Dokapedia:Content policy

As per the Miraheze global policy, this document serves as the Content Policy for the English-language Dokapon Wiki.

Rationale

 * To support Dokapedia's mandate to produce perpetually free content for unlimited distribution, modification, and application by all users in all media.
 * To minimize legal exposure by limiting the amount of non-free content, using more narrowly defined criteria than apply under the fair use provisions in United States copyright law.
 * To facilitate the judicious use of non-free content to support the development of a high-quality resource on the Dokapon franchise.

Policy
By its very nature as a wiki focused on proprietary, Dokapedia utilizes an abundance of non-free content. This is the policy which seeks to clearly elaborate on what sort of content is and is not okay for use on this Dokapedia.


 * 1) Dokapon only. The only non-free content allowed on Dokapedia must be from clearly established Dokapon franchise properties.
 * 2) No free equivalent. Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same educational purpose.
 * 3) Restrictions on specific media. Non-free content must not be in an animation, audio, or video format. Only the use of images and text is allowed.
 * 4) One-article minimum. Non-free content must be used in at least one article.
 * 5) Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be unhelpful to that understanding.
 * 6) Restrictions on location. Non-free content can only be used for pages in the article and community namespace, subject to limited exemptions. However, non-free content cannot be used for list articles. (To prevent an image category from displaying thumbnails, add   to it; images are linked, not inlined, from talk pages when they are a topic of discussion.)

Enforcement

 * A file with a valid non-free-use rationale for some (but not all) articles it is used in will not be deleted. Instead, the file should be removed from the articles for which it lacks a non-free-use rationale, or a suitable rationale added.
 * A file on which non-free use is claimed that is not used in any article may be deleted seven days after notification.
 * Failure to include a licensing template will lead to the media file being deleted within 7 days after being tagged with warning messages.

Sourcing
Editors are strongly encouraged to make note of the non-free content's source on the its description page; many of the non-free rationale templates already include a field for this information.

The source information should be sufficiently complete to allow any editor to validate that material. While completeness is not required, editors are encouraged to provide as much source information as they can. Some ways to source media files include:
 * Scanned images: Identifying the published work, page numbers, and the copyright owner
 * Screenshots: Identifying the movie, television show, or other video source, its copyright owner, and the approximate timestamp where the shot or clip was taken
 * Images from the Internet: Identifying the URL of the image itself or web page hosting the image, and the image's copyright owner (not necessarily the same as the website's).

Acceptable use
The following cases are a non-exhaustive list of established examples of acceptable use of non-free media on Wikipedia. Note that the use of such media must still comply with the content policy and provide rationales and licensing information.

Text
Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea. In all cases, an inline citation following the quote or the sentence where it is used is required. Copyrighted text that is used verbatim must be attributed with quotation marks or other standard notation, such as block quotes. Any alterations must be clearly marked, i.e., [brackets] for added text, an ellipsis (e.g. ) for removed text, and emphasis noted after the quotation as "(emphasis added)" or "(emphasis in the original)". Extensive quotation of copyrighted text is prohibited.

Images

 * 1) Character sprites are nice because they are small.
 * 2) Promotional artwork for the games is also great because its use provides for greater respect to commercial opportunities.
 * 3) Higher resolution depictions of a character placed on an article about said character is fine.

Unacceptable use
The following is a non-exhaustive list of examples where non-free content may not be used outside of the noted exceptions.

Bad text

 * 1) Unattributed pieces of text from a copyrighted source (Especially anything unrelated to Dokapon).
 * 2) Excessively long copyrighted excerpts with little to no relevance to the article.
 * 3) All copyrighted text poses legal problems when making spoken word audio files from Dokapedia articles, and should be avoided in such files, because the resulting audio file cannot be licensed under the GFDL.

Bad images

 * 1) Pictures of people.
 * 2) A knife, cropped from a record album, to illustrate the article about Dokapon knives.
 * 3) Fanart used without permission.
 * 4) An image with an unknown or unverifiable origin.
 * 5) A chart or graph. These can almost always be recreated from the original information.
 * 6) An original image which anyone might find morally objectionable even if it has to do with Dokapon.

Audio files
Non-free audio files are in no circumstances allowed on Dokapedia. Dokapon has very limited audio content, so what remains is the game's original soundtrack.

Readouts of character dialogue are similarly not okay.

Categories and user-created montages
In categories that include non-free content, MediaWiki's __NOGALLERY__ code should be used to disable the display of the content while still listing it.

User-created montages containing non-free images should be avoided for similar reasons. Within the scope of NFCC#3a, such montages are considered as multiple non-free images based on each non-free image that contributes towards the montage. If a montage is determined to be appropriate, each contributing non-free item should have its source described (such as File:Versions of the Doctor.jpg). A montage created by the copyright holder of the images used to create the montage is considered a single non-free item and not separate items.

Pages in userspace consisting solely or almost exclusively of non-free content are eligible for speedy deletion.

Exemptions
Certain non-article pages are exempt from the non-free content policy. These uses are necessary for creating or managing the Dokapon Wiki, such as special pages and categories that are used to review questionable non-free content uses. Article images may appear in article preview popups.

Potential violations
Possibly inappropriate uses of non-free content should be immediately reported to an active Dokapedia administrator's talk page and then deleted.