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Below is a suggested set of rules to follow when editing this wiki. Administrators of this wiki should read these rules and adapt them as necessary.

The wiki rules are the same as the Polandball Wiki.

We only allow city/town/villageballs, islandballs, countyballs that have less than 100K population.

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The rules for this Wiki are as follows, please read them carefully:
==Essential Rules==
#Essential Rules override every other category. Bear this in mind.
#Follow '''[https://www.fandom.com/terms-of-use Fandom's Terms of Service].''' Do not encourage others to break Fandom's Terms of Service either. '''Punishment: 3 day block for every offense'''
# This cannot be stressed enough. You '''''<u>WILL</u>''''' be banned from this Wiki for broadcasting unwanted personal information of other users (doxxing) '''Punishment: 2 weeks ~ infinite'''
#Do not insult or bait other members of the community. '''Punishment: 3 days'''
##Do not insult or bait the Fandom Staff: '''1 week block, possible global block'''
##Do not make fun of a user's depression/mental health: '''1 week block'''
#If you insult, vandalize, spam, threaten, create spamming-sockpuppets, type inappropriate information and insult other wikis, we will ask Staff/VSTF to global block you. '''Punishment: Globally blocked'''
##Do not declare "war" or start a "coup" against the Small Polandballs Wiki. If you are unhappy with how the wiki is run, please say what you don't like about it and the staff will try to fix it. '''Punishment: 1 month block'''
#Discriminatory speech, especially discriminatory slurs are banned, as it violates [http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use Fandom's Terms of Use]. This includes Anti-LGBT, Religious hate, Ethnic hate, Racism and many other forms of prejudice '''Warning, 3 day block, possible global block'''
##Genocide denial is a special exception because of it's association with ultra-nationalism and the audacity of the action. '''Punishment: 1 week block for first offense, permanent block for repeated offense (denying the same genocide)'''
#You must be 13 years or older to be on this wiki, according to Fandom's Terms of Use. '''Punishment (if under 13): Banned until 13th birthday or until join date when the user is projected to be 13 (if birthday is non-disclosed)''' 
##Side note, the ban may last for a bit while you are 13 if the latter is the case, since the mods won't know when you will turn 13.
##Pressuring a user to reveal their age when they declined to do so is prohibited - '''Punishment: 3 days'''
#<b>DO NOT MINI-MOD</b>. This means acting like an admin/chatmod even though you aren't one. If a person isn't behaving, tell the admins, they will resolve the issue, you don't need to type in all caps at them. '''Punishment: Warning'''
#Do not send false reports. The admins at the Small Polandballs Wiki volunteer at their job and you wasting their time is not helping anyone. Attempting to report a staff member to the VSTF wiki because you are butthurt about being banned also counts. '''Punishment: 1 month per false report.'''
#Treat other users (especially staff) with respect. If your actions, despite not breaking any previously mentioned rules, have been deemed unacceptable by the admins (Ex: Sarcasm, Satire), you may be punished. '''Punishment: Warning'''
##Immaturity is an extension of this rule. If enough of your actions have been reported as immature, staff might vote on whether to punish you on it or not. '''Punishment: 6 months'''

==Rules about other wikis==
#Do not raid other wikis on behalf of the Small Polandballs Wiki. '''Punishment: 1 month block (first offense) or permanent block (second offense), if mods find out about the raid via discovery or complaint by another wiki; possible global block'''
#Do not spread drama from other wikis to the Small Polandballs Wiki, and vice versa '''Punishment: 2 week block'''
#While you can make your own wikis, please keep them as distinct from the Small Polandballs Wiki or the Polandball Wiki as possible, as meta wikis (i.e. wiki about PB Wiki users) are prohibited. '''Punishment: Founder gets permanently block until wiki is closed by Fandom'''

