Book Villains Wiki:Rules

Below is the policy of this wiki that users should abide to.

General Rules

 * 1) Treat all forum members with respect.
 * 2) No harassing or flaming.
 * 3) Absolutely no releasing members personal information without their expressed consent and informing the admins prior.
 * 4) No spam, bullying, or trolling allowed.
 * 5) Making racist comments, bigoted comments, or hateful comments towards the forum, other fandoms, members, staff, yourself, or in general is not tolerated. Doing so will result in an immediate and indefinite ban.
 * 6) No offensive/racist/harmful/suggestive usernames.
 * 7) No duplicate accounts or sockpuppets allowed.
 * 8) No over-swearing (swearing in a form of spam/ making others uncomfortable).
 * 9) No posting paid for content.
 * 10) You must be at least 13 years old to own an account. If you are caught under 13 by Wikia, you will be blocked globally.
 * 11) Do not advertise anything not related to book villains or create any promotional articles. This wiki is not a free-advertised site for you to create an account and start promoting the site of selling stuffs or fan-site of someone here. Wikis are created for providing knowledge for people, not for promoting or advertising.  If you want to affiliate with us or promote another website related to villains, please contact our Administrators.
 * 12) In order to become an admin, you must have 50+ edits, no sockpuppeting or previous blocks, and contribute to the wiki everyday for 2 weeks or more.

Editing Policy

 * No one-line articles. Articles must have at least one paragraph minimum. Articles with little to no content (only a single paragraph or just a picture without any text) will be deleted if not expanded. If a user only makes articles like this he/she will be warned.
 * No Real-Life People. This wiki is only for fictional villains.
 * Only add official information. Do not make stuff up and especially do not add things that have nothing to do with the character in question. That said we allow taking things at face value, fan-theories and mass guessing can go into a separate trivia section.
 * No Span Tags, No Nowiki, and no Null/Empty Tags: Span tags are prohibited. They interferes with any article's data and loading, causes terrible slowness when zooming and moving the page, are a possible and visible sign of plagiarism in Source Mode/Classic Editor and are generic containers which have no special meaning at all. Null/Empty tags, which are empty tags, interferes with any article's data and loading, causes terrible slowness when zooming and moving the page and generic containers which have no special meaning at all.
 * No fanfiction. This wiki is for legitimate villains from books, ranging from comic book to literature books.
 * Do Not Recreate Deleted Articles / Categories without permission. If you do so once, you will be warned immediately. Second penalty is a 1-week block.
 * Once you create the page, please add the link to the original Villains Wiki page on the Related Wikis page. That way, it gives a portal of which pages the Villain has. Examples can be found there on how to do it.

Images

 * Only upload images that pertain to book villains. If the image on a page is from a movie adaptation, add captions that specify which adaptation it is from.
 * Do not upload blurry images.
 * Do not upload the same images over and over again.
 * Do not add too many pictures. This is not a picture sharing site.
 * Do not add too many videos. Five good videos are enough.

Categories

 * 20 pages minimum: Categories are meant to group hundreds of pages, twenty at the very least. New categories that doesn't have 20 pages will be marked for deletion. Only create a new category if you can fill it with a minimum of 20 pages.
 * No nationality categories: We do not allow nationality categories on this wiki, so please DO NOT add nationality categories on this wiki.

Blogs

 * Do not post random blogs (this includes content that does not pertain to book villains).
 * Blogs must be related to book villains, and cannot have swear words involved.

Book Villain Rules

 * 1) Jerk ≠ Villain: Please be mindful not to add a character to this wiki unless he or she is established as a villain in their setting - although standards vary greatly we do not desire articles concerning minor bullies or rivals unless they show exceptionally cruel and/or immoral traits. Name-calling and just being "nasty" is not enough to make a character valid and such articles risk deletion once found. If you are confused over this topic you may find the Villainous Jerk concept helpful in deciding whether or not a character is valid for this wiki.
 * 2) Flawed Hero ≠ Villain: The number of articles about anti-heroic characters is no longer acceptable - this is a VILLAINS Wiki and we need to keep it that way. A character should have either malicious intent or be actually dangerous to count. From now on "grumpy", "not nice" or "mean" as reasons for a character being here will be ignored and the content erased - start showing us actual deeds that are malicious (and NO, name-calling and minor "bullying" will not count anymore). This is similar to the above rule but will sum up to "just because something offends you does not make it evil / immoral" - from now on PROVE to us the character is criminal, immoral or dangerous, otherwise we will erase it.
 * 3) Antagonist ≠ Villain: Most people tend to confuse these two terms. By definition, antagonist is a character who opposes the protagonist/protagonists, while villain is a wicked character who does evil. While they may overlap, they are completely different things. That being said, do not add pages for antagonists who aren't shown as being evil/wicked, especially if they are good characters or on the side of law.
 * 4) Possessed/Brainwashed: We do not allow articles about book heroes who have become "villains" due to brainwashing, possession or other scenario that makes them lose control of their actions (with the only exception being criminal insanity) - characters under a "spell" or hypnotism are victims, they have no control over what they are doing and thus they fail the basic criteria for antagonism (that is, deliberate attempts to cause suffering). The category Possessed/Brainwashed is ONLY meant for book villains like Cujo, who USED to be benevolent characters but whose personality changed for the worse due to corruption. So much that they are almost only remembered as the villain they became.
 * 5) Since this is a wiki about villains, particularly book villains, please do not add heroes. Additionally, do not add villains who are not book characters. Movie characters MUST be from a specific book/novel. Additionally, only add villains from novels, stories, comic books and manga. If you want to add any other villains, save that for the Villains Wiki.