My Singing Monsters Wiki:Policy


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Welcome to My Singing Monsters Wiki! This wiki includes information relating to My Singing Monsters and My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire, although primarily My Singing Monsters. My Singing Monsters and My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire are both family-friendly games, intended for young people as well as adults. We expect that this wiki will be read and enjoyed by all, and it's perfectly fine if youngsters participate in wiki activity.

Our goal in My Singing Monsters Wiki is to develop a My Singing Monsters and Dawn of Fire database that is full of comprehensive information about every single aspect of the two games, as well as several of the spin-offs based upon those two games.

A set of policies had been developing since 12th June 2016 with this discussion from Qwertyxp2000 the second to BunsenH. Below are some policies that should generally be followed.

Assume Good Faith
Always assume that users are there to improve the wiki rather than destroy it. If you suspect someone of doing something wrong, try to bring in some good advice of how to improve the user's edits, rather than assuming he/she is there to destroy the wiki. However, if a user repetitively does disruptive edits, users may assume bad faith to that user.

User Treatment Policy
My Singing Monsters Wiki is a family-suitable wiki, as it is being read by all ages. As well as this, users should respect each other regardless of status.

Status
Every user should be treated equally regardless of status. Both admins and non-admins may edit any article with equal weighting, unless the user has a recent block history within this wiki. Even non-admins may edit policy pages, however under total responsibility and with permission of other admins.

What makes admins and non-admins different are their rights to block whenever necessary. While all users may warn, only admins may block. If non-admins want requests to block another user, they should ask an admin to do so.

Verbal treatment
As My Singing Monsters and Dawn of Fire are rated 4+, the wiki should remain clean of any vulgar and profane language. Those who use vulgar and/or profane language will be warned against doing so, or even blocked on serious circumstances.

As well as this, users should always be friendly to one another and not hostile. Firm warnings does not count as hostility. Hostility to one another is called personal attacks. More information about personal attacks is covered at My Singing Monsters Wiki:Policy.

Sharing ideas
Always be sure to be open to other users' ideas, whether you like it or not. If you are still not convinced that their ideas are right, then check carefully. By checking carefully, you are confirming with your own eyes and ears that a user's idea is correct without having to reject the idea without deep analysis.

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Disruptive Editing
Any edit that appears to be damaging to the wiki is considered disruptive editing. Disruptive editing that has the intent of destroying the goal of the wiki is called vandalism. Disruptive editing that appears not to have the intent of destroying the goal of the wiki is simply called "disruptive editing". Any form of disruptive editing that is not vandalism but outside editing the mainstream articles or userpages is called disruptive contributions. More information about vandalism is covered under My Singing Monsters Wiki:Policy.

Vandalism
Vandalism is not tolerated at any circumstances. If a user makes edits that appear to be malicious to the goal of making a comprehensive wiki, it is called vandalism. A wide variety of things make an edit vandalism, and anything that is nonsensical, spamming, block-evading, and not-want-to-change is considered vandalism. Vandalism can be anywhere, from mainstream articles, to blog comments, to blogs, to profile pages, to forums, and basically anywhere where a user can make edits or contributions to.

Below are some things that are considered and not considered vandalism. Note that some things are not considered vandalism because of the lack of malicious intent that vandalism would have.

What is considered vandalism?

 * Inserting nonsense to articles
 * Blanking useful content without a valid explanation
 * Spamming friend codes on pages where friend codes are not appropriate to be placed on.
 * Any other form of spamming
 * Repeating any form of disruptive editing over and over again
 * Using sockpuppetry to gain an advantage to evade scrutiny of disciplinary action.
 * (insert more stuff)

What is not considered vandalism?
Any non-malicious edit is not vandalism, unless a form of disruptive editing becomes completely repetitive.
 * Attempting to add an image or a link but making a problem by having poor source code
 * Disobeying the Manual of Style, unless repeated to an extent that the user wants to deliberately break the Manual of Style.
 * Making useless comments, unless blatantly containing profanities, offensive content, racial slurs, sexual content, other inappropriate content or anything else designed to do damage to the wiki.
 * Personal attacks, unless as comments that are designed to attempt to make a user leave the wiki.  (Note that personal attacks, though not vandalism, are still not acceptable here!)
 * (insert more stuff)

Friend Codes
In My Singing Monsters and My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire, players have friend codes attached to their game, and many things can be done with friend codes. Friend codes can be used for a wide variety of things, from lighting Wishing Torches, liking islands, recruiting tribal members, which are all MSM stuff; helping Skyship orders, Market selling and buying, visiting players' islands, which are all DoF stuff.

However, as these privileges are so useful that they are frequently advertised along social media, including video hosters (such as YouTube), social network sites (such as Facebook and Twitter) and Wikia. Because of this, set measures have to be set in this wiki to prevent the overflow of Friend Codes from disturbing the content of the mainstream articles. The solution to this is that all friend codes may be advertised in the Friend Codes, Friend Codes (Dawn of Fire) and Tribe Contacts articles. Advertising your friend codes in your profile and userpages only is also acceptable. Repeatedly doing this, to keep your blog entry on the wiki's main page, is not.

Monster Gender
All monsters except those in My Mammott and My PomPom are gender-neutral. We all like to assign monsters with a gender, don't we? However, as monsters are bred by fusing two eggs of different species, that would make all monsters technically female regardless of stereotypically masculine/feminine features. As well as this, some people may not agree on certain features of a monster making a monster "male" or "female". Because of this, monsters are regarded as gender-neutral to avoid this type of issue. Nevertheless, you may assign genders to monsters outside of the articles in the wiki, such as in threads or blogs.

Big Blue Bubble Copyright Policy
Big Blue Bubble has a strict policy when it comes to copyright. Files may not be posted without actual purpose in supplimenting with the article. All files are to be used educationally, with the purpose of demonstrating the look or sound of a certain feature, monster or whatever thing in the game. Sound files are not to be overused and whole sections of each and every individual monster sound are not to be posted without prior permission of Big Blue Bubble. Screenshots of the game are perfectly fine, but images gained via the backdoor require special attention to demonstrating actual purpose in an article.

Posting spoilers of new content of My Singing Monsters and Dawn of Fire are absolutely not permitted. Blocks may occur if one posts spoilers of new content.

Personal Attacks
Personal attacks are comments that are directing at offending a user or group of users. Any comment that is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, anti-religious, ethnically offensive, sexual or in any other way offensive is considered personal attacks. This includes personal insults.

Anyone who does personal attacks are strongly warned and/or blocked.

Alternate Accounts
Alternate accounts may be used in this wiki, however, they must be used responsibly and without using them for disruption, evasion or any other bad purpose of wiki policies and the wiki's goal. Any abuse of multiple accounts is called sockpuppetry. More information about abusing alternate accounts is listed at My Singing Monsters Wiki:Policy.

Sockpuppetry
Although alternate accounts are acceptable, abusing alternate accounts is called sockpuppetry. These are not accepted in this wiki and suspected sockpuppets will be blocked indefinately. Users who operate sockpuppets are called sockmasters or sockpuppeteers. Sockmasters may get blocked or blocked longer if they use sockpuppets.

Confirmed sockpuppets may be marked with. Confirmed sockmasters may be marked with

Manual of Style
In general, articles should be fairly consistant with other similar articles, particularly with articles about monsters. More details of manuals of style are covered in My Singing Monsters Wiki:Manual of Style.