All The Tropes:Strong Language Usage Rules: Difference between revisions

If you're an American you know what that means; if you're not, the gist of it is: "ass", "arse", and "wanker" are probably fine, "fuck" and "cunt" are probablytypically not (especially in multiple), "shit" could probably go either way.

Don't butcher a quote just to [[Bowdlerise|take out a dirty word or two]]. Whether you really need the quote from the movie ''[[Narc]]'' with [[Cluster F-Bomb|9 uses of the word "fuck" out of a total of 11 words]] is a matter left up to the discussion page of that article about kittens you put it on.

[[Rule of Funny|Funny is allowed]]. Let's be fair, you would have gone to [[Wikipedia]] if you wanted something serious. This site isn't just about documenting entertainment, it's also about providing it; so if your article uses "fuck" 71 times, "cunt" 41 times, "faggot" 14 times, and "nigger" 452 times and it makes it funny, go nuts. [[Refuge in Vulgarity|It usually doesn't]], but try telling [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] that.

Don't [[T-Word Euphemism|c-ns-r w*rds w*th d!sh!s, $ste#r&sk, %r @ny th^ng m()r() ¿¶⇔‡ø√ℵ¤]]. Face it, you're not fooling anyone, and it's just annoying. Unless it's funny, of course, which it can be, rarely. If you're quoting a print source that had the dashes in it originally, whatever. But you may want to make that clear [''sic''].

Don't just {{spoiler|spoiler fontout}} a swear word. It's even more annoying. If a particular swear word is actually a spoiler, we'll see it when we believe it. In fact, don't censor swear words at all. They should be on the page or they shouldn't; having them there but neutered doesn't work either way.

Don't be a [[Bluenose Bowdlerizer]]. Serial Bowdlerizers will get themselves banned (see [[All The Tropes:Policy for Wiki Staff]]). If you're a younger Troper stuck behind some sort of [[Censorware|net nanny software]], be careful: there are cases where it's beenreally said to messmessed up articles by replacing bad words,. and youYou can still be banned for this even if you didn't do it on purpose; we have to ban the net nanny software to protect the wiki from it, but you get caught in the fallout.

That's The PolicyRules, the hard and fast PolicyRules and nothing but the PolicyRules. If you [[Hypocritical Humor|fuck]] up on any of the rules we'll hunt you down and probably not do anything, [[All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here|(unless you make a habit of it)]] -- [[Pirates of the Caribbean|it's more of a guideline, really]].