Help:Guidelines

These are guidelines you should follow, so that everyone editing the wiki is happy. Of course, these are just guidelines and common sense should be applied.

This is a small list of general guidelines. See the bottom for some more things.

Editing
Take care not to leave any page in a broken state. Use the Show preview button!

Try to not make many individual edits in a row to a single page, it clutters the edit logs.

This is a wiki where nearly any page can be edited by anyone with an account. Prepare for other users to edit your additions, or possibly remove them. Be prepared to justify your edits.

Major Changes
On VDC, people would sometimes extensively change things in some way (such as changing the format/standards for entity pages!) with no input from other editors or admins. This was mainly due to Valve's hands-off approach to moderating, and a lack of a method for an editor to attract the attention of others to a page. If you're interested in making large-scale changes, write your proposal somewhere then add the page to Category:Requests for comment. Admins will, after a set amount of time, give the changes approval or disapproval before they happen while also considering anything other editors have to say.

Page Notices
If you are the creator of a page and someone has added a notice to your page (such as marking for deletion or cleanup), you should seek sufficient reasoning from the adder. Don't just remove the notice because you don't like it, because that's not healthy for a wiki. If the adder of the notice fails to provide you sufficient reason in a fair amount of time, then you may remove it. If they do give reason, the notice should stay on the page until the issues regarding it have been resolved.

Assume good faith
This is something from Wikipedia that should be followed here too. If someone adds something that is incorrect, do not assume they are a vandal. Falsifying a page isn't a very common form of vandalism, and many edits are the result of personal experience. That said, fact-checking something yourself never hurts. Perhaps the editor is experiencing a bug, or something might apply to only one game specifically.

User pages
Your user page is basically your own tiny personal website. You can put whatever you want there, but be responsible, inoffensive, and try not to use it as a sandbox.

Please refrain from editing another user's user page, unless it or the user is causing some problem (e.g. spamming).

Talk pages
Sign your messages using four tildes. If you do not sign your messages you will get the unsigned message of shame added to it later.

Wiki Events
Find recent wiki notices on Special:RecentChanges. The most recent notice will be highlighted.

Do not copy VDC
This includes images as well as pages. If something from VDC is needed, and we can't make any improvements on it, just link to the VDC page with Template:vdc. If permission is granted from the original page author, or somebody who rewrote a huge amount of the page, then copying is okay. Technically it should all be fine to copy, but we'd rather not stir the pot given how many idiots surround the wiki.

If the page is something like entity where the information is THAT important for the wiki, and simply is in the best possible form it can be, make an exception.

Others

 * BOLD
 * OWN
 * GAMES
 * CIVIL