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The Prodigy Game Wiki
All users, including wiki staff members, are required to abide by these rules.
General Rules
- Respect everyone; stop means stop.
- Fandom's ToS (Term of Use) require users to be thirteen (13) years or older. Everyone here is free to report to Fandom if a user violates the Terms of Use. Additionally, do not share your age if you are under sixteen (16) years of age.
- Do not swear or use vulgar language.
- All content on the wiki should be age appropriate; content should remain readable for people under the age of thirteen.
- Vandalism, spam, or unsolicited advertisements are all strictly prohibited.
- Your username or profile picture may not contain not safe for work content (i.e. swearing, gore), or hate.
- Mini-modding, or telling users that they are breaking a rule without the proper rights will result in a warning. Mini-modding can make situations worse and cause confusion amongst people.
- Do not troll, harass, or berate other users or disrupt their experience. Encouraging unjust harassment of any form is also prohibited.
- Impersonation is not allowed. Impersonation involves stating or pretending that you are a person, but you are not.
- If you have been blocked from the wiki and you think you were unfairly blocked, check your contributions to see which admin blocked you and then contact them on Community Central.
- Do not share private information, and do not solicit private information from others. If you ever feel like you are being forced to share information you do not wish to share, report it. Private information includes full names, age (unless you are comfortable with sharing it), email addresses that may reveal sensitive information, personal photographs of yourself, or anything else that could identify you outside of the internet.
- Cyberbullying will not be tolerated.
- Necroposting is not allowed. This means making a comment on a post that hasn't been used in two weeks or more, without providing any valuable additions to the discussion.
- Stirring up drama is strictly prohibited. Doing it intentionally or for attention can result in a block.
- Sharing malicious hacks/cheats is prohibited from the wiki. Malicious hacks are any hacks that can potentially damage someone else’s Prodigy experience, such as taking their account, causing them to lose progress or similar.
- Do not share hacked accounts, or ask for your Prodigy account to be hacked. When you share an account, whether it's an alt or main, you possibly expose personal information such as your grade, age, real name, and IP address (which applies to all accounts). Stealing account data is a blockable offense.
Editing
- You must comply with the Manual of Style.
- Do not in any way alter the wiki without first obtaining the "Autoconfirmed users" user right. To obtain this user right, wait four days with a registered FANDOM account.
- This wiki is in English, so you should only write in English, and use simple English that can be understood by most users. Simple English tends to follow Wiki Grammar.
- New pages and categories will be reviewed by admins and content moderators, who will decide if they fit with the goals of the community knowledge base. See Categorization for details on currently existing categories.
- Opinions go in the comments, not in the article.
- Only edit your profile, unless adding the {{Blocked}} template to a blocked user's page or you have permission to edit. Profiles violating guidelines can be reported to a moderator, and there is no need to edit them yourself.
- Do not add links to pages that don't exist.
- Galleries should have clear, transparent pictures when appropriate.
- Do not edit if it won't improve the reading experience.
- Do not edit farm (editing something multiple times when you could have done it in one go).
- If you believe that the protection level on an article is not right, contact an admin or content moderator.
- Please do not put "hacking" as an obtainment method in the equipment info-boxes on articles. Any item can be obtained with hacking, therefore doing this is pointless.
- Placing duplicate links and images on article pages is not permitted.
- The template namespace is not intended for personal usage. New templates must demonstrate utility to the wiki at large, or at least the expectation that this will soon be the case.
- Documentation refers to the instructions that appear on most general use template pages, and is generally created with {{Documentation}}. Other than fanon templates not intended for general use, newly created templates must be accompanied with documentation.
- Userboxes refer to any templates based on {{Userbox}}, or any templates similar in function to templates created from it. New userboxes should not be created unless they:
- Can justifiably be categorized under existing subcategories of the userboxes category, or
- They have been discussed and have community consensus
- See also
- Prodigy Game Wiki:Manual of Style
- User blog:Glaciersong/Uploading Images v2
- Help:Vandalism
- Internet troll
User Page
On Prodigy Game Wiki, user pages are in general used as a user "profile," with information on a user's activities on the wiki, ranging from what pages they edit, what they are editing, what rights they hold, what groups they are a member etc. However, Prodigy Game Wiki does have a number of policies that apply to user pages.
- Users must make at least one productive edit to a main-namespace article prior to creating their user page. Non-contributors are discouraged from using this site to promote their socials. Note: Our AbuseFilter extension currently requires a user to also have made at least ten edits across all of Fandom.
