STOWiki:User generated content

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This page is considered a guideline on STOWiki. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy. Feel free to update the page as needed, but please put proposals for any major changes to a vote on this article's discussion page. See the Guidelines home page for an overview of STOWiki guidelines. See Category:Guidelines for a list of proposed and accepted guideline articles.

General rules

• All UGC content must be restricted to one (top-level) article per Foundry mission in the dedicated "Foundry" namespace. (Placing the article in the "Foundry" namespace is as easy as starting the title with Foundry: as demonstrated below.)
• The article must follow the naming convention Foundry:[Name] ([ID]), where [Name] is a placeholder for the mission name and [ID] is the placeholder for the unique identifier of that mission.

E.g.: Foundry:The Longing (ST-HUCHYXC8R)

• The filenames for images uploaded for foundry articles must begin with Foundry- and must be a reasonably descriptive name, as in not using the generic screenshot date and time.
• Use the style and formatting described in the guide on foundry mission articles for your mission page.
• All authors are required to use the UGC info template on their top-level mission article that will automatically categorize their content, but may not add other categories manually.
• The article should be written in English.
• The article must not be linked from any pages of the standard namespace (i.e. you may link to them from another UGC article, a talk page, or your user profile page).
• However, UGC articles may link to any other article.

Sub-pages

• Authors are allowed to add articles discussing individual characters, planets, etc. on sub-pages of the mission article.

E.g.: Foundry:The Longing (ST-HUCHYXC8R)/U.S.S. Mayflower, Foundry:The Longing (ST-HUCHYXC8R)/New Nagasaki Colony, Foundry:The Longing (ST-HUCHYXC8R)/Ben Gillian

• All sub-pages must include the UGC disclaimer template (it is automatically added on top-level pages when using the UGC info template).