Subnautica Wiki:Guidelines

This page contains guidelines for the development of the Wiki.

The guidelines are meant to support contributors in the creation and expanding of articles, to ensure a certain degree of uniformity, and to have a set of common rules for admin decisions.

Please discuss the guidelines over at this thread.

Rules of Conduct

 * 1) Be respectful towards each other.
 * 2) Please do not make use of strong language on the Wiki.
 * 3) Help the users out, if you can.
 * 4) Help other contributors by polishing e.g. spelling and grammar, if applicable.
 * 5) Do not delete or falsify vital information or files.
 * 6) If you want to add a new feature across the Wiki, put it up for discussion first.
 * 7) Nonsense posts will be removed.
 * 8) Caps lock posts will be removed.
 * 9) Trolls will be banned.
 * 10) Advertising is not allowed.
 * 11) Before asking a question, please make sure it has not already been asked.

Editing Articles

 * 1) Always verify any information you add. Don't take the word from other people for granted. If you are not sure about a thing, put it up for discussion, so that other contributors can verify the information or prove it false.
 * 2) Structure all information logically. