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Wiki Managers are part-time staff members assigned to specific wikis.

They are here to support your wiki's community and help it grow and thrive, as well as serving as a liaison with a direct line of contact to full-time Fandom staff.

You can read more about this role on this blog post and you can see the current list of wiki managers here.

To request a wiki manager for your wiki:

Gaming wikis - contact JoePlay

TV & movie wikis - contact BertH

Anime wikis - contact Pikushi

For other wikis, or if you aren't sure which type to choose - contact Fandom support (for the category option, select 'I don't see an option for my issue')

Note: to qualify, your wiki will need to have an existing community of editors participating, beyond the initial founder(s).

Wikis on Fandom are rarely closed. They belong to the Fandom community and generally stay open for everyone to use.

However, we may delete wikis that are very inactive and have no content, as well as wikis that break our Terms of Use or our Community Creation Policy.

If a wiki you started or were editing has been closed, please contact us so that we can look into it for you.

We don't usually close (or delete) wikis once they have been created. That's because wikis are owned by the community that builds them and the community that will use them in the future. If you aren't interested in a project any more, you can just leave it. Maybe someone will come along to adopt it and revive it!

If you just made a spelling mistake when you created the wiki, either in the URL or the name, no problem! Just let us know and we'll fix it for you.

However, if you feel your wiki is on a topic that no other users may be interested in (such as a personal project), please submit a closure request.

We hope you find another community among the many that are part of Fandom, and join in building a fantastic resource about everything you are passionate about.

If you are an admin for a wiki you can request to change your sitename or URL(or both!).Please double-check the spelling, and choose the new name carefully.

If you are not an admin on the wiki, please contact your community's admins to suggest the change.

Please use this form to request this change (select the 'I want to change a wiki's name or URL' category).

As a host for user-generated content, Fandom follows the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe that your copyrighted content is being used on Fandom in a manner that violates your rights, you may send a DMCA takedown notice.

This page is a guided form that will allow you to fill out the required elements of a DMCA takedown notice (choose the "I have a copyright or trademark issue" category). When you submit it, it will generate a full DMCA takedown notice for us.

Please ensure the accuracy of your notice before sending it, and please note that Fandom is not in a position to provide legal advice. If you have questions, we recommend that you speak to an attorney.

I am a representative for a media company

Thank you for your interest in setting up an official wiki for your project!

Wiki Connect is the FREE official wiki partnership program offered by Fandom and Gamepedia to connect Developers, Publishers, Studios and Production Companies with their communities through the creation and curation of high-quality wiki sites. With the need for just a few graphical assets and no other cost to the developer, Wiki Connect is an unmatchable value.

For many wikis have become the go-to place both to learn more about their favorite games, movies, TV shows, and Anime and in turn they contribute their knowledge for others to view. While fans will often create wikis if left to their own devices, the best way to ensure consistency and stay involved with your community is to start an official wiki early!

Fandom will take your input and use it to create a polished and professional wiki for your community at no cost to you. Our mission is to collaboratively create high quality, community-friendly, and active wikis by generating polished wiki sites as a foundation for Games, TV, Movie, Anime and all our other communities to inherit and continue developing.

For more information about the program or to start the process of establishing an official wiki then check out our Wiki Connect Page to connect with one of our staff members.

I am an admin for an existing wiki

If you're a wiki admin and would like to request we look into a partnership, please let us know here.

Some of Fandom's features can be enabled by using Wiki Features on your wiki. This is only available to a wiki's admins.

To find this page, click on "Admin" on your bottom toolbar - that will take you to the Admin Dashboard. Find "Wiki Features" in the top row of icons on that page, and you will be taken to a page where you can select features such as Chat and Article Comments.

To request an interlanguage link please see this page on Community Central.

For other features and extensions you will need to contact us, such as for:

Turning on custom JavaScript editingon for your wiki

Enabling achievements (aka badges) or Community Page (aka Special:Community)

Other extensions listed on listed here

Please read the following information carefully.

On Fandom, we allow users to rename their account once. Before making an account rename request, make sure that the new name is the one you're sure you'll want to use on Fandom.

Renaming can be done through our rename form. Once the form is submitted, the rename will be final and you won't be able to change your name again.

You can then log back into Fandom using your new username. Your password will remain the same.

For further details on how account renames work, please see this help page.

For the latest news and updates about Fandom, please check out our various Community Central blogs:

News from Fandom

Community Management

Best Practices

For details on the latest bug fixes and tweaks, check out the Technical Updates forum.

