User:Hermione Chase/Sandbox

ARTICLE POLICIES The article policy is the rules that must be followed for articles. Not doing so may result in a block.

Deletion
Articles that are not mentioned in the series, already have a page dedicated to them or are not intended to be on namespace (such as a discussion topic, which would be for the forums) will be deleted.

Protection
Articles will be protected at the administrator’s discretion:
 * Fully protected pages are generally articles that are high in traffic (such as Percy Jackson), have been vandalized multiple times or an edit war has taken place. Only admins can edit them and they are not permanently protected.
 * Permanently protected pages are protected because they are essential in running this wiki. They will never be unprotected, and in most cases, they cannot be unprotected. These include logos and stylesheets.
 * Semi-protected pages are protected due to vandalism or controversy conducted by unautoconfirmed users. Any autoconfirmed user can edit the page. It also is not to be permanently protected.

Spoilers
A spoiler is considered a spoiler before, up to and until one month after the official U.S. (or country of origin's) release date of the particular product. Therefore, any new information from said source must contain a spoiler tag until one month has passed since the product's release. Posting spoilers will result in a block.

Blocking
Blocking is the means by which an administrator prevents a user account or IP address/range from editing Half Blood Wiki. Blocks are preventive rather than punitive measures used to prevent damage by dealing with vandalism and enforcing Half Blood Wiki policies. Block duration may vary, depending on the severity and longevity of vandalism or at the discretion of the administrator. Reasons for blocks include:
 * Vandalism - inserting nonsense, gibberish or false information; spamming; adding Fanfiction/art or unofficial images and blanking on all areas of the wiki will result in a block
 * Intimidating behavior/harassment or personal attacks (including vulgar, inappropriate or foul language)
 * Offensive, profane or unacceptable username
 * Copyright violations – Users who continually post copyrighted material despite being warned should be blocked so as to prevent further violations.
 * Posting personal information – the posting of personal information regarding other people (i.e. their home address, phone number, etc.) is unacceptable, and will be enforced with blocks. Users doing so should be warned, and blocked if they continue.
 * Open proxies – Due to vandalism concerns, we do not allow editing from open proxies.
 * Violation of consensus – Many decisions on Camp Half-Blood Wiki are determined by consensus. Do not violate that consensus or you will be blocked.
 * Account abusing (including multiple accounts, no contributions to articles, overusing the Camp Half-Blood file upload function, abusing power)

Profiles
Profiles are for users to write information about themselves, such as user's on the wiki, ranging from what pages they edit, what they are editing, what rights they hold, what groups they are a member etc. However, there are certain restrictions to profiles.
 * Excessive editing of the user page in comparison to other pages and articles is not allowed. Camp Half-Blood Wiki is not a social networking site and it is expected that users also contribute to articles.
 * Blacklisting of other users as well is prohibited. Doing such is a form of harassment that will result in a block.
 * Editing another person's user page - Editing another user's page without permission is considered an act of vandalism.

User images
Users are free to upload photos onto profiles, talk pages and on the OT Board. Thus, there are only few restrictions.
 * Images must be "safe for work": no nudity, excessive gore, or other content which is unsuitable for a family audience, or would be likely to disturb or offend other users.
 * Camp Half-Blood Wiki may not be used to transfer any data covertly. Detection and determination of such attempts is at the discretion of the administration, and the administrator who discovers the data trafficking attempt has final blocking authority.
 * It is also asked of users to name the file in relation to what it is, who uploaded it, etc. to prevent any confusion or overriding.

SITE POLICIES The site policies are policies that apply to all aspects of the wiki. Failure to abide by any rules may result in a block.

Canon
Camp Half-Blood Wiki only allows canonical sources for information, including and limited to: It is requested that most information—particularly newly released--is tagged with a citation.
 * Books
 * Films
 * Confirmed Canonical Sites (ex. percyjacksonbooks.com)
 * Author
 * Hyperion and Disney (Publishing Comp.)

Profanity
Camp Half-Blood Wiki has a community ranging from younger to older users. Thus, profanity is allowed in only certain areas of the wiki. Regardless, profanity is not acceptable should it be aimed at another user. In areas, where it is not allowed, it is asked that there are no swears in other languages, words that are not generally considered profanity (such as rape, damn, crap or ass) or with *** on it. There are three areas users are free to swear in:
 * The chat
 * User profiles and user talk pages
 * OT Board of the Forums

Blogs

 * See:Camp_Half-Blood_Wiki:Blog_Request

Due to an overwhelming amount of blogs, users must now request to make a blog. Guidelines are on that page.

Chat
Chat is a Camp Half-Blood Wiki feature that allows to visit the chat and talk with other users on this site. However, keep in mind that the chat has its own set of rules that you must follow and you can be blocked from the chat by an Administrator or a Chat-moderator if any of the following is comitted:
 * Personal attacks
 * Video/photo spamming or frequent entry repeating
 * Posting other users’ personal information
 * Trolling (including intent to stir up tension, large fights or flame wars, having an overall bad behavior and/or bad manners)

Forums
All users are free to create threads on the forum. The ideas of the thread created must conform to the rules below and all users must follow the rules. Forums will be monitored by administrators and moderators to make sure none of the following rules are violated (if so, the thread will be closed): Upon making a thread that abides all of these rules, users are required to refrain from:  * indicates that the rule does not apply for the OT Board.
 * Placing the thread on the wrong board (General Discussion, Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber, Off-topic (OT) Discussion, News and Announcements and Help).
 * No Fanfiction allowed on neither the Forums nor the entire wiki.
 * Short titles only.
 * No sexual or foul material.
 * No “welcome” or “hello” threads—the chat is there for that.
 * Do not make posts about your general thoughts about the book. We have dedicated blogs to the most recent books.
 * Only administrators can create fights for the Antaeus' Arena. You are free to submit ideas here.
 * Making a thread for a topic that already exists
 * Swearing*
 * Spamming (such as creating multiple threads within short periods of time and making consecutive posts within short periods of time)
 * Going off-topic (yes, even on a thread in the OT Board)
 * Pyramid quoting
 * Posting photos*
 * Reviving old threads
 * Harassing/threatening/trolling
 * Ignoring reasonable user requests (e.g. making them uncomfortable)