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This is a list of guidelines for editors of this wiki.

Universal rules[]

All wikis are governed by Fandom's Terms of Use in addition to local rules. These can be found at w:c:Terms of Use.

Major policies[]

The Ace Attorney Wiki is not other fan sites[]

This wiki aims to be a comprehensive guide for all things concerning everyone's favorite legal heroes. Although there are other fan sites like Court Records, the way things tend to be done on this wiki can be very different from them. As such, it is not a good idea to copy-paste content specific to other sites. Such an action constitutes plagiarism and legal issues may result from it. Moreover, other fan sites may get stuff wrong; several remnants of content copied from Court Records, for instance, have turned out to make assumptions or even be outright false.

It is better for an article to be left as a stub, inviting people to expand it, than for the article to copy other sites, which would probably discourage people from editing as the information is already there.

The Ace Attorney Wiki is not other wikis[]

Though this wiki would absolutely not be where it is today without infrastructure and ideas shared by other wikis, it has also historically largely done its own thing. Very few, if any, contributors even bother keeping up with what's going on in the larger Fandom ecosystem, never mind other wikis and wiki farms. The community should not be thought to be beholden to the standards of other wiki communities, and "other wikis do it" should not be seen as sufficient grounds for implementing a feature or policy. Just like with other Ace Attorney fan sites, the way other wikis do things may very well not be compatible with the way this wiki does things.

Policy-making process[]

Because of a lack of dedicated editors interested in site policy, discussion of such matters mostly occurs informally on Forum:Watercooler. However, policy discussions on specific matters may take place on talk pages. Current discussions are sometimes brought up in Ace Attorney Wiki:News. No policy is permanent, but policies reflect how things tend to be done on this wiki, so changes to policy should generally be subject to discussion.

Adding [[Category:Policy]] to any policy pages will add them to the policy category. This is found here.

There is a tag for policy proposals that are "in beta," but in practice it isn't used.

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