Help:Rules

Rules

Please keep basic internet safety in mind while using our wiki, and don't share personal identifying information (full name, location, etc.) or upload photos of yourself. If someone is acting strange towards you or asking for personal information, report it to a moderator!

1. Follow Fandom's Terms of Use (found here). These are the standard rules for using Fandom, and apply across all wikis.
   1. If you are under 13, you can't join the wiki. We understand that this might not make much sense, as Wings of Fire is a series targeted at audiences below 13, but it is a Fandom decision and out of our hands.
2. We do not tolerate harassment, bigotry, guilt-tripping, bashing of others, or callout posts.
   1. Do not use slurs, or direct derogatory or insulting language at other users.
3. Swearing is not permitted, even censored. Implied swearing, such as the middle finger or acronyms, are fine.
   1. Words we do not consider swears are crap, hell, pissed, and damn.
4. Mature content is not permitted, including sexual or suggestive content, nudity (including male or female nipples, even if censored), violent or gory images, depictions of suicide or self-harm, jokes and discussion of cults, and discussion of real-life drug use (or explicit discussion of fictional drug use). Written representations of gore or torture cannot exceed the amounts of gore or torture present in Wings of Fire.
   1. Discussion or links pertaining to mature content, or media containing significant amounts of mature content, are not permitted.
   2. Political discussion is not permitted on our wiki, including the phrases "ACAB/1312" and "blue lives matter".
5. Respect copyright law. Only repost art that is free to use or with permission, and provide credit for art or bases you use, including in your icon.
   1. Tracing art, claiming art you did not create as your own, and other forms of theft are not permissible.
   2. Using content generated by an AI is considered theft, as the artists and writers used for training data cannot be properly credited.
   3. Do not post unaltered, transparent, or blank images from the Coloring Book.
   4. Due to Flight Rising's terms of service, we do not allow uploads of art from the site.

Please keep in mind that if the mod team deems you a danger to the wiki based on off-wiki actions, you will be blocked. Contact moderators to address instances of rule violations. Attempting to resolve them yourself may result in a warning or block.

Banned artists

If an artist is on this list, their work, including basefills made using their bases, may not be posted to this wiki.

• AprilSilverWolf
• Doorstepghost/Renkittyy
• ItsReigning/Phobiod (Creator of a WoF Picrew)
• KingDarkstalker
• Olivecow
• xTheDragonRebornx

Individuals are added to this list due to severe violations of our wiki's rules — most prominently, engaging with NSFW content of children's media. An artist may also be added if they have displayed predatory or grooming behavior, extreme bigotry, or any other potential dangers to our userbase.

Discussions guidelines

• Do not make posts that are unrelated to Wings of Fire. The exception to this is art and writing, which can be posted regardless of topic.
  • New users are allowed to make one "I'm new" thread if they would like to be welcomed to the wiki, but all other announcements in this vein (such as announcing you are leaving the wiki or are back from a hiatus) are not allowed as discussion posts and should only be posted elsewhere, such as on your blog or message wall.
  • Non-Wings of Fire roleplays are permitted on message walls, but not on the Roleplays board.
• Categorize your posts appropriately.
• Please wait at least 15 minutes between each new post you make, to avoid flooding the feed.
• Do not create advertisement posts — as a general rule of thumb, if the subject of your post has already been made, your post is an ad.
• Do not create posts or replies consisting entirely of meaningless/repeated phrases or gibberish; key-smashing to emote is fine in moderation.
• Do not create vent posts, including vent art and writing; you may vent on a friend's message wall with their consent, but these posts are not appropriate for the general Discussions feed.
• Posts may only be made in English on our wiki, as we are not equipped to moderate discussions in other languages.
• Do not necropost; after one month of no replies, you should create a new post to continue the discussion rather than replying.

Editing guidelines

For information on how to edit on our wiki, check out our Editing Guide. We assume good faith from our editors, and would like to believe that all edits are made with the intention of being helpful contributions to the wiki. However, if the vast majority of your edits seem to be in bad faith, you may lose your article editing privileges.

