To help ease admins' workload and keep the site running more smoothly, regular users are encouraged to use maintenance tags and categories on pages that need attention. These include:
- Marked for Review or
{{M4R}} - Delete Now or
{{delete}}
Purpose of each tag
Marked for Review
- This is a catch-all category for pages that may require admin attention, but that you're not sure need to be deleted. Examples might include pages in need of light editing, re-formatting, etc.
- Use
{{M4R}}to add this category to pages. You should mark a page for review when:
- There are numerous mechanical and plot-based issues that need editing and review according to the Quality Standards.
- There are extensive coding/formatting issues that require a lot of editing to fix, such as massive walls of text.
- The title of the story needs to be changed to comport with our titling guidelines.
- You suspect a story may be plagiarized from another source (please provide a link to the source you suspect it was plagiarized from).
- You suspect that a story may break one of the wiki's rules, such as being unfinished or a blacklisted subject, but aren't sure.
- You suspect that a story is not CC-BY-SA compliant. This may be applicable to one that has been migrated from another source that isn't explicitly licensed under CC-BY-SA, or if the story author has posted an "exclusive copyright" notice.
Delete Now
- For pages that need to be deleted ASAP. A great way to alert admins of spinoffs, spam pages, unfinished pages, and all breeds of crappypasta. Use with care, though; if you're unsure whether a page needs to be deleted or not, it would be safer to just use Marked for Review.
- Use
{{delete}}to add this category to pages. The following types of pages should all be deleted ASAP:
- Explicitly unfinished pages, such as ones that end with "more coming soon, will finish later."
- Terms of use violations, such as advertising, pornography, photos of gore or animal abuse, links to screamers, etc.
- Copyright violations, such as uploading the full text of a Stephen King novel.
You must state your reasons for marking a story for review or deletion. Reasons that should not be used to mark a story for review or deletion include:
- Minor spelling or punctuation issues that you can quickly correct yourself, such as a couple bad comma splices. If fixing a story's technical issues takes no more effort than applying the review or delete tag, then you should just fix the issues yourself.
- Entirely subjective plot/story gripes, e.g. "the ending feels rushed" or "this story does not live up to its full potential."
- Deciding that a story is "not scary enough." A story not containing enough dark/horror elements to justify existing on the site can still be considered an applicable reason, but fear factor should be irrelevant.
- Regional spelling variations, such as spelling "colour" instead of "color" or "realise" instead of "realize." UK spelling is fine as long as it is consistent within the story itself (e.g. it doesn't use both "color" and "colour").
- Subjective wording preferences.
Tagging rules
- Abusing these tags will result in a warning and then a block from editing if the abuse persists.
- You must state your reasons for marking a story for review or deletion, either in the template or in a comment. You cannot flag a page for deletion simply because you don't like it.
- If a page is in Marked for Review, it must not be in any other category.
- Marked for Review and Delete Now cannot be added together on the same page.
- Marked for Review and Delete Now cannot be removed by non-staff.
Disclaimer
In the event you post via any means a story, page, or blog post about a subject matter that is determined, at an admin's discretion, to be 1) in a highly clichéd genre/category/subject and 2) poorly written, clichéd, generic, or of generally poor quality, then the admins are free at their discretion to delete the page at any time without warning.
This wiki is not responsible or liable for any loss of data or stories that happen on this site for any reason or in any manner they may occur.
IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Although most content is licensed under CC-BY-SA, not all content falls under this license. Please pay careful attention to the licensing of all stories. We are not responsible for damages, etc. that may arise from mishandling of licensing. When in doubt, contact the author.
Content that is not in the public domain or under a CC0 license must have attribution if used in videos or other media. This is not optional under any other Creative Commons license. That is copyright infringement.