The Little Lulu Show Wiki Rules

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The Little Lulu Show Wikia!
This Wikia strives to be user-friendly for all ages. So please, no matter if you're registered or unregistered, follow these rules:

General Rules

1. As per Fandom's guidelines and the law of COPPA, all users are required to be 13 or older before making an account. Anyone who is found to be under the age limit will be banned until they are of age.
2. No foul or obscene language of any kind is allowed, including but not limited to swearing, racial slurs, or demeaning content, even if it has been abbreviated.
3. Please always be kind and respectful towards everyone, whether they are a user or not. Disrespect towards anyone (including yourself) will result in a warning by a member of staff.
4. Do not edit just to increase your own edit count or to get more points or badges.
5. Do not make counterproductive edits or remove major changes being done on articles by the staff.
6. You are only allowed to edit your own user page. You may only edit someone else's user page if you have their written permission unless you are staff.
7. Do not say "The Little Lulu Show is for ladies" or anything like this.
8. Please refrain from mini-modding. If you see a user breaking the rules, do not give them a warning. Instead, message a member of the staff and they will take care of it as soon as possible.
9. Removing a warning given to you by staff will result in another warning or ban.
10. Multiple/alternate accounts and shadow accounts are not allowed. If you make a second account after being banned and you are found out, your other account will be banned with no warning. Making another account in case you lose access to your original one, however, is allowed. Please consult a staff member if this is the case.
11. Please do not harass or aggravate spammers and vandals, as this will only encourage them to cause more damage.
12. Do not contact people from the production crew for information on upcoming content.
13. Do not put any LinkedIn links, or any personal pages for anyone from the production crew (both former and current) on their pages, as this could lead to fans possibly harassing them.
14. Before making any edits or uploading anything, stop and think if this will help the wiki or if it could serve as a hindrance to others. Also, think about if what you are doing could potentially break the rules. If you are unsure about something, please speak to a member of staff and we will try to answer any questions.
15. Opinions from the people who have worked on the franchise are allowed on articles. However, fan opinions and speculation/theories are not.
16. The episode and series number order this wiki uses is the production order as used by most sources, for both French and English/international. Please don't change the episode order without permission.
17. Specials go in between seasons under the next/previous section of the episode template.
18. Do not add scroll boxes to characters who made very few appearances. At least only four seasons or less.
19. Trivia information must go by original production order unless it's about the air date. Sometimes episodes air out of order.
20. To discourage laziness, you are encouraged to not start making a new article with just a few small sentences or captions such as "Coming Soon" or "TBA", otherwise it may be regarded as spam and will be removed.

Image Rules

1. Do not upload images from other websites without receiving written permission first. This rule mainly applies to behind the scenes images from crew members' portfolio websites.
2. All images must be related to The Little Lulu Show franchise in some form. This includes relevant images from the HBO Family and HBO Jam promos.
3. Make sure that when you name images, you do so correctly (e.g. Hug.jpg). If you upload an image that has been misnamed, please consult an admin and they will rename it.
4. Additionally, when naming images for episodes, please use the English title over the French one. This rule does not apply to title card images.
5. Extremely small and/or blurry images should not be uploaded to the wiki. The only exceptions to this rule are deleted scenes and promotional material that currently do not have higher quality images.
6. Do not replace infobox images without receiving written permission by an admin or image controller.
7. When uploading images from magazines or books, please make sure to crop out or remove any text so as to not spoil the story for anyone else.
8. When uploading more than one image to a page, please try to do so all at once. This helps keep the history of the page tidy and easy to navigate.
9. Please make sure that when you upload an image, it is not already on the wiki under a different filename. This helps prevent duplicate images. If you believe your image is higher quality, please let an admin or image controller know before posting and they will decide which one will stay and which one will be deleted.
10. Do not upload fan-made and/or edited images without permission by a member of staff.
11. Do not upload images that have been watermarked, unless you receive written permission by both the original owner of the image and a member of staff (however, such features by CiNAR Corporation and Cookie Jar Entertainment, Nelvana, etc. are allowed).
12. Additionally, do not watermark images that you do not own (e.g. images from books, even if you were the one who took or scanned it). The only exception to this rule are behind the scenes photographs from the production crew that have been sent to and watermarked by somebody else. Watermarks should also be kept at a respectable size and should not be too intrusive.
13. Do not upload screenshots from YouTube or similar video sharing websites, unless they are of a high quality.

Video Rules

1. Upload only videos related to The Little Lulu Show.
2. When you upload videos please name them in this way: "Et Voici La Petite Lulu - French version" or "The Little Lulu Show - English version". For episodes with more than one version per territory name them as such: "Attaque de Balles de Neige - French version" or "Snowball War - English version".
3. When uploading videos of music videos, just name it after the song. When there are different versions of the same song, see an admin for help or use your best judgement.
4. Don't upload duplicate videos.
5. Do not upload videos with watermarks or any similar features.
6. Do not upload "YouTube Poops" or any other type of fan video. The only videos allowed here are official episodes and music videos. (i.e. not edited in any way).

