LGBTQIA+ Wiki:Article Guidelines

All articles and edits must follow FANDOM's community guidelines (https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Fandom_Community_Guidelines) as well as those for this wiki (https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/LGBTA_Wiki:Community_Guidelines).

General Rules

 * Terms cannot be coined via the creation of an article on this wiki. You may, however, coin a term in the discussions or on someone’s message wall, and add a link to said coining on the resources/references.
 * Articles cannot promote hate speech. This includes anything that promotes TERF, truscum, or exclusionist ideology or anything that implies that these ideologies are legitimate. Making such articles can result in an indefinite ban.
 * No pages that imply paraphilic disorders are LGBTQ+.
 * Absolutely no "joke pages" or "satire pages." These pages will be treated with the same severity as if it were serious, regardless of your intentions.
 * No "identities" that were created with the purpose of passive-aggressively complaining about another identity. No "identities" that were created to give an excuse to hate on other identities.
 * Do not coin identities exclusive to minority groups you don't belong to/have no experience of. Inversely, do not coin terms that explicitly exclude people of minority groups you don't belong to (and are not on the basis of gender or sexuality). Additionally, do not make pages for exclusive identities which are exclusive to groups of which you're not part.

Relevance
This wiki is for LGBT+ identities and terminology that is used by the LGBT+ community or is relevant to the existence of the LGBT+ community. All pages must be relevant to this. Additionally we have other rules on what is and is not within the intended scope of this wiki.


 * No pages about kinks, fetishes, BDSM terms, sexual preferences are allowed outside of the imprisexual and sexual diversity pages.
 * Alterhumans, systems/neurodivergent individuals, disabled individuals, furries, regressors, and POC are not inherently LGBT+ and we do not allow pages for specific subsets to these unless they are queer-related.
 * No pages for individuals, couples, or small groups. This wiki is for identities, terminology, and occasionally large or significant groups.
 * No pages for LGBT+ sub-groups based on ethnicity, nationality, religion, politic affiliation, or ideologies (eg. Israeli transgender, queer anarchism, etc).
 * No pages for specific subcategories of objectum as there is infinitely many of these identities and that is outside the scope of this wiki. We only allow pages for attractions to humans, humanoids, representations of humans/humanoids, or beings of human-like intelligence.

Significance
New pages must be relevant and significant enough to warrant having a full page. The following are the guidelines for what is and is not considered significant enough for a full page:


 * 1) No pages for: alternate spellings/names for terms (aside from, potentially, redirects), individual pronoun sets (as opposed to pronoun-related terminology such as neopronouns), flags/alternate flags or symbols.

Identities related to specified individuals

 * Absolutely no pages that are [specific person]sexual or [specific small group of people]sexual, real or fictional.
 * Absolutely no pages that are [real life person]gender or [real life group of people]gender.

Pages may be created for [specific movie/TV show/character]gender or [specific song/album]gender, however, pages may not be created for genders connected to any specified real-life individual(s). This includes genders related to: Absolutely no identities that are [specified individual(s)][attraction type], regardless of whether said individual(s) are real or fictional. Though one's gender can certainly be related to/influenced by real-life individuals, and one may only experience attracted to a specific individual/group of individuals, pages for these identities may not be created, as this would be inappropriate and disrespectful to said individual(s).
 * A band/singer/another type of artist.
 * Independent creators such as YouTubers, online "personas", and other "personas" that are directly tied to an individual creator (however characters in media such as videogames, TV shows, books, etc, are allowed as long as the connection is to the character, and not an individual portraying said character).
 * Genders related to the attributes of any individual, such as someone's voice or appearance, even if they are playing a character.
 * Pages for ficto- orientations can only be created if they do not specify any particular individual(s) that one is attracted to. One may make a page for the exclusive/almost exclusive attraction to characters from [genre of media], (eg: anime characters), but one may not make a page for exclusive/almost exclusive attraction to characters from any given piece of media (eg: attraction to characters from [insert show] or [insert game]).

Counterparts to/variations of existing terms

 * 1) Pages for counterparts to/variations of existing terms (eg: -romantic, -tertiary, -girl, -flux, demi- variations/counterparts) will be held to the same standards in terms of their history sections and resources as any other identity. Counterparts and variations may not be coined via the creation of an article (as of November 10th 2021). Pages should not be created for counterparts to terms where the "original" term or it's counterpart is exclusive is exclusive to a group that the creator is not part of.
 * 2) It must be clear which term the counterpart/variation is based on.
 * 3) Credit must be provided wherever appropriate. All coiners involved in creating identities must be credited. The coiner - if there is one - of the term that the variation/counterpart is based on should also be credited.
 * 4) One must have created the term that the counterpart/variation is based on and/or have received explicit permission from the coiner(s) of any terms that one did not coin oneself to create a variation/counterpart identity using said term (proof of permission must be provided via screenshots uploaded to a gallery or an archived link provided as a resource).
 * 5) It will be at the discretion of a given coiner whether to separate variations/counterparts onto separate pages or not, though counterparts should ideally be mentioned in the body of a term's article.

