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*Fake Warnings. Issuing a {{tem|Reminder}}, {{tem|Warning}}, or any other official notice template to someone as a joke is considered an abuse of warning privileges and can get you in ''actual'' trouble. As mentioned above, even customizing the template coding into a clearly bogus warning is not allowed: it's too much of a distraction, and there is no good reason to do it. Don't give yourself fake warnings either. | *Fake Warnings. Issuing a {{tem|Reminder}}, {{tem|Warning}}, or any other official notice template to someone as a joke is considered an abuse of warning privileges and can get you in ''actual'' trouble. As mentioned above, even customizing the template coding into a clearly bogus warning is not allowed: it's too much of a distraction, and there is no good reason to do it. Don't give yourself fake warnings either. | ||
*Spam. Posting massive amounts of mindless text, images, or fake templates on your own or another user's talk page is unnecessarily disruptive and wastes space. Going around posting the same generic message (especially solicitations, which is itself disallowed) may also be viewed as a form of spamming, especially if you're contacting long-retired users and people you otherwise don't know. | *Spam. Posting massive amounts of mindless text, images, or fake templates on your own or another user's talk page is unnecessarily disruptive and wastes space. Going around posting the same generic message (especially solicitations, which is itself disallowed) may also be viewed as a form of spamming, especially if you're contacting long-retired users and people you otherwise don't know. | ||
*Excessive YouTube videos. There is no need to embed numerous videos on your userpage, and doing so can easily crash other users' computers. You can embed a couple videos, but any more than six is getting excessive, and it would be better to just link to them. | |||
In general, if you have material that you do not wish for others to edit, or that is otherwise inappropriate for the Super Mario Wiki, it should be placed on a personal web site. Many free and low-cost web hosting services are available to serve such needs, and are a good alternative for content unrelated to the wiki. [http://google.pages.com Googlepages] is a nice free hosting service you may wish to check out for things of this nature. | In general, if you have material that you do not wish for others to edit, or that is otherwise inappropriate for the Super Mario Wiki, it should be placed on a personal web site. Many free and low-cost web hosting services are available to serve such needs, and are a good alternative for content unrelated to the wiki. [http://google.pages.com Googlepages] is a nice free hosting service you may wish to check out for things of this nature. | ||