User:Dismounted Feudal Knight/TWC Wiki:Guidelines

Drafting note

This is a tab I offloaded where I'm toying with revisions including the rename of the guidelines for the wiki. It's in need of a minor facelift but I haven't gotten far and it's been drifting between notepad tabs and (fickle) browser tabs, so I'm putting it here to make it a bit more substantial and so I don't lose it elsewhere, again. --Dismounted Feudal Knight (talk) 08:54, 8 November 2023 (MST)

Content

The TWC wiki is a content resource aimed at providing information about Total War, Modding and any related Total War Center subject.

As a part of Total War Center, TWC Wiki is subject to the Terms of Service (ToS) of the site. Wiki Staff are considered "local moderators" of the wiki, overseen by the Wiki Director and the Content Hex.

Wiki Staff can edit and/or delete content and ban accounts at will. In addition to this, violation of the ToS in the Wiki will be reported to the Moderation Branch and offending members may receive infractions and bans on the forums.

Bans from the wiki cannot be appealed in the Tribunal or Praetorium, instead, they should be appealed directly to the Wiki Director via Private Message.

Infraction points can still be referred to the tribunal as they are carried out by Moderation.

Conduct

Editing policy

• Improve pages wherever you can, and don't worry about leaving them imperfect. It is advisable to explain major changes.
• If a page is protected and you cannot edit it please use its discussion page to suggest any alterations.
• Templates, portals and other pages using multiple tables can be complicated to edit, if in any doubt copy the content to the Sandbox to experiment or use the discussion page to suggest alterations.
• To avoid duplication (and consequent additional update requirements) Wiki Staff may opt to restrict which pages can host certain frequently changing information.

e.g. the Total War Series page should be the only place listing the full list of TW games with release dates.

No edit warring

• If someone challenges your edits, discuss it with them and seek a compromise or if the situation is escalated then contact a Wiki Staff member so that they can intervene and resolve the issue. Do not start fights over competing views and versions.
• If a Wiki Staff member reverts an edit explaining their reason please do not undo it, if you still disagree please post on the article's discussion page or on the staff member's talk page.
• This Wiki has a mix of UK and USA versions of spelling and date format, consistency within a page is welcomed, consistency within the Wiki is unfortunately unlikely! Unless there is a compelling reason to change the 'language' please don't.

No personal attacks

• Do not make personal attacks anywhere in the TWC Wiki. If a TWC member is found doing so then he\she will be dealt with according to the TWC Terms of Service.

Copyrights

• Please remember that you must not submit copyrighted work without permission. Please see TWC Wiki:Copyrights for more details.

Content

What the TWC Wiki is not

• One must keep in mind that the TWC Wiki is not similar to other wikis so articles should be related to the Total War games or related to the www.twcenter.net site.

Article titles

• The Titles should be easy to find, precise, concise, and consistent with other titles. Please use the search function before adding articles, if an article on the subject exists already it's better to edit that than make a new one.

Neutral point of view

• Everything that our readers can see should be written from a completely neutral point of view. In other words no use of the first person, no unsupported opinion and certainly no advertisement-like language.

Deletion

Attack pages

• A TWC Wiki article, page, category, redirect or image that exists primarily to disparage its subject is an "attack page". These pages are subject to being deleted by any Administrator or member of Wiki Staff at any time.

Criteria for speedy deletion

• Articles(spam), images, categories etc. may be "speedily deleted" if they clearly fall within certain categories, which generally boil down to pages lacking content, or disruptive pages. Anything potentially controversial should be proposed for deletion by adding the template {{Delete}} to the page.

Proposed deletion

• Anyone can propose the deletion of an article if it's not relevant to TW games or TWC, is lacking any useful content, or consists solely of content that breaches the rules. Add {{Delete}} to the page to put it into the delete category so that an administrator can deal with it.

Deletion policy

• Physically deleting articles requires a TWC Wiki administrator, any deletion will be at their discretion.

Enforcement

Administrators

• TWC Wiki Administrators or Sysops are the overseers of the TWC Wiki, they are assigned to keep the integrity of the wiki intact and they have the power to delete irrelevant articles from the Wiki.

Patrollers

• They are the ones that view the changes happening on the Wiki on a regular basis and advise or assist editors if they are doing something incorrectly. All Wiki Staff members are patrollers.

Warnings

• The Wiki Director has the power to warn editors if he/she thinks the editor is doing something incorrect or detrimental to the Wiki. Editors must respect the director's decision, ignoring it may force him/her to suspend the editor's Wiki account.

Banning policy

• Extremely disruptive editors on the TWC Wiki will be banned, for example spamming the Wiki with irrelevant information, tampering with articles on purpose etc.

Blocking policy

• Editors can be blocked from editing for short or long amounts of time. It includes repeated placing of incorrect information; making unnecessary edits; removing hyperlinks and replacing them with dead links; and ignoring Wiki Staff warnings.

Accounts

• People wishing to post on the TWC Wiki must first register via the main website at www.twcenter.net and then request a wiki account here

Vandalism

• Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the TWC Wiki. It is an inappropriate behaviour and this may lead to temporary block or ban depending upon the user history. Spambots will be instantly banned and all their edits deleted.

Uncategorized

User/'people' pages

• Any Wiki user can create a user page for themselves in User: space to talk about themselves as a wiki editor, they can also make sub-pages there to experiment with wiki formatting or draft articles.
• TWC Members can also make pages in mainspace about themselves (or for another member) in order to add something about their history on TWC etc. Only TWC members, or prominent TW figures, can have pages written about them, other pages may be deleted at the discretion of Wiki Staff. Remember that the TWC Wiki is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site and any controversial or irrelevant information will also be removed by Wiki Staff.
• Wiki Staff can be contacted for advice on how to do user pages, however, they will only make a member's page if the member in question has done something seriously important for TWC.

Images

• Relevant Images can be used in articles to make them presentable, however, one can only use pictures of the mod/site institution/member in question in its own article, unless permission has been given by the original artist or the Wiki Director.

Total War Pages Naming Convention

Names used to refer to the Total War Games should preferably be as shown below, with the full name including "Total War" and the ":" used where practical, shortened name used within articles or where titles are too long, and abbreviations used for category names and if used in brackets after titles. Numbers in full/shortened names should be as shown on the trademarked game names, e.g. 2 versus II:

• TW3K ------- Three Kingdoms -------Total War: Three Kingdoms
• ToB ------- Thrones of Britannia ------- Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
• TWW ------- Warhammer ------- Total War: Warhammer / Total War: Warhammer II
• TWA ------- Attila ------- Total War: Attila
• TWR2 ------- Rome II ------- Total War: Rome II
• TWS2 ------- Shogun 2 ------- Total War: Shogun 2
• NTW ------- (use abbreviation instead) ------- Napoleon: Total War
• ETW ------- (use abbreviation instead) ------- Empire: Total War
• M2TW ------- Medieval II ------- Medieval II: Total War
• RTW ------- (use abbreviation instead) ------- Rome: Total War
• MTW ------- (use abbreviation instead) ------- Medieval: Total War
• STW ------- (use abbreviation instead) ------- Shogun: Total War

As the early games are frequently known by their abbreviation that would be prefered as a reference instead of shortening the name.