MewWiki:User-related policies

Mew Wiki's User-related policies are put in place to ensure that users act in an acceptable way, and also focus their attention on the mainspace (i.e., not on your userspace so much). There are three User-related policies:
 * The Username policy, which outlines what types of names are unacceptable.
 * The Userspace policy, which outlines what is not acceptable in one's userspace and what limitations on userspace editing are put in place.
 * The Signature policy, which outlines what is acceptable in a user's signature and how to go about customizing your signature.

Username policy
The Username policy prevents users from registering with offensive usernames. This policy will be kept very brief: Remember, due to a wiki's nature, special characters are allowed in usernames, including tildes, characters not found on a normal keyboard, and even Japanese characters.
 * Usernames must not contain offensive content such swear words or derogatory terms.
 * Usernames must not execed 25 characters in length (including spaces).

Userspace policy
The Userspace policy has been enforced to ensure that users put effort into the mainspace articles of Pokérata, not just their userspace. Users must remember that Mew Wiki is a wiki — an informative directory — not a social networking site.

As per the current userspace policy, users are allowed no more than three (3) edits to their userspace per day (exceptions can be made for users testing in their sandbox, which is located at User:Username/sandbox. Users must also seek permission to edit pages in another user's userspace (removing broken links is an exception).

The userspace policy forbids certain types of material from userspaces. Prohobitied materials includes, but is not limited to:
 * Pornographic material (includes any external links to such material).
 * Excessive swearing. Minor swears here and there are fine, but remember to keep your userspace PG13.
 * Embedded flash games, mazes etc.
 * Other nonsense and useless material — we are not a social networking site.

Signature policy
The signature policy is enforced to ensure that each user's signature meets certain requirements, and to avoid certain coding from being used in signatures. The signature policy also outlines how users can customise their signatures. The policy itself is as follows:
 * Signatures must reflect your username. Signatures must either contain the user's username, or an abbreviation that clearly defines who left the message. For example, User:Joeseph may shorten his signature to say "Joe", which is accetable. However, "Pikachu Lover" will not cut it for User:Joseph's signature, because it does not reflect his username. It is, however, permissable to use other languages in your signature (such as Japanese characters).
 * Signatures must link to your userpage. By default, signatures do this. It is also advised that you link to your talk pages as well.
 * Signature must be no longer than 200 characters in length. When a user creates a custom signature, he or she must limit the coding to no more than 200 characters including spaces and formatting such as  etc. Signature length can be checked using programs such as Microsoft Word.
 * Signature templates are not allowed. Signature code must be placed directly into the signature box on your preference page, and not at User:Usernmae/sig.
 * Image are not allowed in signature. Due to characters limitations as well as server stress and limited image storage, Pokérata does not permit users to include images in their signatures.

Customising your signature
By default, your signature is simply User:Username. You may, however, wish to customise your signature with colours and special characters. If User:Example wanted to customise her signature by linked to her talk page and adding some colour and characters, she could to the following: This would result in Example Talk. She could also add some colour to her signature by typing the following: This would result in Example   Talk. Her signature is looking very good now, but she could add some effects to it if she wishes; for example: This would result in  eXample  talk~  ♪♫, which comes to a neat total of 154 characters including spaces.