Site Policy received its last major update April 7th, 2013, effective May 1st, 2013. 

Munkapedia, the Alvin and the Chipmunks Wiki has policies that all users, including sysops, are responsible for reading and following while using the site. There are no exceptions for those who fail to read site policy! Following policy ensures a smooth road to success on the wiki, though violations of policy will result in warnings and further consequences.

Contents 1 Creating Articles 1.1 Unacceptable Articles and Editing 2 Uploading Pictures 2.1 Fan Art  3 Council of Chipmunks Policy 4 User Rights 4.1 New Users 4.2 Council Members 4.2.1 Rollback 4.2.2 Administrators 4.2.3 Bureaucrats 5 Blocking Policy 5.1 Spammers 5.2 Vandals 5.3 Problem Users 5.4 Sock-puppets 5.5 Chat 5.6 Forum 5.7 Miscellaneous 6 Protection Policy

Creating Articles

Munkapedia allows canon articles, as they contribute nicely to the wiki, though they need to be correctly formatted.

• Canon Articles - A canon article consists of material that is considered “official” in a fan base. They need a source (like an episode or film) to support the information contained within them. They need to be on notable topics and can't be quick details, such as "Alvin's Nose." They also must have a relevant category that contains other related articles.
• Cited Articles - If an article is about a new topic like a new film or contains a controversial claim, cited sources must be included within the article’s reference section.

Unacceptable Articles and Editing

Like all wikis, Munkapedia does not allow:

• Spam - Any edit or post that seeks to advertise an irrelevant product or scam users.
• Vandalism - such as "HELLLOOOOOOOOO HONEY BUNSSSSSSS!!!!!!!"
• Profanity - such as “Fuck you!”, “Shit”, or “Whore”
• Opinions - Personal thoughts are not allowed on any main article, talk, or gallery pages. Please keep opinions on user pages or blogs only.
• Unrelated articles - Articles with no relevance to the wiki, such as "Simon Cowell" or "Harry Potter"
• Fan fiction (Fanon Articles) - Fan fiction is no longer allowed on Munkapedia, however, these types of articles are allowed on our sister site, Chipmunk Fanon Wiki.

For additional help on how to be a beneficial editor, read the Wiki's Manual of Style. 

Uploading Pictures

We welcome pictures, but they need to meet these guidelines. Please read this and the next section carefully before uploading any pictures to the wiki.

Types of Images

• Personal Pictures - Any pictures of you and/or family members can only be used for your Avatar. If they are uploaded and used anywhere else (including blogs) or not at all, they will be subject to deletion. Linking to a personal pic in a blog is an acceptable alternative. Please remember that this wiki is not Facebook.
• Irrelevant Pictures - Any pictures that do not deal with the franchise can be used for your Avatar and on your user page or in a blog only, though you're encouraged to link to the picture in a blog instead of uploading it. Personal advertisement also falls into this category. 
• Inappropriate Pictures - Any picture that promotes and/or demonstrates violence, child endangerment, drugs, or illegal behavior is not allowed and will be deleted regardless of where the picture is on the wiki.
• Official Images -  Any picture that displays the original artwork used in the official production of the series or film. These kinds of images are the only type of image allowed for representing the characters on the main pages (including galleries) and are the preferred type of image anytime the characters are referenced. Official images can include those that have had the background of the image removed but the character art itself is unchanged.

Image Quality - Please do not upload any picture with poor quality. Pictures of your television and full screen shots of pictures online are highly discouraged. These images don't add much for the viewer and will be deleted.

Fan Art 

Any image that is created or modified by a fan falls under our loose definition of "fan art." Since Munkapedia does not allow fan fiction, fan art must be closely reviewed. Unlike text fan fiction, which is allowed on blogs, images that are considered to be fan fiction will be deleted regardless of where they are on the wiki. Those images that are allowed can only be posted on a user page or blog. Any picture not on one of these types of pages or placed on a main page will be deleted.

What Fan Art falls directly as fan fiction?

• Recolored Official Images - Any image consisting of official artwork that was modified to have different colors. Examples include, but are not limited to, changing the color of Alvin's hoodie from red to green or giving Simon purple eyes and long yellow hair. These are not art and are unacceptable, period.
• Unconfirmed Images - Any image that has not be confirmed to be official artwork. An example could include a picture of a "new" character from an unconfirmed film. This wiki does not spend or endorse rumors.
• Unofficial Images - Any image representing an event or action that does not take place in one of the series or films. Pictures with content added to them are also included in this definition. 
• Modified Official Images - Any official image that has been modified in any other way not listed in the "Modified Official Images" section below.

