You may make minor edits for grammar or spelling to other peoples' articles. Larger edits require permission from Senior Staff.
Presumably, larger edits can still also be done with permission from the author, correct? But maybe that's obvious. :P
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Obvious, maybe, but it still needed to be clarified. Good catch.
This I'll always keep in mind. It always sucks when people can't honour the chain of command. Read and consented to, so if I step out of line feel free to throw me off a cliff like an unwanted Spartan baby.
Added two new rules, unwritten rules now written. Any others we need to write down?
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I'm new here so I'm really not sure if I can comment here but how about specifying if we can write Tales based on other people's SCPs or not?
I'm pretty sure you can write a tale about anything you want, but if the author of an SCP you want to use is still around (or you want to use someone else's character in your tale) it's courteous to ask the original author. They'll probably be cool with it, and might even help you…
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i always answer yes, but if you want to make sure you write the character right, you might want to ask the original author of one.
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Updated the Site Rules page. No major changes, but it's probably a good idea to re-familiarize regardless.
Direct questions to TroyL via the link.
Significant changes made to how people are banned and what for. This should simultaneously make it easier to deal with troublemakers and give normal users some additional protection.
So I want everyone to read the new section on bans once you see this post.
if your reading this your gay
This is excellent work.
I MIGHT request staff think about changing one sentence "You may appeal a permanent ban annually after it has been enacted" but that's my only comment - I like having rules posted, even when one of them is a vague as "Conduct Unbecoming".
If you constantly have entries deleted, undergo major edits, and be decommissioned
I ain't staff, but I feel this suggests that we still decommission articles, which we don't.
(account deleted)…I hope I'm not treading where I ought not tread, being a newbie to all this, but…
…are people allowed to steal what you've already posted as your own work or rough drafts? I know that the higher ups can remove or edit things as they see fit, and little things can be done by other users, but…I've got a bunch of SCP drafts drawn up and stylized, and I want to put them on the draft page, but I don't want anyone to take what I've worked so hard on, put a few finishing touches on it, and post it as their own stuff…
…is that possible, or are the documents I post (relatively) safe from plagiarism?
Just curious. XP
As far as I am aware, that is not allowed at all. When you post a draft, that concept as it is presented is yours, and you have full permission to do whatever you want with it. If someone uses it without your consent and claims it is their own, you have the right to talk to staff about it, and action will be taken against that user.
Nobody wants to see you doing all the hard work for someone else to take all the glory. Your drafts should be safe. :)
I've already replied to your other thread.
…is that possible, or are the documents I post (relatively) safe from plagiarism?
Wikidot tracks edits. If you make a sandbox page, you'll be able to see every edit ever made on that page by any user who edited the text, through the "History" option. If you notice that a user other that yourself has been making edits, inform the staff, and we'll take care of it.
Again, if you see that anyone has taken your work and posted it to the site, if you can provide enough proof of the work being stolen, you shouldn't need to worry.
Besides, this is a wiki. No one's getting paid for this. Furthermore, if someone takes an idea written by someone else and is given critique on it, chances are if they're desperate enough to steal work, they might not understand how to fix it, and the entire thing is just a bad scenario for them.
Writing shitty SCPs (although spamming the site with shitty SCPs can be considered an instant permaban.)
What would count as spamming? If, say, you submitted a finished article with a few mistakes every week, would you get banned?
Or just uploading crap that it just two sentences long and makes no sense?
Only idiots deal in absolutes
To paraphrase: "We know shit when we see it."
If someone is posting an article every week and they're all getting deleted in short order, then yes, that could be considered spammy and could lead to being banned. If they're posting an article every week that's floundering but not actually deleted, we'd probably not ban. That said, DO NOT take this statement as carte blanche to start squirting out a new article every week just to see what'll survive. Make sure that anything you put out there is something you actually want to see stick around.
Also, a few mistakes usually aren't enough to get an article deleted, simply because SPaG1 errors are so easy to correct.
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Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
It's French for "white card". It means "free license". The sentence could be re-written as:
That said, DO NOT take this statement as unqualified permission to start squirting out a new article every week just to see what'll survive.
Well, now you know I can't speak French either
At the risk of interpreting it wrong, I'd say the thing that separates a user who just happened to write a series of bad scips from a user who spams the site with shitty scips is that the former listens to feedback and tries to incorporate said feedback in the next scip he writes, whereas the latter goes "neener, neener, fuck you all." and keeps on writing the exact same crap time and time again.
Edit: Seriously, fuck my typing skills on this phone. Sniped AGAIN.
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