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Fortnite Wiki

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

Notices Description
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!

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
Unacceptable Media Posting or uploading media that is not created by Epic Games or Low Quality media.
  • Said media is used in a User Profile.
  • The media is important to the page such as a user made render or original concept for an existing cosmetic.
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.
  • Promotion on a user page.
  • Linking creators of a cosmetic item, with one social media link.
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.
  • Replying to comments on Wiki pages.
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.
  • Fixing a spelling error occasionally.
  • Deleting unnecessary spaces on a page.
  • Forgetting to add a detail after you have completed an edit.
  • Edits cannot be grinded on Discussions as there is no edit counter.
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.
  • Content was not a major rule break. Posts may still be removed but no further punishment occurs.
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.
  • Brief Off-Topic comments.
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
  • Unique Polls which add insight or value for the community.
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.
  • Asking a genuine question, posting an image, but should still have quality body text.
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
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.

  • Poorly explaining a piece of trivia or information. This should still be fixed as soon as possible however.
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.
  • A common misconception. This should still be fixed as soon as possible however.
  • Genuine user error.
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.
  • Undoing a vandal's edits.
  • Undoing edits which staff decided were unimportant.
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.
  • Edit was approved by an admin.
  • Undoing a vandal's edits.
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.
  • No exceptions to this rule. Only thing to note is that depending on what has been said or done, less punishment will be given.
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
Removing Mass Content Erasing entire paragraphs of content without good reason.
  • Genuine Error on behalf of the user. This should be undone as soon as possible.
Deleting an entire table from a list of items. Infinite Ban if severe. 3 Months if not.
Pornography Discussion or images of adult content.
  • No exceptions.
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.
  • Approved accounts labelled as a bot which have edits not completed by full human input.
Making an account with a similar name and profile picture to a staff member.


Creating a second account after a ban.

Infinite Ban of alternate account.

Up to Infinite Ban for main account.

Age Requirement Users must be 13 or over to use FANDOM.
  • No exceptions.
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.
  • No exceptions.
Promoting free Fortnite currency, gifting, gift cards, etc Infinite Ban in all cases.

See Also

Social Guidelines

Behavior

In addition to Fandom's Terms of Use, hostile behavior will not be tolerated. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Any form of disrespect
  • Any form of harassment (this includes Haggling)
  • Sharing or inquiring of users personal information; Doxxing
  • Profanity, slurs, or any vulgar language
  • Instigating or continuing drama
  • Troll accounts or Impersonation
  • Mini-modding
  • Ban-Evading
  • General Disruption

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.


In most cases, staff will warn users that a rule has been violated. In more severe cases, a warning may not be given and a ban will be issued.

Posting

The discussion feature is for Fortnite-related conversations only. The following will be locked or removed:

  • Posts about unrelated media
  • Inappropriate/unsuitable topics (Politics, Self-Harm, Shipping, Suggestive themes, etc.)
  • Promotion of drama
  • Sharing of personal information
  • Self-advertising
  • Mass pinging
  • Replies to posts older than 2 weeks (necroposting)
  • Derogatory posts directed at users (slander)
  • Trolling (Biased polls and quizzes, etc.)
  • Any form of spam
  • The reposting of removed posts

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.


Please Note: A thread may become locked if the question it asks is answered.

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 Posts

Posts 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:

  • Threads created only with a title
  • Threads created with only a few words
  • Quizzes with 3 similar questions
  • Polls with yes/no options
  • "Guess by emoji(s)" posts
  • Stats posts

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 Replies

Not 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:
Constructive criticism is feedback or guidance for ways in which someone/something can improve. The following are some examples of constructive responses:

  • “I don’t exactly agree with this, but I understand how you see that.”
  • “I don’t exactly agree with this, but this is how I understand this.”
  • “Maybe try this next time;”

Bad Responses:
Destructive criticism is feedback that blames, negatively emphasizes flaws, or delivers the message in an aggressive or disrespectful way. The following are some examples of destructive criticism. These can lead to a warning or ban:

  • “That’s stupid. Why would you think that?”
  • “ If that’s a problem, you're simply not good/skilled.”
  • “ That’s a very bad opinion, we do not want to hear your feedback.”

Reporting

Users 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:

  • Do not feed into the conflict!
  • Report the post/thread by clicking the three dots by the post.
  • Report them to a staff member on their message wall.
  • Ping a staff (who has discussion powers!) in reply to the post(s).

If you have concerns or issues pertaining to a user, please share them on staff’s message walls.

Editing Tips and Guidelines

Put Effort Into Your Edits

We 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:

  • Make pages from scratch; avoid copy-pasting pages when creating them - doing so can easily result in errors, such as a name of another cosmetic being used in a different cosmetic's introduction.
  • Keep up-to-date with our latest formats; make sure the formats you add to pages are the latest versions - you can check this by watching announcements and looking at some of our staff's edits. This helps keep everyone on the same page and reduce the need for messages and corrections in edits.
  • When revamping a page, revamp all of it; avoid revamping only parts of a page on an outdated format - not revamping all of it can make it harder for other editors to spot what needs extra work, resulting in half up-to-date pages.

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 Terms

This 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 Editor

Source Editor - Editing Tips and Guidelines - Fortnite

An example of the Source Editor

Using 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.

Categorisation

Categories 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.

Files

When 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:
[name of the thing on the image] - [type] - Fortnite.[filetype]

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.
You can find all available image categories under Category:Images.

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