This wiki is dedicated to the discussion and data-basing of everything Fortnite. Our guidelines apply to all users including staff. Listed below is a series of rules that we have established to ensure that all users and the wiki itself, are treated with respect. Following these rules allows for the site to be properly maintained and provide users with the equal opportunity to contribute.
Violating Fandom's TOS or our guidelines will result in different punishments depending on the severity. Repeat offenses will also increase the severity of your punishment.
The staff reserve the right to decide an appropriate response/punishment for the given violation(s). If you would like to appeal a ban complete this form as accurately as possible.
How You Can Help
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Reporting | If you come across a user who you believe is violating our guidelines, please report it to a member of staff, either via their user message wall or our Discord. |
Contact our Wiki Representative | Surafbrov (Fandom Staff) |
Contact Fandom | If you have found a problem that our Fortnite Wiki Staff can't help with, contact Fandom Support. |
Who You Can Report To
If you have issues or concerns with (an)other user(s), let us know!
Bureaucrats:
Social Administrators:
Thread/Discussions Moderators:
If you have issues or concerns with the wiki's pages or files, let us know!
Bureaucrats:
Content Administrators:
Content Moderators:
Rollbacks:
Contact us only if you have a problem that the content or social staff cannot solve!
- Surafbrov (Wiki Representative)
Offenses
These are a list of offenses that may result in punishment, but are not as severe as some of our other rules. These rules are lenient and can be subjective in cases. Feel free to discuss these rules with staff, but arguing with them may result in further punishment.
All violations below are for singular offenses and will result in a Level 2 or 3 Offense if repeated. Many rules are also exclusive to the Wiki or Discussions, and can be identified by Exceptions.
Rule Violation | Description | Exceptions | Example | Max Punishment |
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Unacceptable Media | Posting or uploading media that is not created by Epic Games or Low Quality media. |
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Posting an Item Shop review video, or posting the real world version of a weapon to add to a page. | Warning |
Self Promotions | Promoting your own content. |
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Linking your own YouTube channel on a cosmetic to show your review of it. | Warning |
Necropost | Replying to an Archived section of discussions older than one week. |
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Replying to a user reply which was made 25 days ago. | Warning |
Grinding Edits | Making minute or unimportant edits to pages to increase edit count. |
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Adding periods to sentences and randomly capitalizing words. | Warning |
Thread was Locked or Deleted | If your thread needs to be locked or deleted for any reason, it may result in a punishment. |
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User broke another more severe rule, or has repeatedly had posts removed or locked. | Escalation to Higher Level offense. |
Off-Topic Threads/Comments | Posts must remain on the Topic of Fortnite. |
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User posts about a different unrelated video game or their personal life. | Warning or Thread Locked or Removed |
Polls | Polls should not be repetitive or Off Topic |
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User makes a post about two factions in game and which is better. | Warning or Thread Locked or Removed |
Low Effort/Quality Threads | Threads with low quality or low effort content. These threads can be title only, or have useless content. |
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A user creating a thread with the title "I like fortnite" and the body being "It's a fun game". | Warning |
These are a list of offenses that will result in punishment, and are more severe than Level 1 rules. These rules are less lenient.
All violations below are for singular offenses and will result in a Level 3 Offense if repeated. Many rules are also exclusive to the Wiki or Discussions, and can be identified by Exceptions.
If the Offense is committed by a user which has made no other edits or Discussion posts, the ban will be more severe.
If the Max Punishment dictates severe or not severe, any time can be put in place if the staff sees fit between the two lengths.
Rule Violation | Description | Exceptions | Example | Max Punishment |
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Gibberish | Adding content to Wiki articles which are incomprehensible or have no merit. The offense scales greatly with severity.
This includes the use of Zalgo text. |
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Adding a series of random letters to a page, or adding trivia with very poor English. | Infinite Ban if severe. 3 Months if not. |
False Information | Adding content to Wiki articles or Discussions posts which is intended to mislead users. |
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Saying that an Outfit was in the item shop when it was a known Battle Pass skin. | Warning |
Edit Warring | Repeatedly undoing another user's edits on a page. This will apply to the user who is decided by staff. |
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Undoing a user's edit when they are speculating about the game's Lore. | Infinite Ban if severe, 7 day if not. |
Weapon Trivia | Violating the Weapon Trivia guidelines. |
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Adding that a weapon is not based on a generic weapon, but a niche indistinguishable version of it. | Warning |
Inappropriate behavior or harassment | Harassing other users by swearing, spamming or being aggressive. |
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Telling a user to kill themselves. | Infinite Ban if severe, 7 day if not. |
These are a list of offenses that will result in punishment, and are more severe than other rules. These rules are not lenient.
All violations below are for singular offenses and will result in severe punishment or a permanent ban if repeated. Many rules are also exclusive to the Wiki or Discussions, and can be identified by Exceptions.
If the Offense is committed by a user which has made no other edits or Discussion posts, the ban will be more severe.
If the Max Punishment dictates severe or not severe, any time can be put in place if the staff sees fit between the two lengths.
Rule Violation | Description | Exceptions | Example | Max Punishment |
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Removing Mass Content | Erasing entire paragraphs of content without good reason. |
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Deleting an entire table from a list of items. | Infinite Ban if severe. 3 Months if not. |
Pornography | Discussion or images of adult content. |
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Posting an NSFW image. | Infinite Ban in a majority of cases. |
Impersonation and Alternate accounts | Creating multiple accounts to impersonate another user, or evade a ban. |
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Making an account with a similar name and profile picture to a staff member.
