Difference between revisions of "Ouroboros Portal:Article Guidelines"

Revision as of 22:31, 1 March 2009

Subject Matter

Adult Material

City of Heroes is rated T for Teen. This roughly corresponds to PG-13, which is a little more lenient than T for Teen and the guidelines that Ouroboros Portal will be using. PG-13, in a nutshell, allows the following:

• sexual content (but no actual sex acts)
• some strong language and innuendo
• mature themes
• political themes
• terror
• intense action violence
• drug references

Images uploaded to the Ouroboros Portal should be suitable for a T for Teen game, not a PG-13 movie. No nudity or partial nudity, no sexual content, no overt drug use. A good rule of thumb: if the Official Forums wouldn't allow it, neither will Ouroboros Portal.

Note: Inclusion of adult articles and images may be revisited in the future when there is a higher population of users on the Portal.

Illegal Activities

Child pornography is not allowed to be hosted here, nor linked to from here. Content that promotes, incites, or advocates hate, violence, or discrimination based on race, national origin, gender, sexuality, or religion is not allowed to be hosted or linked to.

Articles that refer to illegal activities are fine so long as they do so within PG-13 guidelines.

If any individual sees an article that they feel blatantly exceeds the guidelines, they must raise the concern (with explanation) on the article's talk page. If the person with the concern and the person who posted the content cannot come to an agreement on how to proceed, then an admin gets drafted in to help settle the dispute. Outside of that, admins only directly intervene in cases where things are clearly out of bounds.

Other

• <what is and is not allowed>
• <proper tagging on articles of questionable nature (assuming 'adult' stories and/or backgrounds are allowed)>
• <site ban on nudes, artistic nudes, and explicit pictorial content?>

Headings

• Links should not be used in headings.

Article Names

Name Conflicts

Naming conflicts will sometimes occur here as this wiki is a compilation of all "City Of" Franchise servers. When a conflict does occur, the existing page should be moved to "<current pagename> (<server that page applies to>)", which automatically creates a redirect at <current pagename>. The redirect should then be altered into a disambiguation page (please remember to add it to Category:Disambiguation) linking to the moved page, and then proceed to add your own page as per the above naming scheme.

Ex: Lost Scruffy Clockwork should become Lost Scruffy Clockwork (Guardian), and you would then add your page, Lost Scruffy Clockwork (Justice), with Lost Scruffy Clockwork now listing both as links.

In the case of a conflict of names between a group and a character on the same server, the character will retain the above mentioned naming format (Lost Scruffy Clockwork (Justice)) and the group should be altered or added as "<current pagename> (<server that page applies to> Supergroup)" (ex: "Lost Scruffy Clockwork (Justice Supergroup)"), with both being listed on the disambiguation page. This only applies when the naming conflict is between a group vs a person.

<add part here about player content name conflict with in-game cannon names>

Please add one of the following templates to the bottom of all disambiguation articles:

• {{disambig character}} - If all entries are characters, use this one.
• {{disambig supergroup}} - If all entries are supergroups, use this one.
• {{disambig}} - If none of the above apply, use this one.

Editing

<add bits about who and when its okay to edit others articles>

• <sg when in sg>
• <story?>
• <character, assumed only when with permission or moving page name as per naming conflict rules>
• <Mission Architect Arc>
• <other type of content>