Just Dance Wiki:Rules

If you are on the Just Dance Wiki, you must respect the rules and regulations. This is pretty long but here they are. If you fail to abide by them, you get the punishment. Further rules may be added should the need arise.

It is assumed that, by using the Wiki and any of its resources, you are obligated to comply with its rules.

Piracy

Sharing the ISO or torrent link of any game on this Wiki will result in an immediate ban that will last until June of the following year.
A second offence will result in a permanent ban.

Swearing

If you curse multiple times at other users, you get a 2 week ban immediately.
- If you curse more after that you get an 5 month ban.
  - After that, you are banned for 5 years.
Censored swearing is allowed, as long as it does not seek to offend any person. So-called "morally-debatable" words which are exempted include damn, hell, bitch (when used to refer to a literal female dog), heck, ass (not an uncensored assh***), crap, and drug euphemisms. In articles, censorship of uncovered file names should be kept to a minimal, even if there are very explicit words.
- Using the middle finger emoji will result in the same punishment as an uncensored “f**k you.”
- When in doubt, exercise discretion.

Facebook

Swearing is allowed on (and only on) the Facebook Wiki Chat Group. However, bullying, pornography, and harassment (including falsely reporting other users’ accounts) offenses will carry over to the Wiki and you will be punished accordingly.

Harassment

If you keep harassing users, you get a 3-6 month ban.
- If you keep doing it, you get an infinite ban.
If users complain of harassment, the matter will be looked into. If the plaintiff is found guilty, he will be blocked based on the severity of the offense(s) committed.

Explicit Content

This section relates to sexual content and pornography, as well as shock sites.

If you have pornography of any sort as your profile picture, you get an infinite ban until you change your picture.
If you upload sexually explicit material to the Wiki, you will be blocked for a year.
If you upload a link to a shock site with the intent to scare on chat, you will be blocked for up to 24 hours, depending on the severity of the offense.
- Repeated offenders may find themselves infinitely blocked from chat.
If you upload a link to a shock site in article comments or on Message Walls, the comment will be edited or removed and a warning will be issued.
- Repeat offenders may find themselves blocked, with the duration depending on the severity of the offense.
Explicit music videos are permitted, as long as they are related to Wiki content. Otherwise, the case will be looked into.
- Videos with explicit content in the thumbnail are not allowed.
- Expletives in video titles need to be censored. (Contact an admin to change the file name if you are unable to do so yourself.)

Age Limit and Immaturity

There is no age limit imposed on the Wiki, but any immature users will be blocked until they turn 13 at least.
- Note that FANDOM has a sitewide policy stating that all users must be 13 or over. We do not enforce this unless other rules are broken.
Immaturity is judged based on how annoyed the community is by one's behavior. If the admins have reason to agree that the user/s in question have been exemplifying poor conduct and have done immature actions, the Immaturity and Defiance rules will be imposed. No warning is warranted.

Inappropriate Names

If you create an account with an inappropriate name, you get an infinite ban.
Gibberish usernames will also be considered inappropriate, as account with these names are almost always created for spam/vandalism purposes.

Multiple Accounts/Sockpuppets

If you create an account after you have gotten blocked (known as a “sockpuppet”), the original account gets a 5 year ban while the sockpuppet account will be permanently banned.
Blogs and other content posted by the second account are subject to deletion even if they do not violate any other rules.

False Info

If you post false info, you get a warning. At the fourth one, you get a 1 week ban. Only official information is permitted. Leaked information is not unauthorized, but if it turns out to be fake, and is published by the same person multiple times, the ban will be imposed. (See Thread:290224)
- After that, you get an infinite ban.
Please do not add unconfirmed information into official articles. This includes information based solely on a teaser or on a codename.

Fan Content

Fan Content alone will not earn you an official warning, but it will get you advice against posting new fan content in article comment sections. They remain free-to-post on virtually every other platform besides the main article (see False Info, above) and their comment sections.
- However, repeated counts of posting fan content, even after multiple advice non-warnings, a count of defiance may be implemented.
Unofficial half-dancers are counted as fanmade content because they have received edits. Croppings are also counted as fanmade content.

Predictions and Wishlists

All predictions and wishlists are to be put in the Predictions board in the forums or in a blog post.
- If you post a list of predictions/wishlist outside of the mentioned spaces, the list will be removed. If you continue to post lists outside of the mentioned spaces, you will receive a warning.

Off-Topic Content

All off-topic content must be posted in the Off-Topic board in the forums (such as songs that are not in Just Dance, videos that are not related to Just Dance in any way, etc).
If you make a off-topic comment in an article, the comment will be deleted. If you continue to make off-topic comments, you will receive a warning.
Off-topic images and videos are allowed if, and only if, they are posted on the off-topic board, your user page, a blog, or a message wall, within 24 hours of being uploaded to the wiki. If the image or video is not posted anywhere it will be deleted. Repeatedly uploading videos or images to the wiki without posting them anywhere will result in a warning.

