Ethics Guidelines IN PROGRESS

This is a page for ethics guidelines.  Please follow them!  The very short version: this is a wiki intended to document plural history, vocabulary, and works.  It is not intended to be a repository of plurals, nor should it be used to hurt people.

Privacy, Doxxing, and Names

• Don't use legal names unless the person is a public figure--for example, Colin Ross or Chris Costner Sizemore--or someone whose legal name is a matter of public safety--for instance, Billy Milligan, the serial rapist.
• Don't give offline locations, unless it is common knowledge--it's not infringing Colin Ross's privacy to say he runs a hospital in Texas, and thus likely lives there, but generally, keep it to online URLs.
• In citations for plurals, use system name, followed by a screen name or member name in square brackets if relevant--for example, "Plures [hessgasm]" or "Zyfron [Z]".  If they have multiple system names (for example, Plures/Sylvans/Fenners, try to use the most current one and make a note of their former group names, to make a searchable trace.  It's inevitable that such names will become outdated and need refreshing over time; do the best you can.

Misc

• Please don't make pages about yourself.
• Please don't make pages about people you don't like.