Inkipedia:Policy/User content
Inkipedia editors are expected to contribute content to mainspace articles. Inkipedia should not be used as a social platform or a fanon-driven sandbox: this content does not fall within the scope of Inkipedia. In accordance with that expectation, Inkipedia's user content policy establishes the following limits: Inkipedia users may have no more than 5 personal (non-draft) user subpages, and 7 personal user images. All pages and files exceeding the limit will be deleted at administration's discretion after at least one warning of exceeding limits.
Pages
A user page is a page in the User: namespace belonging to an Inkipedia user. They can be used for a variety of things, such as sharing more information about the user. Some user subpages may be created as well, for things such as page drafts, sandboxes/experimentation with features, fan discussion, or maintenance tasks.
Inkipedia users are permitted up to five user subpages, excluding (but not necessarily limited to) sandboxes, page drafts, site maintenance, signature pages, and "Inkipedia:" namespace projects/activities that utilize userpages (such as Inkipedia:Inkfest). Generally, user pages are excluded from the limit based on whether they have greater wiki relevance, whether it's directly helping contribute to specific editing goals, or just helping users to become broadly more familiar with the editing process. The excluded types of pages do not count towards the limit of five, so users may have as many of those pages as desired.
Files
A user file is a personal file belonging to a user for the purpose of being used on their userpage or a related userspace page. Examples include images of personal Inklings/Octolings, stats, gear, or fanart.
What constitutes a user file is purpose. Some files uploaded may be used on a namespace draft page—these are not user files as their end goal is to be integrated into a mainspace or wiki policy page. User files specifically are intended to remain in User: namespaces.
A user may also have images to use for their signature. These files, given their unique usage, will also not be considered as a user file, although their amount should be kept minimal.
A user may have up to seven personal user files. Files that are unused and/or belong to inactive users may be deleted without warning, per the image guidelines. Although requirements on user files are more lax in some ways than those expected to be used elsewhere on the wiki, they are also still generally expected to adhere to many of these guidelines, as well as other file-related policies such as the audio guidelines and the artificial intelligence policy.
Examples
- What qualifies a user image compared to a community image?
User files are limited and are likely to only be used by one person. Here is a gallery of some user images:
A community image does not count towards the limit because they are either likely to be used on multiple pages or are officially sponsored by Inkipedia. Examples include:
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Inkfest
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Logo contest submission
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Inkling of the Month
If you are wondering if a file counts as a user image, consider where it may be used. If it's exclusive to your user page or a subpage, it is a user image. If the file is going to be used somewhere else, whether on a page draft or on multiple people's user pages, it is more likely to be a community image.
Other rules
- Editing of other users' personal pages without their permission is generally prohibited, except for cases of edits done as part of general maintenance, such as updating a link or image filename, reverting vandalism, fixing disruptive broken code, etc. Unless you're fixing something site-wide, try to not do it!
- Editors are free to grant other users permission to edit any of their pages, overriding this rule.
