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Ready to believe — Have you ever seen a spook, specter, or ghost? We're ready to believe you!

Welcome to the Ghostbusters Wiki Community Portal. This page serves as the general rules for Ghostbusters Wiki. It also covers the ethics of the wiki, and what is and is not permitted here. However, if you are new to Ghostbusters Wiki please read the Introduction page.

Official Policy

The Guidelines and Policies of this wiki can be found here:

Guidelines

Naming Guidelines
Abbreviation Guidelines
Editing Guidelines
Reference Guidelines

Improve Pages

The following pages detail articles that are in need of improvement:

Wiki Projects

These are the projects this wiki is currently in:

About Page (Basic idea of the Whole Wiki)
Ghostbusting Equipment 101
Paranormal Database
Ghostbusters Franchise (coming soon!)

User Rights

For those interested in helping Ghostbusters Wiki on a regular basis, there is adminship. Learn what it takes.

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 [[Image:Ready to believe.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Have you ever seen a spook, specter, or ghost? We're ready to believe you!]]
-Welcome to the Ghostbusters Wiki Community Portal. This page serves as the general rules for Ghostbusters Wiki. It also covers the ethics of the wiki, and what is and is not permitted here.
+Welcome to the Ghostbusters Wiki Community Portal. This page serves as the general rules for Ghostbusters Wiki. It also covers the ethics of the wiki, and what is and is not permitted here. However, if you are new to Ghostbusters Wiki please read the [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Introduction|Introduction page]].
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-All updates for November 2010 are <span style="color:Black;background:Yellow">highlighted in Yellow.</span>
+|-
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px; vertical-align:top;" | '''Official Policy'''
+The Guidelines and Policies of this wiki can be found here:
-==Manners and Ethics==
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Agenda Policy|Agenda Policy]] (Read First!)
-Before writing articles or editing them, it would be a good idea to think about who is reading this, and if the content is useful to the reader.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Discussion Policy|Discussion Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Neutral Point of View Policy|Neutral Point of View Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Sock Puppetry Policy|Sock Puppetry Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Image Policy|Image Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Speculation Policy|Speculation Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Spoiler Policy|Spoiler Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Canon Policy|Canon Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ad Policy|Ad Policy]]
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px" |
+'''Guidelines'''
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Naming Guidelines|Naming Guidelines]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Abbreviation Guidelines|Abbreviation Guidelines]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Editing Guidelines|Editing Guidelines]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Reference Guidelines|Reference Guidelines]]
+'''Improve Pages'''
-===Content to Respect Fans===
-Do not address content within the page as bad or wrong. If there is issues with content like say [[Ghostbusters II]], make a Criticism section on the page. Fans shouldn't feel threatened by content.
+The following pages detail articles that are in need of improvement:
-===Respect to Publishers===
-Do not edit content on [[Ghostbusters Print|print related articles]] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_%28media%29 Spoilers] revealed til atleast 4 months after the print has been released. This means no adding content on other articles that may reveal information that ruins the contents ending.<br />
+* [[:Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_deleted|Candidates for Deletion]]
-This rule is in place to promote a healthy sale time for products in print media.<br />
+* [[:Category:Stubs|List of Stubs]]
-- Updated on July 9, 2010
+* [[Special: Recentchanges|Recent edits]]
+* [[Special:Newpages|New pages]]
+* [[Special:Categories|Categories]]
+* [[Wikia:Help:Tutorial|Wiki tutorial]]
+* [[Special:Specialpages|Special Pages]]
+|-
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid  #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px; vertical-align:top;" | '''Wiki Projects'''
+These are the projects this wiki is currently in:
-===Respect Fellow Poster===
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:About|About Page (Basic idea of the Whole Wiki)]]
-While not a serious problem at this wiki, lets address it now. If you are having issues with edits of another editor or the mod, you need to address it. There are a number of ways to deal with it including:
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ghostbusting Equipment 101|Ghostbusting Equipment 101]]
-*Talk page for the article
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Paranormal Database|Paranormal Database]]
-*Talk page of the poster in conflict with
-*Ask a [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Admins|Admin]] of the wiki to resolve the ordeal
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ghostbusters Franchise|Ghostbusters Franchise]] ''(coming soon!)''
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px" | '''User Rights'''
+For those interested in helping Ghostbusters Wiki on a regular basis, there is adminship. Learn what it takes.
-Thoughts on addressing conflict:
-*Remember, everyone here loves the Ghostbusters Franchise and that everyone here is welcome to post.
-*No one is right, as this isn't Sony running this. Check over the article in debate, and post on the talk page a picture or link to prove your point.
-*Try to if its a edit issue, to compromise and agree to a happy middle on the given topic.
