Guidelines

"There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie."

- Randy Meeks

The following is a series of guidelines and so-called "Rules" for and serves as a supplement to the FAQ (Friggin' Annoying Questions).

Wikipedia
DO NOT COPY ENTIRE ARTICLES FROM WIKIPEDIA Wikipedia is a tremendous resource and I encourage anyone to take advantage of it, but I cannot emphasise enough the importance of not blindly copying articles from Wikipedia or from other Wikis for that matter. Other Wikis allow the practice, but this one does not. You may reference articles from Wikipedia and copy short passages (no more than one or two small paragraphs for the sake of context), but do not copy entire articles. There are several reasons for this.


 * 1) It's lazy: Part of the fun is in the creation as Doc Frankenstein might say. Why would anyone bother to come to this Wiki when they can just go to Wikipedia for the exact same information? A wiki filled with copied articles gives one the impressions that we are not truly dedicated to the craft. Would Freddy Krueger be where he is today if he just did the same old thing as everybody else?
 * 2) Credit: It's unfair to ride on the coat tails of somebody else's work without giving the author's due credit.
 * 3) Unreliable Sources: It may sound odd, but even Wikipedia is not perfect. With zillions of articles, it's next to impossible to determine exactly where the information is coming from. Some Wikipedia articles have been plagiarized from other websites and these violations are not always noticed right away. Through no fault of your own, by swiping information from Wikipedia, you may in fact be violating somebody else's intellectual copyright. Better to be safe than sorry.
 * 4) We can do better: As a site that specializes in the horror genre, it is the project's goal to be better than Wikipedia, at least so far as it relates to all things horror. Wikipedia also has restrictions on certain elements and a strict manual of style, which differs from what we are attempting to create in our own little laboratory over here. Remember...we are the Frankenstein. They're just Frankenberry.

If you see an article containing more than three paragraphs of content copied from Wikipedia, please insert the   template at the bottom of the page. This will categorize the article under Wikipedia Content allowing other editors to know which articles need to be improved.

Exceptions to the rule: An exception to this rule is if you are the primary author of the material retrieved from Wikipedia or another Wiki. Again, this only applies if you are the primary author, not necessarily the one who created the article. In such cases, please place the   template on an article's discussion page with a link to the original source in the message line so that others can verify the validity of your work.