User:Catman3/Sandbox/Policy

Terms of Use

The abides by Wikia's Terms of Use.

You agree not to use the Service to:


 * 1) Abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Wikia users;
 * 2) Ask any user's age unless they are applying for an admin or chatmod position;
 * 3) Post or transmit any content that is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct;
 * 4) Attempt to impersonate another user or person;
 * 5) Post any illegal or unauthorized content or use for any illegal or unauthorized purposes;
 * 6) Post or transmit any communication or solicitation designed or intended to obtain password, account, or private information from any Wikia user;
 * 7) Post, upload, transmit, share, or store unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, "spam", or any other type of unauthorized solicitation;
 * 8) Solicit personal information from any user under the age of 18 or any user that has not volunterred their age;
 * 9) Violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws and laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content); or
 * 10) Post advertisements or solicitations of business.
 * 11) To only use the services in a manner consistent with these Terms of Use and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
 * 12) To maintain the confidentiality of any password(s) associated with your use of the Service;
 * 13) To notify the company immediately in case of any unauthorized use of your account;
 * 14) Not to intentionally block, remove, or otherwise obstruct the proper functioning and view of advertisements, and/or user interface and functionality by other users, including but not limited to changing or adding javascript or CSS changes to the Service that would prevent the proper display or function of advertisements and/or user interface and functionality;
 * 15) Not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, limit the functionality of, or enable unauthorized access to any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
 * 16) Not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
 * 17) With the exception of accessing RSS feeds and our API in accordance with the Service’s policies applicable to such access, you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site for any purpose without our express written permission;
 * 18) Not to forge headers, or manipulate source identifiers or otherwise attempt to disguise the origin of any content made available via the Service;
 * 19) You will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site; or (iii) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Site, including robot exclusion headers; or
 * 20) Not to access, collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities described in this “User Conduct” section.

File Policies

 * 1) Uploaded pictures should always be respectful and politically correct within Wikia's Terms of Use. This means no pictures shall be obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct.
 * 2) Pictures which include another user shall not be published without that user's consent.
 * 3) The wiki does not stand for cheating. Any screen captures of gameplay that show elements that require hacks, exploits, or other methods of cheating will be deleted and the uploader may be banned at the discresion of the admins.
 * 4) Pictures about game content yet to be released are prohibited, as this wiki is about legal and current in-game content.
 * 5) Non-Dragon City related pictures shall not be abused as they take space on a wiki not intended for them and as such, the user needs to also exercise judgement in deciding when there is too much and their images begin to become spam.
 * 6) Pictures older than 2 weeks which aren't in use (not displayed on any page, profile or blog) are subject to deletion without further notice.
 * 7) Duplicate images are subject to deltetion.
 * 8) Users may upload non-game related images for use as their avatar. This files should be named in the format "user avatar.

Links


 * 1) Links should always be respectful and politically correct within Wikia's Terms of Use. This means no link shall lead to obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane content or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct.
 * 2) The decision of the administrators to accept or reject any submitted link is final.
 * 3) Violation of these rules may result in a temporary or permanent ban from.

General Behavior

 * 1) Edits and comments should always be respectful and politically correct within Wikia's Terms of Use. This means no edits nor comments shall be obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violate any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct.
 * 2) When you can reasonably assume that a mistake someone made was a well-intentioned attempt to ameliorate the wiki, correct it without criticizing.
 * 3) Be patient with newcomers. Newcomers unaware of 's culture and the mechanics of editing often make mistakes or fail to respect community norms. This rule also applies to acronyms, abbreviations and emoticons.
 * 4) Personal attacks are arguments that focus on attacking another user personally, rather than addressing his arguments regarding the subject matter. Users who participate in personal attacks are immediately subject to administrative action, including banning. Warnings may be given, but are not guaranteed.
 * 5) An edit war is the act of two or more parties adding and/or reverting an article's content to suit their own view of the subject. Depending on the severity of the edit war, administrators will decide if a ban is warranted, or just a warning.
 * 6) Sock puppetry is the act of creating secondary accounts for yourself, or having friends create new accounts, for the purpose of adding weight to an argument. Users that are found to be participating in sock puppetry will be dealt with at the administrator's discretion and are subject to warning or bans if necessary.
 * 7) Spam is superfluous content to the wiki and its community, and is most likely unrelated to those. Some examples of spam are: (i) advertisements; (ii) unnecessary code; (iii) "fake items" or other false articles; (iv) words, emotes or repetitive/excessive statements not pertinent to a topic. All spam will be deleted upon sighting and violators of this rule may find themselves banned for a period of time relative to the offense.
 * 8) Vandalism is the act of creating or changing a page to either destroy, alter, or intentionally pervert the information in an article. Users who perform acts of vandalism will be banned. This is usually a permanent ban, but administrators reserve the right to impose a shorter ban at their discretion.
 * 9) Articles about companies and products are not acceptable.
 * 10) Do not remove threads unless for a legitimate reason (i.e.e spam, trolling, etc). If a user removed a thread from their own wall, do not restore it. If a thread is removed more than twice, do not restore it.

Content Control and Article Ownership

 * 1) Working on an article does not entitle you to "own" the article. 's pages are public property and everyone is allowed to edit it in an attempt to make it better or more accurate.
 * 2) Always consult with a staff member before making major edits (i.e. re-formatting page design, inserting templates, etc.) to any of the main  pages. This is to ensure that the page's content remains streamlined with the rest of the Wiki's content, and maintains the goal that the wiki remains functional and user-friendly for all  users.

User Signature

 * 1) Signatures should not contain images, emojis or other special characters, links to external sites, font sizes that are larger than the standard, foul language, line breaks, insults, or any other violations of the policies. This is simply to ensure that the signature does not detract attention away from the the main content of an article, forum, or talk page.
 * 2) Signature is to include your user name so that people know who signed a thread.

Friend Request Policies
The abides by Facebook's Policies.


 * 1) It's not allowed to use and create multiplay facebook accounts in order to unlock an feature in the game.
 * 2) Any form of advertising your facebook id with as main purpose recuiting users that you don't known in real life will not be tolerated and is strictly against the facebook and so policiy.
 * 3) Any friend requests posted are subject to immediate deletion. If a user spams friend requests, they are subject to the rules governing spamming, and as such may be subject to administrative action.

Game Suggestion and Feedback Policies

 * 1) You are not allowed to post/create any game suggestions on this wikia including blogs, boards and message walls.
 * 2) Game Feedback should always be respectful and politically correct within Wikia's Terms of Use and General Behavior. This means none of the feedback shall be selfish or offensive.
 * 3) Game Feedback is only allowed on the General Discussion board.
 * 4) If a question inside the Dragon City Questions and Answers board results in feedback, we are allowed to lock, delete or move the topic to the General Discussion board.
 * 5) The Dragon City Wiki is a fansite and doesn't have any connection to the developpers of the game. See General Disclaimer.
 * 6) If you want to make a game suggestion, the Social Point Suggestion Board exists for this reason.
 * 7) If you are creative and just want to make a visual suggestion or dragon, you can visit the Fannon version of our wikia.