User:KeybladeSpyMaster/Gadget Lab

KeybladeSpyMaster's

Welcome to my Gadget Lab (i.e. Sandbox)!
Here is where I test things I plan to propose/add to the wiki's content. The Gadget Lab extends over several pages.

• Gadget Lab - This page. It tests minor things that will be implemented to other pages.

• Userboxes Page - A collection of userboxes I've made.

• Template Tester 1 and 2 - Pages I use to test templates.

• Project Pages: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - Seven pages where I test entire pages of content. Usually, they are used to test bigger projects, such as changes to the Main Page or Traverse Town.

• Test Wiki - A test wiki used to test and demonstrate changes and additions to the wiki. This will deal more with visual changes and additions or changes related to CSS and JS.

To create a new gadget, click here!

Please do not edit these pages without my permission, unless, of course, you're a staff member. Thanks!

Processor

Queue

Following is the Processor Queue, my list of projects and things I need to do on the wiki.

In order of priority:

• KHWiki Official Mobile App
• MegaProject: Arise:
  • Traverse Town Project: Reassigning: Help finish existing projects
    • Right Now: Project Music
      • See this awesome color-coded Excel document here
• Create/edit Expand Template so that we can organize stubs, articles in need of expansion, etc. by game.
• Pages from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
• DisneyWiki Relations
  • Project is up for use and oversight. To see the Kingdom Hearts Project, go here.

Processes Completed

• MegaProject: Arise:
  • Home Project: Main Page Ver. 14.00
  • Magazine Project
  • Traverse Town Project: Reconstruction: Traverse Town Ver. 6.00
  • Open forum to update all projects
• Featured User Templates
• Templates for Kingdom Hearts series manga articles and chapters.

Project χ (Key)

New project, designed to deal with the Kingdom Hearts χ-related sections and pages.

Kingdom Hearts χ

Writing this page up to appropriately match other game pages. That includes rewriting the Story section, the Development section, and the Worlds and Characters sections. Any additional information present in other game pages should be written for Kingdom Hearts χ.

Worlds

Writing up story sections for each world, describing the story of each world in the game. This should be listed under "Other Appearances", since the worlds' stories are still not considered canon, especially that of any Disney worlds. The only world with considerably-canon content is Daybreak Town, and even that is subject to doubt (Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the others being there doesn't seem canon).

Characters

Same thing as worlds, story sections under "Other Appearances" must be written. The non-canon tag should be added to all these sections, so that we still document the stories and don't risk claiming speculation or false canon content (that's what the non-canon tag is for, right?)

Events

This is writing up coverage of the events in Kingdom Hearts χ. We attempted this before, but I get the feeling we can do this right if we try to find a way to cover the events. Perhaps not all the specifics are needed, since those events as they were introduced are kind of a one-time thing.

Cards

Perhaps upload all the cards seen and introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ, so that we also have those in the Mainspace. We could have a Cards (KHχ) page, where we explain how cards work in the game and then have a gallery for all the cards or something of the like. We could also add the cards to the galleries of the characters that appear in them.

Links and Information

Thanks to ShardofTruth, we have these links to information and videos. We can definitely use these to our advantage, especially those of us who can't read Japanese.

From Talk:Kingdom Hearts χ:

• KH13 is cooperating with Everglow8444 on a fully translated walkthrough of the game, check out part 1 to 15 here.
• Sign and Goldpanner at KHInsider are still working on a full translation of all missions, it's a bit out-of-date at the moment though. You can find it here, it also includes all events in which Everglow didn't participate in. A translation of the 1st Anniversary event (with Mickey, Goofy, Donald etc.) by Kazr10 can be found here.
• Here is a 7zip archive of every mission screen and (almost) every dialogue in the game (all Japanese though), a list of the currently available animated scenes can be found here.

Project: Userspace

New Project, to be started at a later date. It's the next half of a major purge to Special:WantedPages, which lists several user items that do not exist. This project is designed to determine which user items can or need to be created, and which ones need to have the links removed.

Userboxes

Arguably, links to non-existing userboxes make up the largest part of Special:WantedPages. What we need to do is determine which userboxes we can create/re-create. For the rest, we'd have to go in and remove the links, maybe notify the users who use them. I personally think the official-related userboxes (worlds, merchandise, etc.) should stay/be re-created. Everything else ought to be removed.

Userpages

Several userpages no longer exist, but are still linked. This part deals with removing links to userpages (Sandboxes, user templates, etc.).

Disney Wiki Template

For potential use on the Disney Wiki.

For more information on this Kingdom Hearts-related topic, see [1]

For more information on this Kingdom Hearts-related topic, see [2]

Examples

For more information on this Kingdom Hearts-related topic, see Kingdom Hearts III

For more information on this Kingdom Hearts-related topic, see Sora

New Welcome template

Kingdom Hearts III

But you knew that, didn't you?

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Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX

Continue the story.

File:Promotional Art KHIIHD.png

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Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX

It all begins here.

File:Promotional Art KHHD.png

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Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Darkness becomes light, light falls into darkness.

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Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

It's a PLAY-ful Wiki!

File:Smile (Art).png

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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

So many are still waiting for their new beginning, their birth by sleep. Even me, and even you.

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Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Oh, hello. Welcome to the Organization.

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Kingdom Hearts II FINAL MIX

My name is of no importance. What about you? Do you remember your true name?

File:Exhilarating (Art).png

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Kingdom Hearts II

The story is not over.

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Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories

Editing is the key.

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Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

To find is to lose and to lose is to find.

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Kingdom Hearts

You never know what you'll edit next.

File:Foreboding (Art).png

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HD Nav templates

Just an idea...

Upload Image Text Update

Use the form below to upload files. To view or search previously uploaded images go to the list of uploaded files; uploads and deletions are also logged in the upload log.

To include the image in a page, use a link in the form [[File:File.jpg]], [[File:File.png|alt text]] or [[File:File.ogg]] for directly linking to the file. See Help:Images for more help on using pictures in articles.

Instructions for Uploading Files

• Images should be uploaded with the correct names as per the wiki's naming schema. Please do not upload the image under the its default file name. If the name is in no way related to the image, or does not match the wiki's naming schema, the Bad Name Template will be placed on the page. Unless the uploader can re-upload the image under a more sensible name within three days of the template being added to the file, it will be deleted.
• Please fill out the About File template that appears in the summary box with all your uploads, as follows:
  • description = A description of the file being uploaded.
  • purpose = The purpose for uploading the file. If the file has no purpose on the wiki, or its purpose does not conform with the wiki's Image Policy, it will be deleted. Again,
  • game = A link to the game the file belongs to. All files belong to at least one game.
  • source = The source of the file. This is a must, especially if you did not make the file yourself. We do not want to face copyright issues, so please provide any and all appropriate sources.

• For images, do not forget to categorize. Refer to the image category for listings. Please list all categories following the About File template
• Only official media is allowed; no fanart or fan-edited images whatsoever, for any reason, in perpetuity.
• If you are uploading over an existing image / overwriting, please write the name of the file in your edit summary for easy reference.

Remastered HD tracks

So I know which tracks to upload in the next couple weeks.

HD 1.5 ReMIX Tracks

• "Dearly Beloved"
• "Dive into the Heart -Destati-"
• "Destiny Islands"
• "Bustin' Up the Beach"
• "Night of Fate"
• "Destiny's Force"
• "Traverse Town"
• "Hand in Hand"
• "Shrouding Dark Cloud"
• "Precious Stars in the Sky"
• "Blast Away! -Gummi Ship I-"
• "Deep Jungle"
• "Having a Wild Time"
• "The Deep End"
• "Squirming Evil"

HD 2.5 ReMIX Tracks

1. "Dearly Beloved"
2. "Lazy Afternoons"
3. "Sinister Sundown"
4. "The Escapade"
5. "Dive into the Heart -Destati-"
6. "Fragments of Sorrow"
7. "Tension Rising"
8. "The 13th Struggle"
9. "Roxas"
10. "Sora"
11. "The Afternoon Streets"
12. "Working Together"
13. "Magical Mystery"
14. "A Twinkle in the Sky"
15. "Reviving Hollow Bastion"
16. "Scherzo di Notte"
17. "Desire for all that is Lost"
18. "Dance to the Death"
19. "Rowdy Rumble"
20. "Vim and Vigor"
21. "The Encounter

Minor Test

07:05 AM Fri, November 8, 2024 MST

KeybladeSpyMaster - I do it for my family, my home, my friends! I do it for her! TALK - Welcome to Spy Force One. - 09:35 PM Sun, October 12, 2014 MST Test

KeybladeSpyMaster - I do it for my family, my home, my friends! I do it for her! TALK - Welcome to Spy Force One. - 09:36 PM Sun, October 12, 2014 MST Test 2!

Music nav bar

Obviously, it's not finished yet...this is just an idea for now...

