Phineas and Ferb Wiki:Blogs

Blogs are articles that are written by an individual that may not be altered by the community, except for administrators, and should be used for show-related news, community-related news, and certain other miscellaneous articles.

Background
Since their inception, blogs have slowly been taking over the majority of edits on the wiki. With this policy we are hoping to reclaim the blogs for more official use rather than the community message board it has become.

Another reason to enforce this policy is that our wiki and its blogs need to project a professional image. Blogs are now showing up on Wikia Entertainment, so we need to put our best foot forward on them. They should be representative of our best work.

What the blogs are not

 * Chat - Blogs and their comments are not meant to replace a real-time chat network. We have a channel set up on Freenode to chat on in real time.
 * Message Board - Blogs should be informative articles or things like episode reviews or insightful commentary on a topic. If you cannot express it in a somewhat professional manner, start on the message board and move it to a blog later if necessary.
 * Twitter - Blogs should be well thought out articles, not just short random thoughts.

Off-limit subjects
Besides those topics covered by our other rules, the following blog topics are not allowed:
 * Shipping - discussing the relationship between two characters in a romantic light. Also, no topics asking which couple is better than the other.
 * "'Random" - designed to get around the commenting rules outlined below. Blogs are first and foremost informative articles, not a message board. This would not include theorizing about the show or non-shipping relationships between characters

Commenting
Comments should be a way for users to be able to address the blog writer. If you are replying to another commenter, you should remain civil and must not be personal attacks. Comments that are deemed off-topic or too much like a casual conversation will be deleted. If a blog's comments continue to be off-topic, admins may remove the ability for users to comment on that particular blog post. Re-enabling comments for a blog that has had their comments disabled should only be done by an admin, or by the blog author after getting permission from an admin.

Hiding comments should be avoided except in those cases where you need to hide the post due to a violation of wiki rules.