Conlang:Policies

Identity
If you forget to log in before editing, that is fine; however, you should avoid using your IP address and remember to log in as soon as possible before editing, since a username gives you an identity to tie to the conlang in question. While encouraged, logging in isn't obligatory.

Sock-puppetry is disallowed. All alts ought to be identifiable with regards to the main account. Sockpuppets will be banned indefinitely, while their holders will get progressively larger bans.

Conduct
Please remain civil and refrain from edit warring, abusive language and harassment. If there any disputes, get in touch with an administrator rather than letting them get out hand. As this is a wiki the vast majority of pages can be edited by anyone and so please assume good faith.

Vandalism and Spam
Both vandalism and spam are unacceptable offenses. The punishments for both range from one year in length to ninety nine years. The spammer always receives the full punishment, while vandals' punishment may vary depending on severity of offense.

Special mention goes to forking. Putting a link to a fork of this wiki will, at first, earn you a warning, followed by bans in increasing length for each subsequent offense.

Circumvention of bans is cause for an IP-ban and doubling of punishment.

English
Although this wiki is open to speakers of all languages, main aritcles and templates should be written in English. Pages in other languages are acceptable only if the information is: Otherwise, the page may be subject to deletion for purposes of housekeeping. Exceptions to this rule are the very oldest of pages we have on the wiki.
 * 1) In a widely spoken and understood language
 * 2) Extensive and detailed

IPA
Though English is more or less the dominant language on the Internet, pronunciation can vary quite considerably (even among native speakers). There are numerous native English dialects and non-native speakers of English may speak with one of countless accents depending on their native language, degree of knowledge of native English pronunciation and the dialect they try to imitate - because of this IPA should be used to specify the pronunciation of the sounds of your conlang rather than phonetic analogies to other languages' pronunciation, such as "a as in father". Such phonetic comparisons may be added for reference, but only alongside a standard IPA transcription.

For those unfamiliar with IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet), a detailed article can be found here and to listen to the sounds of IPA go see here.