Music in the Kingdom Hearts Series
Main Themes
Dearly Beloved - Simple and Clean -PLANITb Remix- (Short Edit) - Simple and Clean - Hikari -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version- - Sanctuary - Passion -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version-
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts
Dive into the Heart -Destati- - Destiny Islands - Bustin' up on the Beach - Mickey Mouse Club March - Traverse Town
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
Castle Oblivion
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts II
Twilight Town - Destiny Islands - Hollow Bastion/Radiant Garden - The Land of Dragons - Beast's Castle - 100 Acre Wood - Olympus Coliseum - Disney Castle - Timeless River - Atlantica - Port Royal - Agrabah - Halloween Town - Pride Lands - Space Paranoids - The World That Never Was Land of Departure - Enchanted Dominion - Castle of Dreams - Dwarf Woodlands - Disney Town - Deep Space - Mirage Arena - Neverland - Mysterious Tower - Keyblade Graveyard - Castle Oblivion Datascape - Traverse Town - Wonderland
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Simulated Twilight Town - Dive to the Heart - Old Mansion - Mysterious Tower - Underworld - Christmas Town - Castle That Never Was - Cavern of Remembrance - Chambers of Repose and Waking - Kingdom Hearts
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Gate - Kairi's Letter - Keyblade - Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony - Keyblade Armor - Keyblade Master - Keyblade War - Kingdom Hearts - Mark of Mastery - Organization XIII - Princesses of Heart - Secret Ansem Report - The End
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX Official Soundtrack - Kingdom Hearts Music Selection - Sanctuary - Simple and Clean
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distacne
Artwork - Songs
Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ
Daybreak Town Field Theme - Daybreak Town Battle Theme

New Music Infobox

REWRITE FOR ADMINISTRATION MANUAL and STAFF PAGE

• Proposal: Move to KHWiki:Staff Manual
• Note: This draft actually consists of six different pages: Slight modifications to the Staff page, and a rewrite of the Admin Guide, expanding it to four pages + the introductory page.

KHWiki:Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki Staff are editors chosen to protect the wiki’s content from vandalism or edit warring, manage articles and files on site, and moderate and help resolve conflicts among users. They have additional rights and tools that allow them to carry out these tasks.

Current Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki's current staff includes four types of editors:

• Administrators – Administrators are responsible for blocking vandals and deleting unnecessary files and pages. Also known as "sysops," they have rollback rights and can move images.
• Bureaucrats – Bureaucrats are just like administrators, but can change users’ rights as needed, such as adding users to staff groups or making changes to usernames. They are listed with the administrators in gold text.
• Moderators – Moderators are charged largely with rolling back edits. They can edit fully-protected pages, move articles without having to worry about spam restrictions, rename files, suppress redirects, delete pages, and approve edits made by IP editors and new users.
• Developers – These editors maintain the Kingdom Hearts Wiki itself. They can adjust the site's functions but do not maintain its articles and content.

Staff members who are temporarily inactive appear in grayscale. They are not able to help other editors right now, so any issues that arise should be brought to the attention of an active staff member.

Retired staff

The staff of the wiki, like other editors, are voluntary. Overtime, we've had editors come and go as members of the wiki's staff. We're grateful to each of these wonderful people who have made the wiki what it is today.

Offsite staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has additional social channels and networks, including a YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages, and a DeviantArt group. These are maintained by the editors listed below. Please contact any of these if you have any questions pertaining to any of these specific accounts.

More help

• KHWiki:Staff Manual: A guide to staff rights and responsiblities
• Mailbox: A list of active editors who would love to lend a hand.

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KHWiki:Staff Manual

The Staff at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki are tasked with keeping order on site. They have many responsibilities, but they all tie back to managing content and media files, mediating in conflicts among users, and enforcing site policies and rules. They do this with additional user rights, allowing them to protect or delete pages, rollback edits to quickly revert vandalism, edit the site interface text, and temporarily block or permanently ban users for vandalism or other disruption, among other things.

This manual is designed to help members of the site staff, as well as the community, understand their rights and responsibilities.

Table of contents

1. Staff Rights and Tools
2. Good Faith
3. Conflict Resolution
4. Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

The Role of the Staff

See also: KHWiki:Staff policy

Staff members are first and foremost, editors. They still have a responsibility to the wiki itself.

The wiki staff are elected by the community of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as the community deems necessary, and are representative of the wiki's community.

Staff members show competence on the wiki, and have the edits to show their willingness, hard work, and dedication to the wiki. They are willing to work with and help other users, are level-headed, and are mature. They should be encouraging and welcoming, making a sincere effort to befriend anyone and everyone on the wiki.

They are leaders and role models on the wiki. They may not be universally popular or beloved, they may not even be friends with everyone on the wiki, but they should make an effort to do so, and at the very least, be able to work with anyone and everyone. They respond coolly, avoiding the escalation of arguments when possible. They should be approachable, and willing to work with others. Not all issues will result in happy-go-lucky, laughing, hand-in-hand results, and it's inevitable that stark differences will at times result in passionate debates, heated discussions, and extended dispute. But the staff should try and avoid escalating conflicts and finding themselves at the center of such incidents, especially too often, because it scares people off.

This is not a comprehensive list of all staff qualities, and not all staff can uphold all these qualities. Rather, a member of the staff should focus on the skills they excel at, whether that’s content-writing, template-coding, file management, or conflict-resolution. Or even just editing.

The site staff should not use any of their tools and rights to implement some sort of ownership or superiority on the Wiki. Administrators should not use their rights to gain advantages on the wiki such as blocking users they disagree with or protecting pages to preserve their own edits.

Contacting an Staff Member

An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at Special:Listadmins. You can find a manual list of the staff on the Staff page.

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Staff Rights and Tools

Members of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki’s staff have several different rights and tools in order to enforce site rules and keep order on the wiki.

Protect

An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.

• Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts. It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses. Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative. Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
• Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's copyright notice. Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so. Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
• Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.

Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.

Rollback

A Rollback is simply an instant reverting of all recent edits on a page. This option will appear next to the history and undo options in Special:RecentChanges and in page histories, as well as User Contribution lists, but only for the most recent edit. Depending on the kinds of edits, Rollback will allow an administrator to revert multiple edits at once. An administrator doesn’t have any control on how many edits can be reverted, so be careful when using this tool. Rollbacks are perfect for reverting vandalism, especially if it occurs over multiple edits. Just as with Page Protection, Rollback should not be used to preserve edits based on favoritism over quality edits.

Moving

While all can move pages, Moderators and Administrators can move pages without creating a redirect page. This allows for a clean move, and is best used if there is a misspelling in article names or if an article has been named incorrectly altogether. Additionally, Moderators and Administrators can move files. This is perfect for managing files, especially to make files meet the Media Policy.

Delete

Delete completely removes a page, its associated talk page, and the related page histories from public view. Other administrators can still view the page in Special:Undelete and in the related Delete Logs. Pages should be deleted if they are irrelevant to the ‘’Kingdom Hearts’’ series, are replaced by other pages, are unnecessary redirects created by page moves, or are pages created for spam or as a result of page-move vandalism. Images may also be deleted if they violate copyright laws and site copyright rules, are uploaded for vandalism purposes, or violate the Wiki’s Media Policy. Categories may also be deleted if they are a result of manual category renaming. Remember to remove or replace the links to deleted pages by checking in Special:Whatlinkshere. To request a page be deleted, especially if there is question about whether or not it should be deleted, add the {{delete}} template at the top of the page. A list of pages set to be deleted can be found at Category:Pages for deletion.

Blocks and Bans

An administrator can issue a block on a user's account, barring them from editing for a set amount of time. This should be done according to the wiki's User Account Policy, as a result of violations of the wiki's policies. Bans are blocks set of an indefinite amount of time, making them permanent blocks. Bans should be issued against a user who engages in disruptive behavior and shows indifference towards the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, its rules and policies, or the community. Blocks and bans should not be used to punish a user unfairly. They should be held as a last resort, especially bans. Blocks and bans are also appealable, if a fair argument can be made for removing them, including showing reformed behavior or justifiable misuse of the block.

MediaWiki

Administrators can edit MediaWiki pages, including the site’s CSS and Javascript pages and any site interface pages like the text on Special:Upload.

Manual

1. Manual Main Page
2. Next: Good Faith

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Good Faith

Public wikis like Wikipedia and the Kingdom Hearts Wiki rely on the assumption that all users are acting in good faith, which means that users on the site are trying to help the Kingdom Hearts Wiki accomplish its goals, not hurt it. This obviously doesn’t mean that one should assume good faith when a user is obviously engaging in vandalism or blatant disruptive behavior, but rather that there is a doubt, one should always assume first that the user in question is trying to help.

New Editors

It’s important to exercise good faith with new editors, as they often are not familiar with the wiki’s culture, rules, policies, or even editing wikis in general. New editors will often expect their edits to be accepted as initially presented, and they will often argue in favor of changing rules and policies that they don’t agree with. While these may seem to pose a threat to the wiki as we know it, such editors are usually trying to help the wiki grow, and their contributions and opinions should be dealt with fairly. Often, these new editors will come around and accept the wiki’s rules and policies as they are, while others will actually find their opinions and suggestions accepted by the wiki. There have been many changes to the Kingdom Hearts Wiki based on suggestions by new editors.

Disagreements

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 3

Exercise good faith when dealing with disagreements with other users, new and experienced alike. Be civil and strive to resolve the conflict. Do not engage in personal attacks or edit warring, which will get you demoted as a member of the staff and possibly blocked (see User Account Policy). It is easier to resolve the conflict if at least one side of those making the argument continue to act civilly and according to site policy, even if the other ceases to do so, and members of the wiki’s staff are obligated to act according to site policy at all times. The goal will always be to try and resolve the problem in such a way that the project as a whole improves.

Bad Faith

Bad faith is, as its name implies, the opposite of good faith. It is double-mindedness, and often involves intentional deceit of others. On the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, it’s the intention to not act according to site policies and rules. Do not assume bad faith unless there is blatant evidence (recurring vandalism, disregard for advice/warnings, consistent personal attacks, etc.). Even when bad faith is evident, continue to act civilly. For regular users and editors, such behavior, with evidence, should be reported to a member of the wiki’s staff. Efforts should be made to help the user involved change, but if not, the wiki’s policies and procedures for warnings, blocks, and bans should be implemented accordingly. Indeed, good faith doesn’t destroy or nullify the wiki’s rules, but rather emphasizes that one should assume good intentions on the part of the offending user as much as possible while still being fair and just to site policy.

