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SHERLOCK HOLMES FAN WIKI POLICIES
As our site will grow, the moderator team has decided that it was time to explicity lay out the policies of this wiki in all aspects of the site - from pages, to pictures, to videos, to the discussion forums. Below, you'll find a list of our sites policies and consequences for community members who choose not to follow these policies. Every community member is responsible for abiding by these policies set forth by this wiki. If you have any questions, please contact a member of the moderator team. To start off with, Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki IS NOT Wikipedia, an official Sherlock Holmes site, or your own personal site. It is Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki - a community website that thrives off and encourages original contributions by our wiki's members.
| Code of Conduct: |
To foster the best possible experience for all, the Sherlock Holmes Fan wiki community respectfully requests that its visitors and contributors honor the following code of conduct: 1) Play nicely with others
- Respect your peers —
- Treat others and their contributions with respect and foster considerate dialogue.
- Do not use offensive language —
- Inappropriate, crude, or abusive language is not only unacceptable, it’s a lousy way to convince anyone of your point.
- Remember, there are no stupid questions —
- Everyone’s input is welcomed and honored. “Flaming” others or demeaning their participation may build your self-esteem but it won’t help build community.
- Report inappropriate behavior —
- Remove and/or report disrespectful or provocative content, but refrain from seeking vigilante justice.
2) Act in good faith
- Don’t pilfer material —
- Don’t publish content to which you have no rights. Period. Full stop.
- It’s about you, but not about YOU —
- This site exists to support an organic and communal body of information. Shameless self-promotion and hawking of wares are strictly verboten.
3) Promote the community spirit
- Use the Moderators as a resource —
- Reach out to the Moderators for guidance or advice on how best to leverage the site. They are there to help.
- Share the experience —
- Be an ambassador of the community by enrolling others in the discussion, sponsoring a good debate, and setting a good, collaborative example.
For a more exhaustive list of legal do’s and don’ts, refer to the site’s Terms and Conditions.
| Policies: |
1) Plagiarism/Original Content: - Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional duplication of copywriten material without proper credit given to the original author. Plagiarism is not only illegal, but it serves to cheapen the quality, original content on the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki. Our own voice gets lost in the voice of others, making the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki just like every other Sherlock Holmes resource on the web. The Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki is not Wikipedia. It is the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki. We will not tolerate community members who copy/paste from Wikipedia. If someone wants to read a Wikipedia article, they can go to Wikipedia. We want the content on the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki to be original, so there’s no place for pirated content anywhere within our wiki, citation or not. Please feel free to use Wikipedia as a resource for creating your carefully crafted contribution to the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki. Please visit plagiarism.org for a more robust definition of plagiarism and for some tips about how to avoid it.
2) Self-Promotion:
- Self-promotion encompasses two practices:
- 1) posting of websites (either related or not related to Sherlock Holmes) on the wiki, and
- 2) claiming credit or “ownership” of a particular page.
- 1) posting of websites (either related or not related to Sherlock Holmes) on the wiki, and
- The Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki is a wiki, and as such, it is a product of our community. The community “owns” the wiki. Every page on the wiki is created, edited, and maintained by a number of different community members. When community members announce “Participate in my poll” or “Look at the great page that I made”, it serves to weaken the notion of “community” and emphasize the individual. If you want to take direct credit for your contributions, then create your own website with your own name at the top. We’re here to work together because we love Sherlock Holmes, not because we’re after recognition for our work. It’s perfectly acceptable for a community member to be thanked by other community members for their hard work (especially with the compliment function), but it is not acceptable to claim ownership over any particular page. Contribute to the wiki because you want to… not because you’re seeking attention.
3) Contribution Padding:
- Contribution padding concerns repeatedly making extremely minor edits to a particular page (or series of pages) in an effort to increase the number of contributions credited to a community member. Contribution padding makes it next to impossible for moderators (and other community members) to keep up with changes to the wiki and it sets an unacceptable model for appropriate posting patterns for new members of the community. Padding isn't necessarily intentional, but it's disruptive to site administration and makes it more difficult to ensure the quality of the content that's being contributed to the wiki.
- Contribution padding can also occur on the discussion board. The discussion board is a forum for discussion, and as such, message board posts should contain a substantive contribution. It is not acceptable to post a message under the Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon page stating “I like this movie”. This is considered contribution padding. “I liked this movie because it introduced me to Holmes and Watson” is a much more appropriate message board post. The first example contributes nothing to any discussion. The second sets the stage for a response.
