BGT:Wiki Rules

Welcome to the BGT Wiki, before you begin editing may I please ask that you read the rules for this particular wiki. Please note that rules can change from wiki to wiki, so this wikis communal rules may differ from the rules of others:

Rule 1: Do not spoil the show, so if you have been in the audience of any upcoming audition, please do not talk about this until their audition has been televised. If you do this you will first be warned, then later blocked for a minimum time of two weeks.

Rule 2: No Vandalism, as in this community vandals are taken very seriously. If you are spotted as having vandalised upon the wiki, your edit will be removed from the page that you vandalised, and a message will be placed on your talk page, alongside a link to this page (In the case of anonymous users your edits may need removing manually or if you do several at least one may need to as that way you will be tagged and linked to this page). If this rule is broken a second time then you will be blocked for a minimum of a month.

Rule 3: If a user edits a page or creates a page which has nothing to do with the show it will be deleted as this wiki is for BGT acts and judges having pages so any content of audience member pages or random pages from misunderstanding wrong answers on game shows will be deleted by an admin upon their discovery. Additionally any shows outside of the BGT Brand that have a page will be deleted (BGT Brand shows include BGT, BGMT, BGT Unseen, & The Champions (Series 1), if a contestant appears upon an external show or competes on one this info should only ever be displayed on their respective page. If you do this you will first be warned, then later blocked for a minimum time of two weeks.

Rule 4: If you make an edit which is not to the wikis standards you may be asked why and will then be informed of the wikis standards in order to try and help you comply with these in future edits. There will be no punishment issued if this rule is broken as it will have an easy fix and it would be viewed as unfair to punish someone for a simple mistake.

Rule 5: Do not add categories if you do not first discuss them with an admin. If an admin disagrees with your proposed new categories then they will be removed and you will be given a warning not to add undiscussed categories again and linked to this page. However in this case that you have done so with several pages before this violation is spotted you will be blocked for a week and a message will be placed on your talk page explaining why you were blocked. If this rule is violated again you will be blocked again, however this time for a longer period of time. If you but add an undiscussed or disagreed category to one page then an admin will inform you that you should not have done that and link you to the rules page.

Rule 6: Do not display any indecent images of any kind surrounding any act. If you make a page for a burlesque act such as Tallulah Blue or a page for an act such as What A Palaver ensure that within the image the act is censoring themselves in some way. If the act does not censor themselves ensure to obtain an image where the show whether it be BGT, BGMT, or BGT Unseen censors the act so that way no nudity is shown. No nudity has been shown upon this site as of yet and we wish to keep it this way, and alongside this may we kindly ask you to never post any form of images when they are naked outside of the show upon this site in any way. If you are found to have done so you will be given a warning, and if you are seen to have broken this rule again you will be blocked for one month. If you continue to frequently break this rule after your block then your block may become more extensive each time.

Rule 7: Do not assume that any BGT Contestant or Champions contestant is on any form of external show such as The Masked Singer or The Masked Dancer until their Unmasking clarifies this. Alongside this do not assume an act progressed to the Semi-Finals and write this upon their page if this does not seem fully confirmed by the show. If this rule is broken you will first be given a warning, and then blocked for two weeks with this block possibly becoming more extensive if this is done so on a frequent basis.

Rule 8: Do not make any future Untelevised Acts pages without the proof of an image of the act backstage, on a monitor during the deliberations, their contestant card in the deliberations or their presence in the deliberations, an image of them being shown within another form of media, or an act wearing the clothes they auditioned in within a private and enclosed area in the case of Steven Goldblatt. If you cannot find an image of an act or confirmation that they auditioned from them, ensure to look for a newspaper article surrounding their audition or a Wikipedia section on their Wikipedia page or the BGT Wikipedia page if the contestant has any of these, and ensure to link to this source. If this rule is broken you will first be given a warning, and then blocked for two weeks with this block possibly becoming more extensive if this is done so on a frequent basis.

Rule 9: No usages of infoboxes as this site does not use any kind of infoboxes upon it's pages. If you do this you will first be warned, then later blocked for a minimum time of two weeks.