The only exceptions to this are cases where there is no concern over coiners having their terms used without permission:
 * If the terms are exceptionally well-known, old and/or common and there are no concerns over a coiner having their terms used without permission (eg: lesbian, non-binary, androgyne, neutrois, agender, greygender, demigirl, m-spec, bi, demiromantic, omnisexual, xenogender).
 * If a coiner has publicly stated that their terms may be used in this way (in which case one must provide a reference confirming as such).

Combination Identities

 * 1) Pages for combination identities will be held to the same standards in terms of their history sections and resources as any other identity. Combination identities may not be coined via the creation of an article (as of November 10th 2021). Pages should not be created for combination identities where one or more of the terms being combined are exclusive to a group that the creator is not part of.
 * 2) Pages for combinations of two terms may be created if significant or unique information is provided (i.e: the page cannot simply state that [combination term] is when one identifies with both [term 1] and [term 2]). It must be clear which terms are being combined. Pages for three terms may be created if the three identities are thematically connected due to having the same prefix (eg: aroace agender).
 * 3) Credit must be provided wherever appropriate. All coiners involved in creating identities being combined must be credited. The coiner - if there is one - of the combination term should also be credited.
 * 4) One must have created both/all three terms being combined and/or have received explicit permission from the coiner(s) of any terms that one did not coin oneself to create a combination identity using said terms (proof of permission must be provided via screenshots uploaded to a gallery or an archived link provided as a resource).

The only exceptions to this are cases where there is no concern over coiners having their terms used without permission:
 * If the terms are exceptionally well-known, old and/or common and there are no concerns over a coiner having their terms used without permission (eg: lesbian, non-binary, androgyne, neutrois, agender, greygender, demigirl, m-spec, bi, demiromantic, omnisexual, xenogender).
 * If a coiner has publicly stated that their terms may be used in this way (in which case one must provide a reference confirming as such).

The following types of combination terms should be added to the Combination Identities category:
 * Pages for varioriented identities (bisexual lesbian, heterosexual homoromantic, homosexual aromantic, etc).
 * Pages for combinations of an a-spec identity and another orientation (demibisexual, demipansexual, etc).
 * Pages for combinations of two a-spec identities (demigreysexual, etc).
 * Pages for a combination of a gender and an orientation (non-binary lesbian, non-binary achillean, etc).
 * Pages for a pronoun variant of a given identity (he/him lesbian, neopronoun gay, etc).
 * Pages for a combination of two genders that are intended to be combination identities (agender woman, genderqueer male, etc; demi-, -flux, -fluid, -fem, etc variations of identities do not count for this).

Allowed With Restrictions
Some pages that are allowed, but have certain guidelines regarding them.


 * The "beware", "bigoted groups", and "exclusionist groups" categories are strictly for terms that exist and are used. Do not attempt to "create" new identities specifically to go in this category or create names for "new" groups.
 * We DO allow pages for identities that are reclaimed slurs. However, the page must firstly and primarily focus on it's usage as an identity. The usage as a slur should be mentioned but should not be the main focus of the article.

Redirects
Redirect pages should only be created:
 * Possibly for alternate spellings/names for a term, if both said term being redirected to is common and multiple spellings/names for the term are commonly used.
 * Possibly for popular pages that have moved (not if the page was moved due to a grammatical error).
 * Possibly if many links already exist to this page and it would be hard to change all of them to the main page.

Additional Reminders

 * You do not need to ask to create a page.
 * Do not directly copy/paste the definition from somewhere else without checking if the grammar is correct (and/or checking if it is in the correct point of view and is not first or second person).
 * If you make a page for an identity and the definition is identical to a pre-existing term then your page may be deleted.
 * A pronoun set is not a gender. Any "gender" pages that are just defined as someone who uses a given pronoun set will be deleted.
 * Do not make a page to promote discord servers, social media accounts, or other websites.
 * You are responsible for making sure your page meets the standards listed here and in the style guide. If there are minor aspects that are wrong, it can be edited. If there are major sections that are wrong or missing, or the page is incomprehensible, then it will be deleted.