Count Duckula Wiki:Rules

Count Duckula Wiki has rules that all users are required to follow. The rules have been broken down into four headings:

• General rules
• Text rules
• Blocking rules
• Protection rules

General rules

What Is Permitted

• Anything related to this wiki's topic, like crew members, home media, characters, etc.

What Is Not Permitted

• Vandalism, including adding nonsense/gibberish and removing necessary content, spam, which is unwanted advertisements, and spamming, including spamming comments, replies, and external links.
• Sockpuppetry of any form. If your account has been blocked and you return with a new account, the sockpuppet account will be blocked indefinitely and the block on your other account will be changed to indefinite.
  • This however is not the case if you have moved accounts.
• Edit farming, which this wiki defines as making more than 3 changes to an article in a short period of time. Please be careful when editing, and be sure to make use of the "Show changes" and "Preview" buttons to make sure you are happy with your changes before saving.
• Removing "Warning" and "Blocked" topics from your talk page. If you remove these topics when currently blocked, your talk page privileges will be taken away (revoked), and your block may be extended.
• Anything unrelated to this wiki's topic.
• Edit warring, which this wiki defines as making counterproductive edits to win a content dispute against another user. Sometimes, edit farming occurs during edit warring.
• False information. Please do not:
  • Add it to articles
  • Attempt to spread it
• Fanon content.
• Minimodding, which this wiki defines as posing as an administrator or discussion moderator without having the user rights.
• Any violations of Fandom's Terms of Use, including but not limited to:
  • Abusing, harassing, threatening, or intimidating other users
  • Joining when underaged
  • Impersonation
  • Soliciting personal information
• Joining this wiki for the sole purpose of violating these rules.

Text rules

For information on how to write articles, see the Manual of Style.

• All text should contain no profanity. This applies to articles, user pages, talk pages, comments, and blog posts.

Use of Wikipedia text

• Both Count Duckula Wiki and Wikipedia are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence. However, this wiki does not allow entire Wikipedia articles to be copied and pasted (plagiarised). So, while it is fine to use Wikipedia content, entire articles cannot be plagiarised.
  • There are two templates to use if an article has Wikipedia content:
    • {{Wikipedia}} if the article uses text from a page of the same or a similar name
    • {{Wikipedia2}} if the article uses text from a page of a different name
  • Make sure to use these templates correctly.

Blocking rules

Blocks are only to be issued for violations of this wiki's rules. Blocks cannot be issued if at least one of the following reasons applies to a user:

• The user hasn't joined this wiki
• The user has only one edit or post
• The user hasn't violated any rules

To request that a user be blocked or to have a pre-existing block be reviewed, please add a topic to an administrator's talk page.

Protection rules

The majority of this wiki's content will remain unprotected to encourage all users to edit. Content will only be protected if necessary, such as for the following reasons:

• Excessive vandalism
• Excessive spamming
• Edit warring
• High traffic
• Protecting the proper display of this wiki, such as the main page and policy pages

To request that content be protected or to have a pre-existing protection level be reviewed, please add a topic to the talk page of either an administrator or content moderator.