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-The '''Kingdom Hearts Wiki''' is neither owned by nor affiliated with [[wikipedia:Square Enix|Square Enix]], [[wikipedia:The Walt Disney Company|The Walt Disney Company]], or the creators of [[Kingdom Hearts]] in any way. The text on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA).
+The '''Kingdom Hearts Wiki''' is neither owned by nor affiliated with [[wikipedia:Square Enix|Square Enix]], [[wikipedia:The Walt Disney Company|The Walt Disney Company]], or the creators of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts (series)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' series in any way.
-*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Read the license summary]
+== The wiki makes no guarantee of validity ==
-*[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode  Read the full legal code of the license]
+The Kingdom Hearts Wiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate, or reliable information.
-By editing the wiki, you agree to license any text you add under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported). This text may be redistributed or adapted by the general public for any use as long as it is released under a similar license and the contributing authors are attributed. Our authors must agree to be credited through either a list of contributors or a link back to the original article, keeping in mind that the wiki logs all contributions.
+That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki; much of the time, you will. However, '''the Kingdom Hearts Wiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.''' The content of any given article may have recently been changed, vandalized, or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant area. Note that most other encyclopedias and reference works also have [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Non-Wikipedia disclaimers|similar disclaimers]].
-We do not claim copyright to any content that we cover on our site, including articles and images.  We do, however, reserve the right to improve the quality of said articles and images through edits.  Edits that infringe on copyright will be reverted, and images that are not credited to their creators will be deleted. All material that is not obviously written or drawn by us should be assumed to be owned by Square Enix or Disney.
+== The wiki contains copyrighted material ==
+{{Main|KHWiki:Copyrights}}
+Materials used by the Kingdom Hearts Wiki are copyrighted by Square Enix, The Walt Disney Company, and third parties that have a direct relationship with the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series. The Kingdom Hearts Wiki asserts that its use of any copyrighted material constitutes as [[wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] under United States copyright law.
+The text of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
+*[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Read the license summary]
+*[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Read the full legal code of the license]
+By editing the wiki, you agree to license any text you add under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. This text may be redistributed or adapted by the general public for any use as long as it is released under a similar license and the contributing authors are attributed. Our authors must agree to be credited through either a list of contributors or a link back to the original article, keeping in mind that the wiki logs all contributions.
+== The wiki is not private ==
+{{Main|KHWiki:Privacy policy}}
+All information found on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki is public, including anything you add to an article or on a user page about yourself. In essence, you are '''publishing''' all information that you add when posting to the site.
+The Kingdom Hearts Wiki '''does not''' require the collection of personal information from its users. Providing the Kingdom Hearts Wiki with your real name and/or email address is '''optional'''. Your IP address will be made public only if you edit without [[KHWiki:Why create an account?|logging in]] for the sake of attributing those edits. Create an account or do not edit if you do not want your IP address to be made public. If you post personally-identifiable information (e.g. name, location, birthday) and you wish to have it removed, the Kingdom Hearts Wiki will work with you to remove it.
+== The wiki contains spoilers ==
+The Kingdom Hearts Wiki maintains the policy of documenting '''all''' information about the ''Kingdom Hearts'' universe in an "omniscient" point of view. When using the Kingdom Hearts Wiki, you '''will''' find that every article contains as complete and thorough information as is possible. '''If you do not wish to have the details of any ''Kingdom Hearts'' storyline spoiled for you, it would be best if you did not use the Kingdom Hearts Wiki until you have finished playing or reading through the storyline.'''
+[[Category:Kingdom Hearts Wiki]]

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