advertisements - Don't repeat your advertisements again and again unnecessarily, that's extremely annoying, especially if an user has stated that he/she doesn't care about what you're advertising for.
 * 2.5.4. On the Topic - If you're gonna advertise something on another page, make sure your advertisement is related to the topic of that page you are posting the link on. If you advertisement doesn't fit the topic of that page, then please make a separate blog post for your advertisement.

3. Page Policies
3.1. Everyone can Create - Everyone has the rights to make conceptions as long as he/she is not blocked.

3.2. Comment - Feel free to comment on other people's pages, but do not shout, scream, insult, spam, vandalise or inserting inappropriate content (drugs, sex, heavy violence, etc.)

3.3. Rating - As this is an idea wiki, you're allowed to rate people's conceptions using your own criterias, or you can follow the criterias of famous "critics", it's up to you. However, hater ratings are counted as spam if no proper reasons are stated.

3.4. Author's Full Rights - The author of a conception has full rights to do whatever he/she wants to do with that page, including editing, deletion, adding content, removing content, giving other users permissions to edit, spam, etc. whatever. However, if an author decides to make his/her page a public page, then no one has full rights on that page.

3.5. Editing - You can edit your own pages or public pages however you want, but since this is an ideas wiki, you're NOT allowed to change the content of other users' pages in any form, unless it's just a grammar fix or typo fix. You can edit other users' pages though, if: 3.6. Spam and Vandalism - Obviously, don't spam, vandalise, or inserting irrelevant information in other users' conceptions pages. You can spam and vandalise your own pages though,... but no one in their right mind would do it.
 * The author of the page has given you permission personally.
 * The author of the page has stated that anyone can edit it, thus making it a public page.
 * The page is made as a "compilation" page for others to post their small ideas of that particular category (for example: Weapons Shop), thus also making it a public page.

3.7. Badgehunting - Don't make continuous edits on pages that're useless and/or very minor just for getting badges. It's very annoying and will result in a warning and sometimes a block. If it's not intentional and you really did forget something then it's tolerable, unless you do it too much.

3.8. Copying - If you copy other users' conceptions or pictures blatantly without good reasons, your conceptions can easily get deleted (see below) at best, and you may even get a warning or a block at worse, if you repeat it for multiple conceptions. You can remake a conception of another user though, only if that user has given you permission.

3.9. Adoption of Pages

 * 3.9.1. The Time to Adopt - If you want to improve a conception whose author has been  inactive for 20 days or more, you can contact a Conception Master to ask for permission to adopt it and make it yours.
 * 3.9.2. Inherited Rights - When you've adopted a conception, you can freely edit that conception  as long as you don't break the points below, and you're free to give any user permissions to edit the page, just like the author.
 * 3.9.3. Uninherited Rights - When you've adopted a conception, unlike its author, you're NOT permitted to spam or vandalise the page, and if you delreq the conception, it WON'T be counted as an author delreq, it'll only be counted as a normal delreq, and you'll have to clearly state your reasons like usual.
 * 3.9.4. The Basic Conception Stays - When you've adopted a page, you are NOT allowed to change or remove any content that signify that conception, as well as ideas that make the conception creative and different from others. If you do, it'll be counted as vandalising. You're free to change any content that are not this significant though.

4.1. - Applied Everywhere
These policies are applied everywhere possible to post contents, including pages, comments, user pages, blog posts, chat, and even images, though some policies here may be taken a bit more lightly on chat.

4.2. - No Profanity
Please don't use profanity. Censored profanity is taken more lightly, but will still be warned and blocked on excessive use, while uncensored profanity is taken very seriously. This rule is taken more lightly on chat, because it's also a place to release stress, but excessive use, especially with uncensored profanity, will still be warned and blocked.

4.3. - No Maturity
Please don't post any sexual, suggestive content. This is taken very seriously and may results in major punishments. These contents will then be deleted. Drugs are also not allowed.

4.4. - No Violence
Like above, please don't post excessively violent content that may not be suitable for the younger audience.

4.5. - No Racism
Please don't post any racist or politically sensitive content. These contents will then be very likely to be deleted.

4.6. - No Religious Debates
It's ok to refer a religion in your conceptions, but don't bad-mouth about any religion in any way. These contents are also very likely to get deleted.

4.7. - No Horror
Don't openly post horror content that're too creepy. This may seem like a weird rule, but not everyone can handle horror.

4.8. - No Threats in Contents
Don't openly threaten anyone in your contents unless you're trying to warn him and have good reasons. If you do so it'll get deleted and you'll get warned and blocked very soon.

5.1 - Make Them Appropriate Pictures
Make them as creative as you can but no rude or offensive things on it.

5.2. - Make Your Userpage Look Nice (Optional)
This is an optional choice but you can make your userpage look nice. Add conceptions of what you did and pages you created. But unappropriate pictures are excluded.

5.3. - Friendly Userpage
Never openly states your "enemies" or what users/conceptions you hate on your userpage. If your userpage has any signs of anger or hatred towards someone/something, you'll be warned to edit it.

5.4. - Appropriate Userpage
Never posts inappropriate content like drugs, sex, violence, etc. in your userpage (see Section 4). If your userpage has inappropriate content, you'll be warned to edit it.

5.5. - No Spam
In addition to pages and blog posts, don't spam and/or vandalise other users' userpages.

6.1. - Everything Non-conception
Everything that's not a conception or a list of conceptions go to blog posts. Don't post your personal opinions or news as mainspace edits.

6.2. - Appropriate Content and No Spam
Again, everything in Section 4 applies. You are also not allowed to spam and/or vandalise other users' blog posts.

6.3. - Make Your Blog Posts Useful
Don't make meaningless blog posts to spam the wiki or give disturbing news that don't have anything to do with anyone else.

7.1. - Be Social
You can talk about anything on Live Chat, whether it's BCoW, life, school, video games, animes, whatever. Don't force people to just talk about one topic or force people to talk about things related to BCoW.

7.2. - Sharing Conceptions
You can share your conceptions, in fact it's very recommended to do so on chat, and you can also spoil the in-development ones and invite people to help you develope it! Everybody loves to contribute to something that's being made. Don't spoil it all though, for your own conception's uniqueness.

7.3. - No Personal Threats
If you know that a certain user on chat is sensitive, scared and/or easily disturbed by a certain topic, don't openly talk about that topic in chat to avoid offending that user.

8. Recommendations
The points stated in this section are not compulsory. However, they're recommended for conceptors to do, because they help making organization much easier!

8.1. - One Page per Conception
It's recommended to have one page per conception or at least, per series of conceptions. Pages like "My Ideas" or "My Conceptions" or "My Bloon Ideas" are discouraged.

8.2. - Internal Links
It's recommended to have a link to another page in this wiki (a.k.a. "internal link") in your page. It'll help new users get familiar with the contents of the wiki!

8.3. - Self-Made Pictures
It's recommended to use pictures you drew or edited yourself in your pages. Using pictures from the net, though they may be pretty, is an unpleasant sight to the users who know where they come from.