Wiki:Admissible Articles

This page provides the admissibility criteria to decide whether an Article can have its place on the Moeverse Wiki. Obviously, the General Rules are always enforced and their impacts on the admissibility will not be precised here.

As explained in the General Rules, the Moeverse Wiki admits three kinds of Content.

Informative Content

While Moeverse is a place for anything related to Moe, the whole concept would be too broad for this Wiki. There are countless animes, video games and other works featuring Moe Characters, and trying to document all of them would neither be reasonable nor interesting. So, this Wiki's Informative Content scope is limited to a few interesting types of Moe Characters, and more can be included over time.

Currently, the Moeverse Wiki admits Informative Content about or directly related to:

Moe Mascots: Moe Characters supporting or promoting an entity, and officially acknowledged as Mascot or equivalent by that entity, or notable enough if it is unofficial.
Moe Personifications: Moe Characters representing a given subject by showing its traits.

However, content about the following are not admissible, and except the first point they also apply to Original and Derivative Content:

Mascots that only or mainly represent the video game, anime, or other work they appear in.
Generally, Characters representing or supporting questionable or harmful entities like pornographic websites, illegal websites or organizations, hate speech groups, etc. Some Characters that are linked to a government or parodies may be admissible.
Characters representing or supporting tokens, NFTs, joke cryptocurrencies, and any cryptocurrency released after 2014.

To be admissible, an Article should directly be about at least one of the following, and not be about Original Content:

A non-original Moe Mascot or Personification satisfying the criteria above. Such Characters are referred to below as directly admissible Characters.
An Universe to which at least two directly admissible Characters belong.
A notable Character belonging to such Universe.
A notable derivative of a directly admissible Character.
A notable Event or Campaign involving at least a directly admissible Character.
An official or notable Merchandise or Work featuring at least a directly admissible Character.
- However, if a Merchandise comes from an admissible Campaign, it should generally not have its own entry, and directly be included in the Article about its Campaign.
Directly admissible Characters may have subpages:
- Listing notable Campaigns, Merchandise or Works featuring them, as well as less notable but not insignificant ones.
- Gathering interesting miscellaneous information (trivia) about them if there are enough of them.
An organization or place that is the source of at least two directly admissible Characters, or ran several admissible Campaigns.

If none of these criteria is satisfied, your Article will likely not fit this Wiki and may be deleted, though if you believe that such Article or similar would be a valuable addition to the Wiki, you may still open a discussion.

There is no strict required minimum content or notability for an Article, but try to avoid making entries with minimal content, and make the effort to put together as much information as you can. Low effort Articles may be deleted by an Administrator even if they are formally admissible.

Original Content

The Moeverse Wiki admits Original Content made by Moeverse users themselves. Do not create pages about someone else's original work unless it is well established so that it can be considered as non-original and be admissible via the criteria above.

Additionally, Moeverse must be the main or original publication source of your work, or a major one. If great part of the work has already been published at another place and already gained some appreciable interest, it is not admissible to this Wiki.

With this condition fulfilled, an Article about the following is admissible:

A Moe Character with a well defined design and personality, that is well developed and has existing original visual artwork. The Character must be original and not a derivative of an existing one, and any inspiration must be subtle enough.

If such Character belongs to an Original Universe that you built yourself, that does not feature notable Derivative Content, and in which original Moe Characters are predominant, then the following Articles are also admissible:

An entry explaining your Universe is not only admissible, but mandatory, and must be added to the List of Original Universes.
A (not necessarily Moe) Character in your Universe that is developed enough and not too minor (otherwise, try to integrate such Character in a list or another Article for your Universe).
A page to organize, develop, explain, or concretize your Original Universe or story (lists, lores, setting and locations, chapters, etc.).
- When they are not about a specific subject like a Character, place or event, such pages should be subpages of the main page about your Universe (examples: Universe Name/Characters, Universe Name/Lore, Universe Name/Episode 1).

The following Original Content is also admissible:

Guides or Essays related to Moeverse content, for example your personal tips to design Moe Characters. They must always be subpages of your User Page.

Some Original Content may be part of Derivative Works such as an Original Character in a setting taken from an existing one, but the presence of any Derivative Content playing a notable role in a given Work makes that Work in a whole a Derivative one (which may then itself contain lots of Original Content).

Derivative Content

The Moeverse Wiki also admits Content made by Moeverse users themselves that is derived from existing Works, with the same ownership and publication source conditions as Original Content.

Lone Derivative Characters are not admissible, and must be part of an Universe in which Moe Characters are predominant, that you either built yourself or is derived from an existing Work while having notable distinguishing features. Any derivation must not disrespect the original Work nor its Copyright. Some elements or Characters may be taken directly without notable alterations from the original Work, but this must not be the norm.

If the conditions are satisfied, then the following Articles are admissible:

An entry explaining your Universe is not only admissible, but mandatory, and must be added to the List of Derivative Universes.
- The Universe is considered as Derivative even if it was built from scratch, as long as it contains any Derivative Content playing a notable role.
A (not necessarily Moe) Character in your Universe that is developed enough and not too minor, and that is Original or sufficiently distinct from the original. Otherwise, try to integrate such Character in a list or another Article for your Universe.
A page to organize, develop, explain, or concretize your Derivative Universe or story (lists, lores, setting and locations, chapters, etc.).
- When they are not about a specific subject like a Character, place or event, such pages should be subpages of the main page about your Universe (examples: Derivative:Universe Name/Characters, Derivative:Universe Name/Lore, Derivative:Universe Name/Episode 1).

All Derivative Content Pages must belong to the Derivative: Namespace and cannot belong to Categories used for Informative or Original Content. For example, Derivative Characters cannot belong to the Character Category nor any of its Subcategories, except Derivative Characters and its Subcategories. However, Original Characters part of Derivative Universes are still treated as Original Content and subject to Original Content Rules, so they should be added to regular Categories and not be in the Derivative: Namespace.

Moe Criteria

Since the definition of Moe is vague, we are fairly lenient on this. But generally, Characters not in an anime style or similar are more likely to not be considered as Moe and at risk of being rejected.

Also, the Characters must be human or human-like (like elves or cat eared humans). Moe Mascots may also be some other species as long as they are built and behaving like humans.

The Administrators reserve the right to reject a Character that is not "Moe enough" according to their judgment and apply the ramifications of such decision.