-*No flames or rude comments. The admin '''will''' block any user that does that. If it gets to that, the admin needs to deal with it.
+* [[Help:User access levels|Basic User Rights]]
-===Hey I did that Edit===
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Voting Policy|Voting Policy]]
-While it is important to acknowledge who made comments on talk/discussion, it isn't as useful to do that on articles. Articles are meant to be a group effort, and the credit is to the Ghostbusters Wiki as a whole, therefore nothing here is owned by any of the editor/supporters of the wiki. Adding credits for users on articles will be seen as a form of vandalism, and will be removed.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Voting on Matters|Voting on Matters]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Administrator Policy and Standards|Policy &amp; Standards for Administrators]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Admins|Current and Past Adminship]]
-==Basic Editing Rules==
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Requests for administrator|Requests to be a Administrator]]
-*When editing a article, take into account the articles current design of information.
+|}
-*If section or more of information is going to be added, make sure the content looks like content of similar articles.
-*It is never a good thing to take text off a article. If more than a sentence of text is being erased, it may be a better idea to go the the talk page of the article and ask to remove the text, and explain why.
-*No information should be directly copied from another website or source. That means even from other wiki projects.
-- Updated on Mar. 20, 2010
-==Image Adding Rules==
-*No image should be copied from another website.
-*No fanart will be allowed at this wiki on any pages, other than on the User pages.<br />
-===How to Add Images===
-Adding images to a article should be done with the "Add a photo to this gallery" button.<br />
-[[File:Addimagetogallerybutton.png]]<br />
-If there is no gallery on the article/page, first hit "Edit this Page" and go to the edit scroll box and go to the bottom of the page to add the gallery. Before adding the gallery itself, put the following headline tag in <nowiki>==Gallery==</nowiki> and then hit Enter/Return to go down to the next line. Then scroll up (the scroll bar closed to edge of the browser window) til you see the edit icons and then you hit the "Insert a Photo Gallery" button.<br />
-[[File:Addgallerybutton.png]]<br />
-<span style="color:Black;background:Yellow">Note you should set the thumbnail size to "125" and use the drop down and set caption to "center". Hit the "Save" button in the lower right side.</span><br />
-[[File:Editgallerysettings.png]]<br />
-After that hit Enter/Return 2 or 3 times then type <nowiki>{{Copyright}}</nowiki>. That should do it! Hit "Save page".<br /><br />
-<span style="color:Black;background:Yellow">To Add images to a article you can also use the "Add Picture" button, however it is not the perfered method. Images shouldn't be shown at more than 175 px wide. (However, sometimes images are chosen to be a bigger size by Admin due to special nature of image.)</span><br />
-[[File:Addimagesbutton.png]] <br /><br />
-<span style="color:Black;background:Yellow">Images in template infobox should be set at 225.<br /> <nowiki>| image_size=225px</nowiki></span><br /><br />
-- Added on Apr. 14, 2010 by [[User:devilmanozzy|Devilmanozzy]]
-==Video Adding==
-The wiki doesn't want videos posted due to they limited time nature. Also, some may end up getting taken down as soon as they are discovered due to copyrights. The only videos that should ever be posted are official ones made by Sony.
-==Page Design Guidelines==
-===Stubs===
-[[:Category:Stubs|Stubs]] at this wiki are any article under 320 bytes. Note that even if a article meets the 320 bytes it may still seem unfinished. To know how many bytes a article is, look at the "History" of the article (next to "Edit this page" at the top of the page). If it is at or under 320 bytes, edit the article and add a <nowiki>{{Stub}}</nowiki> right above the <nowiki>{{Copyright}}</nowiki> tag or if no copyright tag, place it at the bottom of page/article.<br />
-- Updated on July 9, 2010
-[[Templates Collection]]
-*Every wiki page, of course, requires a  brief summary at the beginning of every article, beginning with the name of the article in '''bold'''.
-*Once the character boxes are up, we'll be able to put in pictures, occupations, list which films/series the character appeared in, and put a link to the IMDB profile for each actor.
-*Beyond this, a personality section is pretty common.
-*Also, there can be some room for describing their role in whichever movie they were in, subdivided into a section for [[Ghostbusters]] and [[Ghostbusters II]], or [[The Real Ghostbusters]] and [[Extreme Ghostbusters]].
-*Some trivia section (or a Notes section) is certainly welcome here, whereas it is not on the main wikipedia.
-*A See Also page that links to relating pages (maybe about toys, the character on the cartoon, etc.)
-*In keeping with the general interest in quotes, I think it is a good idea to have an identifying quote at the top of each character page; something that in some way defines that character.
-- Updated on Feb. 6, 2009
-===Quotes===
-*I am aware that many of the fans of Ghostbusters' favorite bits of trivia are their favorite quotes.  There is already a large amount of quotes gathered in the Wiki Quotes section for Ghostbusters.  For the time being, at least, please refrain from adding superfluous quotes into the body of articles.
--Updated on Mar. 23, 2008
-===Image Categories===
-*For images, it is mostly based on the show or movie it comes from .
-*New images in sections that lack categories, it is ok to post without a category. <br>
--Updated on Feb. 9, 2009
-===Capitalization standards===
-Please remember capitalization rules: only the first word of any article, category, etc. is capitalized, unless it is a proper name.
-Example: [[Peter Venkman]] (proper name) vs. [[Hotel manager]]
-[[category:Community]]