Terraria Fan Ideas Wiki:Adoption Policy

 Before reading this, be sure to check our Deletion Policy first!

In an event when certain article doesn't meet our criterias or does not follow general guidelines, that article might (And probably will) be deleted or entirely removed from the wikia.

In such event, said article can be adopted by a volunteer to take care of.

How does adoption system work?
Upon page's deletion, an Administrator or another authorized staff member will post a global notification about it being available to adopt on Idea Adoption Board. This message will stay there for one week or longer depending on staff member's decision.

Users willing to adopt an article should reply to aforementioned message. If the compromise between both staff and chosen person has been reached, the page will be granted to him/her and the notification will be deleted.

It's not possible to offer your custody over it once an article has been already adopted.

How can I adopt a page?
If you are interested in taking over that page you should answer the message, then clearly and politely explain why would you wish to get it in your possession. In case there will be more than one volunteer available, the active staff will decide which person should become the delegat - Time being most important element.

Such factors as previous bans/kicks, profane language, vandalism or general rudeness also matter and, as such, you might not receive a page if you showed lack of responsibility over your own pages before (Example: Unfinished pages, many broken links, lack of content, etc.).

What rights have I got over my adopted page?
You have full rights to change whatever you wish as long as the general concept and role stays the same.

If you wish to make an entirely new idea, just use the Contribute button. How can I put my idea to adoption? Your idea will be automatically posted on the Idea Adoption Board to adoption.

In case, however, you have lost interest in your current article or project, you can request an Admin or another authorized person to find a new, rightful owner for it.

Can I re-take an idea once it's adopted?
No, you cannot do that. It being adopted means that you either forgot about it entirely or waived of your rights to it. Either way, the page now belongs to another user.

This doesn't mean, however, that you can't try to ask current owner if he could give it back to you. Most people on our site are very friendly and mature users.

What happens if the idea fails to be adopted?
In an event nobody volunteered to take a page into their custody, such page will be deleted as normal. It can be then revived once again if new owner was found since.

Reviving old pages:
Since posting every and each suitable page would cost us too much time (And will!) older pages will accessible to adoption by first sending a request over to the Administrator and asking politely.

If you wish to do so, write clearly page's title, short description to make sure we'll be looking for the right article, and (If you know it) link to its author's wall.

Afterwards, chosen page will be granted you shortly.

Page Limitations:

Even though almost all deleted ideas can be adopted, there are certain limitations to this. For example, you cannot delete a page when:


 * Said idea was a "troll" page meaning it was made only as a joke or as general harassment tool.
 * Said idea was a spam page.
 * Idea's title or content was alluding to sexual or vandalistic content and alike (Doesn't pertain to situations when article's content was purposely vandalized by another user. In fact, such page should never even get here).
 * Said idea was an advertisement tool (This is categorized under Spam).
 * Said idea was connected to much bigger project (This is only relevant if the main page and all subpages are so tied to each other that they cannot function alone. For example: Mothron & Moth Egg).
 * Ideas that lack any or most of the content also won't be put over to adoption (Because of the fact there's nothing to adopt).

Administrator's Guidelines:

 * Keep open mind and be equally supportive to all volunteers - Don't favor some contestants over the others. It's just not fair.
 * In an event you happen to be one of the people willing to take over a page, hand decision to another mature staff member you trust.
 * Don't hand an idea over to the user if you do not feel it's the right thing. For instance: If an user was vandalizing other articles in the past, if an user could not and still can't properly format his articles, if an user has tendency to forget about his/her articles and so on. Judge accordingly.
 * That a cow drinks water and still hands us milk (Testing whether someone even reads that).
 * When posting a notification about available adoption:
 * TBA
 * When closing a notification about available adoption:
 * TBA
 * When informing an user about succesful adoption:
 * TBA