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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 images

Certain images that may otherwise not be allowed on the wiki are permitted for use on user profile pages.

These images, known simply as user images, should follow these 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 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 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, 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 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

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+==== User images ====
+Certain images that may otherwise not be allowed on the wiki are permitted for use on user profile pages.
+These images, known simply as user images, should follow these 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 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 excepted, but only insofar as the owner of the user page sees fit.