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Fatal Disease wrote:

Princess Callie wrote: These seem more like rules and less like guidelines. While meeting the QS is a rule, the QS itself is more to give a user the possible reasons their story was deleted. Also, there needs to be a lead section explaining what the QS is.

I personally think that we should have a Blacklist Appeal, rather than just using Deletion Appeal, but this is a fairly sleepy wiki. Pfft. I already made a Humor Appeal for the humor articles, so why not with the blacklisted subjects?

As for the guidelines, I got some of them (the diaries/journals, poetry, some FAQ, and most of the main parts) from the QS over on Creepypasta. Theories, BEN DROWNED articles, and Jeff-Inspired I have gotten from experience from deleting numerous of articles from that. As I read them over again, they are kind of strict, and the BEN DROWNED articles can be moved over to the Trollpastas/Spam pages. The other's, meh... I don't really know on how to make these less strict. They DO need to be recognized in the guidelines, especially the theories part, but I don't know what to do.

As for the opening, I'll copy and paste the opening from the QS over on CPW. Not necessarily that they're strict. Look at CPW's QS. The only area that has words such as "must" and things that imply you absolutely HAVE to do this is the Minimum Requirements.

The new standards only apply if it detracts from the story. Which is most of the time yes, but other than that, they're guidelines.