User blog comment:MadCrayolaz/Profanity In Chat/@comment-2052424-20131029010921/@comment-2052424-20131029013434

How does editing or vandalism apply to the chat? Simple, it doesn't. The CAWiki's rules apply to the entire site, where applicable. Can the vandalism be applied to a rulebreaker in the chat? No, but the harassment, profanity, and spam rules can. Formality or informality is irrelevant; you shouldn't be swearing regardless, whether you're being informal in the chat, or in a blog, or on article comments. When I read the what people say in the chat, the tone, or 'formality' is no different than how it is in a normal blog, or an article comment. Even if it were, it wouldn't matter. Profanity is profanity, and harassment is harassment.

Wikia is the federal government; they assign overarching rules and structures. The individual wikis are the state governments, having laws specifically for their area. There are no house laws; the rules of the state do not go away once you enter your house, and decree that your house has it's own ruleset, due to not being like the rest of the state.