==Uploading and creating images rules==
# When uploading an image of a countryball, make sure the countryball doesn't use circle-tool, line-tool, curve tool, and copy-paste. The exception to this is if it is your Wiki avatar, although it is discouraged. '''Punishment: Deletion or warning'''
## Brush tool has been a topic of controversy due to the rise of smartphone artists and photoshop users. We'll mostly allow it unless the image is too hideous to be associated with Polandball.
# If you upload an image, comic, or artwork that was made by another user (Wikia, Reddit, etc.) other than yourself, please give credit to that user in the image's description. However if the image is in the public domain, you don't need to give credit. '''Punishment: Warning'''
# You can use any painting program that has the ability to draw countryballs and not just MS Paint (Paint.NET, Photoshop, GIMP, etc.). <gallery>
Polandball Wiki Tutorial.png|Polandball Wiki's Drawing Tutorial
</gallery>

==Page-making rules==
# DO NOT MAKE PAGES OF:
## Fictional country you made up. This can only go to the Polandball-related Fanon wikis. '''Punishment: Deletion and Warning'''
## Something that isn't/wasn't a political entity (country, city, state, etc.). This excludes militaries, political parties and religions. '''Punishment: Deletion and Warning'''
## Something that was recently deleted. '''Punishment: 1 week per previously deleted page'''
### If you believe that you have a good enough reason to remake a page, contact an admin first to get permission.

==Editing rules==
# Vandalizing is not allowed in any way or form. '''Punishment: Depends how the damage is'''
# Edit warring on any pages is not allowed. '''Punishment: 1 day ~ 1 month'''
## Actively changing gender of countryballs is a form of vandalism/edit warring, albeit a milder one.
# Do not add spam/duplicate categories. '''Punishment: Warning'''
# Changing the infobox image of a countryball that already has an infobox image is only allowed with approval from a moderator. '''Punishment: Warning'''
# Do not add a family section on a countryball page. There's already the relations section. '''Punishment: Warning'''
# <u>Do not make pages that have previously been deleted without admin permission. The wiki is undergoing projects to cut back pages, there will be no mercy for this rule. '''Punishment: One week per page.'''</u>
# If a page needs to be cleaned up, please add the "Cleanup" category.
# If a page has propaganda, misspelling or just has horrible formating, please add the <nowiki>{{Sanitation}}</nowiki> template.
# If a page needs to be deleted please add the <nowiki>{{Delete}}</nowiki> template but please don't remove the contents of the page, the admins need to check what the page was about before deleting it.
# If a page has 5 or more templates, it is OK to have the [[Template:Templates|combination template]], so the templates of that page are all in one single expandable template. If a page has 4 or less templates, the page's templates are separate from each other and the combination template is not allowed.


==Userpage Rules==
#Having enemies listed is not allowed. '''Punishment: Warning, then manual deletion and 1 day block'''

==Blogpost Rules==
# Making nonsense blogs/blogs for badge farming/clogposting is not allowed. '''Punishment: Deletion of blog as a warning'''

==Discussion Rules==
#Do not start or engage in drama. '''Punishment: Warning, possible block to biggest culprit'''
#Pointless bickering is banned, especially political. Seriously you're on a political satire FANDOM website, grow up. '''Punishment: 1 day''' Warning, deletion'''
#Don't post or make polls excessively. '''Punishment:
#Low-quality posts will be deleted unless if they are jokes, and if done excessively, you may receive a block under lines of immaturity.
#Due to a wiki defect, images posted directly in Discussions cannot be deleted. To combat this, we will delete your entire thread and also warn you.
#Poorly drawn art will be deleted due to being an eyesore, but we'll redirect you to the discord where you can improve.
#Do not necropost (revive inactive threads) if they haven't been active for a week. '''Punishment: Warning to 6 hour block'''

==Punishment Rules==
#Punishments listed are of first offenses. All punishments, aside from remaking deleted pages and immaturity, are malleable. For every offense after the first, the punishment is upgraded to the next default provided by FANDOM. Additionally, it may be altered or even elevated according to severity and previous contributions to the wiki.
#Do not make alts to surpass bans. '''Punishment: Permanently Banned (the Alt), banned for a longer time the original account)'''


''Adding <code><nowiki>[[Category:Policy]]</nowiki></code> to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. This is found [[:Category:Policy|here]].''

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