Muppet Wiki:Policies and Guidelines

This is a list of the Policies and Guidlines discussed and agreed upon by the Muppet Wiki community. We've been at this for almost three years, but don't have a whole lot of our "agreed upons" written down anywhere for easy reference. As a result, we're often scrambling aorund, trying to figure out when it was we discussed and agreed upon something especially it it was on a user talk page or unobvious talk page. As this article begins in the sandbox, feel free to add items without any attention to keeping things tidy. When at all possible, try to link to the conversation in which we came to a consensus on how we typically do things. If you can't find it, add the item and we can dig it up later. As the page grows, we can look at the possibility of breaking it down into sections if that makes sense.


 * Muppet Wiki:Style Guide
 * We don't link years unless it's relevant to the subject. (CE discussion)
 * An episode page must exist in order to cite it as an EKA. redlinked EKAs)
 * Due to the frequency with which videos are removed from YouTube, we try to keep links to that site at a minimum. Some exceptions include accounts owned by regular contributors who are keeping an eye on their own links or cases where wiki information is being sourced.
 * Capitalizing foreign language titles
 * Initials spacing
 * Spoilers
 * Embedding videos
 * In/On
 * 's - no consensus
 * Muppet Show guest bios
 * Quoting and bolding song titles
 * Edit summaries

Disambiguation pages
The purpose of disambiguation pages is to redirect the user to the page they're looking for. When other links are included, it tends to confuse that process. As such, only the articles being disambiguated should be linked, and any other discernable information should be kept limited to the point that a visitor can determine which of the articles they are looking for. All other pertinent information and wiki links can be found in the following article.
 * more on disambiguation

Sketch collections
Because so many sketches were repeated over the years, and there have been so many in so many episodes, it's hard to commit to saying that "xxx" first appeared in Episode "yyyy". Instead, we list the Earliest Known Appearances, so that if an earlier appearance is found, it can easily be added to the list of appearances, or swapped out as being the Earliest Known Appearance. Citing a season as the first time a sketch appears is not sufficient. Mostly this is due to particular claims of a contributor that "Ernie looked this way is Season xx." That sort of speculation is obviously not conclusive. This dialogue is encouraged on talk pages so that an episode number may be found, but the articles themselves must be supplied with irrefutable proof of date of origin. The best way this can be done is with an episode number so that the information can be double-checked.

Video appearances
On some sketch articles, we note that a particular segment was released on DVD. This should be done only for sketches that were released outside the context of the episode(s) they appeared in.