MIPS Hole Wiki/Rules and Guidelines

In order to interact with the wiki, you must follow these rules in regard to the community and the creation of pages. If you ever need help, feel free to join the MIPS Hole Discord to ask for help. The server is linked on the main page.

General Rules

 * 1) Be civil: Treat other users with the respect they deserve, and don't be intentionally offensive or rude to other members. Vulgar language is allowed, but offensive comments (e.g. slurs) towards other users will not be tolerated.
 * 2) Be mature: There's nothing wrong with being silly, but please act mature and respectful to other users. If a user tells you to stop doing something that is annoying them, then stop doing it.
 * 3) Keep roleplay to a minimum: Roleplay is good for expanding ideas and creating an interactive experience, however roleplay should be kept to the comment section and dedicated forum posts. Out-of-character forum posts or threads should not have any instances of roleplay.
 * 4) No backseat moderation: Don't try to act like a moderator when you see a user breaking the rules, you're giving them the attention they desire. Instead report it to a staff member. Simply telling someone to stop doing something is okay, but don't take it too far.
 * 5) No spam: Do not spam at all, whether it be continuous posting or screen-filling Zalgo messages. It is a pain for normal users to see, and for admins to clean up.
 * 6) No sockpuppets: Do not use a sockpuppet account to evade a block. This'll just result in another block. The only instance we allow alternative accounts is for lore purposes, however this is ill-advised.
 * 7) Keep tophats: If a tophat, AKA a template, is placed on your page by a member of staff, do not remove it. It was put there for a reason. If you believe your page has been wrongfully given a tophat, contact staff about it. If you are writing a page meant to be a joke or in an alternate canon, please remember to insert them into your page, as it may cause confusion. In no way should you ever remove star article tophats, or add them to page unless you are an admin.
 * 8) Don't necropost: Necroposting is posting on an old and inactive thread with an unnecessary remark. This is annoying because people will get notified of this, and the reply is usually not relevant or helpful at all. If a comment or forum thread has been inactive for more than a week, you shouldn't respond. Instead, try making your own forum post.
 * 9) Do not self-advertise: Posting related videos you've made is fine. Making a page on locations & anomalies in your videos is fine. Making a page on yourself is fine if you have sufficient content (Around 5 videos). But don't make pages about things totally unrelated to SM64 to advertise something like your Roblox game, or advertise your random wikis in the forums. This rule for the most part doesn't apply to the Discord server unless you're like being really excessive.

Page Guidelines

 * 1) Remain formal: Write in standard English with proper punctuation and grammar. Keep a formal tone while writing, and write the page as if you're reporting on a discovery second-hand.
 * 2) Keep in style: Keeping within the wiki style can be hard. Use other pages as a pointer as to how you should write your page and try to keep the use of sub-headings to a minimum.
 * 3) Edit cautiously: Be cautious on what pages you edit. All pages are treated as public on the wiki, although a page's original creator has the right to undo your edits if they conflict with their desires. Usually, any pages that are based off anything on the Iceberg are usually fair game.
 * 4) Stay with the lore: There's an attempt to keep our tone and lore consistent between pages, so read the Community Canon if you're stumped. As a general rule of thumb, try to write as if it was an intended feature without any malice or creepiness behind it.
 * 5) Don't gamejack: If your page is building off of a specific concept created by a specific individual (i.e. NINT), you need to ask them for permission first. Gamejacking is adding on to someone's story or idea without their consent. Gamejacking pages will likely be deleted, but if the admins are feeling lenient, they'll just ask you to remove any references to what the page was gamejacking. If this is a repeated offense and is done intentionally, expect to be blocked.

Exemplar Pages
Here are a few pages that are good to use as a building ground. Do not feel bad if you cannot reach the level of quality nor the length of these pages but do strive to be like them.
 * Icon2.png Dynamic Level Rearrangement
 * Icon2.png MariOS 64
 * Child of Big Bob-omb
 * Salty Salty Shore