"Rules are not the purpose of the community. Although they are enforced, the written rules themselves do not set accepted practice. Rather, they document already existing community consensus regarding what should be accepted and what should be rejected."

This page is, essentially, a set of rules that are set and expected to be followed as long as you participate in the growth of the Wild Kratts Wiki. These guidelines apply to adding images, making pages, editing the wiki and everything in between. These policies may change at any time and do not represent all community guidelines.

General Policies

Respect for Others

All users, regardless of status, are required to show the utmost respect to others at all times. No slander, harassment or insults will be tolerated at any time.
No minimodding. Minimodding occurs when a user oversteps the boundaries of their authority. (Such as warning another user about a policy violation)
- We encourage users to make others aware of our policies, but actual warnings are the responsibility of the wiki staff. (The sole exception to this is any content that insults or slanders a user personally.)
- If you see any policy violations, please bring it up to a member of the wiki staff.

User Behavior

Vandalism will not be tolerated. Vandalism can come in many forms, ranging from deleting a portion of the page without proper reason to adding gibberish or foul language. If someone becomes a vandal, the administrators have the right to block the person for an indefinite amount of time depending on the severity of the act.
Comments on pages are expected to be appropriate. This means that there should be no inappropriate language, the comment should not be irrelevant, and should not be inflammatory. All comments are expected to use decent spelling, grammar and punctuation. Any comments insulting or harassing any users will be deleted; such comments will also result in blocks.
In the case of an edit war, the two opposing people are expected to solve their problem for themselves. Get a neutral party to give an opinion. If they cannot do that, an administrator will step in.
We do ask that major format changes (such as adding or deleting sections on articles) be run by the community first to get a consensus. Ask any active administrator for details, or feel free to start a discussion thread on the suggested change/addition on the Wiki related discussion board.
Insulting/slandering other users is not permitted. It is the right of any user to remove or request the removal of any comment, thread, or message wall post that is insulting or slanderous to them personally. Harassing users in this way will result in lengthy blocks.

If You Are Blocked/Banned

If you are blocked or banned and want to appeal it, please use your message wall on THIS wiki, or contact an administrator on their wall on the Community Central Wiki.
If you are blocked/banned on this wiki, it is NOT appropriate to follow any staff member (or any user involved with the block/ban) anywhere other than Community Central to protest. This will result in your block being extended here.
If you are blocked/banned by one of our admins on another wiki, do not follow the admin here to complain. This will result in a block here and possibly an extension on the Wiki in question.

Sockpuppeting

"Sockpuppeting", using another account to circumvent a ban or block, is not permitted on Wild Kratts Wiki. If it becomes known that a user is sockpuppeting, their sockpuppet will be infinitely blocked, and the block/ban the original account will be extended.

Multiple Accounts

The Wild Kratts Wiki uses a community consensus model for major decisions, as well as a voting system for minor decisions. Therefore, it is unacceptable to create or use secondary or additional accounts for the purpose of "rigging" a vote. If it becomes known that a user has committed this act, the extra account(s) will be blocked and the user warned or blocked at administrator discretion.
It is acceptable to use multiple accounts as long as voting fraud or ban/block circumvention is not occurring.

Site Purpose

This is a wiki for the PBS Kids television series Wild Kratts. As such, our content should not be posted on other wikis or websites. Neither should their content be posted on ours. Please be respectful of other people's hard work.

Canonicity of Media

What is canonicity? Something is canon if it is considered valid in the Wild Kratts universe. For example, an event occurring in a promotional video is not canon to an overall timeline: the event didn't really occur.
Where it applies, the Wild Kratts Wiki treats events and statements made in other show-related media (such as books) as canon.
- The order of canonicity is show → writer/producer → cast member → other sources. This means that when a statement or event from another source contradicts something occurring/said in-show, or a statement from a writer/creator/producer, the show event or crew member statement will be what is considered canon.

Profile Tags

Certain users with administration approved privileges have custom profile tags on their profile header.

Content Policies

Editing Policies

General Page Edits

When creating links, use the target article's full title. No link should pass through a redirect.
Do not add categories that are inappropriate for the page.
Do not create new categories without a previous discussion. For discussing your own suggestion of a new category, please post a discussion thread on this discussion board.

Edit Limit

Users are allowed to edit up to 20 pages a day. Administrators are an exception for this rule. When users make excessive amounts of edits in a short amount of time, it can become overwhelming for administrators that are obliged to review each change to ensure page quality and revert vandalism.

Page Creation

Some kinds of pages that should NOT be created on the wiki are:

Family tree pages.
Pages for character relationships - such as "Chris and Aviva", "Jimmy Z and Koki", etc. This includes but is not limited to ship pages - Such as Caviva, Maviva, etc.
Pages for background characters, objects or locations. An example of background character would be a random Guineafowl Flapper at Jimmy's control.
Pages for characters, Creature Power Suits, species, or objects that debut in an upcoming episode, unless they have appeared in Wild Kratts official media.

Character Page Edits

Each article page follows what the character's name is given as in either the casting call or official PBS Kids press release. The inclusion of the character's surname, along with the first name, in an article page is also allowed, even if the surname wasn't given on the press release.
- Note that only the press release name should be bold on the introduction sentence of "___ is a character on the PBS Kids show, Wild Kratts." If a surname exists but is not included in the press release name, it remains in the introduction sentence but it is NOT bold.

Episode Page Edits

Before making a new episode page, administrators must be provided evidence that the episode is legitimate.
Do not add any new information regarding an upcoming Wild Kratts episode until it has premiered on TV, unless a promo or commercial is released. This includes:
- Creating pages for anything (Creature Power Suits, characters, species, etc.) that debut in an upcoming episode.
- Adding information regarding an upcoming episode on existing pages, such as updating the latest appearance of a character.
- Uploading screenshots of an upcoming episode.

Animals

Only add animals to the Live Action section if they weren't shown in the animated segment.
Only add animals to the Live Action Images/Videos and Mentioned sections if they weren't shown in animated form or in the live action segments.
The listed animals should only have the first letter of the first word capitalized. If the name contains additional proper nouns, such as giant Pacific octopus, the proper noun should begin capitalized as well.
Animals within the Live Action, Live Action Images/Videos, and Mentioned sections should be linked to its respective Wikipedia article.
If a species is only referred to by an alternate name in an episode, such as calling the black rhinoceros simply rhino for short, add (called alternate name) after the link to the species page.
Featured animals should be in bold at the top of each list. Animals followed by the names of animal characters should go directly underneath. Below is an example of how it should look like:
- Southern stingray: Smiley
- Eyed flounder (called flounder)
- Bottlenose dolphin (called dolphin): Click, Whistle
- Sand perch
- Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero (called dwarf gecko)

Species Page Edits

Species pages should incorporate species information given in Wild Kratts media, whether it's from an episode, a magazine, or even a Wow Fact! from their Facebook page.
Do not say that an animal is hunted by humans unless it is a species threatened with extinction. The Wild Kratts Wiki is not only for people who love the Kratt brothers, but also for people who love animals. Wild Kratts is a show that promotes respect for our fellow creatures on this planet, so pages on this wiki should do the same.
Do not add etymologies to species pages. Brief name explanations, however, such as "hamster comes from the German word hamstern", are accepted as they are often explained in Wild Kratts.

Image Policies

Do not upload images from a new episode until it has aired on TV everywhere.
Do not create new categories for images.

Image Quality

All images on the wiki should be as high in quality as possible. Before uploading an image onto the wiki, make sure it is clear and even like the one shown on the left. Images of poor quality that don't follow this standard, like the one on the right, are unaccepted on the wiki and will be deleted.

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