• Do not add false information, jokes, remove relevant content, or otherwise vandalize articles.
• Do not make unhelpful or bad-faith edits to gain badges, move up the Wiki Leaderboard, or increase your edit count. This is considered edit farming.
  • These edits may include changing words to synonyms, adding content and then immediately removing it, adding words letter-by-letter, and a number of other inefficient or unnecessary edits.
  • If you feel a change needs to be made across many articles, please contact a content moderator or admin before attempting to implement this yourself.

Shipping guidelines

Due to the complex nature of dragon aging and sentience in Wings of Fire, we find it necessary to provide a few guidelines around permissible shipping on our wiki.
For the purposes of this policy, we consider an adult dragon to be 7 years old and above. Shipping a dragon who is 7 with a dragon who is 6 is permissible; aside from this, please only ship dragons above 7 with other adults.

• Do not create or discuss ships that are pedophilic or incestuous, even with the intent of eliciting or expressing disgust ("shock shipping").
• Do not create ships that violate canonical sexualities, such as shipping a lesbian with a man. This rule only applies to Umber, who is canonically gay, at this time.
• Do not ship dragons with humans/scavengers, or create dragon/human hybrid characters.

Notable fanon or canon ships that we do not allow include:

• Umber x Qibli
• Peril x Turtle
• Sky x Snowfall

Courtesies

Courtesies are policies that we expect our users to abide by to keep our wiki running smoothly and reduce conflict. While these are not rules and are not things you will be formally punished for, you may be reprimanded for ignoring them. These apply everywhere on our wiki.
Courtesy guides are formal guides assembled with community input to provide guidelines for specific policies or parts of our wiki.

• Roleplaying
• Tone Indicators
• Screen Reader Accessibility
• Do not post spoilers without a warning for one month following the release of a new book.
• Add a buffer image and warning before bright, eyestraining images or gifs/videos that contain flashing.
• Do not censor words or use copy-pasted fonts (such as these), in the interest of keeping our wiki legible to those using screenreaders.

Moderator guidelines

Moderators are expected to follow the same rules as users. In addition, you are expected to carry yourself respectably and to enforce the rules fairly.
If you believe you've seen a moderator committing an act of power abuse (using their position to threaten or bully other users, blocking or warning someone without good reason, or acting on a personal bias to get someone in trouble) please report it to another moderator, preferably an admin or bureaucrat.

Block guidelines

A user will generally receive between one and three warnings preceding a block. The number of warnings before a block is issued depends on the severity of the rule infractions, the time between warnings, and the general behavior of the user.
Please note that we issue blocks to accounts, not individuals; if you are a DID system, or your sibling/friend/classmate/etc. uses your computer to vandalize the wiki, the account responsible will still be blocked accordingly.

While we do not have strict block times for specific rule infractions, we do have some guidelines we follow when administering a block:

• Did they violate Fandom's terms of use?
  When Fandom's ToU are violated we forward the situation to Fandom staff, but will sometimes administer a local block as well to prevent the situation from escalating.
• Did this rule violation hurt, or have the potential to hurt, others?
  When a user violates a rule, we consider if the rule is in place to keep the wiki organized and running smoothly, or if it's in place to protect users. A rule violation that may hurt others, such as harassment, will generally receive a longer block than a violation such as spam.
• Has this user been warned for this behavior before?
  While we expect users to review all of our rules after receiving a warning, we do consider if an individual has been warned for a specific behavior, and will often prefer a second or third warning to a block if the first warning is very different in nature.
• Was this user acting in good faith?
  When issuing blocks, we consider whether or not a user was acting in good faith — that is, did they intend to break a rule or cause harm? Users with histories of good-faith interaction and editing may be given more lenient blocks, as we can more safely assume that their infraction was a mistake.
• Has this user been blocked before?
  A user with prior blocks may be subject to a longer block than usual, as this shows an unwillingness to abide by the rules.

Rule violations that result in an indefinite block include: use of derogatory or offensive language towards others, justification of atrocities, explicit sexual content, violent bigotry, suicide baiting or threats, and exclusively bad-faith contributions (trolling) .