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This page documents an official Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki policy.
It describes a widely accepted standard that all editors should follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.
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While editing, all users are expected to adhere to the policies of the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki. If you disagree with any policy, feel free to discuss changes in Discussions. We also expect you to adhere to Fandom's Terms of Use.

Please note: just like all Fandom wikis, we comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and if any users who are 12 years old and below reveal their age, they will be blocked until they are 13 years old. We don't ask for personal information.

Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki rules

Main policies

  1. Bullying, personal attacks, harassment, discrimination, and other forms of misconduct are prohibited.
  2. Spamming is also prohibited. If you are unclear as to what spamming is, please ask an administrator.
    1. Excessive use of all CAPS is disallowed.
  3. Please keep personal information to yourself. This includes your email, school, address, and phone number. Additionally, refrain from soliciting personal information from users, especially those under the age of 18.
  4. Inserting offensive, sexually explicit, erotic, violent, or otherwise not safe for work (NSFW) content, such as images, is prohibited. Please keep the wiki PG-13.
  5. No trolling. If you encounter a troll, please do not feed them (by not giving them the attention they want) and contact a moderator, so they can deal with the situation accordingly.
  6. Users who repeatedly request rights will not be granted those rights. Users who do not listen will have their user rights revoked or be blacklisted. A blacklisted user will be barred from receiving promotions or requesting rights.
    1. Staff members may be nominated for promotion/demotion only at the discretion of the administration team. In addition, please refrain from making "jokes" about rights, promotions, and demotions if they are not in your control.
  7. Users should avoid engaging in minimodding (also known as backseat moderating), when a user acts in a position of power to perform a normal administrative task (like enforcing a rule) instead of a moderator. If you see someone breaking the rules, please notify a staff member instead.
    1. HHW is a drama-free zone. Ensure that any and all external situations and incidents are kept off and away from HHW. Please do not bring incidents unrelated to HHW up on the wiki or the Discord server. Ensure they are handled away from the wiki, in a private location (such as a direct message or on the community where the incident originally occurred).
  8. Jokes are not an excuse to break the policies. Additionally, not reading the rules isn't an excuse for breaking them.
  9. Please do not advocate for or celebrate the death of another person.
    1. Any discussion about supporting death and destruction caused by hurricanes or other events will not be tolerated, and the users who persist will face consequences.
    2. This also applies to "talking storms" or "all the storms talk" content, which has been widely seen as childish and insensitive. While you will be allowed to mention this topic, you will not be allowed to share its content on the wiki, and offending posts will be deleted.
  10. Users are expected to act mature in conversations — the inability to follow this may lead your behavior to be classified as disruptive behavior, a punishment-worthy offense. What counts as disruptive behavior is up to the discretion of the administration and the chat. Examples of this disruptive behavior include, but are not limited to:
    1. Arguing with other users and ignoring moderator orders to stop or move it somewhere else;
    2. Frequently breaking the wiki rules or making users uncomfortable.
  11. While you are allowed to speak in whatever language you wish, please don't do it excessively or be disruptive. If requested, please speak in English in order to ensure everyone understands you.
  12. Impersonation of another user (via sockpuppets, avatars, etc.) without their authorization is disallowed.
  13. No cursing. Cursing is allowed on the official Discord server, but not on the wiki. As always, offensive images, racial slurs, and epithets are not allowed.
  14. The usage of the NOAA, NWS, or any logos belonging to official weather agencies in your graphics (e.g., advisories, weather outlooks, etc.) is disallowed. This is meant to avoid people believing the graphics are official.
    1. If you're making graphics for a real basin, you must add a disclaimer stating that the graphics are not a product of any weather center and the storms in it are fictional.
  15. Don't remove content from pages or attack the creators of pages because you dislike them or the content as a whole.
    1. Removing content based on your dislike of any topic will be considered vandalism and action will be taken against the concerned user unless the page author gave you permission to edit.
  16. Pages that are irrelevant to this wiki's topic (that is, hypothetical hurricanes) will be deleted on the spot.
  17. Please do not remove "reminder", "warning", "final warning", or "blocked" messages from your wall. This is to help admins keep track of old punishments.
  18. Users are not allowed to edit pages not created by themselves without permission, with the exception of free-editing seasons, spelling, punctuation, grammar, or page organization edits. This applies to article pages, user pages, and other articles.
  19. Users are discouraged from creating multiple accounts, otherwise known as sockpuppets. Users are permitted to have alternate accounts, provided the admins are informed prior to the account's creation and are used to the wiki's benefit. However, sockpuppeting for any other reason warrants a block depending on the severity of the offense.
  20. Use clear and descriptive file names, without being excessively long, while avoiding generic, non-specific file names. "Chan-hom 2015-07-08 0425Z.jpg", for example, is better than "Image01.jpg" or "DSC0001.JPG".
  21. Refrain from making enemy lists on user pages, as these can start an unneeded conflict between users. Neutral/positive (friend) lists are accepted.
  22. Plagiarism is not allowed on this wiki. When using content from Wikipedia, place the {{Wikipedia}} template on top of the page; this won't be allowed, however, if the content compromises a majority of the page. In these cases, paraphrasing (writing the same information in different ways) is also not allowed.
  23. Editfarming (editing with the goal of increasing your usercane size, for example) and badgehunting (similar to editfarming, but defined as editing with the goal of obtaining badges) are both prohibited. Examples of editfarming include, but are not limited to, removing text from pages and re-adding it, editing by posting letters or words one at a time, and so on.
  24. You are not allowed to advertise your off-site project without consent from an administration member. You are allowed to share your articles, as long as they are hosted on this wiki. Ads with no authorization from a staff member will be deleted on sight.
  25. Content generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) is disallowed on this wiki. This includes descriptions, simulated imagery, and storm advisories. Certain exceptions may be granted solely with the authorization of a staff member, such as content created using machine learning (ML), or other special tasks.

General tips

  • To request the deletion of a page, insert the {{Delete}} template at the top of the page and wait for it to be deleted. You can also ask a moderator to delete it for you.

Community policies

  • Chat guidelines – Follow Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki policies while talking in the chat. This applies to the community chat (hosted on Discord).
  • Copyrights – The text on the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0, unless otherwise specified.
  • Forum guidelines - Follow the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki policies while in the forums. This applies to Discussions.

Content policies

  • Featured article guidelines - This page explains more about featured articles on our wiki.
  • Manual of Style - A set of recommendations and requirements for articles, designed to improve the quality of the wiki articles.

User policies

  • Conduct policy - This serves as an add-on to the existing guidelines on this page, and users are strongly recommended to follow it.
  • User block policy - This page explains the user block policy on the wiki, including the right to appeal a ban.
  • Voting policy - This page details the voting guidelines of the wiki, which applies to requests for user rights and other proposals.
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