External links

• Assume Good Faith – Wikipedia guidelines

Manual

1. Previous: Staff Rights and Tools
2. Manual Main Page
3. Next: Conflict Resolution

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Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution is the effort made to resolve disputes and arguments caused by differing opinions on an article’s content or specific edits made to an article. Often, these will stem from disagreement with site policies, but they may stem from things such as whether one revision is better for the article than another.

Good Faith

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 2

When dealing with a conflict between two or more users, whether that includes you as a member of the staff or you are involved to help mediate, remember to assume good faith on the part of all parties involved.

Addressing Conflicts involving Content

In attempting to resolve a conflict, always seek to help those involved understand, learn, and grow. Do your best to act according to site rules, for disregarding them will make it difficult to side with you. Seek to keep a good discussion going with the other party or parties involved. “Discussing heatedly or poorly – or not at all – will make other editors less sympathetic to your position.” Seek to negotiate and be willing to compromise to find a solution to the conflict. Do not engage in edit warring, which will worsen the situation. If the issue is due to content, simply implement a temporary protection on the page and encourage a discussion on the article’s talk page. If it’s related to an editor’s behavior, address the issue on that editor’s talk page, not on the article talk page or other places where it will be overly public and distracting. Again, always seek to remain calm and try to resolve the issue. Focus on the content involved, not on the editor; this goes back to assuming good faith. Bringing up the conduct of an editor or attacking their behavior will only exacerbate the situation instead of making it better. Maintain this stance even if the other party or parties engage in personal attacks. It doesn’t help the situation if your response is uncivil or unkind. Consider removing yourself from the wiki temporarily if the issue gets too heated, or seek help and opinions from other staff members or the community. At no time should you lose your temper during the conflict. Trolls and personal attacks will not be tolerated on this wiki.

Addressing Conflicts involving User Behavior

As always, if there’s an issue with a user’s behavior, begin by assuming good faith. While disruptive behavior is hurtful and distracting, unless there is clear evidence the user is seeking the Wiki’s harm, we should always assume the editor involved is trying to make the site better, not worse. Do not involve behavior as an issue when there’s a conflict based solely on disagreement over content. Begin by addressing the editor’s behavior directly on their talk page. Be fair and understanding; again, the aim is to help the editors grow and learn, not scare them off or shame them. Show that you care and want to help them improve, as well as improve the site. If the editor is still not understanding, you may consider quoting the site policy and explaining it to them, as well as getting other staff members and community veterans to help explain the issue. At no time should an attempt to address a user’s behavior turn into a personal attack on the user, and mob mentality tactics should definitely not be used on the wiki against any user. At all times, consider the Wiki’s policies and rules, and their proper enforcement. If an editor still resists change, follow appropriate suspension procedures as found in the site’s User Account policy.

Manual

• Previous: Good Faith
• Manual Main Page
• Next: Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

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Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

All Wikis face various forms of vandalism and disruptive behavior from different users. This article details how to deal with users who engage in intentional bad behavior, in accordance with the site’s User Account Policy.

Personal Attacks

Personal attacks are attacks levied against a specific user, and are usually about that user’s behavior, actions, or opinions. They are ad hominem attacks, trying to justify an action or behavior of one user by attacking the other person making the argument rather than the central issue of the argument itself. Personal attacks can be ignored if the affected user desires to do so, but it is usually best to address the issue directly. Issuing warnings are best if the attacks are isolated and appear to be a result of a momentary lapse of judgement. Further warnings and blocks must be issued if the attacks are recurring, targeted, or are particularly offensive or disruptive (such as physical threats or attacks based on race, gender, site activity, religion, nationality, etc.). While good faith should be exercised where possible, note that personal attacks are not acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki

Vandalism

Vandalism is the intentional altering of content to harm an article or multiple articles, or the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as a whole. These range from attacks on content articles, to attacks on user pages, to spam, which is unrelated linking to other websites for advertising or click-bait purposes. None of these are acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and should be met with direct and resolved action. Issue blocks where needed if the issue is not severe, but otherwise, vandalism is always addressed through permanent bans.

Trolls

Trolls are people who sow discord and seek to start conflicts on site. They’ll often do so by posting inflammatory, controversial, or off-topic messages, seeking an emotional response. They’re main goal is to disrupt otherwise normal discussion, solely for entertainment. Often, this will include harassment, and is synonymous with personal attacks. Trolling is strictly prohibited on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and users engaging in intentional disruptive behavior with such aims should be blocked or banned as needed.

Manual

• Previous: Conflict Resolution
• Manual Main Page

REWRITE FOR ADMINISTRATION MANUAL and STAFF PAGE

• Proposal: Move to KHWiki:Staff Manual
• Note: This draft actually consists of six different pages: Slight modifications to the Staff page, and a rewrite of the Admin Guide, expanding it to four pages + the introductory page.

KHWiki:Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki Staff are editors chosen to protect the wiki’s content from vandalism or edit warring, manage articles and files on site, and moderate and help resolve conflicts among users. They have additional rights and tools that allow them to carry out these tasks.

Current Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki's current staff includes four types of editors:

• Administrators – Administrators are responsible for blocking vandals and deleting unnecessary files and pages. Also known as "sysops," they have rollback rights and can move images.
• Bureaucrats – Bureaucrats are just like administrators, but can change users’ rights as needed, such as adding users to staff groups or making changes to usernames. They are listed with the administrators in gold text.
• Moderators – Moderators are charged largely with rolling back edits. They can edit fully-protected pages, move articles without having to worry about spam restrictions, rename files, suppress redirects, delete pages, and approve edits made by IP editors and new users.
• Developers – These editors maintain the Kingdom Hearts Wiki itself. They can adjust the site's functions but do not maintain its articles and content.

Staff members who are temporarily inactive appear in grayscale. They are not able to help other editors right now, so any issues that arise should be brought to the attention of an active staff member.

Retired staff

The staff of the wiki, like other editors, are voluntary. Overtime, we've had editors come and go as members of the wiki's staff. We're grateful to each of these wonderful people who have made the wiki what it is today.

Offsite staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has additional social channels and networks, including a YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages, and a DeviantArt group. These are maintained by the editors listed below. Please contact any of these if you have any questions pertaining to any of these specific accounts.

More help

• KHWiki:Staff Manual: A guide to staff rights and responsiblities
• Mailbox: A list of active editors who would love to lend a hand.

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KHWiki:Staff Manual

The Staff at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki are tasked with keeping order on site. They have many responsibilities, but they all tie back to managing content and media files, mediating in conflicts among users, and enforcing site policies and rules. They do this with additional user rights, allowing them to protect or delete pages, rollback edits to quickly revert vandalism, edit the site interface text, and temporarily block or permanently ban users for vandalism or other disruption, among other things.

This manual is designed to help members of the site staff, as well as the community, understand their rights and responsibilities.

Table of contents

1. Staff Rights and Tools
2. Good Faith
3. Conflict Resolution
4. Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

The Role of the Staff

See also: KHWiki:Staff policy

Staff members are first and foremost, editors. They still have a responsibility to the wiki itself.

The wiki staff are elected by the community of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as the community deems necessary, and are representative of the wiki's community.

Staff members show competence on the wiki, and have the edits to show their willingness, hard work, and dedication to the wiki. They are willing to work with and help other users, are level-headed, and are mature. They should be encouraging and welcoming, making a sincere effort to befriend anyone and everyone on the wiki.

They are leaders and role models on the wiki. They may not be universally popular or beloved, they may not even be friends with everyone on the wiki, but they should make an effort to do so, and at the very least, be able to work with anyone and everyone. They respond coolly, avoiding the escalation of arguments when possible. They should be approachable, and willing to work with others. Not all issues will result in happy-go-lucky, laughing, hand-in-hand results, and it's inevitable that stark differences will at times result in passionate debates, heated discussions, and extended dispute. But the staff should try and avoid escalating conflicts and finding themselves at the center of such incidents, especially too often, because it scares people off.

This is not a comprehensive list of all staff qualities, and not all staff can uphold all these qualities. Rather, a member of the staff should focus on the skills they excel at, whether that’s content-writing, template-coding, file management, or conflict-resolution. Or even just editing.

The site staff should not use any of their tools and rights to implement some sort of ownership or superiority on the Wiki. Administrators should not use their rights to gain advantages on the wiki such as blocking users they disagree with or protecting pages to preserve their own edits.

Contacting an Staff Member

An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at Special:Listadmins. You can find a manual list of the staff on the Staff page.

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Staff Rights and Tools

Members of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki’s staff have several different rights and tools in order to enforce site rules and keep order on the wiki.

Protect

An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.

• Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts. It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses. Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative. Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
• Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's copyright notice. Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so. Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
• Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.

Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.

Rollback

A Rollback is simply an instant reverting of all recent edits on a page. This option will appear next to the history and undo options in Special:RecentChanges and in page histories, as well as User Contribution lists, but only for the most recent edit. Depending on the kinds of edits, Rollback will allow an administrator to revert multiple edits at once. An administrator doesn’t have any control on how many edits can be reverted, so be careful when using this tool. Rollbacks are perfect for reverting vandalism, especially if it occurs over multiple edits. Just as with Page Protection, Rollback should not be used to preserve edits based on favoritism over quality edits.

Moving

While all can move pages, Moderators and Administrators can move pages without creating a redirect page. This allows for a clean move, and is best used if there is a misspelling in article names or if an article has been named incorrectly altogether. Additionally, Moderators and Administrators can move files. This is perfect for managing files, especially to make files meet the Media Policy.

