Unfortunate Spacemen Wiki:Policies

This page documents accepted policies and guidelines in use on the Unfortunate Spacemen Wiki.

Unreleased content
Unreleased content refers to content for which there is some expectation of pending release, but has not been patched into the game and has not been made public in Community servers; example being content developers claims to be developing.

By this definition, Community Content is excluded from this consideration. For Community Content policy, see Content notability.

This also does not apply to Unused Content, which is content found within patched game files.
 * Generally, images or articles relating to expected but unreleased weapons, items, or other game content are not permitted until they are officially released. This is because until that point, what the content is, does, or looks like cannot be confirmed.
 * The main purpose of this is to reduce unverified speculation or other ridiculous conjecture appearing as 'fact' on article pages.
 * You are, however, free to start creating the article in your user space and have it moved back into the article space upon official release. Note: main space categories are generally not permitted on articles in user space; you may comment them out while in your user space, like so:.

Images and media

 * For image licensing policy, see Unfortunate Spacemen Wiki:Licensing images.
 * For guidelines on image quality, see Unfortunate Spacemen Wiki:Images.
 * For placing images in articles, see Help:Images.

Community content notability
Because the Unfortunate Spacemen Wiki is treated as a reliable source of information by players, all new page additions are reviewed by staff to ensure that they meet minimum quality standards. In the case of community content, certain notability requirements also have to be met, in order to maintain this standard of quality. Before creating a new page for community content, please ensure that it meets these requirements, and be prepared to show them to staff should the need arise (either via Discord prior to creating the page, or on the talk page for the content after it has been created). Beware that if the content is not deemed as notable, it may be summarily removed.


 * Discussion among the community: Discussion of the content must extend beyond the thread announcing its creation and development. It must be shown that it is actively discussed by multiple users, in order to illustrate its popularity among players.
 * Approval from developers: A very good marker of popularity is the content is anyhow approved by the game developers, either via a message on Discord or statement on the talk page of content in question.

Editing

 * For basic help with wiki editing, see Help:Editing
 * For tips on style, see Help:Style guide
 * For a complete list of help pages, see Help:Contents

User content

 * Images
 * Some images are permitted to be uploaded for personal use on user pages. However, users who abuse the right to upload decorative images may have them removed.
 * User images should follow these rules:
 * They should have the user's name in the file name (e.g. File:User MyName Steam avatar.png)
 * They should be placed in the category User images (place the code into the upload box)
 * User images should not be used in articles, or share categories with article images.


 * Signatures
 * Custom signatures are allowed. However, we would prefer that more attention is paid to improving articles rather than your own signature. As with user images, misuse of signatures may result in you losing the right to have one.


 * Pages
 * User pages should not be placed in any article category.

Deletion

 * Pages may be deleted if they show low effort, or break the rules above.
 * Images may be deleted if they are low quality, not properly licensed, or if they are simply not used.

Protection
Generally most pages are not protected to encourage new edits and additions to content. However, some pages and articles are deliberately locked against editing, mostly for the following reasons:


 * If an edit war breaks out and involved parties refuse to stop;
 * If the page is high-risk: this can include templates like stub that are transcluded heavily, or pages that are heavily trafficked like Main Page.

Blocks

 * Users are only blocked from editing if they prove to be consistently disruptive to the wiki. Vandalism, ignoring your talk page, or spam are all good ways to get blocked.