Shipping Wiki:Guidelines for real life ships

Real life ships or RPF ships is a type of ship involving a real person. For example, the ship between youtubers Dan Howell and Phil Lester is often dubbed Phan.

Our wiki does have some guidelines for adding RPF ships; the following guidelines should be followed by all users. If your real-person ship page has been suddenly deleted, it is likely because it breaks one of the following policies.

Real-life ships allowed on the wiki Yes

 * Actor ships (like Cockles)
 * Youtuber ships (like Phan)
 * subscriber count for each person should be above 100,000
 * Music, Bandom, K-Pop etc ships
 * Historical ships — must involve someone notable e.g. Shakespeare
 * Sports-related ships or politicians
 * Ships involving celebrities

Real-life ships not allowed on the wiki No

 * Ships with youtubers that have under 100,000 subscribers
 * Ships involving children
 * Ships involving real-people who are not youtubers, celebrities, sportspeople, politicans, historical figures or actors
 * Ships involving yourself, your friends or your romantic interests (selfships)

General policies
No tinhatting
 * In fandom, a tinhat is a person who believes that their favorite celebrities are really a couple, forced keep their relationship a secret. Articles on the wiki should not endorse tinhatting; this means that non-canon RPF ship articles should not state 'they are real' and should not contain a list of 'hints' to why they are actually a couple. Discussion of tinhatting is allowed in the fanon part of the article.
 * ''For more information on what tinhatting is, see the Tinhat article on Fanlore.