Pretty Cure Wiki:Rules

This wiki has a couple of simple rules that might not be applied for other wikis, but are in this. This page describes the rules, explaining how it works and the reasons behind them. They are then followed by the consequences of not following these rules. If you want regular rules, here they are: Pretty Cure Wiki:Simplified ruleset and Help:Tutorial 1.

Some notifications before starting:
 * 1) It goes without saying that regular wiki rules, like copyright infringement and peace between members, applies to this wiki, as well. This page merely adds in other rules for this specific wiki and other small rules that are continuously broken.
 * 2) Most of these rules are to be followed in articles, categories and templates. Unless a quotation breaks a rule, it is all right, and one does not need to follow the rules in talk pages.
 * 3) Do not reply your comments in this page. If you have anything you do not like with a rule, go to this page's talk page or a comunity/forum, put the title of the rule you do not like as the message title, and write your comment there. If other people have other arguments about the same rule, it would save space to just add in that message, while showing that your argument is something different. If suggesting new rules or changing rules, please mage titles that imply this.
 * 4) Rules can be added or removed, depending on reactions upon these rules and suggestions.
 * 5) Only the administrator, presently User:Penamesolen, may change the rules unless she gives permission to others.

Pretty Cure is Pretty Cure, neither Precure nor PreCure
This was the first official translation of the word "Precure", which was long revealed to be a simplified version of "Pretty Cure" for the Japanese. While they have gone back to their words in the recent years, Pretty Cure is still the official translation and shall be used whenever mentioned in articles and used as article titles. Editors do not need to follow this rule in talk pages or forums, but when writing articles, this rule is applied.

Follow the official title
If a season or a media's title includes a music note, exclamation mark or stars, the article title will use them if they are found and it is possible to copy and paste them. While this means extra work when linking said articles, it is to follow the title given.

Japanese titles of seasons, games, movies, characters shall remain untranslated
Example:
 * If a movie is titled Futari wa Purikyua: Kibou no Mizu, it would be translated to "We Two are Pretty Cure: Water of Hope". However, there are so many varities of the translations, others might think it is "Futari wa Pretty Cure: Hope Water", "We Are PreCure: Hope's Water", etc.

The reason behind this is the many varieties of translations. This is even worse with the actual Pretty Cure movie subtitles, that are longer and not that simple and can have a variety of translations (take Pretty Cure All Stars DX as an example; the first movie had such a wide variety of possibilities that either did not make sense in English but was correct translation or made sense in English but was not a direct translation). If we were to use translated subtitles as article titles, we would have to come with a ridiculous amount of redirects, and even then it would be complicated if we decided to change the article title to another translation, thus changing all the redirects, too. It is much easier to just using the Japanese versions to avoid these un-needed troubles.

If a full name is officially in the Japanese order (*family name* *given name*), it shall follow said order
Example:
 * A girl born and raised in Japan is named Misumi Nagisa there. If she had been in a European or American country, people would refer to her as Nagisa Misumi, because that is how we do it here. However, in this wiki, she will be named Misumi Nagisa regardless of the wiki's language, and her article title will be named as such, as well as other times her full name is written.
 * Most of the directors, voice actors/actresses, artists and others are Japanese and have Japanese names. As such, they will follow the same pattern by having their family name first, followed by their given name.

Simply because of tradition; while subs used to "translate" the order to Western, it is becoming more normal to leave it Japanese. The other reason is to respect the way they have it there: If an English person was to live in Japan, say the name would be John Ericson, the Japanese inhabitants would still refer to him as John Ericson, and not Ericson John. Because that sounds strange, and I bet it would be just as strange for a Japanese to have his or her name in a "translated" order.

Do not shorten words
Example:
 * In an article, there shall be written full words. The sentence would therefore be "She did not want to fight at that time, and now she still cannot", and not "She didn't wanna fight at that time, and now she still can't".

Use proper grammar
To be formal, if you can not spell or use grammar properly most of the time, then please write the intended article on Word or another program that will notify your mistakes so you can correct them. While Penamesolen does not write right every now and then, she still knows most grammar rules and follow them. If you write with wrong grammar more than often, or misuse capital letters (this wiki is not German), and still refuse to either learn or use a correct program, then you might risk of getting banned.

Do not write an article with less than ten correct-grammar sentences, regardless of information and its sources
Often, we get spammers who create articles just for the sake of creating them. A majority of these are directly copied from Wikipedia, which makes often the articles not pretty. If this happens, almost regardless of the information, the article will be deleted, and the creator will get a warning.

Do not use fan-pictures
Example:
 * There are hardly any proper pictures of Cure Flower, though many fans have made fan-pictures that show how they think she looks like. However, these fan-pictures shall not be used, and only official pictures taken from the official sources or official episodes are allowed.

This happens every so often, despite it being in the official rules because of copyright infringement. Regardless of how well the fan-picture is compared to official images, they shall not be used.

"You are incredible, but not unreplacable."
Regardless of how well you do it in the wiki or how often you edit, if you are not to follow these rules or continuously ignore warnings without valuable arguments, you will be banned. It is better with less edits and therefore less small/big mistakes to clean up, than many edits and therefore many small/big mistakes to clean up.

Consequences
If you do not follow these rules, these are the consequences, ranked from least to most serious.

Clean-up
If you have made a smaller mess with only small or trivial mistakes, those mistakes will be redone with no warnings or other consequences. It will also happen with bigger mistakes should the cleaner think that the editor in question does not seem like he or she will make the same mistake.

Everyone can be cleaners, as long as they follow rules above and can proper grammar. If, in cases, edits must be done by administrators, please contact said admin. with a message title saying the request (Example: You need a page to be deleted, title your message with "Deletion Request" or similar), so that he or she will immediately know what it is about and can therefore be as immediate as possible.

Warning
If rules are continuously broken, or broken majorly, the editor in question will get a warning by either another editor or an administrator. Eventually, a Warning-template might be made to make this easier, and as such it shall be followed.

Everyone can give others warnings, as long as the reason behind the warning is reasonable and formal, with neither rude comments nor insults (this usually goes without saying). If, by any chance, someone complains about their warnings, the administrator or a third editor should be contacted and put into the case. If the warnings are continuously ignored, the warners can contact the administrator to be put into the case with a message title saying the request.

Ban
The most serious consequence. If the user in question continuously break rules, ignore eventual warnings and do not give any reasonable excuse or argument to do so, he or she will be banned for an unknown amount of time from the Pretty Cure Wiki. After the banned time is over, the user can choose to come back or keep distance.

Only the administrator and others titled by said administrator can ban users. If those with the power to ban are continuously non-avaible, other users can contact them about the issue if the request is needed.