Delete

Delete completely removes a page, its associated talk page, and the related page histories from public view. Other administrators can still view the page in Special:Undelete and in the related Delete Logs. Pages should be deleted if they are irrelevant to the ‘’Kingdom Hearts’’ series, are replaced by other pages, are unnecessary redirects created by page moves, or are pages created for spam or as a result of page-move vandalism. Images may also be deleted if they violate copyright laws and site copyright rules, are uploaded for vandalism purposes, or violate the Wiki’s Media Policy. Categories may also be deleted if they are a result of manual category renaming. Remember to remove or replace the links to deleted pages by checking in Special:Whatlinkshere. To request a page be deleted, especially if there is question about whether or not it should be deleted, add the {{delete}} template at the top of the page. A list of pages set to be deleted can be found at Category:Pages for deletion.

Blocks and Bans

An administrator can issue a block on a user's account, barring them from editing for a set amount of time. This should be done according to the wiki's User Account Policy, as a result of violations of the wiki's policies. Bans are blocks set of an indefinite amount of time, making them permanent blocks. Bans should be issued against a user who engages in disruptive behavior and shows indifference towards the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, its rules and policies, or the community. Blocks and bans should not be used to punish a user unfairly. They should be held as a last resort, especially bans. Blocks and bans are also appealable, if a fair argument can be made for removing them, including showing reformed behavior or justifiable misuse of the block.

MediaWiki

Administrators can edit MediaWiki pages, including the site’s CSS and Javascript pages and any site interface pages like the text on Special:Upload.

Manual

1. Manual Main Page
2. Next: Good Faith

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Good Faith

Public wikis like Wikipedia and the Kingdom Hearts Wiki rely on the assumption that all users are acting in good faith, which means that users on the site are trying to help the Kingdom Hearts Wiki accomplish its goals, not hurt it. This obviously doesn’t mean that one should assume good faith when a user is obviously engaging in vandalism or blatant disruptive behavior, but rather that there is a doubt, one should always assume first that the user in question is trying to help.

New Editors

It’s important to exercise good faith with new editors, as they often are not familiar with the wiki’s culture, rules, policies, or even editing wikis in general. New editors will often expect their edits to be accepted as initially presented, and they will often argue in favor of changing rules and policies that they don’t agree with. While these may seem to pose a threat to the wiki as we know it, such editors are usually trying to help the wiki grow, and their contributions and opinions should be dealt with fairly. Often, these new editors will come around and accept the wiki’s rules and policies as they are, while others will actually find their opinions and suggestions accepted by the wiki. There have been many changes to the Kingdom Hearts Wiki based on suggestions by new editors.

Disagreements

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 3

Exercise good faith when dealing with disagreements with other users, new and experienced alike. Be civil and strive to resolve the conflict. Do not engage in personal attacks or edit warring, which will get you demoted as a member of the staff and possibly blocked (see User Account Policy). It is easier to resolve the conflict if at least one side of those making the argument continue to act civilly and according to site policy, even if the other ceases to do so, and members of the wiki’s staff are obligated to act according to site policy at all times. The goal will always be to try and resolve the problem in such a way that the project as a whole improves.

Bad Faith

Bad faith is, as its name implies, the opposite of good faith. It is double-mindedness, and often involves intentional deceit of others. On the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, it’s the intention to not act according to site policies and rules. Do not assume bad faith unless there is blatant evidence (recurring vandalism, disregard for advice/warnings, consistent personal attacks, etc.). Even when bad faith is evident, continue to act civilly. For regular users and editors, such behavior, with evidence, should be reported to a member of the wiki’s staff. Efforts should be made to help the user involved change, but if not, the wiki’s policies and procedures for warnings, blocks, and bans should be implemented accordingly. Indeed, good faith doesn’t destroy or nullify the wiki’s rules, but rather emphasizes that one should assume good intentions on the part of the offending user as much as possible while still being fair and just to site policy.

External links

• Assume Good Faith – Wikipedia guidelines

Manual

1. Previous: Staff Rights and Tools
2. Manual Main Page
3. Next: Conflict Resolution

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Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution is the effort made to resolve disputes and arguments caused by differing opinions on an article’s content or specific edits made to an article. Often, these will stem from disagreement with site policies, but they may stem from things such as whether one revision is better for the article than another.

Good Faith

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 2

When dealing with a conflict between two or more users, whether that includes you as a member of the staff or you are involved to help mediate, remember to assume good faith on the part of all parties involved.

Addressing Conflicts involving Content

In attempting to resolve a conflict, always seek to help those involved understand, learn, and grow. Do your best to act according to site rules, for disregarding them will make it difficult to side with you. Seek to keep a good discussion going with the other party or parties involved. “Discussing heatedly or poorly – or not at all – will make other editors less sympathetic to your position.” Seek to negotiate and be willing to compromise to find a solution to the conflict. Do not engage in edit warring, which will worsen the situation. If the issue is due to content, simply implement a temporary protection on the page and encourage a discussion on the article’s talk page. If it’s related to an editor’s behavior, address the issue on that editor’s talk page, not on the article talk page or other places where it will be overly public and distracting. Again, always seek to remain calm and try to resolve the issue. Focus on the content involved, not on the editor; this goes back to assuming good faith. Bringing up the conduct of an editor or attacking their behavior will only exacerbate the situation instead of making it better. Maintain this stance even if the other party or parties engage in personal attacks. It doesn’t help the situation if your response is uncivil or unkind. Consider removing yourself from the wiki temporarily if the issue gets too heated, or seek help and opinions from other staff members or the community. At no time should you lose your temper during the conflict. Trolls and personal attacks will not be tolerated on this wiki.

Addressing Conflicts involving User Behavior

As always, if there’s an issue with a user’s behavior, begin by assuming good faith. While disruptive behavior is hurtful and distracting, unless there is clear evidence the user is seeking the Wiki’s harm, we should always assume the editor involved is trying to make the site better, not worse. Do not involve behavior as an issue when there’s a conflict based solely on disagreement over content. Begin by addressing the editor’s behavior directly on their talk page. Be fair and understanding; again, the aim is to help the editors grow and learn, not scare them off or shame them. Show that you care and want to help them improve, as well as improve the site. If the editor is still not understanding, you may consider quoting the site policy and explaining it to them, as well as getting other staff members and community veterans to help explain the issue. At no time should an attempt to address a user’s behavior turn into a personal attack on the user, and mob mentality tactics should definitely not be used on the wiki against any user. At all times, consider the Wiki’s policies and rules, and their proper enforcement. If an editor still resists change, follow appropriate suspension procedures as found in the site’s User Account policy.

Manual

• Previous: Good Faith
• Manual Main Page
• Next: Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

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Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

All Wikis face various forms of vandalism and disruptive behavior from different users. This article details how to deal with users who engage in intentional bad behavior, in accordance with the site’s User Account Policy.

Personal Attacks

Personal attacks are attacks levied against a specific user, and are usually about that user’s behavior, actions, or opinions. They are ad hominem attacks, trying to justify an action or behavior of one user by attacking the other person making the argument rather than the central issue of the argument itself. Personal attacks can be ignored if the affected user desires to do so, but it is usually best to address the issue directly. Issuing warnings are best if the attacks are isolated and appear to be a result of a momentary lapse of judgement. Further warnings and blocks must be issued if the attacks are recurring, targeted, or are particularly offensive or disruptive (such as physical threats or attacks based on race, gender, site activity, religion, nationality, etc.). While good faith should be exercised where possible, note that personal attacks are not acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki

Vandalism

Vandalism is the intentional altering of content to harm an article or multiple articles, or the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as a whole. These range from attacks on content articles, to attacks on user pages, to spam, which is unrelated linking to other websites for advertising or click-bait purposes. None of these are acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and should be met with direct and resolved action. Issue blocks where needed if the issue is not severe, but otherwise, vandalism is always addressed through permanent bans.

Trolls

Trolls are people who sow discord and seek to start conflicts on site. They’ll often do so by posting inflammatory, controversial, or off-topic messages, seeking an emotional response. They’re main goal is to disrupt otherwise normal discussion, solely for entertainment. Often, this will include harassment, and is synonymous with personal attacks. Trolling is strictly prohibited on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and users engaging in intentional disruptive behavior with such aims should be blocked or banned as needed.

Manual

• Previous: Conflict Resolution
• Manual Main Page

REWRITE FOR ADMINISTRATION MANUAL and STAFF PAGE

• Proposal: Move to KHWiki:Staff Manual
• Note: This draft actually consists of six different pages: Slight modifications to the Staff page, and a rewrite of the Admin Guide, expanding it to four pages + the introductory page.

KHWiki:Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki Staff are editors chosen to protect the wiki’s content from vandalism or edit warring, manage articles and files on site, and moderate and help resolve conflicts among users. They have additional rights and tools that allow them to carry out these tasks.

Current Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki's current staff includes four types of editors:

• Administrators – Administrators are responsible for blocking vandals and deleting unnecessary files and pages. Also known as "sysops," they have rollback rights and can move images.
• Bureaucrats – Bureaucrats are just like administrators, but can change users’ rights as needed, such as adding users to staff groups or making changes to usernames. They are listed with the administrators in gold text.
• Moderators – Moderators are charged largely with rolling back edits. They can edit fully-protected pages, move articles without having to worry about spam restrictions, rename files, suppress redirects, delete pages, and approve edits made by IP editors and new users.
• Developers – These editors maintain the Kingdom Hearts Wiki itself. They can adjust the site's functions but do not maintain its articles and content.

Staff members who are temporarily inactive appear in grayscale. They are not able to help other editors right now, so any issues that arise should be brought to the attention of an active staff member.

Retired staff

The staff of the wiki, like other editors, are voluntary. Overtime, we've had editors come and go as members of the wiki's staff. We're grateful to each of these wonderful people who have made the wiki what it is today.

