User:Leijurv/Drafts/Rules Sandbox 2

The following are the 2b2t Wiki's Rules for editing, page creation, page content, and wiki organization. Note that anything pertaining to page layout and appropriate phraseology will be found on the Style Guide.

Article Creation & Categorization
Articles are created through a draft system, see Draft Creation Guide.

Each article must clearly fit into one category, listed below. For example, there cannot be a page on "relationship between X player and Y group".

The below requirements should be seen as a rough estimate of what will be accepted as an article. The decision on what drafts become articles is made by a majority vote of trusted editors who take into account the subjective context of the draft. If your draft meets these requirements, it is very likely to be accepted. However, a draft that meets these requirements but is very badly written may be denied, and, similarly, a topic that doesn't quite meet these requirements, yet is written very well and would be a high quality contribution to the wiki, may very well be accepted.

Authority
You must have some sort of connection with the subject matter. This can be direct, such as the page being about you or your group. It can be indirect, for example, you may interview someone to write a page about them. At a bare minimum, if all else fails, you can write an article based on an interview conducted by a third party, such as if you are writing an article about a player that has left the server a long time ago, and can no longer be contacted. In any case, you need to justify that you aren't just making it all up.

On other wikis, such as Wikipedia, the function and purpose of the wiki is to collect reliable sources in citations, and write an encyclopedia based solely on those sources. This is not the case on this wiki, as there are no reliable sources. No one cares enough about this server to write textbooks and news articles about it. Therefore, while "citing yourself" as a primary source is banned on Wikipedia as "original research", the opposite applies here. On this wiki, the highest quality source is "because I was there".

Primary Category Guidelines
The guideline to be included in is that the player should:
 * be appropriately sub-categorized as a Builder, Griefer, etc. OR have affiliations with at least three (3) other players who have player pages.
 * have participated in either a base, event, or group that also has a page.
 * be vouched for by at least three (3) players that also have pages.
 * be a notable player.

The guideline to be included in is that the base should:
 * contain at least three (3) players that have pages OR have been founded at least a year ago.
 * have been griefed in-game by the date of article creation.
 * have at least one (1) event associated with it that also has a page.

The guideline to be included in is that the group should:
 * have at least twenty-five (25) members, with at least five (5) of whom having player pages OR have at least three (3) members with at least 50% of members having their own player page.
 * be associated with at least a total of two (2) bases OR events that also have pages.

The guideline to be included in is that the event should:
 * have had at least twenty (20) participants, with at least four (4) of whom having player pages OR have had at least one participant with at least 50% of participants having their own player page.
 * be associated with at least one base OR at least two groups that have their own pages.
 * have ended by the date of article creation.
 * have lasted at least as long as a week (7 days) OR have lasting implications.

The guideline to be included in is that the item should:
 * be uniquely named in-game OR be a generic type of item, such as bedrock, mob spawners, or unbreakable armor.
 * be associated with at least one (1) player who has a player page AND at least one (1) base OR event that has a page.
 * not be duplicated in-game OR not be publicly distributed, with the exception of generic items as defined above.

Secondary Category Guidelines
A player may only be in one Secondary Category. A Secondary Category may be applied if a player falls, beyond reasonable argument, within a single specific Secondary Category. Should a player not meet this requirement, rather than applying multiple Secondary Categories, a player will not be subcategorized with a Secondary Category.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * have been a builder of at least one (1) base that has its own article.
 * be known primarily for building by members of 2b2t’s community.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * have participated in at least one (1) digging event that has its own article.
 * be known primarily for digging by members of 2b2t’s community.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * have destroyed or participated in the destruction of at least three (3) bases that have their own articles.
 * be known primarily as a griefer by members of 2b2t’s community.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * be known primarily as a pvper by members of 2b2t’s community.

Tertiary Category Requirements
If a player is not in a Secondary Category, a player must be in at least one (1) Tertiary Category. A player may be in multiple Tertiary Categories.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * be known as a collector by members of 2b2t’s community.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * possess a leadership role within a group that has its own article.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * be a member of Secondary Category:.
 * be known as a map artist by members of 2b2t’s community.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * be known as a programmer by members of 2b2t’s community.
 * not be a skid.

In order to be included in, a player must:
 * possess a YouTube channel with more than 25,000 subscribers.
 * have created YouTube content primarily relevant to 2b2t on at least four (4) separate occasions.

