Wiki:General Rules and Guidelines

In order to keep the Moeverse Wikis well organized, structured, and friendly, we established some Rules and Guidelines for the Wiki, and expect every member from the community to do their best to follow them. Since there are many of them, do not worry much about breaking some once a while as long as you act with good intentions.

What is the Moeverse Wiki?

Getting Started

The global Moeverse Principles, Rules and Guidelines apply to any Moeverse related place or Project, so make sure that you agree with these before creating an Account here. Do not troll, vandalize pages, harass people, spam, etc. Failure to do so will result in measures being taken such as a caution, the closure of your Wiki Account or a ban from the Moeverse places.

Except in exceptional circumstances, only one account per person is allowed. Create a Wiki Account here and choose a decent username. Once done, you can start contributing. Edits will initially be put on queue for moderation, and once approved and your account manually checked, you will be added to the Automoderated Group and your future edits will immediately take effect. The criteria for account approval are at the discretion of the Staff and there is no particular action guaranteeing the approval.

The Staff has the right to remove or edit any content at any time to fit the rules or for any valid reason. Please do not take this personally or negatively if this does happen. The reasons will always be clear or mentioned in the Edit's Summary.

User Pages

A special User Page is assigned to your account and belongs to the "User" namespace. You can access it by clicking on your username at the top right of the page. Use it to introduce yourself, talk about your projects, put links to your other site's profiles,... Do not create another page for this purpose.

List of Approved Wiki Users.

MediaWiki Manual

Like many others, this Wiki is based on MediaWiki. If you need it, a manual is available in order to learn all the technical knowledge like how to format text, what are categories, how to use templates,... The manual can always be accessed via the navigation menu, just click on the Help about MediaWiki link.

Allowed Content and Admissible Articles

The content on Moeverse places must be suitable for a general public as per our Principles and Rules. Do not post pornographic, violent, mature and other questionable or bad taste content. Use an language appropriate for everyone for Informative Content; you have more freedom for your own Original or Derivative Content, but please be reasonable, otherwise Moeverse might not be the right place to publish your work.

Links or references to sites or places dedicated to such content are also not allowed (Rule34 sites, NSFW accounts,...).
Characters with visible underwear or in swimsuit are criteria that will by themselves not automatically make the content questionable.

Machine (or AI) generated artworks are not formally prohibited, but it must be strictly provable that they were ethically produced: you should be able to provide the whole training dataset which must only consist of content acquired with proper permission, and the algorithm such that anyone else can regenerate that same artwork or equivalent.

The use of tools such as machine translators or summarizers is permitted, as long as you carefully check that what you write makes sense. Such services should not be credited or cited.

Take a look at the Copyrights page, notably to be clear about what other people can do with anything you add to the Wiki.

Main Scope Content

The main scope of Moeverse Wiki consists of

Informative Content: these are mostly documenting established subjects such as notable Characters or media and merchandise featuring them.
Original Content: these are original works made and published by Moeverse Members, not derived from an existing work, though some inspiration is allowed.

Such content belong to the main namespace (no particular prefix). Consult the article admission criteria for more information and specific Rules. Creators should also read the Original Content Rules and Guidelines.

Derivative Content

Derivative Content covers both new Derivative Works made and published by Moeverse Members, and documentation of notable ones made by others.

The Moeverse Wiki focuses more on Informative and Original Content, and Derivative Content is kept clearly separated from the rest by being under the Derivatives: namespace, with pages being by design somewhat more difficult to access to and browse.

Informative Content about Existing Derivative Works are by default considered as uncertain, statements must be taken with a grain of salt unless a reliable reference is backing them. In other words, all contents there are Challenged by default and the Template should not be used there.

Consult the Rules regarding Derivative Content for more information.

Club Content

Moeverse Clubs govern the content under their associated namespace if there is one. Consult the specific Club Rules for more details (admissible pages, content,...).

Uploads

Uploads must be relevant for at least an admissible article on the Moeverse Wikis, and not be redundant. Artworks made by the original artist or designer, or considered as "official", should be privileged for non-original characters. The Upload Form provides some Rules, please follow them.

To upload a file, click on the Upload file link on the navigation menu, this will bring you to the Upload Form. Please fill the summary with the File Information Template with as much information as you can, though you can also always edit and complete your upload entry later.

Additional Upload Rules are precised in the Upload Page, please follow them.

Character Page Titles

How a Character is usually referred to in a neutral and complete way, officially or by the creator if the concept of being official cannot apply, should be the title of the Page about the Character. When applicable, a full name is always in the order Name Surname (example: Kokoro Amada, not Amada Kokoro).

Japanese names should be transliterated using the 1954 Hepburn Romanization without further modifications (example: Tōko Madobe, not Touko or Tooko), unless:

An official (or preferred by the creator if the concept of being official cannot apply) transliteration exists, which must be used.
- However, when it uses a suffix such as -tan without hyphen, it must be included here (example: Tsukumo-tan, not Tsukumotan, despite this being used in merchandise featuring her).
A clear interpretation exists (example: Vistake, not Bisutake, since her name is clearly meant to reference Windows Vista. Same remark for Seven-chan).

In case of a naming collision or confusing names across multiple pages, a disambiguation page referring to the entries must be created. Pages should be distinguished by appending the Universe Name in parentheses. If no Universe is associated to the Character, the name of the creator or copyright holders can be used instead.

Characters representing an entity (as Personification or Mascot of it for example), who are not given a clear name, must have their pages titled using the name of the represented entity and follow similar rules as the disambiguation process. The name of the represented entity without precision serves as the title for the disambiguation page if needed.

