DFLegends:Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy

General information
This wiki is for cataloguing information from the Legends screen of the video game Dwarf Fortress. While there exists a wiki cataloguing the video game itself and its rule-set, it contains little of the characters of each world. There are wikis that catalogue specific worlds, but not one for all of them. This wiki welcomes characters, events, item descriptions and any other content from any world played on Dwarf Fortress.

As such, the only reason for blocking are those outside the wiki's purpose: vandalism, harassment, etc.

This wiki should also not be used as a general RPG repository, that is to say a repository that are more based in fiction that fact. While a character's story may be embellished, they should be proven to exist in a Dwarf Fortress game-world with a screencap if required unless solid reasons are given for the creation of an article on these subjects.

Characters from a lost world are allowed until and unless evidence to the contrary that the characters, events etc. did not come from a Dwarf Fortress game emerge.

Formatting
Formatting should be adapted from Wikipedia where possible, but also kept as simple as the wiki allows. Don't mass-import Wikipedia templates that don't work and then spam them on pages with red links (or worse, red words ). Try to make an article from scratch instead of attempting to 100% copy the Wikipedia format.

Admins should take it upon themselves to - if they don't know coding - empty the content of the troublesome template and at worst, remove the corrupted information from articles if the user that inserted it doesn't make a show of adapting it to fit fandom.com display.

Example of how a page should NOT look: .

Do not be afraid to make your own templates or lift them from other fandom.com sites - we run under the same license, after all - or from Wikipedia, but please source them inside noinclude tags - or to adapt them for your own purposes. For example, the s-start template can be used for a character's family or even its slayer, as in this article.

When refering to common-use words that have little to no effect in the game, consider linking them to Wikipedia (ex. article ), to the appropriate fandom.com page where necessary (ex. Gandalf ) or to the Dwarf Fortress Wiki (ex. Article ).

Do NOT redirect year links to Wikipedia. We're going to make them disambiguation pages here... eventually. Besides, in-game years have nothing to do with Wikipedia years.

Notability
There is no notability criteria, but please refrain from making 5-word articles in the sense that "The Scepter is a scepter made in my fortress". Try to squeeze as much information of an item's article as possible if that information initially appears very limited. For example, you can discover that "The Scepter was made by the [creature] in the year [year] and it is made out of _____. It is currently contained in the fortress _____ of the civilization ______ of the world ______." See? And that just could be the start. Better than 5 word articles.

Naming conventions
Names should be in the original language of the characters where possible. We recognize that this is not always possible, especially for second-hand material or where we are working with worlds where people have renamed their characters. However, if the original name is found, it should be primary used. This goes for worlds, characters, items, events, wars etc.

No real people articles
This wiki contains information on fictional worlds. Characters with names of real people are allowed as long as they belong to Dwarf Fortress characters.

Comparison
Comparison to other fictional worlds is allowed, thus the format for links to other fandom.com sites.

Vulgarity
If possible, try to avoid vulgarity. It is permitted only in relation to character naming or where the naming can be justified to be in another language that does not mean in English anything wrong. This is a good reason to use the characters' original language name.

Adult content

 * NO PORNOGRAPHY. It is a known fact that in this day and age, "adult content" is fine as long as it's not pornography. It is a good way to get this wiki behind a content warning wall or worse. Use of pornography is cause for permanent banning. If you have a modded world with detailed sexual content, consider either not referencing that aspect of the world or not cataloguing that world here.
 * Violence in fictional setting is fine.
 * Undetailed textual sexual content in fictional setting is necessary. Creatures procreate here and even have consorts. Try to be as clinical as possible. Incest exists - it is unknown at this time if it is a bug or intentional, but there is at least one instance of a roc mating with her grandson. Cousins marrying each other and procreating also exists - making some family trees likely inbred central. We can't reasonably not catalogue these instances, but try to keep it as least saucy as you can.

Inflammatory subjects
Try to avoid inflammatory subjects (swear words, insults, children, drugs etc.) - ESPECIALLY in relation to real world events. In-game inflammatory subjects are acceptable - we have religion, after all - but generally, try not to get this wiki into trouble or behind a content warning wall. '''This may be a bannable offense. You have been warned.'''

"But I don't like censorship"
And we don't like to think of our wiki behind a content wall. Or deleted. Sometimes compromises need to be made. This isn't the kind of wiki that those compromises should be large anyway, since the game creators have gone out of their way to make the subjects bearable and rarely distasteful, barring the violence, which is inherent to a fantasy world.

Not (just) a guide
DFLegends's main purpose is not to give people guides through a world/map, but to catalogue creatures, locations etc. in different worlds.

That being said, editors are welcomed to make guide-related sections in articles or even pages. The only limitation is that guide/out-of-world/game technical information is not to be amalgamated with historical information.

Fourth-wall references
Fourth-wall references are acceptable and even encouraged. I justify everything the overseer does or use of DFHack commands as magic from the overseer. You're welcome to blend in commands into actual gameplay where needed.


 * Possible conflict with "not (just) a guide"?

Not really. The above-section requires you to not put information inside an article in technical terms in the sense of "The creature's AI does this or this" or "the encounter was determined by the game's RNG". This section recommends blending technical events into storylines, in the sense that "the creature does this or this" and "the encounter happened at that place while the character was doing that thing". Note that the rewrite has no technical terms mentioned while still conveying the facts without issue.

"Cheating"
Since Dwarf Fortress is a moddable, downloadable free-to-play single-player game, this wiki does not care about "cheating" i.e. modifications towards the game or worlds in ways the creator did not anticipate, like or that some believe gives a character "an unfair advantage". However, it is recommended that such actions be justified in-game and in-articles (that is, magic, divine intervention etc).

Spoilers
Reading this wiki should be considered consent to read spoilers. You have been warned. We have no spoiler warning, everything could be a spoiler for something, especially if you're reading or planning to read a community game or watching Dwarf Fortress Let's Plays. We try to get the latest information on worlds with hidden legends options and we will gleefully use any means necessary to obtain information from the world that may not even be present in the community game thread.

Here be unmarked spoilers.

Contact
For problems, discussion, suggestions etc. please contact Lurker Z.