The Romance of Ranma and Akane: Standards

Back when The Romance of Ranma and Akane was created in February, 2000, it never occurred in mind to make a policy. This site had expanded and improved immensely. The question now was: Should we have a policy? We've hemmed and hawed a bit and finally decided to make some guidelines of do's and don'ts.

Don't:

Plagiarize.
This is totally against the rules. If you plan to copy our site or fanfiction as in word for word and then pass it on your own, don't bother...unless you really want to risk our anger. Don't say that we didn't warn you.

In this site there are a lot of sections that aren't on other websites. So this site is considered to be very original and creative. Therefore, please don't use ALL of our ideas for your own site. If you wish to have your own Critics' Corner, that's fine. If you wish to have your own Manga Episodes, that's fine also. But please do not use too much of these ideas that we have here (Example: Having Critics' Corner, Caption This, Quotable Quotes, Manga Episodes, Wallpaper, Mp3s, Videos all on your site). Otherwise it doesn't make the site unique anymore.

Archive our fanfics without our acknowledgement.
If you wish to archive any of our stories at your site, PLEASE let us know first. If you want to archive any of the other authors' stories as well, contact them instead.

Ask for our permission to archive any of the scans of the Ranma 1/2 manga episodes.
Our reason for this is simple. The translated manga episodes is not our work. They belong to the Ranma 1/2 Project. Furthermore, it would be better to ask them first directly. You may contact them at gurf@erols.com.

Links to our files.
Don't link to our files regardless the file's size. It doesn't matter whether it is an mp3, a video, or an image. Doing so creates high bandwith and slows the server down (As if Geocities isn't slow enough). We want our website to be enjoyable to everyone and, face it, sites with slow servers suck and waste people's time.

Now that we're clear on what we don't want to happen, here's what you are allowed to do.

You can download any of the following:

You can use these for your own site without having to contact us:

Link to our site!
If you enjoyed our site so much and want to link with us, go ahead. No need to tell us. If you want us to add your site, just drop us a line. We'll be happy to include you.

Have fun!
Browse our site. There's a lot you can do here. Listen to music, read our fics, check out our views about our favorite couple and wht others have to say. Or better yet, share your views with us.

Okay, that's enough for now. Enjoy your stay with us.