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MicroNations Fandom
Community Guidelines
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Editing
- Be bold in your actions. If you believe you are right and are doing it for the improvement of the wiki, do it!
- Do not use w: to link to wikipedia, use wikipedia:
- Be neutral. As MicroWiki is an encyclopedia, avoid bias or over-emotive language in articles, so that readers may have correct information.
- Merge as much as possible. If you have short information about a lot of things, don't just make short articles about all of them: put all of them together. A lot of short sentences put together make a long article!
- Edit summaries and clear explanations are appreciated. Other editors need to understand your process, and it also helps you yourself to understand what you did after a long leave of absence from an article. Please state what you changed and why. If the explanation is too long, add more on the discussion page.
- Assume good faith. Try to consider that the person on the other end of the discussion is a thinking, rational being who is trying to positively contribute to the project — unless, and only unless, you have solid, objective proof to the contrary. Users just disagreeing with you isn't proof. Also, avoid reverting good faith edits, unless it's obvious vandalism. If you really disagree with something, revert once with an edit summary with something like "(rv) see talk page", and immediately take it to that article's talk page.
- Sign your posts on talk pages using ~~~~, which gets replaced by your username and timestamp when you hit submit. But don't sign on regular articles.
- Use the preview button. It helps prevent edit conflicts and you will see the possible mistakes you might made.
Behavior
- Users of MicroWiki should be a good example. Be civil to every user, at all times. Micronationalists should be a great example of their nation, and so this should be a friendly wiki.
- When in doubt, take it to the talk page. We have all the time in the world. Mutual respect is a guiding principle of Wikia, and, although everyone knows that their writing may be edited mercilessly, it is easier to accept changes if the reasons for them are understood. If you discuss changes on the article's talk (or discussion) page before you make them, you should reach consensus faster and happier.
- No personal attacks. If you disagree with users, don't call them idiots or insult them. Instead, politely explain what they did wrong, why it is wrong, and how to fix it. If possible, fix it yourself.
- Be graceful. Be liberal in what you accept, be conservative in what you do. Try to accommodate other people's quirks the best you can, but try to be as polite, solid and straightforward as possible yourself.
Content
- No redlink saviors. A redlink savior is a small or insignificant article written to prevent a link from appearing red (when the article doesn't exist). Unless with proper constructive information, an article that looks like a redlink savior can be deleted after a warning period of two days.
- Respect copyright. MicroWiki uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Everything you contribute must be compatible with that license. Don’t copy-paste information if you aren’t sure of the copyright.