Group Subcategory Requirements
As affiliations are liable to change, all past groups for which a player meets the following criteria will be required to include the player in their categories . In order to be categorized as a member of a group, a player must:
 * have been a member of the group for at least three (3) months.
 * be recognized by members of 2b2t’s community as a member or past member of the group.
 * have participated in at least one (1) base or event associated with the group.

Article Requirements: In order to create an article, a subject matter must:
 * be in at least one (1) Primary Category.
 * If appropriate, an article must be subcategorized.
 * adhere to User Requirements.

Article Editing
In order to edit an article, all of the following must be true: User Requirements: In order to edit the content of an article, a user must:
 * be associated with the subject matter, either as a participant in an event, a member of a group or base, a player intending to write about him or herself, OR be a notable player with the intention to write about subject matter occurring at least as recently as his or her joindate OR have the express permission of a 2b2t Wiki administrator.

In order to edit the layout, grammar, or categorization of an article, a user must:
 * be registered with a Miraheze account. Note that a 2b2t Wiki Administrator may roll-back your edit should it be deemed inappropriate.

When your edit is reverted
Sometimes, your edit might go against the rules of the wiki. For example, it might add a new page about a topic that is outside the scope of this wiki (e.g. a page related to Minecraft but not to 2b2t). Some other things are banned non negotiably, such as pages about bases that still exist ungriefed on the server (this rule is to prevent the wiki being used as a tool for griefing), or edits that add IRL information, such as someone's age. In these cases, a staff member might revert your edit and tell you that this edit is not up for discussion as long as the rules of the wiki stand. In this case, you will be blocked from editing, or the page may be locked, if you continue reverting. Other times, someone else might have disagreed with your edit factually or based on opinion. They might disagree that something happened the way that it did. Or they might think that a particular wording lends bias towards or away from a particular party. In this case, discussion on the article talk page is preferred. Working it out with the other editor through other channels (such as Discord) is allowed but not encouraged. If no resolution can be achieved, the last resort is that a staff member may evaluate the discussion on the article talk page and institute their decision. Staff may or may not, at their discretion, vote internally to arrive at such a decision. The decision may be a compromise or it may entirely favor one side, as sometimes people are just wrong. Note that if one side calmly explains their perspective based on sources and the rules of the wiki, staff will almost certainly decide in their favor, rather than a side that stubbornly reverts with almost no explanation. Patience and civility will be rewarded because the strongest argument will win, not the loudest voice, and not the editor who is willing to camp at their computer clicking the revert button for the greater number of hours per day. Following the same logic, a numerical majority vote of editors is never given binding authority, as it is too easy to create alt accounts or ask your friends on Discord to come and take your side. In any case, if your edit is reverted (by a staff member or by another editor), you may not engage in back-and-forth reverting. A staff member may, at their discretion, block all parties involved from editing, if back-and-forth reverting continues beyond a few. You are expected to go to Talk:ArticleTitle and talk to each other like adults and present your case.

Behavioral
Etiquette:
 * Any person who seeks to contribute to the 2b2t Wiki in any way must behave in a mature, logical, and objective fashion.
 * The 2b2t Wiki administration reserves the right to remove any persons whose behavior they deem unsuitable for the 2b2t Wiki.

Privacy Policy

 * Publication of information that violates the privacy of any persons associated with 2b2t, the 2b2t Wiki, or Miraheze is strictly forbidden.

Appeals

 * Any user may appeal to have their subject matter accepted onto the 2b2t Wiki. A successful appeal will require the support of at least 50% of the 2b2t Wiki administration. Should an appeal fail, the subject matter may only be appealed again after one (1) month.
 * Any decision made by the 2b2t Wiki Administration may be appealed. If a recent appeal has been made about a subject matter, users must wait one (1) month before appealing the matter again.
 * Appeals

Administration
General Staff Rules Staff is defined as the Bureaucrats and the Administrators. There are only to be 3 Bureaucrats at any given time. There can be as many Administrators as the staff members deem necessary to the operation of the wiki. Promotion and Demotion The Bureaucrats are voted in and out by the staff members, with a simple majority. The Administrators are voted in and out by the staff members, with a simple majority. Miraheze Stewards are permitted to demote democratically-removed or inactive Bureaucrats and Admins, should the staff team be unable to remove them. Democratic removal entails a discussion page being created, and left up for a period of 7 days. A simple majority shall be the deciding proportion. To be considered inactive, the offending Staff member must have under 10 edits in the last 3 months.

Changes to 2b2t Wiki Rules The Rules may only be changed with a simple majority vote to do so. No changes to the rules will take effect until voted upon by the staff members, and achieving a simple majority to do so.