Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Wiki has rules that all users are required to follow. The rules have been broken down into four headings:
- General rules
- Content rules
- Blocking rules
- Protection rules
General rules
What is permitted
- Anything related to this wiki's topic, such as companies, films, subsidiaries, etc.
What is not permitted
- Vandalism, including adding nonsense/gibberish and removing necessary content, spam, which is unwanted advertisements, and flooding, which this wiki defines as editing, posting, and uploading in a way that has an impact on the activity pages and logs. Always be careful with how quickly you edit, post, and upload on this wiki.
- Sock puppetry of any form. If your account has been blocked and you return with a new account, the sockpuppet account will be blocked indefinitely and the block on your other account will be changed to indefinite.
- This however is not the case if you have moved accounts.
- Edit farming, which this wiki defines as making more than 3 changes to an article in a short period of time. Please be careful when editing, and be sure to make use of the "Show changes" and "Preview" buttons to make sure you are happy with your changes before saving.
- Deleting "Warning" and "Blocked" messages from your message wall. If you delete these messages while blocked, your message wall privileges will be taken away/revoked, and your block may be extended.
- Anything unrelated to this wiki's topic.
- Edit warring, which this wiki defines as making counterproductive edits to win a content dispute against another user. Sometimes, edit farming occurs during edit warring.
- False information. Please do not:
- Add it to articles
- Attempt to spread it
- Fanon content.
- Minimodding, which this wiki defines as posing as an administrator or discussion moderator.
- Plagiarism, which this wiki defines as reusing content from other wikis and websites such as Wikipedia without attribution. See the Content rules for information on how to attribute content from other wikis.
- Any violations of Fandom's Terms of Use, including but not limited to:
- Abusing, harassing, threatening, or intimidating other users
- Joining when underaged
- Impersonation
- Soliciting personal information
- Joining this wiki for the sole purpose of violating these rules.
Content rules
For information on how to write articles, see the Manual of Style.
- All content must not contain slurs or language that is not tolerated on Fandom. This applies to articles, blog posts, comments, Discussions posts, files, message walls, message wall greetings, templates, and user pages.
- It is strongly preferred that the text on pages is original and that information from other sources is put into your own words. This is to prevent plagiarism. If you decide to reuse text from another Fandom community, an example of how to attribute the text is below. Make sure to include links to the page, the revision history, and the wiki itself.
| This page uses content from the (replace with name of wiki) page (replace with name of page). The revision history lists the authors. The text on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Wiki and (replace with name of wiki) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License (CC BY-SA). |
Reusing content from Wikipedia
- The text on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Wiki and Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License (CC BY-SA). However, this wiki does not allow entire Wikipedia articles to be reused. So, while reusing content from Wikipedia is allowed per this page, entire articles cannot be reused. There is a template all users are required to use when creating an article and using content from Wikipedia: {{Wikipedia}}.
Blocking rules
Blocks are only to be issued for violations of this wiki's rules. Blocks cannot be issued if at least one of the following reasons applies to a user:
- The user hasn't joined this wiki
- The user has only one edit or post
- The user hasn't violated any rules
A exception is if the user is a sockpuppet. To request that a user be blocked or to have a pre-existing block be reviewed, you can leave an administrator a message on their message wall. Users who believe they have been unfairly blocked can leave the administrator who blocked them a message on their Community Central message wall.
Protection rules
The majority of this wiki's content will remain unprotected to encourage all users to edit. Content will only be protected if necessary, such as for the following reasons:
- Excessive vandalism
- Excessive spamming
- Edit warring
- High traffic
- Protecting the proper display of this wiki, such as the main page and policy pages
To request that content be protected or to have a pre-existing protection level be reviewed, you can leave either an administrator or content moderator a message on their message wall.