Chippy Wiki:Guidelines

Aside from page navigation formatting, we're not too big on rules. Strict rules carry a risk of people trying to use loopholes, and interpreting rules the way a court of law would is tiresome. We'd like to be more reliant on the users' good faith and common etiquette. In case you're not too familiar with "common etiquette", here's a list of the important stuff, whether for editing the wiki proper, or interactions with your fellow contributors.

Rule number one

Don't be a dick. Be respectful and polite, whether or not you want to be. Even on the Internet, there needs to be a culture where no one has to feel afraid of having their boundaries encroached on. No need for anyone to fear that another person could force their basal ganglia (colloquially called "fight-or-flight" or "lizard brain") to the forefront of their mind.

Editing and Formatting

General

• We have a collection of all trivia at Chippy_Wiki:Trivia. Please make sure it is kept up to date, but the wording need not be identical to the pages of origin, only worded on Chippy_Wiki:Trivia so each trivium can be stated independently from others.
• No edit wars. If someone changed something you wrote, don't make it that way a second time. Discuss the page content with the other user(s) first.
• Maintain a "business casual" tone when editing. While there is currently great leniency about tone and information sources (more like TVTropes than Wikipedia), such is no excuse to add excessively subjective information, use incorrect spelling/grammar/punctuation, or vandalize any pages with content outside the purview of Chippy.
• In order of lessening importance: clarity, conciseness, 'wit'.
• Describe any edits that alter or remove content, so other people can know why.

Game Content

• Fanmade content and more informal categorization must have the "Unofficial!" template at the top.
• Never write about fanmade content in an article about official content or powerups, except in Trivia sections.
  • By extension, images and videos depicting unofficial stages are restricted to pages pertaining to the respective unofficial content.
• Do not write about publicly inaccessible fan content (all public fan content thus far can be downloaded from Steam Workshop) without the author's permission. If you write it, it must be labeled as upcoming, and it cannot be in any categories or navboxes.
  • If a fan item becomes publically accessible, those who accessed it privately lose ownership of the respective wiki page, and the "upcoming" label is to be removed.
• The only Steam Workshop content that may be treated like content in the main menu is Timebrain, because it was created by a Chippy developer.
• Since the game's narrative treats player and pixel characters as ungendered beings, avoid describing them with personal pronouns unless they are canonical (e.g. he/him Xulgon, she/her Phantom).

Conciseness

• Collections of remixes of prior content should be one page per collection, not one stub page per stage.
• Infoboxes are only allowed for powerups, stages, campaigns, and the Bonus and Speedruns pages.

Categories

• The category order for powerups is as follows: type (offense/defense/mobility/support, either the "official" or "all" version), manuality level (items/pickups), Game Mechanics (for Shield only, being a central tenet of the gameplay), and then all other applicable items in ascending order.
• The category order for stages and campaigns is as follows: "Campaigns" if it's a campaign, whether it's official or fanmade, any animate unit types & other unofficial classifications, and then all "stages with this powerup" categories in alphabetical order (spaces being put before letters).
• Putting an article or category in both a category and its subcategory is allowed. One exception is Category:Ball Pit Powerups' subcategories, as they intuitively share similar names.

Discussions and Wiki Talk

• You are free to question or make suggestions about the wiki's formatting, but the administrators have the final discretion. This is not a democracy.
• No bigotry. Do not promote or express hatred for anyone based on their ethnicity, nationality, religion, ability status, gender identity, gender modality, gender expression, or sexual orientation. Do not use slurs for any reason, even in an "N-word privilege" context.
• Assume good faith, unless evidence shows otherwise. Us users want to share our love for the pixel-shooty game and the growth of content by the fans. If someone's vision of the wiki content is different from yours, that person's most likely a friend who's different from you, not an enemy.
• Don't act in bad faith (as in immature behavior or bad-faith politics). If you want to be given the proper time of day, you must be trustworthy to give the same to us. Disrupting the community for your own gain is banworthy; in that case, people would wish for you to vanish from their community.
• If you need to criticize another user’s argument, don't focus on who they are as a person. Unless they clearly want to harm the wiki, that's off-topic.
• Editing the wiki is a volunteer service. Do not make demands of anyone's actions. Any contributor may take any breaks they want, and may start or stop contributing whenever they want.