Rule 10: Do not deviate from the formulas that pages are written to. If you wish to write an auditions page, an episodes page, a judge or guest judge a page, an untelevised act a page, or an act a page look at the formula for how this is written first so that way your edit or page creation will not require clean-up. If you are unable to work out how to reference external material for before & after the show subheadings or subheadings of what Champions contestants do after appearing upon Champions this will be done on your behalf by an admin, as will adding images, links or categories if you lack the time to do so. You will not be punished if this rule is broken as it would be unfair to punish you for this.

Rule 11: Always remain both polite & civil when discussing subjects upon discussions boards or blog posts and if someone is seen as disobeying this rule they will be given a warning and linked to this page. If this rule is broken again then a weeks block will be given, and if this is repeated again several times a block for a longer period of time may be provided to you without warning, as the smaller blocks will be warned upon just prior to their occurrence.

Rule 12: If you are unsure how to edit something, add an image, add a category, or reference please ask either an admin or the wikis community as these people will attempt to help & support you in your learning experience. There will be no punishment issued if this rule is broken as it will have an easy fix and it would be viewed as unfair to punish someone for a simple mistake.

Rule 13: Do not make pages for unnamed acts as if you do so, these pages will be deleted. The BGT Wiki does not make pages for any unnamed acts, unless you can discover the acts name. You can ask for an acts name on the discussions board if you don't know an acts name, however wish to make them a page. However acts where but the first name is known can have pages as long as you place their talent in brackets beside them and if differing people have the same name or group names place their series in brackets beside their name, and these pages will not be deleted unless they lack information. Examples of this are Alex (Magician), Rob King (Series 13), & Deja Vu (Series 6). If you do this you will first be warned, then later blocked for a minimum time of two weeks.

Rule 14: Do not just add images or categories or both to a page without any kind of information. If this is seen having occurred then the pages will be deleted. If at least 100 of these pages are made prior to a warning you will be blocked for two weeks in order to prevent you from making more of these kinds of pages and remaking those that have been deleted. If this is seen with any number of pages beneath 100 then you will be provided with a warning and linked to this page, and if you do so again you will be blocked for two weeks as it will be clear that you went on to ignore the warning.

Rule 15: Anyone is welcome to join this community, regardless as to whether they have auditioned in the past. If an act edits their page in relation to their audition information this edit should be respected, however if an act adds information that does not quite fit the standard of their page, then this should be rewritten by an admin. If an act wants to reference a source however does not know how to do so, or does not know how to provide a reference list or both then an admin should do so for them, and explain to the act in question that they have done so upon their Talk Page. There will be no punishment issued if this rule is broken as it will have an easy fix and it would be viewed as unfair to punish someone for a simple mistake.

Rule 16: Before you make a page ensure to check to see if an act already has a page, and before you link to a page ensure you spell the name of the act you are linking to correctly so that confusion is not caused. There will be no punishment issued if this rule is broken as it will have an easy fix and it would be viewed as unfair to punish someone for a simple mistake.

Rule 17: Do not rename a page without a valid reason to do so, and if you do so with a valid reason ensure to change the acts name and links upon any other page that their name is visible upon as it is likely it was also be linked here. This has never occurred, however despite this one day someone could change a pages name without a valid reason, however this could likely be either a misunderstanding or a mistake so they will not be punished for doing so as this could be seen as unfair on them. People do not need to ask an admin if they can change a pages name as they can do so and state why as a valid reason on the reasoning as to why they renamed the pages, however it could perhaps be helpful if they were to then discover every place the act was named and / or linked upon so that way it would save both other users & admins the time of having to do so, however if a user renames a page and does not have time to change links or the acts name everywhere they are linked upon or simply forget to do so they will not be punished for this, as admins and other wiki users will be able to do so upon their behalf. Like the former segment of this rule no punishment will be provided for breaking the latter segment as it would be unfair to do so.

Rule 18: Take any suggestions that any admin or any other member of the community gives you into account. This rule cannot be broken as whether you implement the suggestion is entirely your choice so you will not be punished either way.

Rule 19: Before making a page surrounding the music any act sings to or utilises in some way during their performance try to find the music that they either sing or performs name and the artist who wrote the music. This could take time and so if you lack the time to do so and write 'an unknown song' then a member of the community can find the song title and artist on your behalf, so you will not be punished.