Welcome to Prehistoric Park Wiki! Like any other community, there are a set of rules to follow when editing here. Below is a summarized list of rules, followed by a detailed elaboration of each one.
Summary
- User Conduct
- Prehistoric Park Wiki is not a social network.
- Prehistoric Park Wiki may not be used to advertise businesses or boost SEO rankings.
- Be polite when interacting with other users. We are all here to work together.
- Follow the manual of style and Editing Policy to understand how things are to be organized.
- Do not start edit wars. Be ready to discuss your changes with others.
- Do not flame or insult other users. Send them a polite message if you have a dispute.
- Do not boost for the achievement badges. Badges are meant as a guideline.
- Do not edit others' user pages, as they are generally considered property of the user.
- Do not vandalize any page. Do not remove all the content from a page.
- Do not plagiarize content from Wikipedia. Write it in your own words.
- Multiple accounts used for block-evasion are forbidden, and are against Fandom's TOU.
- Do not move pages without a good reason. It will not be tolerated and will result in a block.
- Forums, Top-10 Lists, and Article Comments
- Article comments are only for discussions on how to improve the article.
- Forum messages may discuss anything Prehistoric Park related.
- Forum messages must be placed in the correct boards.
- Comments on Top-10 pages may discuss anything related to the list.
- If your message wall becomes too large, you may clear it out by clicking More and then Remove on each message.
- Don't remove messages from administrators.
- Top-10 lists may only be created administrators and may only be edited by users with greater than 250 mainspace edits.
- Do not necropost on dead threads. It may bother some/all users who were previously involved in the thread.
- A thread is considered dead if it doesn't see any activity for more than 96 hours.
- Content
- All content must be related to Prehistoric Park.
- All content must be objective. Use the forum to discuss your opinions.
- All content must be canonical. Do not post fanon information on mainspace pages.
- Only animals that have appeared in any form of Prehistoric Park media are permitted on main space pages.
- Use the edit summary as you submit your edit. It lets others know what changed in the article.
- For a more comprehensive guide, please refer to the Editing Policy.
Detailed Elaborations
User Conduct
- Prehistoric Park Wiki is not a social network. Although we are a community of Prehistoric Park fans and enthusiasts, we are all here to document all knowledge of Prehistoric Park. Utilizing Prehistoric Park Wiki as a means for pure social interaction, I.E. using it as a social network, is frowned upon.
- Prehistoric Park Wiki may not be used to advertise businesses or boost SEO rankings. Links to external sites for personal gain or are irrelevant to the wiki can be removed at any time for any reason.
- Be polite when interacting with other users. We are all here to work together as a team and as a community. Being polite will go a long way and will make Prehistoric Park Wiki a happier place to edit.
- Follow the manual of style and editing policy, the preferred ways of how things are to be organized. While the help pages will help you to understand how to use basic Fandom markup, the manual of style and editing policy will tell you how to apply it on Prehistoric Park Wiki according to how everything else is organized and how content should be formatted.
- The manual of style is located here: Manual of Style
- The editing policy is located here: Editing Policy
- If you believe the editing policy is missing something or if something is too vague, please reach out to Antiliun on his message wall to discuss the matter.
- Do not start edit wars. Be ready to discuss your changes with others. If you disagree with another editor, discuss the issue on either the user's wall or article's comments. Repeatedly reverting each other's changes, known as "edit warring", is bound to aggravate the conflict instead of solving it. If you cannot reach a consensus, ask an Administrator to mediate.
- Do not flame or insult other users. Send them a polite message if you have a dispute with another user. Talking things out and working out your differences can go a long way towards a mutual understanding.
- Do not, under any circumstances, harass Prehistoric Park Wiki users outside of Prehistoric Park Wiki.
- Do not edit others' user pages, as they are generally considered property of the user. You are, however, more than welcome to put whatever you'd like on your own user page, so long as it doesn't violate any rules or isn't offensive. If you have an issue with another user's user page, contact an Administrator.