Copyright Policy

The Copyright Policy that our Wiki uses is the general policy which is used by Fandom. However, intellectual property by other users, including, but not limited to, fanmade images and videos is not allowed without permission. Doing so may result in a warning. Only content [text-based or media] on our articles are completely free-to-use, with or without permission.

Watermarking

Watermarked content is strictly prohibited from mainspace articles. One may post watermarked images on their blogs and on their personal spaces, but not on mainspace articles. Such content will be taken down, and infringers will be issued warnings based on severity and defiance.

Admin

If you keep pestering a staff member (or any other user) for administrative powers, you get a 1 month ban.

Blogs

If you are posting multiple blog posts that don't make sense, you get a 1 week ban and all those blogs will be removed.
Blogs may also be removed if it fulfils other deletion criteria. A warning will not be issued, but the blogs will be closed.

Imitation

If you imitate a user, you get a 1 year ban.
If you try to get a user in trouble by imitating them, you will get an infinite ban.

Pages

If you create a page that should have instead been a blog post, you receive a warning. At the fourth warning, you will receive a 3 days ban.

Spamming

If you are spamming the chat you get a kick.
- If the offense persists, offenders may find themselves blocked depending on the severity.
If you are spamming unnecessary edits, you will get a 2 month ban.
Troll comments in comment sections and blog posts are not allowed. Warnings and blocks may be issued depending on the severity of the offense. Troll comments are still allowed on Message Walls up until the point where the receiver issues a complaint.

Edits

If you post art of a dancer(s) on a song page, the image will be removed and you will get a warning. Only official concept art is allowed.
Don't go badge farming, this means to only edit pages for the sake of earning badges. If you get caught doing it, you will be blocked for a week.
Don't post fake info on pages, if you do, you will get blocked for 1 month and our rollbacks will undo everything that the person has removed.
Don't delete any important information on any page, if you do, you will get blocked for 2 months and our rollbacks will do undo anything that the person has removed.

Voting

If you have an account that is under the age of 30 days, you cannot be able to vote on any proposal threads in the Decisions board in the forums. Any vote made by such account will be removed.
If you choose to use {{Support}} or {{Oppose}}, you must include a reason as to why you have made that decision. If you do not include a reason, your vote will not be included in tallies.
- Note that reasons such as "I agree," "I disagree," "I support," "I oppose," "I think this is a good idea," or "I don't think this is a good idea" do not count as valid reasons as they are already implied in your {{Support}} or {{Oppose}}.

Leaked Information

All supposedly "leaked" content must be backed up with a citation. If you are unsure as to how to create a citation, leave the link to the proof in the comment section so that someone can add the citation.

Music

Music is only permitted on personal space - on your own Message Walls, on Profile Pages, and on your own User blogs. If you really must put music elsewhere, Autoplay and Hide must be disabled. Failing to do so on multiple occasions will result in a warning.

Editing Userpages

You are only allowed to edit your own userpage. However, if a user has granted you permission to edit their userpage, you are allowed to do so as long as you comply with Wiki policy and rules. Adding potentially defaming, slanderous or libelous content, or causing other forms of damage to the page, will earn you a warning.

Defiance

If you persist with an act that goes against Wiki rules, even after several warnings, you get a first ban based on the severity of the offenses. If you fail to change after the ban has expired, you will get an infinite ban.

Naming Files

Image files intended for use on articles should not be given nonsensical names with strings of irrelevant letters.
Images obtained from sources (in contrast to screenshots) should have their original file name preserved when possible.

Ban Minimum

The minimum ban duration is 48-72 hours, and is imposed at the administrators' discretion.

Delete Template

Removal of the delete template from any unnecessary article or, when placed by an admin, category is strictly prohibited. A warning will be issued immediately upon offense [unless the template is then re-added by the same user].

Duplicated Media

Avoid re-publishing the same image or video. Any duplicated images or videos found should be reported to an admin for speedy deletion.

Warning Messages

You are not allowed to remove warning messages from admins from your message wall. If you do that, each message is restored, and you receive another warning or get blocked, depending on the number of warnings you have received.
Only administrators and moderators can give warnings to other users. You are welcome to leave messages reminding others of the rules, but these must be legitimate messages and there must be a legitimate reason to give them.
- Repeatedly giving warning messages (especially when no actual rules have been broken) to other users will result in a warning. All offending “warning” messages will be closed and/or removed.

Necroposting

Replying to comments or threads that are more than 30 days old is against the rules, as the new replies are considered a form of spam.