Valve Developer Community:Policies and Guidelines

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This page documents the Valve Developer Community's accepted policies and guidelines. A collection of standards and practices held by the vast majority of the community, through consensus, that reflect the expected behavioral conduct of new and experienced users alike.

Terms of Use

Main article: Valve Developer Community:Terms of Use

Article content

Images

For the official image use policy, see Valve Developer Community:Image use policy

For help with using images, see Help:Images

Other

User content

User pages

A user page is generally only edited by the user who owns it. However, edits that aim to improve functionality without fundamentally changing anything are usually excepted, but only insofar as the owner of the user page sees fit.

User pages should not be placed outside the user namespace.

Deletion

See also, Help:Deletion and Wikipedia:Deletion policy

• Pages may be deleted if they violate the Image use policy or Mod profile criteria.
• Images may be deleted if they lack effort or quality, aren't properly licensed or violate copyright terms, and/or aren't used anywhere.
• Blatant policy violations may be speedily deleted. This occurs through a nominal process in which the {{delete}} is applied to the offending article, the matter is discussed at Reasons for speedy deletion, and then the discussion is closed.

Blocks

See also: Wikipedia:Blocking policy

Users who prove to be disruptive may be blocked from editing the wiki for reasons that are, but not limited to:

• Vandalism
• Spam
• Sockpuppetry
• Copyright violations
• Intimidation or harrassment