Animal Jam Wiki

Before editing, please review our Policies. Do not attempt to scam, hack, trust trade or sell item over the maximum amount in My Shops. All users must abide to COPPA Laws.

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Animal Jam Wiki
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While the Animal Jam Wiki may be a good place to share any useful information, there are a few policies, or rules, that you must follow here. This page may be updated in the future, so the policies may change. These policies are simple and straightforward to establish standards that everyone should follow. Failure to comply to these rules will result in consequences.

Overarching Guidelines

The following guidelines and policies are overarching and apply to everything and everyone in the community.

Terms of Use

The Terms of Use apply to everyone on Wikia. Please note the Use Conduct section, which prohibits harassment, the posting of illegal documents, the postings of obscene content, attempting to impersonate other users, posting racist/homophobic or religious intolerance and violating laws in your jurisdiction.

Ownership and Copyright

Copyright laws apply to everyone on Wikia. Note the Submitting Content to the Site and Copyrights section, which prohibits the uploading or submitting of content that you did not create or that did not have permission to submit. No single, or group, of users own a wiki, and this applies to any content submitted on it. 

Comments and Discussions/Threads

This applies when posting comments on pages, discussions/threads, or message walls.

  • No spamming, this includes emojis, replies, images, and characters (letters, numbers and/or symbols).
  • Do not use vulgar language, swears, or offensive language (including abbreviations or acronyms).
  • Don't bully, tease, or harass other users.
  • Don't include external links to inappropriate pages or inappropriate content in your posts.
  • Don't share personal information such as home address, phone numbers, email address, real name, etc.
  • No off-topic chat on articles; please keep all comments related to the article.
  • Don't post unsolicited or unauthorised advertising.
  • Don't attempt to impersonate or defame other users or people.
  • Don't include other people's usernames in screenshots without consent; blur them out or censor them.
  • Don't spam ping anyone.
  • Don't post offensive memes that reference religion, tragic events or violence.
  • No extensive arguing with other users.
  • Post Discussions in the correct categories.
  • Discussion posts that are over 500 replies will be locked.
  • No spam up-voting user comments/posts or discussions.

For chat rules regarding our Discord Server, please visit the #rules channel in our Discord server.

Animal Jam

These are policies are to ensure the safety of users that play Animal Jam to abide by Animal Jam's policies.

  • Do not break Animal Jam rules, please read here.

Trading

  • Do not attempt to scam, hack, or promise free membership or sapphires.
  • Only use the Animal Jam trade system, cross-trades are not allowed.
  • No trust trading, selling, or promising items in return for other items first. This includes selling items over the maximum allowed amount that the My Shop system allows at the time and mixed trading (item and sapphire trades).
  • Don't promise items in return for people buying items from your My Shop.

Artistic Creations

These policies directly reflect Animal Jams Terms of Services regarding Masterpieces and MasterBlocks.

  • No stealing or tracing artwork.
  • Out of game Art commissions for Animal Jam Items or other currencies are not allowed.
  • Masterpieces and MasterBlocks must be original artwork that was created by the in-game features (no altering the game to get illegitimate artwork in-game).
  • Do not sell Masterpieces and MasterBlocks for codes or real-world money.
  • Masterpieces and Masterblocks must not contain the following;
    • Personally identifiable information (names [first + last], addresses, other personal number info, social media accounts, usernames on other sites or games, location info, etc)
    • Bullying, bad language, and violence
    • Scamming or hacking behaviors
    • Images meant to troll, demean, harm, or offend others
    • Images relating to subjects that are meant for ages outside our player demographic

Other

  • No inappropriate usernames or profile pictures.
  • Don't abuse the power of user rights.
  • Don't give out account login information or membership codes.

Contributing

This applies when editing or any other contributions made to any page within the mainspace pages on the wiki.

Summaries

The edit summary is an optional feature that allows you to describe your edit briefly. Unlike any page on the wiki, you cannot change a summary. Keep the following in mind:

  • Be descriptive and concise.
  • Don't use summary to troll, abuse, harass or make negative comments about another user.
  • Don't include external links to inappropriate pages.
  • Don't use summary for spam.

Edits

All edits should be verifiable and attributable, and the burden of proof is always on the contributor. The following should be followed:

  • No small or repetitive edits on pages
  • Do not change words or phrases to synonyms or similar phrases
  • Do not add irrelevant images or information to pages
  • Do not vandalize (intentionally mess up a page). This includes adding gibberish, blanking pages, cursing, or anything else that damages a page
  • Do not create useless pages whose subjects do not exist within the game
  • Do not make duplicate pages
  • No off-topic content is to be added to any page
  • Add correct information, spelling and grammar
  • Avoid opinionated edits on pages

Pictures

  • No inappropriate pictures.
  • No pictures with any offensive content (ex: being mean to a user).
  • Do not vandalize pictures by uploading different versions of them.

Deletion

Deletion is done through sysop tools granted to administrators. This should be done if:

  • it contains spam
  • it already has a page
  • it has no content within the page

Although anyone can remove content from any page (blanking), this does not delete a page. If you find a page that contains only offensive content, blank it and report it to a content moderator or administrator.

Protections

An administrator can protect a page to prevent excessive vandalism to pages, pages with high traffic or pages that have a high level of users adding unnecessary information or content. Note that this does not give them the right to protect the page on a version they specifically disagree with and to prevent anyone from challenging them about a subject, and this is an abuse of power.

Moving

This should be done if:

  • It was falsely named upon creation of the page
  • If the subject's name in the game has been changed

It is better to move without leaving a redirect if no redirect is needed, and a bot or user should change all links to the new page.

Good Faith Edits

If your edits look like they are good faith edits or if you have proven that they are good faith edits, you will not receive any consequences.

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