Offsite staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has additional social channels and networks, including a YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages, and a DeviantArt group. These are maintained by the editors listed below. Please contact any of these if you have any questions pertaining to any of these specific accounts.

More help

• KHWiki:Staff Manual: A guide to staff rights and responsiblities
• Mailbox: A list of active editors who would love to lend a hand.

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KHWiki:Staff Manual

The Staff at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki are tasked with keeping order on site. They have many responsibilities, but they all tie back to managing content and media files, mediating in conflicts among users, and enforcing site policies and rules. They do this with additional user rights, allowing them to protect or delete pages, rollback edits to quickly revert vandalism, edit the site interface text, and temporarily block or permanently ban users for vandalism or other disruption, among other things.

This manual is designed to help members of the site staff, as well as the community, understand their rights and responsibilities.

Table of contents

1. Staff Rights and Tools
2. Good Faith
3. Conflict Resolution
4. Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

The Role of the Staff

See also: KHWiki:Staff policy

Staff members are first and foremost, editors. They still have a responsibility to the wiki itself.

The wiki staff are elected by the community of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as the community deems necessary, and are representative of the wiki's community.

Staff members show competence on the wiki, and have the edits to show their willingness, hard work, and dedication to the wiki. They are willing to work with and help other users, are level-headed, and are mature. They should be encouraging and welcoming, making a sincere effort to befriend anyone and everyone on the wiki.

They are leaders and role models on the wiki. They may not be universally popular or beloved, they may not even be friends with everyone on the wiki, but they should make an effort to do so, and at the very least, be able to work with anyone and everyone. They respond coolly, avoiding the escalation of arguments when possible. They should be approachable, and willing to work with others. Not all issues will result in happy-go-lucky, laughing, hand-in-hand results, and it's inevitable that stark differences will at times result in passionate debates, heated discussions, and extended dispute. But the staff should try and avoid escalating conflicts and finding themselves at the center of such incidents, especially too often, because it scares people off.

This is not a comprehensive list of all staff qualities, and not all staff can uphold all these qualities. Rather, a member of the staff should focus on the skills they excel at, whether that’s content-writing, template-coding, file management, or conflict-resolution. Or even just editing.

The site staff should not use any of their tools and rights to implement some sort of ownership or superiority on the Wiki. Administrators should not use their rights to gain advantages on the wiki such as blocking users they disagree with or protecting pages to preserve their own edits.

Contacting an Staff Member

An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at Special:Listadmins. You can find a manual list of the staff on the Staff page.

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Staff Rights and Tools

Members of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki’s staff have several different rights and tools in order to enforce site rules and keep order on the wiki.

Protect

An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.

• Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts. It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses. Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative. Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
• Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's copyright notice. Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so. Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
• Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.

Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.

Rollback

A Rollback is simply an instant reverting of all recent edits on a page. This option will appear next to the history and undo options in Special:RecentChanges and in page histories, as well as User Contribution lists, but only for the most recent edit. Depending on the kinds of edits, Rollback will allow an administrator to revert multiple edits at once. An administrator doesn’t have any control on how many edits can be reverted, so be careful when using this tool. Rollbacks are perfect for reverting vandalism, especially if it occurs over multiple edits. Just as with Page Protection, Rollback should not be used to preserve edits based on favoritism over quality edits.

Moving

While all can move pages, Moderators and Administrators can move pages without creating a redirect page. This allows for a clean move, and is best used if there is a misspelling in article names or if an article has been named incorrectly altogether. Additionally, Moderators and Administrators can move files. This is perfect for managing files, especially to make files meet the Media Policy.

Delete

Delete completely removes a page, its associated talk page, and the related page histories from public view. Other administrators can still view the page in Special:Undelete and in the related Delete Logs. Pages should be deleted if they are irrelevant to the ‘’Kingdom Hearts’’ series, are replaced by other pages, are unnecessary redirects created by page moves, or are pages created for spam or as a result of page-move vandalism. Images may also be deleted if they violate copyright laws and site copyright rules, are uploaded for vandalism purposes, or violate the Wiki’s Media Policy. Categories may also be deleted if they are a result of manual category renaming. Remember to remove or replace the links to deleted pages by checking in Special:Whatlinkshere. To request a page be deleted, especially if there is question about whether or not it should be deleted, add the {{delete}} template at the top of the page. A list of pages set to be deleted can be found at Category:Pages for deletion.

Blocks and Bans

An administrator can issue a block on a user's account, barring them from editing for a set amount of time. This should be done according to the wiki's User Account Policy, as a result of violations of the wiki's policies. Bans are blocks set of an indefinite amount of time, making them permanent blocks. Bans should be issued against a user who engages in disruptive behavior and shows indifference towards the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, its rules and policies, or the community. Blocks and bans should not be used to punish a user unfairly. They should be held as a last resort, especially bans. Blocks and bans are also appealable, if a fair argument can be made for removing them, including showing reformed behavior or justifiable misuse of the block.

MediaWiki

Administrators can edit MediaWiki pages, including the site’s CSS and Javascript pages and any site interface pages like the text on Special:Upload.

Manual

1. Manual Main Page
2. Next: Good Faith

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Good Faith

Public wikis like Wikipedia and the Kingdom Hearts Wiki rely on the assumption that all users are acting in good faith, which means that users on the site are trying to help the Kingdom Hearts Wiki accomplish its goals, not hurt it. This obviously doesn’t mean that one should assume good faith when a user is obviously engaging in vandalism or blatant disruptive behavior, but rather that there is a doubt, one should always assume first that the user in question is trying to help.

New Editors

It’s important to exercise good faith with new editors, as they often are not familiar with the wiki’s culture, rules, policies, or even editing wikis in general. New editors will often expect their edits to be accepted as initially presented, and they will often argue in favor of changing rules and policies that they don’t agree with. While these may seem to pose a threat to the wiki as we know it, such editors are usually trying to help the wiki grow, and their contributions and opinions should be dealt with fairly. Often, these new editors will come around and accept the wiki’s rules and policies as they are, while others will actually find their opinions and suggestions accepted by the wiki. There have been many changes to the Kingdom Hearts Wiki based on suggestions by new editors.

Disagreements

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 3

Exercise good faith when dealing with disagreements with other users, new and experienced alike. Be civil and strive to resolve the conflict. Do not engage in personal attacks or edit warring, which will get you demoted as a member of the staff and possibly blocked (see User Account Policy). It is easier to resolve the conflict if at least one side of those making the argument continue to act civilly and according to site policy, even if the other ceases to do so, and members of the wiki’s staff are obligated to act according to site policy at all times. The goal will always be to try and resolve the problem in such a way that the project as a whole improves.

Bad Faith

Bad faith is, as its name implies, the opposite of good faith. It is double-mindedness, and often involves intentional deceit of others. On the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, it’s the intention to not act according to site policies and rules. Do not assume bad faith unless there is blatant evidence (recurring vandalism, disregard for advice/warnings, consistent personal attacks, etc.). Even when bad faith is evident, continue to act civilly. For regular users and editors, such behavior, with evidence, should be reported to a member of the wiki’s staff. Efforts should be made to help the user involved change, but if not, the wiki’s policies and procedures for warnings, blocks, and bans should be implemented accordingly. Indeed, good faith doesn’t destroy or nullify the wiki’s rules, but rather emphasizes that one should assume good intentions on the part of the offending user as much as possible while still being fair and just to site policy.

External links

• Assume Good Faith – Wikipedia guidelines

Manual

1. Previous: Staff Rights and Tools
2. Manual Main Page
3. Next: Conflict Resolution

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Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution is the effort made to resolve disputes and arguments caused by differing opinions on an article’s content or specific edits made to an article. Often, these will stem from disagreement with site policies, but they may stem from things such as whether one revision is better for the article than another.

Good Faith

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 2

When dealing with a conflict between two or more users, whether that includes you as a member of the staff or you are involved to help mediate, remember to assume good faith on the part of all parties involved.

Addressing Conflicts involving Content

In attempting to resolve a conflict, always seek to help those involved understand, learn, and grow. Do your best to act according to site rules, for disregarding them will make it difficult to side with you. Seek to keep a good discussion going with the other party or parties involved. “Discussing heatedly or poorly – or not at all – will make other editors less sympathetic to your position.” Seek to negotiate and be willing to compromise to find a solution to the conflict. Do not engage in edit warring, which will worsen the situation. If the issue is due to content, simply implement a temporary protection on the page and encourage a discussion on the article’s talk page. If it’s related to an editor’s behavior, address the issue on that editor’s talk page, not on the article talk page or other places where it will be overly public and distracting. Again, always seek to remain calm and try to resolve the issue. Focus on the content involved, not on the editor; this goes back to assuming good faith. Bringing up the conduct of an editor or attacking their behavior will only exacerbate the situation instead of making it better. Maintain this stance even if the other party or parties engage in personal attacks. It doesn’t help the situation if your response is uncivil or unkind. Consider removing yourself from the wiki temporarily if the issue gets too heated, or seek help and opinions from other staff members or the community. At no time should you lose your temper during the conflict. Trolls and personal attacks will not be tolerated on this wiki.

Addressing Conflicts involving User Behavior

As always, if there’s an issue with a user’s behavior, begin by assuming good faith. While disruptive behavior is hurtful and distracting, unless there is clear evidence the user is seeking the Wiki’s harm, we should always assume the editor involved is trying to make the site better, not worse. Do not involve behavior as an issue when there’s a conflict based solely on disagreement over content. Begin by addressing the editor’s behavior directly on their talk page. Be fair and understanding; again, the aim is to help the editors grow and learn, not scare them off or shame them. Show that you care and want to help them improve, as well as improve the site. If the editor is still not understanding, you may consider quoting the site policy and explaining it to them, as well as getting other staff members and community veterans to help explain the issue. At no time should an attempt to address a user’s behavior turn into a personal attack on the user, and mob mentality tactics should definitely not be used on the wiki against any user. At all times, consider the Wiki’s policies and rules, and their proper enforcement. If an editor still resists change, follow appropriate suspension procedures as found in the site’s User Account policy.

