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==Content restrictions== | ==Content restrictions== | ||
You have fairly broad leeway in creating your user page. Content should be focused on the Smash Bros. series and SmashWiki, but it's fine to have pretty much anything, provided one uses common sense - things such as spam links to external sites, [[SW:NPA|personal attacks]] | You have fairly broad leeway in creating your user page. Content should be focused on the Smash Bros. series and SmashWiki, but it's fine to have pretty much anything, provided one uses common sense - things such as spam links to external sites, NSFW content, [[SW:NPA|personal attacks]], and slander of another user (regardless of whether they are part of this wiki) are not allowed, as is any other sort of offensive content. If you think something may be offensive to others, it probably is, and you should seriously consider not having it. Additionally, you may not have anything that rates other users, such as rating their competency as a wiki editor, how well you get along with them, or anything else of that sort. They lack any potential constructive value, and when they were a user page trend in the past, they only ended up causing nonconstructive user disputes. | ||
User pages should also avoid interfering with the main namespace. Therefore: | User pages should also avoid interfering with the main namespace. Therefore: | ||
*Do not put user pages into categories. | *Do not put user pages into categories. The exception are user pages being put into the [[:Category:SmashWiki essays|SmashWiki essays]] and [[:Category:Drafts|drafts]] categories when appropriate, which the [[Template:Essay|essay]] and [[Template:Draft|draft]] templates automatically do respectively. | ||
*Do not use maintenance templates such as {{t|Cleanup}} on user pages, as these automatically add | *Do not use maintenance templates such as {{t|Cleanup}} on user pages, as these automatically add tagged pages to the respective category and so will add noise to the list of pages using that template. The only exception is a user tagging their own user pages with the {{t|Speedy Delete}} tag when they wish for their page(s) to be deleted. | ||
*Do not link to pages/templates/categories/etc. that are not meant to exist (e.g. joke links); this makes it harder to use utilities such as [[Special:WantedPages]] correctly. Even if a page should exist that doesn't yet, you should still avoid linking it if you have no intention to create the page anytime soon, as it will serve to give the page artificial "clout" in Wanted Pages and may rank it above pages that have more "legitimate" links on mainspace pages. | *Do not link to pages/templates/categories/etc. that are not meant to exist (e.g. joke links); this makes it harder to use utilities such as [[Special:WantedPages]] correctly. Even if a page should exist that doesn't yet, you should still avoid linking it if you have no intention to create the page anytime soon, as it will serve to give the page artificial "clout" in Wanted Pages and may rank it above pages that have more "legitimate" links on mainspace pages. | ||
*User pages should not redirect to any | *User pages should not redirect to any other page, and vice versa. The only exceptions are one may redirect their user page to their user talk page, and if a user changed their username, all old user space content under the old username may redirect to their new location. If you are someone with a smasher page that you would rather other users go to in place of your user page, you are still not allowed to redirect your user page to it; besides the aforementioned interfering with the mainspace, doing such also makes it more inconvenient for other users to access your talk and contributions pages. If you truly only want people to see your smasher page, you should instead create a user page just containing the link to your smasher page, which allows users to still easily access your talk and contribution pages after clicking your account. | ||
For one last restriction, one may not add coding to their user page to make it appear as a page on another website. This can be disorienting to other users visiting, and it can interfere with the functioning of SmashWiki for users visiting the page, such as preventing them from being able to easily find the link to your talk page. | For one last restriction, one may not add coding to their user page to make it appear as a page on another website. This can be disorienting to other users visiting, and it can interfere with the functioning of SmashWiki for users visiting the page, such as preventing them from being able to easily find the link to your talk page. | ||
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*Removing an obvious breach of policy or other rules, such as a [[SW:NPA|personal attack]] or slander. | *Removing an obvious breach of policy or other rules, such as a [[SW:NPA|personal attack]] or slander. | ||
*Removing categories, broken images, and broken templates. | *Removing redirects, categories, broken images, and broken templates. | ||
*Removing obvious falsehoods, provided they're not jokes. For example, saying "i is the best smasher in teh world" is fine, because it's most likely intended to be humorous. However, saying one is an admin when one is not (for example by having an "I'm an admin" userbox) is not allowed. | *Removing obvious falsehoods, provided they're not jokes. For example, saying "i is the best smasher in teh world" is fine, because it's most likely intended to be humorous. However, saying one is an admin when one is not (for example by having an "I'm an admin" userbox) is not allowed. | ||
*Having obtained permission beforehand. | *Having obtained permission beforehand. | ||