Rules and responsibilities that apply to both editors/staff to follow.
We want to give our editors as much leeway as they deserve. We will make an attempt to give warnings where we see suitable for a user to improve and not make the same mistake twice. In some instances, warning will not be granted.
Note: Staff at their discretion may choose to lower or increase the severity of a punishment.
Contents
April 2021 Changes
- Removed lengthy paragraphs and condensed into tables with punishments.
Editing
- To prevent drama and uncertainty around editing we have a Editing Tips & Guidelines page that we strongly recommend to editors and staff.
- To keep our site as authentic as possible, we are seeking fact over opinion. If you state "The batman skin is the best skin in the game" it becomes an opinion. Fact and opinion also play a role in fiction vs non fiction. We don't want theories about a page, we want facts.
- If you collect information from external websites, don't plagiarize others written words. Please refrain from doing so and at least if you do use an external websites sources, either link it or rewrite that information into your own words.
Images
Acceptable images must be Fortnite related. Here are some examples:
- Backgrounds
- Transparent images
- Icons
Videos
Acceptable videos must be Fortnite related. Here are some examples:
- Fortnite Official Trailers (Created by Epic)
- If you believe there should be an exception, contact Content Mod +
Audio
Acceptable Audio must be Fortnite Related.
- Fortnite Lobby Music Audio.
- Emote Audio
- Item Audio (Shooting, Pullout, etc.)
- If you believe there should be an exception, contact Content Mod +
Level 1 Offenses
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unacceptable Images | Unrelated Fortnite content, blurry images, faces of real life people | 3
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Unacceptable Videos | 1) Videos related to Fortnite, players, items, outfits, shops uploaded by anyone NOT Epic. 2) Links to your social media. We do not allow self advertisement. | 1
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Unacceptable Audio | 1) IRL Audio. 2) Audio that is bad quality (Background noise, glitchy, not proper sound volume) | 3
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Self Advertisement | 1) No self advertisement on Articles, blogs, profiles, message walls or sandboxes (Unless showing stats using Fortnite related tracking websites; leader boards etc)
2) The only allowed location for Self Advertisement is on your own user profile. |
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| NecroPost | Necropost or gravedigging is replying to an archived section of the Wiki. Whether that is a message wall, or blog. This rule applies to anything longer than 7 days. | 3
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Grinding Edits | When editing on the Fortnite Wiki, we do not care about the number of edits you have created. We are more impressed by users who develop their ideas and make quality edits. Grinding edits is an issue to our Achievement Leaderboards.
Example of Grinding Edits:
Advice to avoid being seen as an edit grinder:
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Blocked | You can be blocked by a Fortnite Wiki staff member for various reasons. Depending on the staff member's discretion, your block can vary. Usually but not always, we give light blocks (between 1-7 days). If your block is longer than 7 days, you can appeal it on the staff members' wall here. Any user who evades a block by using a VPN or external plugin will be permanently blocked. | ||
| Repeated Level 1 Offenses | Repeating Level 1 Offenses | 0
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1 Week Wiki Ban |
Level 2 Offenses
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adding Gibberish | Adding content to Wiki articles that serve no purpose. ("Random words, Fortnite Sucks, etc.") | 1
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Low: 7 Day Wiki Ban
Medium: 1-3 Month(s) Wiki Ban High: 1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Adding False Information | If we view that the page looks to be vandalized in intent, this rule applies. Adding False information that is not true to the pages contents. ("Midas is a Glider, Epic Games was established in 2019, etc.") | 1
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Low: 7 Day Wiki Ban
Medium: 1-3 Month(s) Wiki Ban High: 1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Revert Edit Wars | Reverting Edits with another user because either of you cannot come to a consensus. If this is the case, please message each other on your user walls to prevent this from continuing to occur. | 3
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Low: 7 Day Wiki Ban
Medium: 1-3 Month(s) Wiki Ban High: 1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Inappropriate Behaviour | Articles, blogs, profiles, message walls or sandboxes that incite arguments, disrespect, harassment, explicit words, racism etc. | 1
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Low: 7 Day Wiki Ban
Medium: 1-3 Month(s) Wiki Ban High: 1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Repeated Level 2 Offenses | Repeating Level 2 Offenses | 0
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1 Month Wiki Ban |
Level 3 Offenses
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Removing Mass Content | Erasing a page of paragraphs and or entirety lengths that we feel was done with intent of no purpose. If we feel it was accidental, we will give out a warning. If you have done this by accident, please report it to a Staff member. If content is removed for moreover 1 section of the Wiki, we will take action. | 0
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1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Pornography | 1) Speaking/Referring of Adult Inappropriate Content anywhere on the Wiki. 2) Images, links, audio etc. | 0
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1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Impersonation | 1) Sock puppetting (Abuse of multiple accounts) falls under this category and could be a reason to why you've been blocked. We dislike users who create alternative accounts after being banned, and do not tolerate if users create accounts to mock others.
