Ultraman Wiki/Guidelines

Introductory page for all users of Ultraman Wiki. Please do read through the page thoroughly before use.

Disclaimers

The wiki is not an official information source; it is run and edited by a fan community. The wiki bears no responsibility, commercial or otherwise, for loss or disadvantage arising from use or inability to use information presented on the site.
The wiki is run on the Fandom platform and bears no responsibility for any domain-wide changes in software or regulation, or any form of losses incurred as a result.
Any and all of the content on the wiki, including any disclaimers and regulations stated on this page, are subject to change without prior notice.
All content on the wiki including files, images and videos, sourced from external parties, is used for reporting purposes. The wiki, Fandom, and users make no commercial profit off their direct or indirect usage.

Using the Wiki

It is the responsibility of each user to be familiar with the Fandom Terms of Use before becoming a user of any wiki on the platform.

Failure to comply with any or all of these standards may result in a temporary or permanent block to your account(s). Offenses will be judged on a case-by-case basis and offenders will be dealt with accordingly.

Bannable Offenses

Offenses that are on grounds of banning include but are not limited to:

Harassment of other users, including Fandom staff and wiki admins.
Performing any harmful actions on the wiki's content, structure, or ability to function, including vandalism of articles and edit warring.
Using alternate accounts for the purpose of avoiding prior bans. This will earn the user a permanent undisputable ban on all detected or suspected alternate accounts. Alternate accounts should only be used when technical or human errors or circumstances prevent the main account from functioning (e.g.; unfair Fandom bot auto-bans, password irrecoverable, etc)
Usage of expletives, swear words, etc. in any context other than for reporting purposes.
Spamming with images or text.
Placing fan fiction on any articles.

For Editors

The wiki uses American spelling, and the source material's original language for any terms, titles and names.
Encyclopedic language and editing approach is to be used on published articles.
No files over 10MB in size are allowed.
Use the correct formatting and templates on the appropriate pages.
Do not make blank/low-effort pages. Instead, save it on a sandbox or another document until you can produce something substantial.
Try your best to include references to official sources (use <ref>YOUR LINK HERE</ref> and add {{Reflist}} to the end of the page).
If you have disputes with the content on (an) article/s, do discuss with an admin instead of edit warring.
Ask the wiki staff and senior editors if you need help.

Editing Pages

Do not make new templates. We have a standard format to keep. If you want a new template ask an admin or mod and we will discuss it.
The History Section of a page is meant to be a summary of events, from the relative of the page's topic character, object or event.
- This means do not put a literal episode summary in a character's history page.
The trivia section(s) is to relay information that does not qualify for the history or other major sections. Not just anything qualifies.
- Information that is not directly stated in the episode/story.
- Behind the scenes information.
- Information relevant to the topic.

Machine Translations

Avoid using machine-translated or AI-generated text on pages, as it results in text that is unnaturally written and very lengthy, often with misinformation. As of November 2024, edits that rely on machine translation will be undone. Collectively we will refer to them as MTL (Machine Translated Language).
To be clear, using MTL, is any program that translates foreign texts for you. Having this information translated is not the problem, but the issue is when it is directly copied and pasted onto the wiki. Symptoms of this are different translations of the same name, strange repititions of explanations, overly long history sections that often divert from the perspective of the page's topic, and odd grammar. These are all issues that require that you fix the text before hitting 'save', or before you even bring the information to the wiki.
To repeat, if machine-translated text is added to a page, it should be fixed there-and-then, or we will invoke our right to revert the change. Even if it's something small or contains new, interesting information, simply having the poor quality of machine translation is grounds for it to be removed immediately. This is because if we don't handle it straightaway, problems will pile-up like they already have and it ultimately isn't worth the effort to endlessly sift through MTL edits to try and work out how to improve from it, instead of just undoing it in the first place.