My pet cheese
BECAUSE IP:PETCHEESE, I CAN WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT MY PET CHEESE!!!!
Introducing[edit | edit source]
Hi... uhh...
this is my pet cheese...
He can roll, he can wait.. erm... he can fill my tummy.
he can heal with other cheeses.
The thing is short. let's fill this with some vanity policy.[edit | edit source]
Vanity is content written about a person/group/organization, the author typically being or being affiliated with the subject. Some wikis, in order to cut down on spam and useless content, make use of a vanity policy that defines when something is "vanity" - and forbidden - and when it isn't. This is one of the few restrictions of content on Illogicopedia, along with the "keep it clean" and "keep it civil" rule, though it is kept relatively lenient. Here follows the basic rules regarding vanity:
- Notability in itself is no requirement; content about obscure subjects is accepted as long as it is in accordance to the rest of the rules.
- References to users of the wiki should not be made within articles unless they add to the value of the content, nor excessively; do not insert them in a spammish fashion.
- Users explicitly mentioned within articles may decide to have the references removed if they so wish.
- Articles primarily concerning specific users can be made freely within the userspaces as long as they are in accordance to the rest of the rules. Within the rest of the wiki, they are required to be of relatively high standard; when deemed needless, they might be put in the trash, deleted, or moved to the appropriate userspace.
An example of vanity:
This is not a prohibition against all in-jokes, but against in-jokes that users of the web site are not in on, and are not likely to become in on. No one cares about your math teacher's hair, for example, unless you write about it in a way that applies to weird teachers that everybody has had. An in-joke about the web site itself, in which the Illogicopedian community is "in" is also acceptable. The administrators also have the privilege of a few admins-only in-jokes from time to time, as long as it doesn't get out of hand.
Geddit?[edit | edit source]
you can ALSO perceive this as sensible things!!! yayayayayayay!!!!