- Do not vandalize any page. Do not remove all the content from a page. It is considered vandalism to remove all the content from a page or to add irrelevant information to the page.
- Do not plagiarize content from Wikipedia. Write it in your own words. The goal is to write the key ideas in your own words so that you don't plagiarize. This improves your overall credibility.
- Do not boost for the achievement badges. Badges are meant as a guideline and are in no way to be considered as status symbols. Use them for yourself and feel proud of yourself, do not use them to impress others.
- What is Boosting? Boosting is the process of making either useless or malicious edits just to heighten the count of edits they have made.
- What is not Boosting? Some things may appear to be boosting, but is not always so. Edit wars between a normal user and a vandal, who is trying to vandalize a page, and the user who is quickly undoing his edits. If the user is signing in and out to vandalize/undo, we can tell by the IP address.
- Additionally, valid contributions with the aim of garnering an achievement are allowed. Contributors should exercise great caution in ensuring that these additions are pragmatic, useful, and accurate. Such instances will be investigated and reviewed by an administrator.
- Multiple accounts used for block-evasion are strictly forbidden and are against Fandom's TOU (Terms of Use). If you create an addition account to evade a block, it will be permanently blocked and your primary account runs the risk of having it's block duration extended indefinitely.
- If you wish to utilize a secondary account for another purpose, please contact an Administrator.
- Do not move pages without a good reason.
- A page move is necessary if the page title:
- is spelled incorrectly
- requires specification to avoid confusion with another page with the same title
- has a grammatical error (i.e., a letter is lowercase when it should be uppercase)
- is in the wrong namespace
- Moving a page without a good reason will not be tolerated and will result in a block.
- A page move is necessary if the page title:
Forums, Top-10 Lists, and Article Comments
- Article comments are only for discussions on how to improve the article. It is ill advised to discuss other topics not pertaining to the article in its comments section. If you'd wish to do so, please leave a message on the forum.
- Forum messages may discuss any topic related to Prehistoric Park on two conditions. The first being that the information is relevant to the show and the second being that the message is placed in the correct board for the subject.
- Comments on Top-10 list pages may discuss anything related to the Top-10 list on two conditions. The first being that it conforms to the User Conduct rules, and the second being that it is not spam and is relevant to the list.
- If your message wall becomes too large, you may clear it out by clicking More and then Remove on each message. Messages, such as warnings, from administrators should not be removed without permission from the messaging administrator. You may contact any administrators involved in the message thread.
- Top-10 lists may only be created administrators and may only be edited by users with greater than 250 mainspace edits. Any lists created otherwise will be deleted, regardless of content. A similar approach is used for editing top-10 lists.
- If you have a suggestion for a new Top-10 list, please message an Administrator with the topic and at least 10 list items.
- Do not necropost on dead threads. It may bother some/all users who were previously involved in the thread.
- Necroposting is the act of commenting on discussion threads that haven't seen any sort of activity in a long time.
- A thread is considered dead if it doesn't see any activity for more than 96 hours (i.e., 4 days).
Content
- All content must be related to Prehistoric Park.
- All content must be objective. Use the forum to discuss your opinions. For example, it would not be okay to add "I think Tyrannosaurus rex is the best dinosaur ever!" to Tyrannosaurus rex's page.
- All content must be canonical. Do not post fanon material on main namespace pages.
- Fanon material and content can be posted on the Forums/Discussions page, a your user blog, or on the Prehistoric Park Fanon Wiki.
- Only animals that have appeared in any form of Prehistoric Park media are permitted on main namespace pages.
- Adding fictitious animals onto the wiki's main namespace will not be tolerated, and anyone caught doing so will be blocked indefinitely.
- Use the edit summary as you submit your edit. It lets others know what changed in the article, even if it's just a minor change. This makes it easy for users to back track a page's history.
- All pages must have a top description and an (optional) infobox. Any pages that are left blank or just have an infobox with no additional text will be deleted.
- For a more comprehensive guide, please refer to the Editing Policy.