Reincarnated as a Sword Wiki:Rules and Guidelines

The following is a list of the rules and guidelines you have to follow on the wiki. If you fail to follow any rules, wiki staff will apply a punishment.

Please note, these rules are still under construction and are thus subject to change.

If you have a question or need help, contact an admin or other staff. Looking at existing articles is a good way to find how to properly edit an article. Asking on the Reincarnated as a Sword unofficial Discord server is a quick way to get series-related questions answered.

User equality
Equality on a wiki is the idea that all users are equal despite any special circumstances. While the wiki recognizes and accepts the fact that certain individuals do have special needs, are of younger and differing ages, and vary in the quality of writing skills, these individuals cannot and will not be considered exempt from the standards of conduct and the policies that all members of this wiki are required to abide by. To that end, no physical or mental condition, age, or difference in writing skills will be considered cause to suspend the enforcement of any policy or guideline.

Rules

 * Follow Fandom's Terms of Use, especially the entailed User Conduct.
 * Do not add bias when you edit articles. Your edits should be objective and factual, not subjective and opinionated.
 * No self-promotion not related to Reincarnated as a Sword is allowed. Please keep this out of wiki articles.
 * Do not vandalize or spam.
 * Do not create pointless or duplicative articles.
 * Racial slurs, sexual content, etc., are strictly prohibited. Any use of swearing not in article content (unless in a quote from the series), is allowed under reasonable use.
 * Do not create fanon articles. Currently, the wiki doesn't accept them in blog posts either. Fanon content on your profile is okay.
 * No plagiarism. This entails anytime you claim, upload, or post something you do not own without proper permission from the original owner (and bring proof to show us you obtained said permission). Does not include content officially from Reincarnated as a Sword as entailed under fairuse.
 * Do not insult another's work. Criticism, on the other hand, is fine.

English terminology
We use the official English terminology, with few exceptions. However, other translations (including ones by fans) can be listed where appropriate, such as Alternative Names in an infobox. Terms may vary between English media, such as the light novel and manga, in which case you should try to be accommodating to both. Always use the official English name, Reincarnated as a Sword. Characters not yet appearing in official translations may have pages with fan-translated names, but should be switched to the official terminology when caught up.

Character articles

 * Sections: Sections should be placed in the following order: Personality, Appearance, Background, Synopsis, Abilities, Other traits, Relationships, Trivia, References, Gallery, Navigation. You may add tabs and move sections there when sections get too big.
 * Galleries: Separate based on image source. Light novel images first, manga second, anime third, spin-off fourth, then other images. No fan images.

Adding categories
The broad categories go first (i.e. Organizations, Characters) and the next categories should be placed in an order where they increasingly become more specific.

Take Fult's article as an example. His categories are as follows: Characters, Males, Children, Royalty, Princes.

If you think an article should have a category, but don't know, it is best not to add it. See here for a list of categories.

Introduction paragraph
In the first line, the article's subject has to be in bold, along with the other names of the subject.

Wiki images

 * Fanart and fan images are not allowed. Please post external links to the images instead.
 * All uploaded files should have an appropriate name (e.g. Fran Manga.png). This is not strictly enforced, but it will make finding and using it a lot easier.
 * Png images are preferred, along with the highest quality version of the image you can find.
 * Avoid uploading watermarked images or screenshots.
 * For manga images, any text inside speech bubbles must be whited out.
 * Try not to upload files you won't be using.
 * For character images, try to remove the background. If you have never done that before, then upload it as it is or ask someone else to do it.