- Users must be an active contributor of or a local staff member to the wiki to maintain the privilege of having a user page. Even if you frequent the wiki's discussions, being a reader or making posts and replies does not exempt you from this rule.
- Users should not make a list of users they dislike or wish to discredit on their user page. Prodigy Game Wiki should keep a positive editing environment and users should not blast other users on their user page.
- If a user is inactive for a period of two or more months, staff reserve the right to blank your user page and cleanup image and link clutter. This edit can be manually undone if said user returns to the wiki.
- Regarding media in profiles:
- Fair use images of Prodigy, that is, any screenshots and images that are copyrighted, can only be used on user pages if the image is already uploaded and is in use elsewhere on the wiki. Only three such permitted images should be used on user pages.
- Users may not add Prodigy CDN files to their profile or message wall greeting because it violates copyright law.
- Users may upload a maximum of three off-topic images for use only on their profile.
- Regarding code in profiles:
- If you get someone's permission to use their code, provide a credit to them somewhere.
- No taking user page codes if it's labelled "not free to use" or similar accordingly. This includes copying, minimally editing, and passing off as one's own. Moderator discretion can be used if you think that it's possible that your code was taken. Users breaking this rule will receive a warning, and removal of code.
- If user pages are not marked with "not free to use", and the code is taken, but the user wants it removed, then they can contact a moderator to remove it. The person who took the code will receive a notice that they can no longer use the code, but no warn.
- If you took your code from someone else, you can't claim it as stolen from you. Only the original owner of the code can take issues with it.
- If it's from anything in Fandom, then you must credit.
- User pages not include text that is hard to read, overly saturated colors, or excessive glitch text. Readability will be enforced with moderator discretion. If conflict arises, users can request to have a contrast checker be used. See also: Help:Color and Help:Contrast
User Blog Guidelines
The following types of blogs can and will be deleted by a content moderator or administrator.
- No insubstantial blog posts: Blog posts are meant to provide a means for users to present thoughtful opinions and pieces of writing. Their intention is not to act only as a conversation starter. Thus, blog posts should present some substantial content and should, at the very least, be one, full paragraph (and not one sentence). Blog posts that do not appear to be substantial enough should be reported, and may be summarily deleted at the discretion of an administrator. If your blog post is deleted and you do not agree that it is insubstantial, you should appeal to an administrator.
- Avoid sandbox pages: Redrafting of articles on Prodigy Game Wiki should be done on the public sandbox, or a userspace sandbox. However, shadow pages can be used if it is not intended to be a draft for a new article, or a new edition of an article, and represents a significant deviation from the original article.
- Avoid posts about vandalism: Trying to inform as much of Prodigy Game Wiki as possible about current levels of vandalism or "imminent danger" of vandalism is unhelpful. Vandalism is done because of the reaction to it, and thus dramatization only further encourages it.
- No adding of categories unless the category is marked otherwise: When creating blog posts, users generally should not add any categories to their blog post (Category:Blog posts is added by default).
- Standards of writing: All user blog posts should adhere to intelligent standards of English. Full sentences must be utilized. Users should always use correct grammar, punctuation and spelling, and appropriate writing conventions such as the proper use of paragraphs. The titles of blog posts must use correctly spelled words, without abbreviations or internet slang, and should never use all-caps.
Files
- All media must be child-friendly.
- Art theft is not allowed.
- Images may be deleted without notice. This is not an image dump.
Naming
Files should have an easily accessible and descriptive name based on what the image is depicting. If there is already a file on the wiki with the same name as the one you wish to use, the file's name should describe the scene it conveys in a condense manner rather than adding a number to the name.
Correct (first upload): Noot.png Incorrect (first upload): Screenshot (1).png Correct (name already taken): Female Wizard.png Incorrect (name already taken): Female Wizard 2.png Incorrect (name already taken): Female wizard in default clothing.png
File Extensions
There are several file extensions that can be uploaded to Prodigy Game Wiki, with the most common being .JPG and .PNG. Due to its lossless data compression, .PNG files are generally preferable.
Animated .GIFs are disallowed due to their lack of purpose and distractive quality. If a still image is insufficient to illustrate the text it accompanies, then one should consider rewriting the text to better convey the intended message.
Copyrights
Every non-free image is used on Prodigy Game Wiki under the auspices of the fair use doctrine of the United States Fair use law. This means that they are used for informational/educational purposes, meant to identify the subject of an article and to illustrate something directly relevant to the text in its immediate vicinity.
Usage
Given the nature of copyrighted images, Prodigy Game Wiki tries to use them sparingly, and whenever possible on more than one single article, instead of using different pictures to illustrate the same subject.