We're glad to hear you're interested in Fandom merchandise!

You can earn swag for free via our Editor Rewards program, discussed on this blog post !

If you'd like to just buy some Fandom-branded merch directly, however, you can do so here: https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/Fandom/ (with additional info on this blog post ).

Reusing text

Most communities on Fandom use a license that allows free reuse, generally a Creative Commons license. Reusing material is usually acceptable under the Creative Commons license as long as you provide proper attribution on every use of the content and link back to the original article on the wiki.

There's details of how to provide proper attribution on our Licensing Policy page, under the 'Using Fandom Content' heading. For example:

This article uses material from the Endor article on the Star Wars wiki at Fandom andis licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

The license for each community is listed at the bottom of the page, with a link to the specific license conditions. It's important to note that many communities are fan sites that use some content under "with permission" or "fair use" conditions. These may or may not fit your intended use of the content, and I'm afraid we can't advise on that.

To learn more about copyright on Fandom, check out our help page.

Reusing images

Unfortunately, we likely cannot directly help with this. This is a general support channel for all of Fandom, rather than specifically for a single community. Fandom is a host for user generated content, and most images are uploaded by individual users under the fair use provision of copyright law.

As such, we are unable to either give or deny permission for their use. However, you could try contacting the individual user who uploaded the image on the message wall or talk page.

You can find uploader information on the file description page for that image.

If the above information does not help, please contact us.

For an overview of Fandom's mobile device support please check out this page.

If you're interested in checking out Fandom's mobile app, please see here !

If you have a favorite game, movie or TV show, then we probably have a wiki about it!

And on that wiki, there will be other fans like you who are writing about the topic and sharing their knowledge with all. So just type the name of the game, movie or TV show in to Google, and add "Fandom" to find the wiki you are looking for.

This knowledge base is about the whole of Fandom rather than a single wiki, so going to the community is the best way to get help.

Most wikis have a forum or discussion area where you can ask questions about all aspects of the topic. Look for the link on the right side of the navigation bar. It's just under the wiki's page count. If you have problems finding the forum or discussion area, please let us know.

However, if you are looking for the company that made the game, TV series or movie, we are not them! Fandom's sites are fan-built and fan-run.

This means that they aren't the right place to talk to the topic's creators, or to get help with your game account - but you might be able to find links to their official support sites on the wiki itself or via a Google search.

Please go here to download a .CSV copy of your Fandom data.

The data we provide is username, user ID, real name (if provided), email address, account creation date and a link to a list of your contributions.

Harassment and bullying are never okay, whether it's online or off. Harassment means repeatedly contacting someone in a negative way, even though they have asked you to stop. Harassment is one aspect of bullying, which is when someone uses their strength to hurt others weaker than themselves.

Remember, not every bad interaction is bullying or harassment. Bullying does not mean "someone told me I was wrong", or "someone blocked me", or even "someone called me a bad name". Harassment and bullying are usually persistent attacks from someone who will not stop.

For more information on harassment and bullying, see our harassment and bullying resources page.

Under European data protection law, you may have the right to ask for your personal information to be deleted by us.

Please use this form (and select the "Please "forget" my Fandom Inc. account" category) which will help us in understanding your request and acting on it properly and in good time.

Most blocks are set by the admins of one community, and only stop you from editing or chatting on that one wiki. The name of the blocking admin should be on the block notice you see when you try to edit there.

You may be able to contact the blocking admin by leaving a message on your message wall. This is usually still open to blocked users and changes will usually be seen by others in the community. Your message wall can be found under the profile menu at the top right of any page. You can also contact the admin on their wall on Community Central.

However, if these options are not possible in your situation, then the best advice we can give you is to wait for the block to expire or join one of the hundreds of thousands other Fandom communities available.

If your block is global, please contact us.

Note: in order to look into your global block, we'll need some additional info. You can find this info when you try to edit a page or leave a comment - you will see a message titled "Your username or IP address has been blocked", like this:

Please copy and paste the content of that box, or send us a screenshot. At minimum, we need to know the block number, which will be labeled "Block ID" in that box (you may need to expand the box or scroll down). Just let us know that information and we will look into why you are blocked.

We are sorry to hear that you want to disable your account!

Fandom has many communities on all sorts of subjects and we'd love for you to stick around and find the one that's right for you. If you are having a local problem with your community, please don't hesitate to contact your local admins for help and advice.