2) Do not impersonate a Fortnite Wiki staff member. Do not tell how a staff should or should not do their job. If you have a reason to believe a staff member is not acting accordingly, report it to an Administrator. |
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1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Security | Do not share your account with anyone. Do not exploit users. Do not attempt to hack other users. Do not give out your password to anyone. | 0
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Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Age Requirement | Any users who are below 13 years of age will be reported to FANDOM for their account to be terminated. If your account is globally blocked, do not create a new account until you are 13 years of age. | 0
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Permanent Wiki Ban |
Rules & Responsibilities of the Fortnite Discussions
Our rules and responsibilities apply to all users including staff. However, it is up to the staff's discretion to decide on a action/punishment.
Level 1 Offenses
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thread was Locked | If your thread is locked it could be due to a question being answered, spam or has gone off-topic. | ||
| Thread/Comment was Deleted | If your thread/post is deleted it could be due to unwanted publicity, spam or has broken one of our rules. | Warning/Possible Ban | |
| Off Topic Threads/Comments | We do not have a section for Offtopic threads/comments. We want the Fortnite Wiki to only be about Fortnite. Things we dont want are personal life experiences (School, Sports, TV, etc.) It is acceptable to have one thread such as an Introduction about yourself when you first join. | ||
| Unwanted External Links/Images | We have no reason to want external websites or images that are not related to Fortnite apart of our Discussions. | 3
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Unwanted Polls | 1) Threads that are created with Polls need to be clear and concise. We need to know what the title is and what we are voting for. 2) Polls should not be repetitive. We do not need to see the same Poll asked 1 day ago. (Example: Title: Which AR is Better?) | ||
| Self Advertisement | 1) No self advertisement on threads/comments (Unless showing stats using Fortnite related tracking websites; leader boards etc)
2) The only allowed location for Self Advertisement is on your own user profile. |
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1 Day Wiki Ban |
| Blocked | You can be blocked by a Fortnite Wiki staff member for various reasons. Depending on the staff member's discretion, your block can vary. Usually but not always, we give light blocks (between 1-7 days). If your block is longer than 7 days, you can appeal it on the staff members' wall here. Any user who evades a block by using a VPN or external plugin will be permanently blocked. |
While it is most likely impossible to keep things peaceful at all times, we'd like it for users to be civil and open-minded about differing opinions.If you'd ever like to give feedback to someones thread/post please have it constructive instead of destructive. Here are examples of the type of responses:
- (Good) Constructive criticism is giving feedback and or guidance for ways in which someone/something can improve.
- (Bad) Destructive criticism is giving feedback that blames, finds faults and or delivers the message in a aggressive or insulting way.
Level 2 Offenses
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inappropriate Behaviour | Threads and comments that incite arguments, disrespect, harassment, explicit words, racism etc. | 1
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Low: 7 Day Wiki Ban
Medium: 1-3 Month(s) Wiki Ban High: 1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Inappropriate Polls | Threads that are created with Polls that do not follow the Fortnite criteria. Such as polls about other users, non Fortnite content etc. | 1
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Low: 7 Day Wiki Ban
Medium: 1-3 Month(s) Wiki Ban High: 1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
Level 3 Offenses
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spam | Do not Spam repeated words into Threads/Comments. Example (Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks, Fortnite Sucks) | 5
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1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
| Impersonation | 1) Sock puppetting (Abuse of multiple accounts) falls under this category and could be a reason to why you've been blocked. We dislike users who create alternative accounts after being banned, and do not tolerate if users create accounts to mock others.
2) Do not impersonate a Fortnite Wiki staff member. Do not tell how a staff should or should not do their job. If you have a reason to believe a staff member is not acting accordingly, report it to an Administrator. |
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1 Year/Permanent Wiki Ban |
Other
| Violation | Description | Warnings | Punishment |
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| Rule Breakers | 1) Please do not post about rule-breakers, such as vandals, in order to report them to staff. Especially don't mention them. They will see that it is annoying you, and will likely be encouraged to continue.
2) In addition, do not post about ongoing situations of spammers or vandals (An example being post spamming, upvote spaming) as the perpetrator will just have more fun in doing it more. Report all offenses to a Fortnite Wiki Staff, on their user wall. |
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| Fortnite Currency | Trading for Accounts, Cosmetics (gifting) or asking/selling/buying Fortnite/IRL currency is not allowed. In rare occasions, Fortnite Wiki Staff may create an Event for you to be Gifted Fortnite Cosmetics. |
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