International Idols Wiki:Guidelines

Welcome and thank you for visiting the International Idols Wiki! This page contains general information on rules, editing, and resources. Additional resources are to be added in time.

General Rules

 * 1) We use English on this wiki. Use proper grammar and spelling to the best of your abilities, this lessens misunderstandings.
 * 2) Be respectful and kind to others, even if your opinion doesn’t match theirs. Bullying is not tolerated.
 * 3) Hate speech, racism, homophobia etc. are not tolerated.
 * 4) Don't spam, vandalize or spread false information and rumors.
 * 5) Don't post personal information. This goes for both users and artists.
 * 6) Information such as artists' real names and other sensitive data can only be added to pages if you can cite a source where they have been officially used.
 * 7) No ownership of pages. FANDOM is a collaborative platform and everyone can edit pages, as long as they follow this set of rules.
 * 8) Use your common sense. Just because something isn't directly in the rules, doesn't mean you can do it.

Content
This wiki focus on professional idol groups and soloists based outside of Japan that follow the Japanese concept of idols. While exceptions based on concept might apply, only artists that perform professionally and/or have released original music are allowed. For hobbyist or cover idols, please refer to the Net Idols Wiki.

Editing
This wiki was created by admins of the Japanese Music Wiki, and to make things easier for us we follow a format of pages and use resources that are very similar to those used in there.

Check out the links below for tutorials on how to edit and create pages and how to use media and categories.
 * Manual of Style
 * Group Layout
 * People Layout
 * Release Layout

Referencing
References are very important for providing support, clarification and verification to pages.

Where to cite
References should be added in sections such as history and trivia, or wherever else has information that is hard to find. For sections such as tracklist, profile, discography release dates, those don’t necessarily need citations as the information can be easily found.

Where to get information from

 * Official websites
 * Official artist accounts (eg. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)
 * Online music stores (eg. Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon)
 * Archived versions of any of the previous (eg. Wayback Machine)

Archiving Content
Many of the artists covered in this wiki have a short lifespan and do all of their promotion through Twitter accounts that later can get deleted. For this reason, it is highly recommended using the Wayback Machine to archive these sources of information.