If you have decided you definitely want to disable your account please be aware:

Fandom does not fully remove accounts, but we can disable or rename them. Disabling them will ensure the account is locked and can't be used.

This process is NOT reversible after 30 days have passed, and you will have to create a new account if you wish to rejoin Fandom.

This process will not remove your contributions from a given Fandom community, as these contributions belong to the community as a whole.

If you need any more information on what an account close actually does, you can visit our help page on disabling your account.

If you are sure you want to disable your account, please use the form here.

Please note you will have 30 days after making this request to reactivate your account by logging in and following the instructions you will see. After this waiting period, your account will be disabled permanently and cannot be restored.

If you'd like to flag an account as a bot on a specific wiki, please contact us after doing this:

If you are an admin of that community, please make an edit using your admin account to that bot's user page, to show your ownership and approval of it.

If you are not an admin of that community, your request should include a link to a public discussion that shows the local admins approve the use and flagging of the bot.

For more information on bots, please check out this help page. A common choice of bot software is AutoWikiBrowser, and you can read more about setting that up on this page.

You can find your profile page by hovering over your avatar in the top navigation bar, and clicking "view profile".

There are two parts to a profile, the top part is your global profile, this will show on all wikis. The bottom part is your user page, this can be different for each wiki you use.

To edit your global profile, hover over the profile box and click "edit".

help page on profiles

This will take you to a form where you can add information about yourself. Any section you leave blank won't show on your global profile.

To edit your local profile, go to the wiki where you want to add information and click "edit profile". This works the same way that editing articles on a wiki does - you can add text, images, and anything else you want to show.

For more, see our .

The first thing we suggest is that you create an account. This gives you an identity in the community, and gives you extra abilities and features too! Your account will work for the whole of Fandom, so you only need to make it once and can use it on any wiki.

Now that you are a part of the community, you are able to edit and contribute to almost any page across Fandom. For some introductory help, try our editing tips page.

If you have questions about a specific wiki, start by contacting your local admins. You can also ask general questions to other community members on the community forums.

Remember, you can't break a wiki, so don't be afraid to get started!

On very rare occasions, Avast the makers of both Avast- and AVG-branded anti-virus software will send users a very alarming message that suggests that a particular wiki is "dangerous", "a threat", "infected" or guilty of phishing. Their software will then prevent you from accessing that wiki. Though there are many graphical variants of this message, it will look something like this:

Send a report to us

After extensive testing of this situation in which we've used other, similar apps to investigate Avast's claims we have always found that this message is afalse positive.In other words, there is no cause for genuine concern.

Avast and AVG work by using a massive list of sites that they send from their data warehouse to your copy of their software. And they're aggressively conservative with this blacklist. Very rarely, one of our wikis will falsely trip Avast's alarms, producing a scary warning like the one above.

The biggest problem for you isn't really what the warning says, so much as the fact that it prevents you from accessing your favourite wiki!

Luckily, it's easily dealt with. You can:

Report the issue yourself (it takes about 30 seconds)

and let us deal with Avast

In either case, the best reports to Avast include ascreenshot of the Avast/AVG message you received.

Screenshots of the message give Avast the clarity they need to swiftly resolve the situation. However, if you can't provide a screenshot, you can still file a report witha URL of the page you were trying to view.

Are you wondering how toget your questions answeredon Fandom?Perhaps you need help understanding how a specific community's policies work, or maybe you want some advice on how to create an interesting user profile.

We have a video that gives some awesome pointers on where to go for answers. Check out the video here: Getting Help.

You can also go straight to our help page hub on Community Central.

We have an awesome video that talks about being a good contributor within the Fandom community. It contains some important things to know before you jump in and start making contributions:

Making Your First Contribution

Personal information is things like your real name, address, financial information and other information that could identify you. It also includes pictures, video and voice recordings of you.

For information on Fandom's privacy policy please see this page.

Tips and advice:

Be very careful in giving out any information about yourself. Even if you trust someone, keep your private information private.

Always remember that a photo or video you share could be copied by anyone. It's not always possible to remove content once it's public.

Never, ever, share your password with anyone. This is the most frequent way accounts get into the wrong hands, causing lots of trouble for the account owner!

For more tips, see our help page about online security.

If you find your private information on Fandom, and you can't get help from an admin, please let us know. If you feel threatened, please consider calling your local authorities for help.

