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This page documents an official Futurama Wiki policy.
It is a widely accepted standard that should normally be followed by all editors. Discuss potential changes on the talk page first, unless the edit is minor. |
Achievement Boosting is forbidden on this wiki. Administrators are to use their personal discretion to issue either a warning or a block.
What Is Boosting?[]
Boosting is the process of making either useless or maybe even malicious edits just to simply heighten the count of edits they have made. It includes the following.
- Making malicious edits and quickly undoing them. No harm is done to the page, but this is still boosting. The user could have spent his time actually correcting articles, information or otherwise.
- Adding useless pictures to multiple pages.
- Making multiple blogs corresponding to the amount of blogs you need to "write" to get an achievement.
- Creating nonfunctional or irrelevant categories or misusing established categories.
What is not Boosting?[]
Some things may appear to be boosting, but is not always so. For instance:
- Edit wars between a normal user and a vandal, who is trying to vandalize the page, and the user who is quickly undoing his edits. If the user is simply signing out and in again to vandalize/undo, we can tell by the IP address. All edit wars are to be reported to an Administrator.
Additionally, valid contributions with the aim of garnering an achievement is allowed. Contributors should exercise great caution in ensuring that these additions are pragmatic, useful, and accurate. Such instances will be investigated and reviewed by an administrator.
Achievement badges[]
Achievement badges were awarded automatically when certain types of edits were made. Fandom depreciated badges in 2020, which means they would not be supported any more and cannot be activated on wiki. However, if a wiki already has them active, they may still work even if they can't be changed by administrators.
Achievement badges are not active on the Futurama Wiki, so the prohibited actions listed above may no longer be applicable except in special circumstances. For example, if edits are made simply to meet the required number for applying for extra user rights.