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This page is an official policy on BRWiki.

This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow.
  • Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy.
  • See the Policies home page for an overview of BRWiki policies.
  • See Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles.


Shortcut: WW:DNP

[top]Do not post


DNP stands for Do Not Post. Things on this list should not be posted anywhere on the wiki. Some of them are specifically banned and will get you banned if you persist in posting them.

[top]Off-topic content


Do not post content that has no connection with Birthright whatsoever. Off-topic content can be deleted by any BRWiki contributor, and whole pages that are off-topic are candidates for speedy deletion. Persisting in posting such content may get you labelled as a vandal and banned.

[top]Examples of off-topic content


  • A monsters page containing nothing but an encyclopedia entry on the bird family (the animal).


[top]Examples of tangential but on-topic content




[top]Defamatory content


Articles and/or talk page posts that are nothing but personal defamation not only violates the neutral-point-of-view policy but are also illegal in many countries. Defamatory content can be deleted by any BRWiki contributor, and whole pages that are nothing but defamation are candidates for speedy deletion. Persisting in posting such content may get you labelled as a vandal and banned.

Note that a modicum of common sense has to be applied to this policy. While isolated cases of "I think you are being a jerk right now, because ..." as a response in a talk page isn't exactly good wikiquette, it isn't defamation, either. A whole barrage of why a person has to be an idiot, is.


  • When tagging a defamatory page {{speedydelete}}, you may want to remove pieces of the text pointing to specific people while the page is awaiting deletion. It's a judgement call. This goes especially for real-world contact information like phone numbers, real-world addresses, etc.



  • Please add a line below the {{speedydelete}} tag that the page is plain defamation and that that's why it's being deleted.


[top]Non-English content


BRWiki is an English wiki. Its infrastructure does not support content in other languages. Doing so would entail something like what wikipedia has - different sub-domains and monitoring routines to track changes between different language versions of pages and alert translators.
So, for now, non-English content is against policy and can be tagged {{speedydelete}} when found.

[top]Exceptions


  • One possible exception is quoted material pasted as part of a page where the author simply would not/could not translate it. If this content is on-topic and otherwise not available in the wiki, it is a candidate for translation - or removal as part of the regular editing process.


[top]See Also


The BRWiki writing policy outlines what should and should not be posted in different types of articles, e.g. lore etc.

[top]Violations


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