Are you wondering how you can connect with other editors and determine where you can help most effectively? If the answer is yes, we have a video for you:

Working Together

Step-by-Step Instructions:

On the top right of every page on all wikis, you will find links to Log in and Sign up.

To sign up, you can create a new account or use your Facebook or Google account.

After choosing to sign up, an account creation page will load and allow you to fill in your account details.

All usernames on Fandom are unique and should comply with our Terms of Use.

Once you sign up, you are now a member of the Fandom community!

Tutorial Video:

Feel free to check out our Fandom University video that walks you through the process. It can be found here: Fandom University - Creating a Fandom Account.

Would you like a tour of an article page on Fandom? Great! We have a video that shows youhow you can find more pages about the topics you're interested in.

After watching this you'll be able to confidently navigate around a Fandom community, and find new ones to explore:

Tour of an Article Page

Wikitext is the markup code that powers articles on Fandom. You don't have to know wikitext to edit on Fandom, but many users find that wikitext gives them more control of the editing experience.

Check out the following videos that provide valuable information on wikitext:

Introduction to Wikitext

How to Use Wikitext

This video gives an overview of the differentuser roles on a Fandom community, and their social and technical differences:

Introduction to User Roles

We have a wonderful video that demonstrates how you can customize the user toolbar, making it easier to get to the specific pages that you use most often:

Customizing the Toolbar

We have a video that leads you through the process of adding an image to a page using VisualEditor. The video also demonstrates how to edit the image on the page:

Adding an Image

We have a wonderful video that walks you through the basics ofediting text on a Fandom page. Bold and italic formatting, creation of links, and adding images are all covered in this video:

Basic Text Editing

We are aware that individual community apps won't load on iOS / iPadOS 13.

We are now offering a new 'Fandom app' that contains all the same content you see in these community apps, along with additional features (such as light and dark modes) and articles from other wikis.

We strongly recommend that you switch to that app since we're no longer adding improvements or fixing bugs in our community apps (and this includes iOS / iPadOS 13 compatibility fixes).

You can read about the new app on this help page, and you can download it here:

* Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fandom.app * iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fandom-news-stories/id1230063803

Thanks for using our apps!

You can find a database dumps (aka database downloads) on Special:Statistics on the relevant wiki. If there are no dumps, or the link is broken or outdated, community admins can request a new update on that page.

If no admins are available, please contact us.

More about this topic can be found on this help page.

Interlanguage links (a type of interwiki link ) make it easy to link to matching content in other languages. For example, you might want a link from " Iron Man " on the English Marvel Database to the French version of this content on the French Marvel Wiki:

this request page

You can read about interlanguage links work on this help page.

To have them set up for your wiki, please visit .

We're glad you want to advertise with our extensive user-created and user-curated network of Fandom communities!

However, this is our customer support site and we likely can't help you directly - instead, for advertising inquiries, please contact us at [email protected]

Thanks in advance!

(Note: if you have an issue with ads already running on Fandom, please see this page.)

Fortunately, we have dedicated portals for each of these sites!

For assistance on these topics, please visit:

Gamepedia:

https://gamepedia.zendesk.com

D&D Beyond:

https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com

Muthead & Futhead:

https://curseweb.zendesk.com

Straw Poll:

https://strawpoll.zendesk.com

Thank you!

Most people who edit wikis are there to help the project and increase the knowledge they contain. However, sometimes someone appears who wants to damage the wiki.

The good thing about wikis is that bad edits are easily fixed! A lot of the time it's quicker to clean up than it is to make a mess, so the good editors have the advantage.

The key to clearing up is the "history" page. Every page has one, which lists every version of the page, right back to the time it was created.

You can find the history page by going to the page and clicking the arrow next to the page's "edit" button. It may look confusing at first, but the most important parts are the dates, and clicking on one of them will show the version of the article at that time.

All you need to do is find the last good version, click "edit" then save without making any changes. And that's the vandalism gone!

Admins also have a tool to remove a vandal's edit in one click. See this help page for more about that.

And if you have too much vandalism to clean up, we have a user group that can help! Just go to the VSTF Wiki, and ask for help there. They are experts in cleaning wikis, so can help you get everything back to normal!

Wikis are open for everyone to edit, so you can fix any mistakes yourself!

If you need help making your first edit, try our getting started page. You can also visit our test wiki, where you can try out any edits without worrying about getting anything wrong. If you are logged in, you can even try out admin tools there!

On some wikis you will need to make an account before editing, so please visit our account creation page to make your account.