Manual

• Previous: Good Faith
• Manual Main Page
• Next: Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

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Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

All Wikis face various forms of vandalism and disruptive behavior from different users. This article details how to deal with users who engage in intentional bad behavior, in accordance with the site’s User Account Policy.

Personal Attacks

Personal attacks are attacks levied against a specific user, and are usually about that user’s behavior, actions, or opinions. They are ad hominem attacks, trying to justify an action or behavior of one user by attacking the other person making the argument rather than the central issue of the argument itself. Personal attacks can be ignored if the affected user desires to do so, but it is usually best to address the issue directly. Issuing warnings are best if the attacks are isolated and appear to be a result of a momentary lapse of judgement. Further warnings and blocks must be issued if the attacks are recurring, targeted, or are particularly offensive or disruptive (such as physical threats or attacks based on race, gender, site activity, religion, nationality, etc.). While good faith should be exercised where possible, note that personal attacks are not acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki

Vandalism

Vandalism is the intentional altering of content to harm an article or multiple articles, or the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as a whole. These range from attacks on content articles, to attacks on user pages, to spam, which is unrelated linking to other websites for advertising or click-bait purposes. None of these are acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and should be met with direct and resolved action. Issue blocks where needed if the issue is not severe, but otherwise, vandalism is always addressed through permanent bans.

Trolls

Trolls are people who sow discord and seek to start conflicts on site. They’ll often do so by posting inflammatory, controversial, or off-topic messages, seeking an emotional response. They’re main goal is to disrupt otherwise normal discussion, solely for entertainment. Often, this will include harassment, and is synonymous with personal attacks. Trolling is strictly prohibited on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and users engaging in intentional disruptive behavior with such aims should be blocked or banned as needed.

Manual

• Previous: Conflict Resolution
• Manual Main Page

REWRITE FOR ADMINISTRATION MANUAL and STAFF PAGE

• Proposal: Move to KHWiki:Staff Manual
• Note: This draft actually consists of six different pages: Slight modifications to the Staff page, and a rewrite of the Admin Guide, expanding it to four pages + the introductory page.

KHWiki:Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki Staff are editors chosen to protect the wiki’s content from vandalism or edit warring, manage articles and files on site, and moderate and help resolve conflicts among users. They have additional rights and tools that allow them to carry out these tasks.

Current Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki's current staff includes four types of editors:

• Administrators – Administrators are responsible for blocking vandals and deleting unnecessary files and pages. Also known as "sysops," they have rollback rights and can move images.
• Bureaucrats – Bureaucrats are just like administrators, but can change users’ rights as needed, such as adding users to staff groups or making changes to usernames. They are listed with the administrators in gold text.
• Moderators – Moderators are charged largely with rolling back edits. They can edit fully-protected pages, move articles without having to worry about spam restrictions, rename files, suppress redirects, delete pages, and approve edits made by IP editors and new users.
• Developers – These editors maintain the Kingdom Hearts Wiki itself. They can adjust the site's functions but do not maintain its articles and content.

Staff members who are temporarily inactive appear in grayscale. They are not able to help other editors right now, so any issues that arise should be brought to the attention of an active staff member.

Retired staff

The staff of the wiki, like other editors, are voluntary. Overtime, we've had editors come and go as members of the wiki's staff. We're grateful to each of these wonderful people who have made the wiki what it is today.

Offsite staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has additional social channels and networks, including a YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages, and a DeviantArt group. These are maintained by the editors listed below. Please contact any of these if you have any questions pertaining to any of these specific accounts.

More help

• KHWiki:Staff Manual: A guide to staff rights and responsiblities
• Mailbox: A list of active editors who would love to lend a hand.

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KHWiki:Staff Manual

The Staff at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki are tasked with keeping order on site. They have many responsibilities, but they all tie back to managing content and media files, mediating in conflicts among users, and enforcing site policies and rules. They do this with additional user rights, allowing them to protect or delete pages, rollback edits to quickly revert vandalism, edit the site interface text, and temporarily block or permanently ban users for vandalism or other disruption, among other things.

This manual is designed to help members of the site staff, as well as the community, understand their rights and responsibilities.

Table of contents

1. Staff Rights and Tools
2. Good Faith
3. Conflict Resolution
4. Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

The Role of the Staff

See also: KHWiki:Staff policy

Staff members are first and foremost, editors. They still have a responsibility to the wiki itself.

The wiki staff are elected by the community of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as the community deems necessary, and are representative of the wiki's community.

Staff members show competence on the wiki, and have the edits to show their willingness, hard work, and dedication to the wiki. They are willing to work with and help other users, are level-headed, and are mature. They should be encouraging and welcoming, making a sincere effort to befriend anyone and everyone on the wiki.

They are leaders and role models on the wiki. They may not be universally popular or beloved, they may not even be friends with everyone on the wiki, but they should make an effort to do so, and at the very least, be able to work with anyone and everyone. They respond coolly, avoiding the escalation of arguments when possible. They should be approachable, and willing to work with others. Not all issues will result in happy-go-lucky, laughing, hand-in-hand results, and it's inevitable that stark differences will at times result in passionate debates, heated discussions, and extended dispute. But the staff should try and avoid escalating conflicts and finding themselves at the center of such incidents, especially too often, because it scares people off.

This is not a comprehensive list of all staff qualities, and not all staff can uphold all these qualities. Rather, a member of the staff should focus on the skills they excel at, whether that’s content-writing, template-coding, file management, or conflict-resolution. Or even just editing.

The site staff should not use any of their tools and rights to implement some sort of ownership or superiority on the Wiki. Administrators should not use their rights to gain advantages on the wiki such as blocking users they disagree with or protecting pages to preserve their own edits.

Contacting an Staff Member

An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at Special:Listadmins. You can find a manual list of the staff on the Staff page.

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Staff Rights and Tools

Members of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki’s staff have several different rights and tools in order to enforce site rules and keep order on the wiki.

Protect

An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.

• Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts. It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses. Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative. Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
• Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's copyright notice. Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so. Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
• Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.

Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.

Rollback

A Rollback is simply an instant reverting of all recent edits on a page. This option will appear next to the history and undo options in Special:RecentChanges and in page histories, as well as User Contribution lists, but only for the most recent edit. Depending on the kinds of edits, Rollback will allow an administrator to revert multiple edits at once. An administrator doesn’t have any control on how many edits can be reverted, so be careful when using this tool. Rollbacks are perfect for reverting vandalism, especially if it occurs over multiple edits. Just as with Page Protection, Rollback should not be used to preserve edits based on favoritism over quality edits.

Moving

While all can move pages, Moderators and Administrators can move pages without creating a redirect page. This allows for a clean move, and is best used if there is a misspelling in article names or if an article has been named incorrectly altogether. Additionally, Moderators and Administrators can move files. This is perfect for managing files, especially to make files meet the Media Policy.

Delete

Delete completely removes a page, its associated talk page, and the related page histories from public view. Other administrators can still view the page in Special:Undelete and in the related Delete Logs. Pages should be deleted if they are irrelevant to the ‘’Kingdom Hearts’’ series, are replaced by other pages, are unnecessary redirects created by page moves, or are pages created for spam or as a result of page-move vandalism. Images may also be deleted if they violate copyright laws and site copyright rules, are uploaded for vandalism purposes, or violate the Wiki’s Media Policy. Categories may also be deleted if they are a result of manual category renaming. Remember to remove or replace the links to deleted pages by checking in Special:Whatlinkshere. To request a page be deleted, especially if there is question about whether or not it should be deleted, add the {{delete}} template at the top of the page. A list of pages set to be deleted can be found at Category:Pages for deletion.

Blocks and Bans

An administrator can issue a block on a user's account, barring them from editing for a set amount of time. This should be done according to the wiki's User Account Policy, as a result of violations of the wiki's policies. Bans are blocks set of an indefinite amount of time, making them permanent blocks. Bans should be issued against a user who engages in disruptive behavior and shows indifference towards the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, its rules and policies, or the community. Blocks and bans should not be used to punish a user unfairly. They should be held as a last resort, especially bans. Blocks and bans are also appealable, if a fair argument can be made for removing them, including showing reformed behavior or justifiable misuse of the block.

MediaWiki

Administrators can edit MediaWiki pages, including the site’s CSS and Javascript pages and any site interface pages like the text on Special:Upload.

Manual

1. Manual Main Page
2. Next: Good Faith

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Good Faith

Public wikis like Wikipedia and the Kingdom Hearts Wiki rely on the assumption that all users are acting in good faith, which means that users on the site are trying to help the Kingdom Hearts Wiki accomplish its goals, not hurt it. This obviously doesn’t mean that one should assume good faith when a user is obviously engaging in vandalism or blatant disruptive behavior, but rather that there is a doubt, one should always assume first that the user in question is trying to help.

New Editors

It’s important to exercise good faith with new editors, as they often are not familiar with the wiki’s culture, rules, policies, or even editing wikis in general. New editors will often expect their edits to be accepted as initially presented, and they will often argue in favor of changing rules and policies that they don’t agree with. While these may seem to pose a threat to the wiki as we know it, such editors are usually trying to help the wiki grow, and their contributions and opinions should be dealt with fairly. Often, these new editors will come around and accept the wiki’s rules and policies as they are, while others will actually find their opinions and suggestions accepted by the wiki. There have been many changes to the Kingdom Hearts Wiki based on suggestions by new editors.

