Templates Wiki:Policy

This page is considered an official policy on Templates Wiki.

It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone should follow. Except for minor edits, please make use of the discussion page to propose changes to this policy.

Welcome to the Templates Wiki! This is our policy, or rules page that everyone should follow. Note that policies should be decided by the community.

Adding [[Category:Policy]] to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. If they are definitely agreed by community consensus, they can have {{Policy}} added.

See also Templates Wiki:Simplified ruleset

General policies

1. Don't vandalize, spam or otherwise edit disruptively.
2. Keep your behavior civil and assume good faith. Do not harass, stalk, or insult anyone. Address the action, not the person behind it.
   • Do not make personal attacks to other people. If you need to criticize another user’s argument, do so without attacking them as a person.
   • Do not get involved in a edit war.
3. Avoid misleading readers and other editors.
   • Do not make edits or posts just to increase your edit/post count. This is unfair to many users.

There are some policies that apply to all of Fandom. These can be found on Community Central.

Templates policy

See Templates Wiki:Template guidelines for more information.

Alongside the above, do not rewrite basic default utility templates so they do something completely different. Examples of these types of templates are: {{!!}} or {{=}}

Files policy

Before you upload files, note the following.

Do not upload:

• Personal images unless it is a small image for your user page.
• Files you do not intend to use in anywhere on the wiki. (Unused files can be deleted at any time without warning.)

If the image is not for use in an article, please use a template in image namespace tags in the summary.

Sandboxes policy

Sandboxes are not intended to be used for permanent storage of ideas for the parent page. If you want, you can keep a page for notes in your user space.

• Sandboxes that are not in user space not edited in 30 days will be cleared.
• Sandboxes that are in user space not edited in 1 year will be cleared.

Remember, if there was something in the sandbox that you would like to add to your notes, and the sandbox was already cleared, you can look in the page's history to recover the information.

Redirect policy

Redirects are useful however do not create redirects from user space to any other space on the wiki. Redirects from user space to any other space will be deleted.

Copying templates from other wikis

Before copying a template from another wiki, including Wikipedia, to Templates Wiki please do the following.

• Make sure you understand the way the template works. This includes knowing any and all sub-templates and modules that go along with it.
• Make sure you edit the template and its documentation to remove links specific to the wiki, this includes examples. Leaving wanted pages in a template makes the template appear unfinished.
• Make sure to properly attribute the template's creators.
  • If the template is from Wikipedia and not deleted, use {{Wikipedia}}.
  • If the template is from Wikipedia and is deleted, use {{Wikipedia-deleted}}.
  • If the template is from another wiki on Fandom, use {{From Fandom}}.
• If bringing the template and all of its subpages and their documentation will take several days, please add {{Underconstruction}} to the templates or their documentation.

If the template is part of a suite of templates, or there are more than one or two subpages or other templates used in the template; you can contact an admin of this wiki to import the template to Templates Wiki. You should include why you think the template or templates belong on this wiki. You will be responsible for editing the templates where needed.

Poorly copied and documented templates from other wikis are subject to deletion without notice.

Blocking policy

It is important to know that blocking is not done for punishment, but to prevent further disruption of the wiki.

People can be blocked for the following reasons:

• Recurrung vandalism or spamming
• Making a personal attack on another user
• Sockpuppetry
• Asking other users personal information such as age, location, etc.
• Repeatedly copying multiple templates from other wikis, while not properly copying them/copying them poorly.
• Repeatedly changing basic utility templates to be out of it's original purpose.
• Mass-uploading unnecessary files

Blocks will start at 24 hours and will increase depending on the number of offenses/type of offense.

Protection policy

Most pages won't be protected. After all, this is a wiki, that anybody should be able to edit.

Pages will be protected if...

• Vandalism has persisted over a long period of time
• Stopping an edit war
• Protect the proper display of the wiki (i.e. wiki logo, frequently used templates, the main page, policy pages, etc.)

Most (if not all) pages aren't fully-protected at all, since many people don't vandalise often. Pages that are protected are usually semi-protected instead.

Pending policies

These policies have not been fully ratified by the community:

• (None)