Emmy The Robot Fandom Wiki:Content policy

On this wiki, we aim to build a comprehensive knowledge base about the world of Dominic Cellini's webcomic Emmy the Robot and the works of its many creative fans. Our content policy outlines some principles explaining what exactly is to be documented here, and how.

Questionable content

Emmy the Robot, our primary canon source material and our greatest inspiration, is cute, wholesome, and family-friendly.

Its fandom, however, is not.

It so happens that a significant part of the Emmy the Robot fan community is concentrated on the Comics and Cartoons (/co/) board on 4chan, a site that is somewhat notorious for a variety of reasons. It is the place where much, if not most, of the fan-created content documented on this wiki originates, and it is the place where the administrators of this wiki met each other in the first place. A lot of the community’s fan creators also have a presence on social media platforms such as Twitter, where they often dabble in suggestive or explicit content.

Because of this, fan content unavoidably comes with some weird baggage. While there are many fan-made characters and stories that share the webcomic's wholesome nature, there is also content that deals with darker or more mature themes, features swearing, sex or violence, or is even outright created for the purpose of being shocking or offensive. And while it is often uncomfortable for us to deal with these things, we have to acknowledge them in order to present a complete record.

It is therefore important to set the readers' expectations straight: not everything you will see on this wiki will share the innocent, family-friendly nature of Emmy the Robot. Some content documented here might be considered Not Safe For Work. Other content might be perfectly safe, but may originate from NSFW sources. For example, a popular innocent fan character may originate from a 4chan post sharing the same thread with reprehensible, offensive posts. Such a thread must be cited as a source and linked to accordingly.

Nevertheless, we do not allow outright explicit material on this wiki, and we have rules to regulate the usage of questionable content in general:

1. Pages that feature or refer to questionable content must be prefaced with the appropriate warning. Everyone's sensibilities for what can be considered questionable are different, so err on the side of caution.
2. Questionable content must be kept away from pages that primarily focus on canon material. Such content is absolutely not what most people coming to read about canon material will want to see. Links to NSFW fanfiction featuring canon characters must stay on the Fan stories subpage and not be included onto the main page.
3. Graphic imagery of suggestive, sexual, violent or offensive nature must not be uploaded on this wiki at all. All images should be suitable for public viewing. Again, err on the side of caution if you are unsure if an image is safe to upload or not.
4. Explicit graphic descriptions of sex or violence must not be written on this wiki at all. All text should likewise be suitable for public viewing. You can mention that a character sustained a severe injury or that two characters have a sexual relationship if you absolutely must, but don't go into all the juicy details.

Writing about own work

As per our manual of style, we ask, among other things, that articles are written from a neutral, unbiased point of view, and that sources are properly cited. However, this is often tricky when you are writing about your own work.

Try to stay unbiased when writing about your own work. Remember, you are making a page for a knowledge repository, not an entry for a "best character" contest. Also, keep in mind that how you perceive your own creation might differ from the impression others get from it.

Do not make entires on this wiki for the sake of making entries on this wiki. Ideally, the wiki should be a repository of information collected from elsewhere, not its original source. While nothing is stopping you from writing a page about a character you've just come up with and citing "own work" as a source, it is going to read a lot like "Source: dude trust me". Thus, if you have conceived of a character, consider putting information about them elsewhere first, and then citing it as a source on the wiki. It can be a post in an Emmy the Robot thread on /co/, a tweet, a short story on AO3, or even just character descriptions in a text file on Pastebin, or at the very least a screenshot of a conversation with your friends on Discord. The more verifiable the source is, the better.

Subject notability

To be added

No pages for real people

We want to see pages about a variety of fictional subjects: Nandroids, other characters, locations and so on. We also want to see pages about notable stories in which those fictional subjects appear.

What we don't want to see is pages about the people creating those characters and writing those stories. It is often hard to find reliable information about people or stay unbiased when talking about them, and, due to the unfortunate nature of some of the less well-behaved parts of the fan community, it often leads to personal attacks and bad-faith arguments about content creators. Thus, attracting undue attention to them is the last thing we want.

Spoilers

To be added