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Infinite Ban of alternate account.
Up to Infinite Ban for main account. |
Age Requirement | Users must be 13 or over to use FANDOM. |
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User is 12 years old, or tells others they are under 13. | Infinite Ban in all cases. |
Fortnite EULA-breaking | Breaking Fortnite's EULA rules. |
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Promoting free Fortnite currency, gifting, gift cards, etc | Infinite Ban in all cases. |
See Also
Social Guidelines | |
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BehaviorIn addition to Fandom's Terms of Use, hostile behavior will not be tolerated. This includes but is not limited to:
Anything violating Fortnite’s EULA - the selling, buying, or trading of accounts, cosmetics, and both in-game or real-life currency - is strictly prohibited. Inquiring about these purchases, and haggling users for gifts is also prohibited.
PostingThe discussion feature is for Fortnite-related conversations only. The following will be locked or removed:
Giveaways and Competitions containing real life or in-game currency prizes (V-Bucks,E-cards,subscriptions, in-game cosmetics ect.) are prohibited; unless explicit approval from staff is granted. Please contact staff if you are interested in hosting a giveaway/competition of this nature. Users also should avoid frequently posting in a short time frame. Posts made in a short-time frame by the same user will be removed. In addition, we discourage the copying of other users' posts/formats to prevent the oversaturation of the same content. We may also delete some posts that weren't intentionally copied (i.e. contain a topic we see very often). This is up to staff discretion. Please post threads under the correct category . Tags under posts should also correlate with the content inside your post. Staff members will change the category and will add/remove tags as deemed fit. Repeated failure to categorize/tag appropriately will result in a warning. Additionally, threads that contain spoilers/leaks need to be formatted to where the spoiler/leak itself that cannot be seen without clicking on the thread. The post must also clearly state it contains a spoiler.
Special: Near the end of each season, staff will open a megathread that allows users to share their season's stats. Until this occurs, please refrain from posting them. (Posts outside this thread will be deleted.) Meaningful PostsPosts should encourage "meaningful discussion", allowing for thought-provoking, and insightful conversations that encourage other users to express their ideas and opinions. The following is considered as “Low Effort” and will be locked or deleted:
Please note if staff finds a user making the same type of poll/post with very little variety in content this can be considered as “low-effort” and/or spam; resulting in a removal of content or warning. Meaningful RepliesNot everyone shares the same opinion, and therefore users should remain open-minded while discussing. We understand it may not remain peaceful at all times, but this is not an excuse and we ask users to be civil. Please use constructive criticism when giving feedback. Good Responses:
Bad Responses:
ReportingUsers must play their part in de-escalating conflicts. Avoid using aggressive responses or insults when dealing with (a) hostile user(s). If you fail to do so, you may also be held at fault for the conflict. Do not respond to users who blatantly ignore rules - this will likely encourage them or give publicity to their behavior. If you witness an ongoing situation:
If you have concerns or issues pertaining to a user, please share them on staff’s message walls. |
Editing Tips and Guidelines | |
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Put Effort Into Your EditsWe encourage editors to put as much effort into their edits as possible. A lack of attention and/or care during editing increases the likelihood of inconsistencies and errors, resulting in multiple edits being required to achieve something which could have been done in one. The following are examples of ways you can maximise your effort in edits:
However, perfection is not required - all we ask is that you give your best effort and contribute to the improvement of the wiki as a whole. While we do aim for quality, it is still perfectly okay to make mistakes or perform minor edits. As long as you are committed, you are a valued editor. Use Official Fortnite TermsThis wiki aims to be professional and as such we use official in-game terminology rather than the community's terminology. For instance, instead of terms such as "Skins", we use "Outfits". Doing so aligns ourselves with Fortnite's official language and provides consistency and professionalism to the wiki. Source EditorUsing the Source Editor instead of the Visual Editor is a great way to improve your edits because it allows for precision, efficiency and advanced formatting. Source Editing requires some knowledge of wikitext to master it. For a complete guide, see this help page. CategorisationCategories are a way that viewers can find pages similar to another page. Very specific categories such as Category:Skeletal Outfits or Category:Robotic Outfits are unnecessary. We only need basic categories that will narrow down to a large number of pages (such as Category:Outfits). Additionally, broad categories such as the "Battle Royale" Category should not be added to individual pages, unless the page's topic is a gateway to a large amount of pages, such as Lore (Battle Royale). As such, a cosmetic such as Sea Wolf should not belong to such a category. FilesWhen it comes to uploading images, it's very important to choose a descriptive file name. This makes it easier to find images on the wiki. File names such as "Download.jpg" or "3013652E-A5F1-4E05-9BF8-6A0C6E7FC9AF.png" make it very hard to understand what the file shows. It could be just the file you need, but with a name like this you would never be able to find it just by using the search bar. To keep things as easy as possible, we're using a specific naming scheme on the wiki:
Here are some examples:
This naming scheme also makes it easier to use images on pages. For example, when adding multiple outfit images to a page, you could simply copypaste the " - Outfit - Fortnite.png" part and just change the name of the outfit at the beginning for each image. However, you must remember that wikitext is case and white-space sensitive, so using something like " - outfit - fortnite.png" wouldn't work. Another way to make files easier to find is by adding them to categories as well. File categorisation should be kept as minimalistic as possible - one category is usually enough. For example, images of outfits should be added to Category:Images - Outfits.
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