Disagreements

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 3

Exercise good faith when dealing with disagreements with other users, new and experienced alike. Be civil and strive to resolve the conflict. Do not engage in personal attacks or edit warring, which will get you demoted as a member of the staff and possibly blocked (see User Account Policy). It is easier to resolve the conflict if at least one side of those making the argument continue to act civilly and according to site policy, even if the other ceases to do so, and members of the wiki’s staff are obligated to act according to site policy at all times. The goal will always be to try and resolve the problem in such a way that the project as a whole improves.

Bad Faith

Bad faith is, as its name implies, the opposite of good faith. It is double-mindedness, and often involves intentional deceit of others. On the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, it’s the intention to not act according to site policies and rules. Do not assume bad faith unless there is blatant evidence (recurring vandalism, disregard for advice/warnings, consistent personal attacks, etc.). Even when bad faith is evident, continue to act civilly. For regular users and editors, such behavior, with evidence, should be reported to a member of the wiki’s staff. Efforts should be made to help the user involved change, but if not, the wiki’s policies and procedures for warnings, blocks, and bans should be implemented accordingly. Indeed, good faith doesn’t destroy or nullify the wiki’s rules, but rather emphasizes that one should assume good intentions on the part of the offending user as much as possible while still being fair and just to site policy.

External links

• Assume Good Faith – Wikipedia guidelines

Manual

1. Previous: Staff Rights and Tools
2. Manual Main Page
3. Next: Conflict Resolution

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Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution is the effort made to resolve disputes and arguments caused by differing opinions on an article’s content or specific edits made to an article. Often, these will stem from disagreement with site policies, but they may stem from things such as whether one revision is better for the article than another.

Good Faith

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 2

When dealing with a conflict between two or more users, whether that includes you as a member of the staff or you are involved to help mediate, remember to assume good faith on the part of all parties involved.

Addressing Conflicts involving Content

In attempting to resolve a conflict, always seek to help those involved understand, learn, and grow. Do your best to act according to site rules, for disregarding them will make it difficult to side with you. Seek to keep a good discussion going with the other party or parties involved. “Discussing heatedly or poorly – or not at all – will make other editors less sympathetic to your position.” Seek to negotiate and be willing to compromise to find a solution to the conflict. Do not engage in edit warring, which will worsen the situation. If the issue is due to content, simply implement a temporary protection on the page and encourage a discussion on the article’s talk page. If it’s related to an editor’s behavior, address the issue on that editor’s talk page, not on the article talk page or other places where it will be overly public and distracting. Again, always seek to remain calm and try to resolve the issue. Focus on the content involved, not on the editor; this goes back to assuming good faith. Bringing up the conduct of an editor or attacking their behavior will only exacerbate the situation instead of making it better. Maintain this stance even if the other party or parties engage in personal attacks. It doesn’t help the situation if your response is uncivil or unkind. Consider removing yourself from the wiki temporarily if the issue gets too heated, or seek help and opinions from other staff members or the community. At no time should you lose your temper during the conflict. Trolls and personal attacks will not be tolerated on this wiki.

Addressing Conflicts involving User Behavior

As always, if there’s an issue with a user’s behavior, begin by assuming good faith. While disruptive behavior is hurtful and distracting, unless there is clear evidence the user is seeking the Wiki’s harm, we should always assume the editor involved is trying to make the site better, not worse. Do not involve behavior as an issue when there’s a conflict based solely on disagreement over content. Begin by addressing the editor’s behavior directly on their talk page. Be fair and understanding; again, the aim is to help the editors grow and learn, not scare them off or shame them. Show that you care and want to help them improve, as well as improve the site. If the editor is still not understanding, you may consider quoting the site policy and explaining it to them, as well as getting other staff members and community veterans to help explain the issue. At no time should an attempt to address a user’s behavior turn into a personal attack on the user, and mob mentality tactics should definitely not be used on the wiki against any user. At all times, consider the Wiki’s policies and rules, and their proper enforcement. If an editor still resists change, follow appropriate suspension procedures as found in the site’s User Account policy.

Manual

• Previous: Good Faith
• Manual Main Page
• Next: Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

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Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

All Wikis face various forms of vandalism and disruptive behavior from different users. This article details how to deal with users who engage in intentional bad behavior, in accordance with the site’s User Account Policy.

Personal Attacks

Personal attacks are attacks levied against a specific user, and are usually about that user’s behavior, actions, or opinions. They are ad hominem attacks, trying to justify an action or behavior of one user by attacking the other person making the argument rather than the central issue of the argument itself. Personal attacks can be ignored if the affected user desires to do so, but it is usually best to address the issue directly. Issuing warnings are best if the attacks are isolated and appear to be a result of a momentary lapse of judgement. Further warnings and blocks must be issued if the attacks are recurring, targeted, or are particularly offensive or disruptive (such as physical threats or attacks based on race, gender, site activity, religion, nationality, etc.). While good faith should be exercised where possible, note that personal attacks are not acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki

Vandalism

Vandalism is the intentional altering of content to harm an article or multiple articles, or the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as a whole. These range from attacks on content articles, to attacks on user pages, to spam, which is unrelated linking to other websites for advertising or click-bait purposes. None of these are acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and should be met with direct and resolved action. Issue blocks where needed if the issue is not severe, but otherwise, vandalism is always addressed through permanent bans.

Trolls

Trolls are people who sow discord and seek to start conflicts on site. They’ll often do so by posting inflammatory, controversial, or off-topic messages, seeking an emotional response. They’re main goal is to disrupt otherwise normal discussion, solely for entertainment. Often, this will include harassment, and is synonymous with personal attacks. Trolling is strictly prohibited on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and users engaging in intentional disruptive behavior with such aims should be blocked or banned as needed.

Manual

• Previous: Conflict Resolution
• Manual Main Page

REWRITE FOR ADMINISTRATION MANUAL and STAFF PAGE

• Proposal: Move to KHWiki:Staff Manual
• Note: This draft actually consists of six different pages: Slight modifications to the Staff page, and a rewrite of the Admin Guide, expanding it to four pages + the introductory page.

KHWiki:Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki Staff are editors chosen to protect the wiki’s content from vandalism or edit warring, manage articles and files on site, and moderate and help resolve conflicts among users. They have additional rights and tools that allow them to carry out these tasks.

Current Staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki's current staff includes four types of editors:

• Administrators – Administrators are responsible for blocking vandals and deleting unnecessary files and pages. Also known as "sysops," they have rollback rights and can move images.
• Bureaucrats – Bureaucrats are just like administrators, but can change users’ rights as needed, such as adding users to staff groups or making changes to usernames. They are listed with the administrators in gold text.
• Moderators – Moderators are charged largely with rolling back edits. They can edit fully-protected pages, move articles without having to worry about spam restrictions, rename files, suppress redirects, delete pages, and approve edits made by IP editors and new users.
• Developers – These editors maintain the Kingdom Hearts Wiki itself. They can adjust the site's functions but do not maintain its articles and content.

Staff members who are temporarily inactive appear in grayscale. They are not able to help other editors right now, so any issues that arise should be brought to the attention of an active staff member.

Retired staff

The staff of the wiki, like other editors, are voluntary. Overtime, we've had editors come and go as members of the wiki's staff. We're grateful to each of these wonderful people who have made the wiki what it is today.

Offsite staff

The Kingdom Hearts Wiki has additional social channels and networks, including a YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages, and a DeviantArt group. These are maintained by the editors listed below. Please contact any of these if you have any questions pertaining to any of these specific accounts.

More help

• KHWiki:Staff Manual: A guide to staff rights and responsiblities
• Mailbox: A list of active editors who would love to lend a hand.

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KHWiki:Staff Manual

The Staff at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki are tasked with keeping order on site. They have many responsibilities, but they all tie back to managing content and media files, mediating in conflicts among users, and enforcing site policies and rules. They do this with additional user rights, allowing them to protect or delete pages, rollback edits to quickly revert vandalism, edit the site interface text, and temporarily block or permanently ban users for vandalism or other disruption, among other things.

This manual is designed to help members of the site staff, as well as the community, understand their rights and responsibilities.

Table of contents

1. Staff Rights and Tools
2. Good Faith
3. Conflict Resolution
4. Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

The Role of the Staff

See also: KHWiki:Staff policy

Staff members are first and foremost, editors. They still have a responsibility to the wiki itself.

The wiki staff are elected by the community of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as the community deems necessary, and are representative of the wiki's community.

Staff members show competence on the wiki, and have the edits to show their willingness, hard work, and dedication to the wiki. They are willing to work with and help other users, are level-headed, and are mature. They should be encouraging and welcoming, making a sincere effort to befriend anyone and everyone on the wiki.

They are leaders and role models on the wiki. They may not be universally popular or beloved, they may not even be friends with everyone on the wiki, but they should make an effort to do so, and at the very least, be able to work with anyone and everyone. They respond coolly, avoiding the escalation of arguments when possible. They should be approachable, and willing to work with others. Not all issues will result in happy-go-lucky, laughing, hand-in-hand results, and it's inevitable that stark differences will at times result in passionate debates, heated discussions, and extended dispute. But the staff should try and avoid escalating conflicts and finding themselves at the center of such incidents, especially too often, because it scares people off.

This is not a comprehensive list of all staff qualities, and not all staff can uphold all these qualities. Rather, a member of the staff should focus on the skills they excel at, whether that’s content-writing, template-coding, file management, or conflict-resolution. Or even just editing.

The site staff should not use any of their tools and rights to implement some sort of ownership or superiority on the Wiki. Administrators should not use their rights to gain advantages on the wiki such as blocking users they disagree with or protecting pages to preserve their own edits.

