Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5277627-20190813054918

Hi everyone!

As you know, we have the 30 day rule for existing fanons (one edit per 30 days to remain active; blocked if you abandon too many fanons). The reason this exists is to prevent clutter on the wiki and because it takes quite a bit of time for admins to delete the pages.

With this in mind, recently, it has come to our attention that sometimes there are users who will continuously create fanons and then ask for them to be deleted. While we appreciate that users are informing us that they are cancelling their fanons instead of abandoning them, it does get frustrating after a while to have to be deleting the same peoples' started then cancelled fanons over and over again.

With that in mind, there has been some discussion and we are implementing a new rule:

A user may only cancel a fanon two (2) times in a period of six months.

'''If a user has cancelled two fanons in sixth months, they will be banned from creating another fanon for a period of six months. They will NOT be blocked from the wiki, meaning they can still comment, chat, etc. they will just not be able to create a fanon. Any attempt at creating a fanon during this six month ban will be automatically deleted. Repeatedly breaking this rule will result in bans.'''

I want to be very clear:

If you are currently on your third (or more) attempt at a fanon and have already cancelled two in six months, you are NOT in breach of the rule as it was not created until after your third attempt. However, if you cancel the fanon and have made more than two in six months, you will be banned from creating fanons for six months as per the new rules.

If there are any questions or feedback, feel free to comment them below. 