Talk Page/User Talk Page Rules

1. No content except vandalism, broken links, and profanity may be removed from any user talk page. Off topic posts may be removed from article talk pages.
2. While not mandatory, we are asking users to not change their signatures to only words. Signatures are required on talk pages to identify talk pages. And, if a user's signature doesn't link to their user page or user talk page, it makes it difficult to tell who left which post.
3. While not really a "rule", we ask that all members please remember to sign all comments with four tildes (~~~~).
4. Article talk pages, like the template header at the top states, are there for discussing changes to the article, not for a discussion about the topic in question.
5. Don't rewrite other user's talk pages.
6. Don't answer talk pages left for other users.
7. Leaving talk pages on your own user talk page is considered spam. Doing so is not "talking to everyone" as no one gets a notification saying that you've left the talk page.
8. No arguments over character's changed genders in alternative dubs or arguing over which dub is the best/worst.

Discussion Board Rules

1. Please do not use any foul language or hate speech of any kind, even if it is abbreviated. Off-topic posts, spamming, or vandalism will be deleted.
2. Please be kind and respectful to all users and others.
3. Please refrain from mini-modding. If you see a user breaking the rules, do not give them a warning. Instead, message a member of the staff or report the offending post and a staff member will deal with the issue as soon as possible.
4. Please do not aggravate vandals or spammers.
5. Please do not reply to threads that are over two weeks old unless you have something meaningful to contribute to the discussion.
6. Please keep threads and posts relevant to The Little Lulu Show or the wiki at large. Do not bring outside matters from other sources onto the wiki.
7. Please create posts in the proper categories so that Discussions can remain uncluttered and easy to follow for all users.
8. As stated in the general rules, do not remove warnings or strikes by the staff.
9. Please keep messages you may have relevant to this site only. Do not bring outside matters from other sources onto the wiki, as it could lead to more trouble. The staff are here to deal with matters on this site only and not on others. If you need to contact somebody on another site, please do so privately and on a site other than the wiki.

Blog and Forum Rules

1. Nothing overly personal or pointless should even be considered worthy of a blog post (pointless subjects include but are not limited to: Games, number of edits one has, spam from other websites, certain types of polls, announcing an acquisition to your collection, etc.).
2. Blog posts can have a certain degree of freedom from Blog Rule 1 if they're a series of train related stories.
3. Blog comments must keep on topic as the blog post dictates.
4. Comments left on blogs must be longer than one word and must say more than just "I like this", "This is cool", etc.
5. The Wikia wasn't created to be a blogging site, so keep blogging to a minimum.

Admin/ChatMod Rules

As well as the above rules, admins have other obligations to help keep the Wikia fair and clean at the same time. These include, but are not limited to:

1. All admins are required to contact/warn "offending" members before blocking them. This will give the member time to voice their reasons for his/her actions. But so that order is kept, there will only be three warnings ("strikes") before the member in question is blocked for however long the admin in charge of the case sees fit. DISCLAIMER: This rule does not apply to users who spam, vandalize, swear, offend other users, users who are exceptionally rude, or unregistered users.
2. All active admins have to agree upon a rule and it's phrasing before it can be added. This way, all of the admins can add in their own ideas and no one can make the rules work to their personal advantage. If there is only one active admin, no changes may be made to the rules.
3. Before a user is granted admin status, all active admins have to agree upon the candidate.
4. Before a user is granted ChatMod status, all active admins and ChatMods have to agree upon the candidate.
5. An admin or ChatMod is considered inactive after being away from the Wikia for three months.
6. Should a member of staff be away from the Wikia for one year or more, that person will be removed from their position and be given Rollback/VIP status. Should they later return and wish to rejoin the staff, they need only ask and they shall be given their rights back.

Guidelines

Although not rules, these guidelines will help explain how and why certain aspects of the Wikia work.

Establishing Roles

As you noticed, after a list of characters on the episode page, some are followed by either, "(does not speak)", "(cameo)", "(mentioned)", or "(not seen)". A "cameo" appearance is a minor appearance where a character is seen, but doesn't speak nor is it referred to. A "does not speak" role is where a character appears and is referred to by name by either the narrator or another character. When a character does not physically appear, but is mentioned by a character or the narrator, that is classified as a "mentioned" role. The "not seen" tag is most often used for books. This is when a character speaks, but isn't seen in any of the illustrations. A speaking role is, obviously, when a character actually speaks. Anything that requires a voice actor is generally viewed as a speaking role, however if any other confusions occur, please notify an admin or leave a message to the relevant talk pages.

Edit Summaries

Providing an edit summary is not essential, but it does make an admin's job easier to review your changes. Some things you may think are right which an admin does not, so use the edit summary to explain why you changed an article. If an edit is reverted multiple times by an admin, don't keep adding it back as that could earn you one or more "strikes". What you should do is explain, in detail, the changes on the relevant talk pages.

Categories

All pages need categories, but not every category goes on every page.