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.

Editing

For the general etiquette on the wiki, see Help:Etiquette.

For tips on styling, see Valve Developer Community:Style guide.

For a list of all help pages, see Help:Contents.

Other

User content

User images

Images used on user pages aren't exempt from the image use policy.

While these types of images can be used more leniently, they should also follow the following guidelines:

• They should be placed within one of the applicable subcategories of Category:User images.
• They should not be used on non-user namespace pages.

User names

User names must not be:

• Profane, vulgar, offensive, libelous or defamatory
• Used to threaten, slander or attack another person
• Used to impersonate someone else

User pages

See also:  Wikipedia: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 about a user page are usually accepted, but only insofar as the owner of the user page sees fit.
• A user may also be allowed to edit a user page, without express permission from the owner of the user page, if the intention is to add a notice used to inform an editor on the ill intentions of said user. However, if said user has demonstrated that they haven't done anything objectionable, then they are allowed to promptly remove the aforementioned notice.
• 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, the mod profile criteria or any of the other mentioned policies and guidelines.
• Images may be deleted if they lack effort or quality, aren't properly licensed, violate copyright terms or trademark rights, and/or aren't used anywhere.
• Blatant policy violations may be speedily deleted. This occurs through a nominal process in which the {{delete}} template is applied to the offending article, the matter is discussed at Reasons for speedy deletion, the template is or isn't deleted, 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
• Edit warring
• Sockpuppetry
• Copyright violations (intentional)
• Intimidation or harrassment
• Violation of the Terms of Use