"The Guidelines"

Alright so Galactic Horizon has a series of bureaucratic "Guidelines" (Rules) relating to Canon Material and Pages if they want to stay.

Editing Pages
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The Owner of a page may denote a page as either: Community, Restricted, or Private


 * A Community page may be edited by anyone
 * A Restricted page may be edited only by those with permission from the owner, or within parameters established by the page's owner
 * A Private page may be edited only by the owner, any page not otherwise denoted is to be treated as Private, unless it applies to the wiki as a whole such as a technology.

Civilization Creation
You may design however many civilizations you wish, Biochemistries ideas: Carbon Based, Silicon Based, Sulfur Based, Aqua Solvent, Ammonia Solvent, Methane Solvent, and Hydrogen Fluoride Solvent.

Their is not limit to how many civilizations you can make however the scope of such a single civilization is limited to a thousand star systems.

System Creation
Feel free to make systems, if you have not had experience making star systems or planet systems please see the Guide here.

General Rules on professionalism and civility
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 * 1) Keep it civil: Do not make personal attacks on other people. If you need to criticize another user’s argument, do so without attacking them as a person.
 * 2) Don't be counter productive: Contribute to the wiki in line with the established processes and conventions. Need help? Ask an administrator! Disrupting the wiki with “edit warring” over differing opinions of a topic with another user or group of users is not productive.
 * 3) Don't harass other users: If somebody asks you to stop posting certain content on their wall, It is their wall.
 * 4) No Profanity keep profanity to a minimal use

Habitable Zone Reference

 * CH4: 90 - 111 Kelvin
 * NH3: 195 - 239 Kelvin
 * H2O: 273 - 373 Kelvin
 * HF: 189 - 292 Kelvin

Faster than light Mechanisms
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 * Bridges: Are Macroscopic Wormholes built around objects between ~1.5 - ~1,500 Solar masses within a radius of ~15 kilometers
 * Higgs Com: Are microscopic wormholes exploited through the Higgsfield, These wormholes can be used for communication which starts off at lightspeed but increases with the inverse of the square of distance

Creating A Page
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We Would prefer that all pages be 10,000 Bytes - 100,000 Bytes. When creating a project, if it is not 1,000 Bytes or more please make it a section of either: A, a major galaxy page, galaxy cluster page, or Community Page, or B, a section of a page that you have expressed permission to use.

If a page is fewer than 5,000 Bytes it must be increased by no less than 100 bytes per 7 days and 1,000 bytes per 30 days, a page with more than 5,000 Bytes but less than 10,000 must be increased by no less than 1,250 bytes every 60 days.

Removal Protocol
If a page with less than 5,000 bytes has not been increased by at least 100 bytes within 7 days, a warning will be posted on the page by an Admin. The page is susceptible to removal or transferal to another page if it has not been increased by the minimum bytes within 24 hours of being warned. The Admin is to warn the page by creating a new comment with the following text.


 * "This page is to small for wiki standards, with fewer than ZZZZ bytes, and has not grown by the minimum amount of XXXX bytes within the past YY days as stipulated under "The Guidelines". If this page is not increased by the appropriate amount needed to total ' XXXX bytes growth within the past YY days' in 24 hours it may be subject to removal, merging, or transferal to another established page. If another growth violation happens again no warning is needed for removal, merging, or transferal to another established page." insert "100" for " XXXX ", 5000 for ZZZZ and "07" for " YY ".

Ownership
The Creator of a section will retain undisputable ownership of the section for 30 days, this is extended by either; A, 7 days from the day of the last activity by the owner, or B 14 days from the last activity in the section by the owner.

The Creator of a page with more than 1,000 Bytes will retain undisputable ownership of the section for 90 days, this is extended by 60 days from the creators latest activity. A owner who is not the creator will maintain undisputable ownership for 60 days after acquisition, this will be extended by 60 days from the new owners latest activity

The Owner of a page may allow other users to make or move sections onto their page. At anytime the owner may post an eviction notice for the section creator, The section creator has 14 days from the day after the notice to remove the section, after the expiration of the 14 days the owner is allowed to remove the section as a whole.

A section or page whose creator has not been active within the timeframes set above, under "undisputable ownership", may be claimed by another user. The creator has 14 days after the day that the claim was made to refute it, or must again become an active user within the timeframe. If after 14 days no response has been given, ownership over the section or page will be given to the first claimer.


 * Active User: Has made no fewer than 2 edits within the past 7 days and 5 edits within the past 30 days.
 * Active Creator: Is an active user who has contributed at least 100 bytes of comment, blog, and/or page edits, within the past 7 days, and 300 bytes of comment, blog, and/or page edits, in the past 30 days of which at least 50 were added to articles.
 * Creator: The Creator of a page, or creator of a article section under a section or page title heading
 * Activity/Active: Blogging, Commenting, Editing, or Forum Post on the wiki

Claiming Protocol
When a current page/s and/or section/s creator/owner's undisputable ownership loses effect, then and only then can an active user make a claim to the page/s and/or section/s, A claim must be posted in the comments section by the claimant, simply stating their intentions to become the page's or subsection/s owner, a claim must be made on each individual page that the claimant wishes to claim. If a comment for a previous claim exists it is preferred that the comment be made a sub comment of the preexisting comment.

