Uncyclopedia:Vanity Policies

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This page is considered an ignorable policy on Uncyclopedia. It has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that everyone should follow, unless they don't want to, in which case they are free to ignore it. Please make use of the standing on one knee position to propose to this policy.

“Uncyclopedia is a spoof encyclopedia, and just as soon as you and your web forum make it into a real encyclopedia we'll welcome you with open arms. Until then there's always MySpace.”

~ Mhaille on vanity

Vanity Pages are articles about a particular individual, group, or organization generally written by an individual associated with the subject of the Vanity Page. If you would like to make a Vanity Page, there are several places for you to do so:

1. MySpace
2. Facebook
3. LiveJournal
4. GeoCities

As with at Wikipedia, vanity pages are deleted on sight here at Uncyclopedia, regardless of other tags placed on them. This is an encyclopedia^{[citation needed]}, not personal webspace.

The CM Test for Vanity

Generally, when deciding if a page is vanity, we run the Codeine's Mum test:

• Might Codeine's Mum have heard of this group/individual/organization?
  • If the answer is No, the page gets deleted. Immediately.
  • If the answer is Yes, then we evaluate it as we would any other normal article.

But what if Codeine's Mum is not available to ask?

• In that case, we attempt to discern whether or not she might have heard of it by checking:
  • If it is funny.
  • How many google hits it has.
  • Whether or not wikipedia has a page for it.
  • Whether or not any of the admins have heard of it.
  • If it is funny.

If the article fails more than two (2) of the above checks, it is considered Vanity and deleted.

User Pages

Your user page can have as much information about you as you want. If you would like to do it in article style and write a fake biography, go ahead and do it on your user page. If you create a vanity page that's not on your user page, and the admin who finds it is in a good mood, they might move it to your user page for you.

You can get to your user page by clicking on your username at the very top of the page. You must be a registered user to edit your user page.

User pages don't need to conform to the template rules or funniness standards. However, cyberbullying, slander and personal attacks are not permitted anywhere on Uncyclopedia, even in your userspace.

Do not create redirects to your user page from the article namespace. Redirects may temporarily exist if a user's page has been moved to their User: space (by them or by an administrator), but these should be put on the QVFD when spotted.