User:Yatalu/Blog:5 new rules/en

Hi guys. I have a number of new rules I'd like to add to our policies. When commenting, please use the templates below to count your votes more easily.
 * support if you agree the rule.
 * oppose if you oppose the rule.
 * neutral if you don't lean either way.
 * comment if you have a comment, or have a suggestion for e.g. minor rewording.

Rules
This rule is to avoid that people create or adopt wikis and then have us translate for them. This also includes when requesting translations to "any language", if the translations are to be used on such a wiki.
 * ① No requests if you're the wiki admin and are requesting because you don't speak the wiki's language

Allowed:
 * You're a user of a small language and editing on your own goes slow, so you'd like the WLB to help you write 2 or 3 articles.
 * You have a wiki on which you wrote many articles, but are dyslectic and would like the WLB to correct some of your articles.

Not allowed:
 * You created/adopted a wiki in a language that you don't speak, and would like to use the WLB to expand that wiki.
 * You created/adopted a wiki in a language you don't know well, and would like the WLB to correct the articles you wrote.

If we're translating back to the source languages, our translations will not be labelled to be the "original".
 * ② No reverse translations

Allowed:
 * Translations of your custom fanfiction characters or locations into e.g. Japanese (= an "original" version didn't exist, because you made it)

Not allowed:
 * Translations of an English name of a technique or attack from an anime; we can help you find the official/original, but we're not going to translate

For translations/corrections that you are going to use on a wiki, no matter how small, you should use the request pages. The chat is for chatting, not for translating/correcting. Also, it makes it easier to oversee the translation and correction process.
 * ③ No requests in chat (making a request and then posting a link in chat is okay)

Allowed:
 * Asking for help with international user support; supporting an international user who doesn't understand something or who needs help.

Not allowed:
 * Asking for a translation of "but it's only one sentence!" in chat — using Translate:Requests is really easy.

If you wrote fiction, we're not an advertisement service to share your artistic genius with the world. Translation is an art too, so in that case we would be the artists.
 * ④ No translations of your own works of fiction

Allowed:
 * You want a translation of a story by an author you don't know, such as a creepypasta or something from a fiction wiki.
 * You want to request a translation of an article written in non-fiction style, such as articles informing about a constructed world or language that you made.

Not allowed:
 * You wrote a story in English and want Spanish or Chinese people to be able to read it too.
 * (Regardless whether or not rule 5 also passes) you cannot ask fan fiction or stories of your friends to be translated either.

This is like asking people to vote in your favor in a community consensus. Asking people to request because you don't meet the requirements or for other reasons, is called "meatpuppeting", and should be against the rules.
 * ⑤ No asking other people to request things for you

Note
For all rules, both those already on the request policy and these new ones, goes the following:

If the requester goes out of their way to request on another wiki instead of the WLB, to avoid the restrictions of the request policy, this will still be considered an offence to our rules. After all, it means that the requester knows they are breaking the rules.

Therefore, because it's not only breaking the request policy, but also breaking it consciously (not accidentally), it's considered more serious an offence.

These rules don't exist to restrict. They exist to protect our translators and correctors from a work overload. Breaking the rules means that you ignore and disrespect that our Brigadiers may have other wikis to edit, or that they may be busy in real life. Thanks for understanding! ^- ^