The use of too many images on the same article should also be avoided. This practice also directly challenges the policy that we use images sparingly.
Users may use up to three copyrighted images on their user pages as long as those are being used on mainspace articles. Users may upload a maximum of 3 off-topic images for use only on their user space or and none for blog purposes. Certain exceptions apply, such as using features similar to sandboxes for the purpose of improving articles.
Formats and Cropping
- Non-free images must remain unaltered. Changing colors, adding watermarks, text, or making montages that corrupt the copyright owners' original work is considered to be an infringement, thus the image will be deleted.
- Enhancing the color levels, shading, brightness, contrast, and/or alpha of non-free images should only be done so as to improve their overall quality.
- Screenshots should preferably be submitted in their original ratio (4:3 or 16:9), unless they could benefit from cropping.
- If an image contains empty space or elements other than the subject being depicted, the image should be cropped to isolate the subject with respect given to the guidelines concerning closeups.
- If removal of these elements decreases the pixel ratio from standard when cropping an already uploaded image, re-sizing to adhere to said ratio will reduce overall fidelity. In order to conform to Prodigy Math Game Wiki quality standards, removal of such features must be performed with an equivalent unedited high-quality image and subsequently revised to fit our image ratio requirements.
Quality
- The image should be of the highest quality available. Screen-captures from 720p are standard to Prodigy. In the case of duplicate images, the highest quality image is kept.
- The infobox image should depict the character's most typical and recognizable likeness, unless consensus dictates otherwise.
- Extreme closeups should be avoided.
Replacement
Replacing (overwriting an image) can take place when the original file is of low resolution/quality. In this case, the original picture must be replaced by exactly the same version with better quality.
Deletion
There are several policies as to what type of pages can be created. Pages which fail to follow these policies will immediately face deletion. Reasons for deletion include, but are not limited to, the following:
Pages of Any Namespace
- Advertising, vandalism or spam without relevant content.
- Articles with no scope for attribution to reliable and accurate sources.
Content Articles
- Is content not suitable for an encyclopedia, such as large repositories of irrelevant images.
- Was created to display non-canon content related to Prodigy.
- Did not fit a manual from its first edition.
For encyclopedia articles, to avoid a possible deletion, one should establish the notability of the article's subject. Continued attempts to create content that is later summarily deleted should be sanctioned.
Templates & Modules
- Is redundant or otherwise useless. This includes templates and modules that would be unlikely to be used by multiple users or on multiple pages.
- Is a userbox that pertains to only one user. Instead, add the base code of the userbox to the profile that requires it.
Categories
- Are not established through a sitewide discussion.
- Pertain to no-longer-relevant content.
- Have contents that belong to a merged category.
Files
- Violate Prodigy Game Wiki's file policies.
- Are non-Prodigy-related .MP3 files.
- Are corrupt or otherwise do not show their intended content.
- Are unused as of being marked for deletion.
Blogs
- Are shorter than 500 bytes of storage.
- Contain information that does not constitute a true blog post, such as an Ask Me Anything (AMA) post, appeals for other users' blocks, caches of files used to try to prevent them from reaching the Special:UnusedFiles page, etc.
Processes
Pages that fulfill at least one of the above criteria should be tagged with {{delete}} by non-administrators, and be simply deleted by a content moderator or administrator.
If a page happens to have use after being marked for deletion or even deleted, a content moderator or administrator may restore the page and make appropriate changes.
Punishments
- Main page: Project:Punishment Policy
As with any mistakes, you will get warnings and reminders. However, if we believe something isn't a mistake and is an attempt to cause disruption—which we don't normally believe—then you may be indefinitely blocked. After three (3) warnings, you will receive a two (2) week block. See below for more information on punishments.
Warnings
For minor offenses, you will receive a warning from one with permission to do so. After receiving (usually) three warnings, you will be blocked; however, this block will most likely be temporary.
Warnings expire after two weeks, unless specified otherwise in the message. Warnings are NOT to be deleted, and deleting one will only result in another warn.
Blocks
- Main article: w:Help:Blocking
Blocks will prevent you from interacting with the wiki in any form, such as editing, commenting, etc. In most cases, you will still be able to edit your user page and message wall; however, this access may be revoked.
Blocks may be temporary or indefinite, and they may affect only your username or your IP address as well as username. If SOAP blocks you, your email address may also be blocked. If you are blocked across the FANDOM network (which is out of our control), you, your alternate accounts, your email, and your IP address will all be blocked.