Thanks to the COM352 students for contributing a bunch of new pages! I'll be moving these pages into the main area of the wiki soon.

From UMassWiki

If you're familiar with Wikipedia's guidelines on writing articles, you should be fine here. Guidelines on UMassWiki are similar, but less strict. (See below on "Lore and legend.")

1. No vanity pages. The subject of an article must be noteworthy to the greater UMass community in order to merit an article.
   • INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF USUALLY GOES IN YOUR USER PAGE. You can edit your user page (once you have registered a username) by clicking the link to your username at the very top of the site. You are welcome to upload a picture and use it on your user page, and describe yourself as "the coolest kid at UMass" or whatever there -- not in an article.
   • Pages about people and organizations which are not of interest to the greater UMass community will be deleted after the creator has been given a chance to move the content to their user page, if applicable. Please don't be offended; UMassWiki isn't Facebook, that's all.
2. Don't duplicate official web pages. If you're writing an article about an entity that has a web site, don't just copy and paste text into the article. Not only is this a waste of space -- a link to the web site will suffice, and won't become outdated as the official site is changed -- but it's also a potential copyright violation.
3. Don't copy directly from Wikipedia. Wikipedia's GFDL license is incompatible with UMassWiki's Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, and so all articles copied from Wikipedia will have to be rewritten in your own words.
4. Vandals will be banned. One strike and you're out. If you need to try out editing, do it in the Sandbox.
5. 
   Conduct yourself appropriately. Don't create attack pages or flame other users. Don't cause unneeded controversy. In the Main namespace, you should generally limit yourself to content that would be considered PG-13. Content on user pages and in the Class namespace is less restricted, but don't get out of hand. Obscene or offensive content may be deleted without notice.
6. Try to limit opinions in articles. If a lot of people have the same opinion about something, for example, a certain restaurant being good or bad, then it is safe to note this in the article, particularly with documentation. If you're just including your personal opinion, don't. Articles which are pure opinion pieces will be deleted.
7. "Lore and legend" is welcome, so long as it's not something you just made up. If there are cool legends, history, ghost stories, trivia etc. about your dorm or anything else in and around UMass, please add them to an appropriate subsection in the article. Be aware that this type of information might be subject to harsher scrutiny than easily verifiable facts and will be deleted if nobody else has heard of it, so please don't just make things up.