- Padding also refers to the creation of duplicate pages or pages with duplicate content. If a quote page already exists, creating another page titled “Sherlockian Quotes” is redundant and considered contribution padding. If you’re not sure about whether or not you should create a page or if the wiki already contains the content that you want to add, ask a moderator.
- Tips to avoid padding:
- Ideally, pages are edited as succinctly as possible. Do all the work you want to do on a particular page, and then save the page. If you’re creating a page or adding a bunch of content, prepare the content in a text or word document first, and then copy/paste it to the wiki. Start working offline, and when you’ve completed your contribution, begin copying it to the wiki. It’s perfectly acceptable to save a page from time to time to avoid having information (and hard work) lost, but it is not acceptable to edit a page 30 times when the page itself only contains 30 words. This sounds ridiculous, but our contribution padding policy exists because community members have and will repeatedly engage in this kind of unacceptable behavior.
- One way to ensure that you are not accused of contribution padding is to fill out the “edit note” form that appears every time a page is edited. By filling out this field explicitly, the moderators and community members will know exactly how you edited the page and the moderators will be able to ascertain whether or not the contributor is padding.
- Take your time when crafting your content and really try to plan out your contributions so that they’ll really make a quality addition to the website. We want Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki to be a quality wiki. We don’t care how large the wiki is or how many contributions you make. Contributions that clearly lack any sort of planning cheapen the hard work of the entire community and will no longer be tolerated.
4) Disruptive Behavior:
- Flaming (name calling, use of profanity, personal attacks), trolling (“stalking” particular members and flaming), and all around discourteous behavior will not be tolerated. You can make your point without calling someone an “idiot” or “stupid”. Disruptive behavior is defined loosely as any kind of behavior that serves as a detriment to the notion of community we're trying to foster here.
- Disruptive behavior also includes pitting moderators against other moderators or administrators. This is the classic strategy employed by children, i.e. "Since daddy told me 'no', I'll go ask mommy". If you ask for something from one moderator (e.g. "Can you add a link to a page I created to the homepage") and that moderator tells you "no", do not ask another moderator to do the same thing. This kind of behavior is manipulative and is not appropriate for the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki community members. Moderators have the best interests of the community in mind when they make their decisions, which means that sometimes, an individual's requests have to be denied for the benefit of the community. If a moderator tells you "no", please don't take it personally.
- Logging in with an anonymous account or alternate account to engage in disruptive behavior will not be tolerated on the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki. Administrators have the ability to ban IP addresses, which basically means that a particular computer can be banned.
5) Sharing of Information:
- Please do not share email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, etc. in threads. Get to know someone well before you share this information with them - privately. If you do share any private information, do it over PM (Private Message) not in a thread for all to see.
- If someone contacts you via PM and asks you for personal information and you're uncomfortable, please notify one of the moderators immediately. This is a community for all, use the Moderators as a resource to assist you. And don't ask for others information unless they have given you permission. If you violate any of these rules, you will berecieve banned.an offense.
| Consequences: |
Community members who violate the policies detailed above risk having their accounts banned from the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki. The moderator team will do everything possible to avoid banning community members, but members who repeatedly ignore the policies stated above will move through the consequence levels described below. Community members who have had disciplinary action taken against them will have a summary of their status on record. Also, keep in mind that administrators have the ability to ban IP addresses. If your IP address gets banned, ALL of a community member's accounts will become inactive. 1st and 2nd Offense:
- Warning. A moderator will contact you via the wiki messaging client notifying you of the offense and will suggest strategies for you to avoid breaking the wiki policies.
3rd Offense:
- Temporary Ban. Community members who break the wiki policies three times will have their accounts locked for 2 weeks.
4th Offense:
- Permanent Ban. Community members who break the wiki policies four times will have their accounts permanently banned from the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki. Under no circumstances will banned account be reactivated.
| On a final note... |
Here’s a bit of advice about how to avoid breaking the policies… when in doubt, ask a moderator BEFORE you do something that could go against one of the policies described on this page. It is not acceptable to break the policy and then claim to have not understood. The moderator team will work with you to clarify any of the policies that may be confusing, but it’s your responsibility to ask. Also, keep in mind that no moderator is "out to get" any particular community member. These policies exist for the benefit of the community. They encourage community members to interact with other community members in respectful ways while simultaneously encouraging community members to help make the Sherlock Holmes Fan Wiki community the premier Sherlock Holmes Resource on the web.
| Happy Wiki-ing! We hope you enjoy your stay here while you connect with other Sherlock Holmes fans from around the web! |
