ARK Survival Evolved Wiki:Wiki rules

In order to keep the ARK: Survival Evolved Wiki free of spam and unnecessary items, there are a few rules and guidelines you must follow when editing and creating pages:

1. Don't post content that is against the Curse TOS.
2. Spam/Advertising/Vandalism is not allowed. This includes posting off-topic, repetitive, offensive, libelous, or advertising content.
   1. Some Private Server information is allowed, provided that it keeps the same format: see Dedicated Server Providers.
3. Harassment, insults, ad hominem is not allowed on the wiki. Please keep all discussion pages as civil as possible. Be respectful.
4. Link to homepages, try to avoid linking directly to files and file-sharing sites--homepages are generally more secure then a Megashare link.
5. Try to make sure your pages have content. Note that some content might be too simple to warrant a page. There are exceptions, such as parts of the actual game. Berries is a great example.
6. If you are in the middle of working on a page, mark it as a work in progress so it won't get removed due to lack of content.
7. Content should first and foremost cover the game as it appears and behaves under the standard PvPvE configuration on official servers. Where applicable, notable differences between PvPvE and PvE rulesets should be noted.
8. Keep speculation to a minimum. Anecdotal evidence should be confined to an article's talk page where it must be verified before inclusion in the article.
9. Keep videos to an absolute maximum of 2 per page. It's better to tell rather than show. See below for additional video specific rules.
   1. Videos must go through a jury voting process on the article's talk page where the top 20 editors are able to vote on videos. After 2 approval votes, the video can then be added to the page.
   2. All videos submitted to the wiki must include the version of the game they are recorded in.
   3. No advertisements, offensive language, subscriptions, donations, or promotions are allowed in the video content.
   4. If an additional person wants to submit a video when there is already a video posted, they must petition for it on the discussion page, where it must receive 3 approval votes.
   5. If a video has been approved, please follow the template to paste into the page.
10. Sign your posts on talk pages with ~~~~. If you see a comment without a signature, look into the page's history to find the username and date of the person who made the comment, then substitute {{Unsigned}} using {{subst:unsigned|Username|Date}} and remind them to sign next time using {{Please sign}}.