User:Eternal dragon/Guidelines

These are simply my guidelines - if you do something against them, I'll probably revert it, but then again, my guidelines are not official guidelines. If you disagree, you can still contact me on my talk page.

Principle 1
This is a result of my life experience on Wikipedia: saw some problems, thought I could donate, did what I can, THEN got into problems with copyright and all of that random stuff. So I started stuffing around a bit, until I got a warning, in which I fully realised the purpose of this strange universe. So, I learned as I went, and I do whatever I can, but still, I've only been here since April 2007, so I may trip up a bit.

Principle 2
Despite having an account on Wikipedia, I don't have a myspace or any of that random stuff. That's because those sites end up becoming places where people can express offensive comments, expose too much, and get into all sorts of random trouble. So it's time we had a large, responsible online community without that sort of trouble going on.

Principle 3
Need I say anything? I've seen prolific vandals boasting those userboxes saying "This user has made over 1,000 edits" or related things. I've had experience like that, and I'm not proud of certain contributions I made when I was new. Edits are there to benefit the encyclopedia.

Principle 4
The brainchild of master editor James Sugrono, the principle is pretty simple: if you make an edit which adds extra information, tell us where you got it. Some exceptions may apply: Remember, if you cite, that doesn't mean footnotes on everything, you simply need to tell us websites relating to what you got where we can obviously see the information was obtained. but, under any circumstances, don't plagiarise!
 * Information on places - how are you going to say "There are mountains to the north" or something like that?
 * TV shows - Cite the TV show itself if you give episode information.
 * Films - How to you say that a certain actor starred? Cite the credits.
 * Historical events - Use external links, not footnotes.


 * By the way, RAYE stands for "reference as you edit".

Principle 5
Edit wars are annoying. If you ever revert an edit, try to cite a reaason in the edit summary bar, or tell us why it is reverted on the talk page. This way, the person who made the edit you reverted will have a better understanding instead of just getting angry as to why his/her (most often) valuable contribution is gone. If he/she has any queries, that's when they can open a new discussion on the talk page.

Principle 6
If you have opinions, voice them on your user page, preferably through your userboxes. If you like, I can make userboxes for you if you ask me on my talk page. What is in the encylopedia is for the encycolpedia only.

Principle 7
SIGH... sad story. Everyone who intends to edit for good purpose should create an account. The vast majority of the time I see an anonymous IP address pop up on a page's history, it's some form of vandalism ... so I should say, I assume good faith in established users.

Principle 8
Face it. For articles on corporations, media and the like, it's probably true that all material from them is copyrighted. Then again, the pages on those topics would be worth little without them. Those fair use rationale templates are simply magic, I'm sure.