Toshiba Wiki:Policies

All wikis have policies regarding their usage and agreements to be obeyed by the user in accordance to federal and state laws, and simple rules for the site itself. Failure to follow the rules may result in an IP/Username Ban from the wiki.

Federal Rules
All website must follow the individual's federal laws and state laws alike. Here are some ground rules that are expected and enforced in this community.

Copyright Laws
Any content traced to copyrighted work will be removed on sight. When recording statistics, always note the source. If you are paraphrasing, note the source of origin that you have taken work from. Repeated violations of this rule/law will result in an IP ban.

Age Restriction Law
Toshiba Wiki will never allow those who admit to being under the age of 13 to edit the site, in compliance with the COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), in order that personal information of the individual is not on the site.

Computer Laws
Any content promoting illegal activities will be deleted. Hacking, cracking, and the like are not permitted on this site, and on the rest of the web.

Wiki Rules
The host of Toshiba Wiki, Wikia, does its best to maintain the site. Always comply with Wikia rules when editing at Toshiba Wiki.

Content
Spam and Vandalism are not permitted on this wiki, or any wiki at all. Repeated offenses will result in a block.

User pages
Your userpage is your own, and only yours to edit. Although you are allowed most everything, we will not allow the promotion of illegal activity on user pages.

Comments
When leaving a message for another user, always be kind and polite. Personal attacks are a violation of this policy and are forbidden.

Patrolling
Always assume good faith when patrolling edits. The person may not have known well, or were testing their wiki skills on a page. If so, please refer them to the sandbox for them to practice.

Blocking
If you vandalise the wiki, harass another user, do something listed on this page, or something that is against the rules, you will be warned by a Sysop. Once you have 1-3 warnings (depending on how severe your previous warnings were), you will be blocked from editing for a period anywhere from one day to forever. If you feel that the block was not required/"fair", you may appeal to it by emailing ToshibaWiki@gmail.none - replace .none with .com

Requests for Privileges
If you have been working on the wiki for a while and would like to be an administrator, you can request for that. Please note that your request will not necessarily be granted. Below are a list of privileges that you can request in the order that people will usually get them:

Rollback Rights
You can revert vandalism edits by users quickly with this privilege. The reason why this is not given to all users is that it can also be used by users with bad intentions to vandalise quickly. Generally, you must have at least 10 contributions to the wiki to request this privilege.

Adminship
An administrator can delete and undelete pages, protect and unprotect pages, block and unblock IPs, and use a shortcut revert-to-previous-contributor's-revision feature in contribs. To request to be an admin, generally, you must have at least 50 contributions to the wiki, and you also must be patient, kind, and fair to users.

Bureaucrat
A Bureaucrat, which is usually also an administrator, has the powerful job of turning other users into administrators, bureaucrats and rollback-ers. As that privilege is fairly powerful, one usually becomes an admin first, then gets turned into a bureaucrat later. This person must have a minimum of 75 contributions to the wiki, and as with an administrator, they must be paitient, kind, and fair to users.

Any Questions?
If you have any questions that weren't covered here, please post them at the Forum where someone will respond to your request.