A claim, when made, to come into effect, must be relayed to the current owner, this is done by posting the claim on the owners message wall under the message title "Bureaucracy". If no message with said title exists the claimant must create a new message under the prescribed title. A claim must consist of the page/s and/or section/s being claimed with links to each one, the date of the claim. The claim must be posted by the claimant.

If the claim excludes the date, is not posted the same date as the claim posted on the page/s containing the property being claimed, has not waited the appropriate period for undisputable ownership to lose effect, or is not being made by an active user, then the claim cannot come into effect.

Creating Stars & Stellar Groups
A user may create any number of stars that they wish and may create the following star systems at will


 * Type 0 (Multiple Star System): Contains 2 - 9 gravitationally bound stars, This group may be created in any community area within the galaxy cluster
 * Type 1 (Stellar Moving Group): Contains 10 - 94 gravitationally bound stars, This group may be created in any community area within the galaxy cluster
 * Type 2 (Stellar Association): Contains 95 - 949 gravitationally bound stars, This group may be created in any community area within the galaxy cluster
 * Type 3 (Stellar Cluster): Contains Xe+3 gravitationally bound stars, This group may be created with the approval of galactic administrators or any area within the galaxy cluster not violating "proper galactic area"

Wiki Systems
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Systems of Classification on the Wiki are meant to be competitive so as to produce the best result. An established method takes precedence over upstart methods.

An additional method, meant to compete with the established method may be proposed by using the "Page Title" heading. The title of the proposed method is to be put as a page title, the writer/s are can put their name using "Paragraph" below the title as well as links to their user using the following as a hyperlink "User:Name_of_User". They may also create an endorsement section, any user that wishes to endorse a certain method may place their name adjacent the method creators and create a link to their user account. If an upstart method ever has more endorsement than the current method it will become the official wiki method. NOTE: You may endorse your own method, or the existing method, you may also remove your endorsement at anytime or any unendorsed proposal that you've made

List of Systems: Taxonomy, Guidelines, Tables.

The 6-Categories System
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Newly created Pages, having to do with the lore of the wiki should follow the Category Guidelines answering six questions: Who? What In-Universe civilization, species, place, or event is this page related to. What? What is this page about A civilization?, race?, event/storyline?. Where? Where does this take place? The Orchid Galaxy?, The whole Quasar Edge Group?. When? When does the story take place The Present?, The 1st Era?, The Ancient Past? How? Who created the Article? and Why? Why does the page exist and what function does the article serve? is it a Tool? Canon? Active Lore? Unfinished Lore? Non-Canon? A community page? Other secondary links including second Who's and What's should be placed at the very end, if multiple Where's then just put Quasar Edge and Multiple When's just answer the most recent.

Canonicity
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The Wiki recognizes two distinct types of canonicity. These are "Lore Canonicity" also called Canonicity and "Story Canonicity" also called Continuity. Two types of contradictions also exist. These are "Lore Contradictions" also called Contradictions, in which non mathematical facts regarding the lore conflict with one another and "Errors" in which spelling of names, discrepencies between dates and exact mathematical or physical calculations differ from one another.

An article, comment, blog post, section, or post on the wiki, hereafter called a claim of any other kind has Canonicity so long as it does not contain a Contradiction with existing lore outside the narration of a storyline or a quote. An exception to this rule is if both claims fall under the ownership of the same user.

Regarding priority of Canonicity between Contradictions of Claims between different Creators/Owners: If a Contradiction or Error lies between two or more Official Claims the contradiction is solved by an Admin. If a Contradiction or Error lies between a User and an Official Claim, the Official Claim takes priority. If a Contradiction or Error lies between an Owner and another User, the Owner's Claim takes priority. If a Contradiction lies between multiple Claims by the same Owner, any Claim with more than one source takes priority; If more than one Claim has multiple sources or all Claims have only one source the most recent Claim takes priority. If a Contradiction or Error lies between two or more non-Owner/Creator Claims, the earliest Claim takes priority. If an Error lies between Claims made by the same party, the most precise Claim up two four significant digits takes priority, between remaining Claims, the latest takes priority. All Claims, e.g. Articles, Comments.. etc, carry equal standing. Priority is determined primarily based on the distinctions made above

Story Canonicity deals only with items directly effecting the prose or account in the storyline itself and are entirely up to the story author. The author has no authority regarding the story outside of the storyline. False statements of lore canonicity may be made by storylines without creating a contradiction. Any claims acting as quotes within an article are given secondary canonicity to claims made outside of qoutes. Character and Narrator claims are dubbed as 'accounts'. The account of a narrator is held to be more reliable than that of an ordinary character unless the narration takes place in first person view and is not stated as objective fact. Any account is nulled of any authority if they are found to be unreliable either by a mechanicim of the storyline or by a contradiciton between wiki canon and account outside of syntax.

Accounts hold canon value in the alias section of the wikibox.