Page Edition

In general, feel free to improve existing articles by editing them to fix typos, add illustrations, complete sections,... Really, do not hesitate, that is why wikis exist!

However, do not edit another user's original content or user page, even if it is to fix a typo. Instead, try to contact the user about this. If there are structural issues like missing or wrong categories, the administrators regularly look at new changes and will certainly catch them, so let them fix those. If you see a particular problem that remains unfixed, you can always contact them.

References

When writing Informative Content, your additions should if possible be verifiable via reasonably reliable sources, like they would be on Wikipedia. That being said, we do not have a strict "No Original Research" policy like Wikipedia, so if you have interesting statements that are found nowhere else, feel free to include them.

Back non trivial statements with References using Ref tags, like <ref>[https://moeverse.xyz/wiki Moeverse Wiki]</ref>, or provide pertinent External Links under the appropriate section.

Always try to find the original source of a given information, rather than a place that might have relayed it, unless there is no known practical way to retrieve the original sources or if the Rules prohibits the inclusion of such sources.
Provide the original page in the original language unless the equivalent content translated (not automatically) in English is directly available on the site (do not use a translation by a third party).
If the original source is no longer available, but has reliably been archived elsewhere else, provide the latest known pertinent archive.
Generally, references to sites or places with sensitive or questionable content may only be included if it is the original source or only place providing a given interesting and pertinent information, artwork, or if it is a pertinent company or artist page. Try to find alternate places. References to places dedicated to such content (Rule34 sites, NSFW accounts,...) are never allowed.
- Original Content Pages may in general not include such references.
- When such content is easily accessible, properly mark the reference with the Sensitive Reference Template.
  - A "I'm over 18" prompt or similar is not enough to consider the content as not easily accessible, as well as +18 indications or similar, or content behind a warning, while the mandatory creation of an account, with proper disclaimers and filters, is enough.
References to sites or places (notably: Pixiv, Danbooru) that are producing questionable unlicensed derivative works, profiting from unlicensed derivative works, or allowing members to do so, must be avoided whenever possible, or else be mentioned in raw text like "Pixiv Artwork <image id>" rather than with a direct link.

Less reliable sources can be included to back statements in the Derivatives scope, but otherwise similar rules apply, and such statements may still be considered as Challenged.

Discussions

Every article has an associated Talk Page where you can discuss about it. Please follow the guidelines regarding this, notably: do not forget to sign your messages with ~~~~ and indent your replies with colons.

Templates

Templates are pages that are intended to be included in other pages, often to avoid having to rewrite whole structures and instead just have some parameters to set. We will not enter into details on how to use Templates, most of times it is enough to just copy-paste an instance of a Template and adjust the Parameters. If you want to create your own Template or learn more, consult the MediaWiki Manual.

All the Moeverse Wiki Templates are categorized here. There are three types of them:

Common Templates are Templates that can freely be used for all Content published on the Wiki. Though, Common Templates may be updated and occasionally require an update from the content using them.
Project Templates are Templates that are intended to be only used for Informative Content, and may not be used for other Content. They could for example automatically add articles that include the Template to some Category that should not contain Original Content.
User Templates are Templates created by Moeverse Users specifically for their Original or Derivative Content, and may not be used for Informative Content. They must be subpages of the user's User Page. Do not hesitate to start from a copy of another Template, even a Project Template, or start a Template from scratch even if one fulfilling the role already exists, if you for example want Infoboxes with a different style.

You may suggest new Common or Project Templates or even implement them as User Templates (following their rules), but except for Navigation Templates, please do not create Common or Project ones without permission from the Staff.

Clubs

Moeverse Members may run Clubs to support the Moeverse goals, gather like minded friends, and favorize the cohesion of the Community. For now, they are tied to the Wiki and mainly meant to organize documentation about useful practical matters, but the concept may be made more open later with less constraining conditions.

A Club must currently satisfy the following criteria:

Not focus on a particular Character, Universe, or restricted group of them,
Have at least one of the following goals:
- Enhance the experience or skill in a domain connected in some way to the Moeverse main scope,
- Support or help building the Moeverse Project.

To start and run a Club, a Moeverse Member must:

Be an active Member committed to support Moeverse and fully adhering to its Principles and Rules,
Be reasonably versed in what the Club is about,
Obtain the permission from the Moeverse Staff to run the Club,
and design or commission a Moeverse Member to design a Club Badge featuring Moella and appropriately fitting a squared canvas.

A Member who has started a Club is designed as its Representative and is responsible for its operation. With approval of the Moeverse Staff, a Club Representative may designate additional Representatives or transmit the role. Should a Club Representative no longer meet the standards for this role, be an active Member, or wish to represent the Club, the role will be stripped, and in the case it was the last Representative, the Club will be handed over to a Moeverse Staff Member.

Membership is required in order to edit pages under the associated Namespace on the Wiki if there is one, and may unlock member only activities or advantages. But it is not meant to divide and anyone from the Community can usually interact at places associated with any Club. One can formally join a Club by transcluding the appropriate Club Badge Template to the User Page and getting manually approved. Members are expected to have interest in the domain.

Inactive Original or Derivative Content

Should a user deliberately leave the Community, any Original or Derivative Content published on Moeverse platforms by the user will be deleted after a reasonable time span or on verified request, unless the person was a well regarded Moeverse Member who left in positive terms, or can no longer be part of it due to force majeure reasons.