What Fan Art doesn't specifically fall under fan fiction?

• ​Hand-Drawn Images - Any hand drawn official character or scene that is recognizable. Not to be offensive but badly drawn artwork is not acceptable and can be deleted.
• Modified Official Images - Any official image that has had text added to it and/or the light intensity of the background modified. Any color or content changes are not acceptable. Modified Official Images are not encouraged but are allowed to a limited extent. 

Council of Chipmunks Policy

The Council of Chipmunks makes all the decisions for Munkapedia including, but not limited to, blocking problem users, making new policies, removing unworthy council members, granting users sysop tools, and adding council members. Any user who has contributed to the wiki nicely may be voted into the council, which gives them Rollback rights automatically. All members in the council have equal power. New editors are to be told of their opportunities at joining the council and must be directed on the right path by the council members to maintain success. (Use this template {{Template:Council Opportunities}})

All members must be active (logging-in at least one time per week and editing at least one time every two weeks) and cannot log-in only once a month. If a member is to be gone for more than two weeks, they must inform the rest of the council as to why they will be gone and when they expect to be back.

All decisions are made through discussions on the council talk page. A discussion can be started by any member of the council and is open for two weeks after the date a motion is proposed. If a council member does not vote in time, their vote will not count. A proposal needs at least two supporting votes or the majority vote, whichever is larger, in order to go into affect. A proxy can be chosen to replace an absent member's vote in the event of a tie or vote by a single member. All discussions and decisions must be archived for community viewing.

No council member has more power than a new editor; they have just been entrusted to make decisions. Council members are encouraged though to promote beneficial editing from new editors. All users are allowed to voice their opinions. If a council member ever tries to stop any user from voicing their opinions, they will lose their position automatically and without voting.

User Rights

New Users

New users of Munkapedia will be welcomed immediately and accepted warmly. No council member is to ever berate them on their status or silence them, no matter what tools they have. Due to Munkapedia having five council members, the process of taking new users into the Council category and removing them will be as follows.

• A council member who is not up for demotion will nominate a user they find worthy of the position.
• The Council will discuss whether or not to accept the user, and if they disagree, they must provide a sensible reason or their objection will be considered null and void. Also, a straight "Yes" or "No (because)" must be given. A "Maybe" or an "I don't care" is not acceptable for any discussion.
• If the majority of the active council agrees, the user will become a member. If they choose to accept the responsibilities of the position, they will be taken out of the "new user" category and accepted as a major Chipmunk editor.
• If the user abuses their position and/or is blocked for spam or vandalism, they will lose their position without discussion and permanently.
• A member can also be demoted if they become inactive or are voted out of the council by majority vote for a reasonable reason.

Council Members

Rollback

If a user is accepted into the council, they will automatically be given Rollback, though it could be the other way around. Rollback is an extra tool that allows one to quickly revert bad edits or vandalism by having a "rollback" link next to the "undo" link in an article's history section. This tool is not a form of power, but an additional benefit intertwined with the position as a council member, the real honor. If a user abuses this tool, they will lose it and, by vote of the council, could lose their role in the council as well.

Administrators

Administrators, usually simply called "Admins," are simply the senior editors of Munkapedia. They have been given special tools, such as the ability to delete pages, that allow them to clean up the wiki a bit more than the average user, making them somewhat the janitors of the wiki.

Admins have no individual power, and they are equivalent to the Council of Chipmunks. However, when the council is at a major disagreement, the Admins do finally become more than just users with extra tools. The council is to be temporarily disbanded and the Admins will decide on the matter on the admin talk page. When the decision has been decided, the Admins will once again be considered as normal users.

When an Admin goes inactive for more than six months and their tools are being wasted, they will lose their rights and position on the council automatically. If another council member that can be trusted with the tools at that time is available, they may receive them. If an Admin abuse their privileges, they will lose them.

Currently, the active Admins are SJ4evr, Marchbaby, and DEmersonJMFM.

Bureaucrats

Bureaucrats, usually simply called "Crats," have the ability to grant user rights, in addition to the rights of an Admin. Though they have the power to control user rights, the Crat does not decide whether to give or remove these rights, the council makes this decision.

The role of a Crat is only given to the most trusted users of the community and should not be given lightly. A bureaucrat nominee must currently be an Admin who has never been blocked and has actively edited for at least three months after becoming an Admin. This role should only be given when there are less than three active Crats. 

When a Crat goes inactive for more than six months and their tools are being wasted, the council will vote on whether or not they should retain their rights and role on the council. If they abuse their privilege, they will lose it. 