We hope you have a great time on Fandom, and make many edits in the future!

If you are in a dispute with another user, then the first thing to do is to work hard at finding a way to get along. You are the best person to solve a problem like this. It may not always be possible, but it's important to make a genuine effort to do so.

If you are still having problems then you should talk to an admin on the community you are on. They may be able to help mediate the argument and help you resolve your differences.

In general, staff will not get involved in individual arguments, it's your responsibility to work through them with the help of your admins.

Fandom wikis are spaces where each and every person needs to work together with others for it to be successful. While working together, conflicts can sometimes arise - and the best way to solve them is to have a calm and respectful conversation about the issue with the community.

If you need help or advice about a conflict, or you feel the user is violating Fandom's Terms of Use, please choose one of the options below.

You may also be interested in our Privacy Policy and resources on safety online.

What type of problem do you have?

Dispute with another user

Dispute with an admin

Harassment or cyberbullying

Hate speech

Threats

Are you interested in learning more on basics of editing text? Awesome! We have a great video that walks you through the basics of editing text on a Fandom Page.Bold and italic formatting, creation of links, and adding images are all covered in the video:

Creating Links on Fandom

Unless someone is editing logged out, Fandom will not expose IPs. However, there are times when we will look up an IP to help us combat bad behaviour.

For example, if someone is causing damage to a wiki, staff are able to look up their IP in order to block it and stop them vandalizing.

The ability to do this has also been given to our Volunteer Spam Task Force and a few admins on major wikis. Community Central admins are able to look up IPs on that specific wiki. These groups will also keep IP addresses private, but they may show in block logs on individual wikis.

If you are an admin or moderator and need help with vandalism or other problems, you can request a check from staff. To do this, please use the form here. We will only do a check if there is a very strong reason for it, never just to satisfy someone's curiosity.

Non-admins cannot request these checks, please talk to your admin instead.

An avatar is the small image you see on your profile. It also shows in other locations, such as next to your name on Message Wall posts. It's a good way to identify yourself on the wiki, giving people a feel for who you are.

To upload an avatar for your profile:

Save your chosen image to your computer (if not there already).

Go to your user page.

Mouse over your current avatar, then click the "Edit avatar" link that appears.

Press the "Choose file" button and choose your image from your computer.

Click the "Save, I'm Done" button to save your avatar.

help page

You can repeat the same process to change your avatar to a new image.

For further assistance with avatars, please check out our .

We're sorry to hear you are having problems accessing your account!

Here are a couple of things to check:

Remember account names are case sensitive. Do you have capital letters in the right places?

Is your browser up-to-date? Old browsers may have trouble logging in.

Have you confirmed your email address?

Are you trying to log in via Facebook Connect? If so, be sure to follow the steps here.

If you have lost your password or your account name, please see this page.

If you are unable to create an account, it may be that you are not old enough for an account at this time. See the Terms of Use for more details.

If none of that helps, please contact us - and please make sure to include details of any error messages you're seeing!

To confirm your account, you need to click the link in the email we sent you.

If you no longer have this email, or if the link has expired, you will need to have a new one sent to you. Please visit the email confirmation page and click the button that says Mail a confirmation code. This will send a new email to you.

When you receive the new email, click the link it contains and your account will be confirmed.

If you can't find this email, please double check your spam folders.

However, if there are still problems confirming your account, please let us know and we can manually confirm it for you.

If you have forgotten your username or password, don't worry! We can get them back.

You can request a new password by visiting: https://www.fandom.com/signin. Once there, click the "Forgot password?" link.

make a new account

Enter your username and you will receive an email that includes instructions on how to reset your password.

If you can't remember your username, then let us know and we'll try to find it for you.

We may even be able to help if you forget your username and password!

But in all cases, you will need to have access to the email address in your preferences. Without that, we won't be able to verify your identity and you will have to .

A wiki's design can be updated by any of a community's admins by using the Theme Designer. If you are not an admin and wish to help with your wiki's design, contact your local admins first.

If you would like help with creating a more customized design, you could try asking on the Community Central forums.

Finally, those with JavaScript and CSS knowledge can make more changes to their wiki's design. Just keep to our customization policy and you can tweak your wiki to make it just as you want it!

We are sorry to hear that you found a bug on Fandom!

To help us look into this, please provide full details of the issue you are seeing on our contact form.

For advice on what to include in your report, please see our help page on bug reports.

Thanks in advance for your report and for using Fandom!