Wowpedia:Fan fiction policy

While fan fiction is certainly a rather open field, there are some things that we would prefer to not see on Wowpedia simply because we feel it could ruin the Warcraft experience for our audience. This policy is an attempt at e.g. keeping the Protoss away from Ironforge and Diablo out of Molten Core. You are of course free to write fanfic like that elsewhere, but please, not on Wowpedia.

Clearly marking fan fiction
All fan fiction pages are required to use certain templates that denote that players created them. These tags ensure that users of Wowpedia will be aware of when they are reading information from official WoW lore and when they are reading player created material.

Player Character

 * Follow article naming policies.
 * For a biography of a Player Character you must include the  template to the top of the article.  This template will add a banner at the top of the page that looks like this:


 * It will also add your article to the category Player Characters.
 * Do not add your page to any other categories, such as Category:Druids or Category:Horde.
 * Describe the basic stats of your character, including realm, guild, class, level, spec, professions, and a brief overview of its equipment.
 * Write a roleplaying biography.

Generic fan fiction

 * For fan fiction that does to meet one of the specific categories above, add the  template to the top of the article.  This template will add a banner at the top of the page that look like this:


 * It will also add your article to the fan fiction category.
 * Do not add any other categories to your fan fiction articles.
 * Do not add your fan fiction to articles in the Lore category.

Fan observations and speculation

 * For fan fiction includes some non-fiction observations and recounting of actual events, add the  template to the top of the article.  This template will add a banner at the top of the page that look like this:


 * It will also add your article to the fan observations category.
 * Do not add your fan observation to articles in the Lore category.
 * Speculation, as addressed in the writing policy for lore, should be clearly flagged with Speculation and be kept separate from factual content. Speculation should build on facts and not be completely baseless.

Fan fiction on Wowpedia must be about Warcraft
Fan fiction cannot state that the Warcraft universe is shared with a contradictory gaming universe. For example:


 * The Protoss cannot invade Azeroth. The Starcraft universe has complete interplanetary travel, conflicting with the existence of the titans due to the fact that these entities would have had contact with each other.
 * The Diablo universe posits the literal existence of Hell and Heaven, conflicting with the Warcraft universe's make-up.
 * The Dungeons & Dragons universe has multiple planes and planar entities, while the Warcraft universe has three elemental planes. If the Dungeons & Dragons Tarrasque were to attack Azeroth, it would necessitate the shared universe of both gaming worlds, contradicting the planar realities of the two.