Currently, the active Crats are SJ4evr, Marchbaby, and DEmersonJMFM.

Blocking Policy

Blocking is when spammers, vandals, and problem users and IPs, along with alter ego accounts of these users and IPs, lose their ability to edit Munkapedia for a certain amount of time. Admins can block spammers and vandals without a vote from the council.

Spammers

Spam (not to be confused with vandalism) consists of any edit or post that seeks to advertise an irrelevant and/or inappropriate product or scam users through unwanted advertising or linking specifically to another website with the purpose of subjecting users to such. There a ZERO TOLERANCE for spam and is to be dealt with swiftly and severely. Extensive spamming is to be reported to the VSTF.

Consequences for Users & IPs

• First Offense: The user is automatically blocked permanently.

If the user tries to return with a new account and are caught, their "alter-ego" account will be blocked permanently as well.

Vandals

Users - Vandal is the term for someone who tampers negatively with pages, such as removing content and adding inappropriate (vulgar, gibberish, etc) content.

Consequences for Users

• First Offense: A warning is given informing them to stop their behavior.
• Second Offense: The user is automatically blocked for one week.
• Third Offense: The block on the user is extended to three months.
• Fourth Offense: The block on the user is extended to six months.
• Fifth Offense: The block on the user becomes permanent.

A block can be longer depending on the damage created. If the user tries to return with a new account and are caught, both they and their "alter-ego" account will be blocked for one year unless they were blocked permanently.

Consequences for IPs

• First Offense: A warning is given informing them to stop their behavior.
• Second Offense: The IP is automatically blocked for two days.
• Third Offense: The block on the IP is extended to one week.
• Fourth Offense: The block on the IP is extended to three months.
• Fifth Offense: The block on the IP is extended to six months.
• Additional Offenses: The IP is blocked for an additional six months.

A block can be longer depending on the damage created. An IP account should almost never be blocked permanently.

Problem Users

Problem users are user accounts who say they are editing constructively, when in reality they are just being troublesome and annoying. A user can be seen as a problem user if they are, but not limited to, copying-and-pasting pages from Wikipedia or other sites to create new articles, constantly adding false or irrelevant information to articles, or extensively violating the Wiki's Manual of Style. 

Consequences for Problem Users

• First Offense: A warning is given informing them to stop their behavior.
• Second Offense: If the Council of Chipmunks decides to block the problem user, they will be blocked for six months. If only one council member is active, they can block a user if required.
• Third Offense: The block on the user is extended to one year.
• Fourth Offense: The block on the user becomes permanent.

A block can be longer depending on the damage created. If the user tries to return with a new account and are caught, both they and their "alter-ego" account will be blocked for one year unless they were blocked permanently.

Sock-puppets

Sock-puppets, or "alter-ego" accounts, are user accounts made by the same person who has already created an account that has been blocked as a result of being deemed a spammer, vandal, or problem user. If a sock-puppet admits who they are the minute they are accused of being one, they may not receive an additional block as policy states, or they will be given a second chance and not be blocked at all, depending on the damage they've caused. Suspected sock-puppets will be closely monitored by the Council of Chipmunks while extremely suspicious and obvious sock-puppets may be blocked instantly. A former vandal needs to work twice as hard to get into the Council.

Chat

This Wiki has a chat feature that allows multiple users to communicate between each other instantly. Those users who abuse this feature by using profanity or by being disrespectful can be blocked from using it. Chat Moderators do not have to get a vote from council to block a user from chat.

Consequences for Users

• First Offense: A warning is given informing them to stop their behavior.
• Second Offense: The user is automatically blocked for one week.
• Third Offense: The block on the user is extended to three months.
• Fourth Offense: The block on the user becomes permanent.

Forum

Munkapedia’s forum, The Chipmunks and Chipettes, is an affiliated third party site that replaced our old forum. If you decide to register to become a member of this forum, you will be subjected to their rules and blocking policies.

Miscellaneous

Users with unacceptable user names, such as "Shit" will be blocked infinitely, though if they return as sockpuppets, they will almost always get a second chance.

Protection Policy

Since this wiki is very liberal, few pages will be protected by Admins. Only almost perfect images, templates, and the admin talk pages will be fully protected to sysop level. Main character and couple pages are protected against moves to sysop level. Pages with a high amount of vandalism or those that are currently involved in an editing war can be protected, usually temporary. Users with sysop tools should not protect their user pages to sysop level, unless it has been hard-hit by vandalism. Some high traffic pages are protected to prevent edits by IPs and can only be edited by users that have an account, though the vast majority of pages can be edited by anyone.