Contacting an Staff Member

An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at Special:Listadmins. You can find a manual list of the staff on the Staff page.

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Staff Rights and Tools

Members of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki’s staff have several different rights and tools in order to enforce site rules and keep order on the wiki.

Protect

An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.

• Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts. It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses. Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative. Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
• Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's copyright notice. Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so. Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
• Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.

Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.

Rollback

A Rollback is simply an instant reverting of all recent edits on a page. This option will appear next to the history and undo options in Special:RecentChanges and in page histories, as well as User Contribution lists, but only for the most recent edit. Depending on the kinds of edits, Rollback will allow an administrator to revert multiple edits at once. An administrator doesn’t have any control on how many edits can be reverted, so be careful when using this tool. Rollbacks are perfect for reverting vandalism, especially if it occurs over multiple edits. Just as with Page Protection, Rollback should not be used to preserve edits based on favoritism over quality edits.

Moving

While all can move pages, Moderators and Administrators can move pages without creating a redirect page. This allows for a clean move, and is best used if there is a misspelling in article names or if an article has been named incorrectly altogether. Additionally, Moderators and Administrators can move files. This is perfect for managing files, especially to make files meet the Media Policy.

Delete

Delete completely removes a page, its associated talk page, and the related page histories from public view. Other administrators can still view the page in Special:Undelete and in the related Delete Logs. Pages should be deleted if they are irrelevant to the ‘’Kingdom Hearts’’ series, are replaced by other pages, are unnecessary redirects created by page moves, or are pages created for spam or as a result of page-move vandalism. Images may also be deleted if they violate copyright laws and site copyright rules, are uploaded for vandalism purposes, or violate the Wiki’s Media Policy. Categories may also be deleted if they are a result of manual category renaming. Remember to remove or replace the links to deleted pages by checking in Special:Whatlinkshere. To request a page be deleted, especially if there is question about whether or not it should be deleted, add the {{delete}} template at the top of the page. A list of pages set to be deleted can be found at Category:Pages for deletion.

Blocks and Bans

An administrator can issue a block on a user's account, barring them from editing for a set amount of time. This should be done according to the wiki's User Account Policy, as a result of violations of the wiki's policies. Bans are blocks set of an indefinite amount of time, making them permanent blocks. Bans should be issued against a user who engages in disruptive behavior and shows indifference towards the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, its rules and policies, or the community. Blocks and bans should not be used to punish a user unfairly. They should be held as a last resort, especially bans. Blocks and bans are also appealable, if a fair argument can be made for removing them, including showing reformed behavior or justifiable misuse of the block.

MediaWiki

Administrators can edit MediaWiki pages, including the site’s CSS and Javascript pages and any site interface pages like the text on Special:Upload.

Manual

1. Manual Main Page
2. Next: Good Faith

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Good Faith

Public wikis like Wikipedia and the Kingdom Hearts Wiki rely on the assumption that all users are acting in good faith, which means that users on the site are trying to help the Kingdom Hearts Wiki accomplish its goals, not hurt it. This obviously doesn’t mean that one should assume good faith when a user is obviously engaging in vandalism or blatant disruptive behavior, but rather that there is a doubt, one should always assume first that the user in question is trying to help.

New Editors

It’s important to exercise good faith with new editors, as they often are not familiar with the wiki’s culture, rules, policies, or even editing wikis in general. New editors will often expect their edits to be accepted as initially presented, and they will often argue in favor of changing rules and policies that they don’t agree with. While these may seem to pose a threat to the wiki as we know it, such editors are usually trying to help the wiki grow, and their contributions and opinions should be dealt with fairly. Often, these new editors will come around and accept the wiki’s rules and policies as they are, while others will actually find their opinions and suggestions accepted by the wiki. There have been many changes to the Kingdom Hearts Wiki based on suggestions by new editors.

Disagreements

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 3

Exercise good faith when dealing with disagreements with other users, new and experienced alike. Be civil and strive to resolve the conflict. Do not engage in personal attacks or edit warring, which will get you demoted as a member of the staff and possibly blocked (see User Account Policy). It is easier to resolve the conflict if at least one side of those making the argument continue to act civilly and according to site policy, even if the other ceases to do so, and members of the wiki’s staff are obligated to act according to site policy at all times. The goal will always be to try and resolve the problem in such a way that the project as a whole improves.

Bad Faith

Bad faith is, as its name implies, the opposite of good faith. It is double-mindedness, and often involves intentional deceit of others. On the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, it’s the intention to not act according to site policies and rules. Do not assume bad faith unless there is blatant evidence (recurring vandalism, disregard for advice/warnings, consistent personal attacks, etc.). Even when bad faith is evident, continue to act civilly. For regular users and editors, such behavior, with evidence, should be reported to a member of the wiki’s staff. Efforts should be made to help the user involved change, but if not, the wiki’s policies and procedures for warnings, blocks, and bans should be implemented accordingly. Indeed, good faith doesn’t destroy or nullify the wiki’s rules, but rather emphasizes that one should assume good intentions on the part of the offending user as much as possible while still being fair and just to site policy.

External links

• Assume Good Faith – Wikipedia guidelines

Manual

1. Previous: Staff Rights and Tools
2. Manual Main Page
3. Next: Conflict Resolution

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Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution is the effort made to resolve disputes and arguments caused by differing opinions on an article’s content or specific edits made to an article. Often, these will stem from disagreement with site policies, but they may stem from things such as whether one revision is better for the article than another.

Good Faith

See also: KHWiki:Staff Manual/Part 2

When dealing with a conflict between two or more users, whether that includes you as a member of the staff or you are involved to help mediate, remember to assume good faith on the part of all parties involved.

Addressing Conflicts involving Content

In attempting to resolve a conflict, always seek to help those involved understand, learn, and grow. Do your best to act according to site rules, for disregarding them will make it difficult to side with you. Seek to keep a good discussion going with the other party or parties involved. “Discussing heatedly or poorly – or not at all – will make other editors less sympathetic to your position.” Seek to negotiate and be willing to compromise to find a solution to the conflict. Do not engage in edit warring, which will worsen the situation. If the issue is due to content, simply implement a temporary protection on the page and encourage a discussion on the article’s talk page. If it’s related to an editor’s behavior, address the issue on that editor’s talk page, not on the article talk page or other places where it will be overly public and distracting. Again, always seek to remain calm and try to resolve the issue. Focus on the content involved, not on the editor; this goes back to assuming good faith. Bringing up the conduct of an editor or attacking their behavior will only exacerbate the situation instead of making it better. Maintain this stance even if the other party or parties engage in personal attacks. It doesn’t help the situation if your response is uncivil or unkind. Consider removing yourself from the wiki temporarily if the issue gets too heated, or seek help and opinions from other staff members or the community. At no time should you lose your temper during the conflict. Trolls and personal attacks will not be tolerated on this wiki.

Addressing Conflicts involving User Behavior

As always, if there’s an issue with a user’s behavior, begin by assuming good faith. While disruptive behavior is hurtful and distracting, unless there is clear evidence the user is seeking the Wiki’s harm, we should always assume the editor involved is trying to make the site better, not worse. Do not involve behavior as an issue when there’s a conflict based solely on disagreement over content. Begin by addressing the editor’s behavior directly on their talk page. Be fair and understanding; again, the aim is to help the editors grow and learn, not scare them off or shame them. Show that you care and want to help them improve, as well as improve the site. If the editor is still not understanding, you may consider quoting the site policy and explaining it to them, as well as getting other staff members and community veterans to help explain the issue. At no time should an attempt to address a user’s behavior turn into a personal attack on the user, and mob mentality tactics should definitely not be used on the wiki against any user. At all times, consider the Wiki’s policies and rules, and their proper enforcement. If an editor still resists change, follow appropriate suspension procedures as found in the site’s User Account policy.

Manual

• Previous: Good Faith
• Manual Main Page
• Next: Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

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Personal Attacks, Vandalism, and Trolls

All Wikis face various forms of vandalism and disruptive behavior from different users. This article details how to deal with users who engage in intentional bad behavior, in accordance with the site’s User Account Policy.

Personal Attacks

Personal attacks are attacks levied against a specific user, and are usually about that user’s behavior, actions, or opinions. They are ad hominem attacks, trying to justify an action or behavior of one user by attacking the other person making the argument rather than the central issue of the argument itself. Personal attacks can be ignored if the affected user desires to do so, but it is usually best to address the issue directly. Issuing warnings are best if the attacks are isolated and appear to be a result of a momentary lapse of judgement. Further warnings and blocks must be issued if the attacks are recurring, targeted, or are particularly offensive or disruptive (such as physical threats or attacks based on race, gender, site activity, religion, nationality, etc.). While good faith should be exercised where possible, note that personal attacks are not acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki

Vandalism

Vandalism is the intentional altering of content to harm an article or multiple articles, or the Kingdom Hearts Wiki as a whole. These range from attacks on content articles, to attacks on user pages, to spam, which is unrelated linking to other websites for advertising or click-bait purposes. None of these are acceptable behavior on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and should be met with direct and resolved action. Issue blocks where needed if the issue is not severe, but otherwise, vandalism is always addressed through permanent bans.

Trolls

Trolls are people who sow discord and seek to start conflicts on site. They’ll often do so by posting inflammatory, controversial, or off-topic messages, seeking an emotional response. They’re main goal is to disrupt otherwise normal discussion, solely for entertainment. Often, this will include harassment, and is synonymous with personal attacks. Trolling is strictly prohibited on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, and users engaging in intentional disruptive behavior with such aims should be blocked or banned as needed.

Manual

• Previous: Conflict Resolution
• Manual Main Page