Epic Rap Battles of History Wiki:Dem Rules

This is the first draft for the official ruleset for the wiki. These laws are just formally wording what was said and decided previously in chat. Anyone is free to add their own version of the rules under the last version. These rules will officially formalized in a meeting in chat tomorrow (8/17/13 or 17/8/13) at 7:00 PM EDT. The finalized accepted version will be added to ERB Wiki Constitution (Rules & Rights)

Editing Rules

 * 1) When editing a page, vandalism is not acceptable, and will result in varying degrees of punishment, depending on the level of vandalism. This includes erasing information on pages, adding unecessary information, adding inappropriate text and/or images, etc.

Commenting Rules

 * 1) No religious or political debates, this is no place for that kind of thing. You are free to have an opinion, and we respect them, but these can be insensitive and disruptive topics.
 * 2) No harassment/discrimination against other users, this may result in an immediate ban.
 * 3) Spamming things such as rap battle suggestions or nonsense is not permitted.

Community Rules

 * 1) Be welcoming to new users :)
 * 2) Sockpuppeting (creating multiple accounts) is not allowed; a backup account is allowed, but creating many unecessary accounts is a violation of Wikia rules.

Chat Rules

 * 1) Most importantly, respect other users, and do not harass/discriminate them. You may make friendly jokes, but taking it too far will result in a kick, and subsequent offences will result in longer bans the more times you break this rule.
 * 2) Have fun, of course! We want you to enjoy your time here as much as possible! :D

Community

 * 1) Do not intentionally so something to someone because you know it bothers them
 * 2) Do not lash out at other users because you disagree with them, or they were bothering you, respectfully tell them to stop, and if they do not, then talk to an admin about punishment
 * 3) No discrimination of others due to religion, ethnicity, or interests

Editing

 * 1) Do not add a page that already exists
 * 2) Do not add unessicary text or categories where it is not needed
 * 3) Do not spam pages

Chat

 * 1) Don't turn your conversation towards another user and talk bad about them, whether they are on chat or not.
 * 2) Excessive use of profanity to the point where you are hurting the other person
 * 3) No spamming emoticons, as it lags the chat and forces everyone on it to refresh the page

Comments

 * 1) No spamming the same comment over and over (even if you do it on different pages)
 * 2) No battles in the comment section
 * 3) (Rules for Chat and Community apply here as well)