CorningWiki:General disclaimer

=The following are the rules for CorningWiki:=

Note: This list is not complete nor will it ever be complete. New rules and disclaimers will be added once realized.

Health

 * 1) Some content on CorningWiki may have flashing images or colors. Please beware of this.
 * 2) If your wrists or other joints are in pain, please stop what you are doing and take a 15 minute break.
 * 3) If a problem with the site and/or device being used to access and/or edit CorningWiki is upsetting you, take a deep breath and take a break.

Copyright, U.S. Law, and Creative Commons

 * 1) Do NOT submit copyrighted work without permission and proof OF that permission.
 * 2) All of the text in an article MUST be under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license for the sake of sharing information. Otherwise, the site won't work as intended.
 * 3) If you can not provide a license and/or for material, please state this. Someone else may be able to locate a source.
 * 4) An article may be created or have text entered into it so long as it does not violate the Constitution of the United States of America, is a Federal Offense, or is against a certain group of people. However, if the information that pisses off a group of people is meant for a historic reference, we will allow that.

Referencing and Citations

 * 1) Provide as much citation as you are capable of.
 * 2) If you have a link to a website representing your entry then you do NOT need to make a references section unless there is information on said page that can not be cited.

Privacy, Privacy of Individuals

 * 1) We rely on some third-party services on CorningWiki. These are used temporarily until we write our own replacements.
 * 2) Absolutely no social security numbers for the alive or deceased may be posted on CorningWiki.
 * 3) When adding photo(s) and/or video(s) of an individual and/or collective, unless this it is a celebrity and/or, more vaguely speaking, reknowned individual and/or collective, that is still among the living, so long as it is in a public space, you may add the video(s) and/or photo(s) but you MUST blur out the faces of those whom are not directly involved (e.g. innocent bystanders in the background of a photo) with the relevant situation in the photo and/or video. You can do this with Gimp. However, if requested to be taken down by those who have the legal authority to make such a request, for what ever reason, the photo(s) and/or video(s) must be removed per their request.
 * 4) You may not add the private homes and/or other personal information of an individual or collective such as, but not limited to, social security numbers, phone number, home and/or mailing address without their expressed, written consent on CorningWiki. If you represent an individual or collective, such as a nurse or aid, please state who you are and why you are representing him. This statement of your identity and your representation for them may be made public and/or private to Brandon "Theatre X" Smith which can be done by the Contact page. If you are the individual or collective in question, then you may post as you please so long as you do not violate rule #1 of the PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUALS section of this disclaimer.

Editing and Creating

 * 1) Please do NOT use Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps or any other mapping system, excluding OpenStreetMap, on CorningWiki. Please don't put a map from Google Maps on the site for that would put us in the other direction of where we're trying to go in terms of privacy protection. Instead, please use OpenStreetMap.
 * 2) Please upload article photos to Wikimedia Commons. This is so that the world can benefit from your work as well so long as they are under a Free License. CorningWiki does allow uploads of up to 10 megabytes (MB) however.
 * 3) Do NOT upload Flash videos or any sort of format that requires proprietary software to run and/or will only function with a single piece of software and/or hardware i.e. format pressuring. We must keep the formats as compatible and neutral as possible. Use only HTML5 (ogg, WebM, etc).

Images

 * 1) Do NOT upload or input an image that is a federal offense, regardless of country, such as, but not limited to, Child Pornography or any pornography to begin with.
 * 2) Do NOT use CorningWiki as a protocol for sharing, publicly and/or privately, material that violates a persons and/or collective's privacy such as, but not limited to, nude or provactive photos.

Uploads

 * 1) Do not upload malicious or deviant code, files, etc. Your account will immediately be terminated and you may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.