Fanonpedia:Policy

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Fanonpedia policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, fake encyclopedia. There is no need to read any policy or guideline pages to start editing. The five pillars is a popular summary of the most pertinent principles.

Although Fanonpedia generally does not employ hard-and-fast rules, Fanonpedia's policy and guideline pages describe its principles and agreed-upon best practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, and guidelines are generally meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts. Policies and guidelines should always be applied using reason and common sense.

This policy page will tell all the policies you need to know. Some other guidelines have pages, but this is the ones you need.

Editing poilcy

Fanonpedia is the product of ones of editors' contributions, each one bringing something different to the table, whether it be: showcasing fanfiction, technical expertise, writing prowess or tidbits of stuff to showcase, but most importantly a willingness to help. Even the best articles should not be considered complete, as each new editor can offer new insights on how to enhance the content in it at any time.

Fanonpedia's never gonna be done; that's what we what

Perfection is not required: Fanonpedia is a and will always be work in progress. Collaborative editing means that incomplete or poorly written first drafts can evolve over time into excellent articles. Even poor articles, if they can be improved, are welcome. For instance, one person may start an article with an overview of a fanfiction or a few random facts. Another may help standardize the article's formatting, or have additional facts and figures or a graphic to add. Yet another may bring better balance to the views represented in the article, without needing to perform fact-checking and sourcing to existing content. At any point during this process, the article may become disorganized or contain substandard writing.

Fix some problems - you may become a Admin soon!

Fix problems if you can, flag or remove them if you can't. Preserve appropriate content. As long as any facts or ideas would belong in an Fanon Wiki, they should be retained in Fanonpedia. Fanonpedia is an fanon wiki.

Likewise, as long as any of the facts or ideas added to an article would belong in the "finished" article, they should be retained.

Instead of removing article content that is poorly presented, consider cleaning up the writing, formatting or sourcing on the spot, or tagging it as necessary. If you think an article needs to be rewritten or changed substantially, go ahead and do so, but it is best to leave a comment about why you made the changes on the article's talk page. The editing process tends to guide articles through ever-higher levels of quality over time. Cool Fanonpedia articles can come from a succession of editors' efforts. Instead of removing content from an article, consider:

  • Rephrasing or copy-editing to improve grammar or more accurately represent the sources
  • Correcting accuracies, while keeping the rest of the content intact
  • Merging or moving the content to a more relevant existing article, or splitting the content to an entirely new article
  • Repair a dead link if a new URL for the page or an archive of the old one can be located
  • Merging the entire article into another article with the original article turned into a redirect as described at performing a merge
  • Fixing errors in wikitext code or formatting

Otherwise, if you think the content could provide the seed of a new subarticle, or if you are just unsure about removing it from the project entirely, consider copying the information to the article's talk page for further discussion. If you think the content might find a better home elsewhere, consider moving the content to a talk page of any article you think might be more alike, so that editors there can decide how it might be properly included in our fanon.

Ownership of content

Creators of articles should always the creator of the subject. Yep. you heard me.

Deletion poilcy

WP:DEL#REASON WP:DEL1 WP:DEL2 ... WP:DEL14 Reasons for deletion include, but are not limited to, the following (subject to the condition that improvement or deletion of an offending section, if practical, is preferable to deletion of an entire page):

Content that meets at least one of the criteria for speedy deletion

Copyright violations and other material violating Fanonpedia's non-free content criteria

Vandalism, including inflammatory redirects, pages that exist only to disparage their subject, patent nonsense, or gibberish

Advertising or other spam without any relevant or actual content (but not an article about an advertising-related subject)

Content forks (unless a merger or redirect is appropriate)



Redundant or otherwise useless templates

Categories representing overcategorization

Files that are unused, obsolete, or violate the non-free policy

Any other use of the article, template, project, or user namespace that is contrary to the established separate policy for that namespace

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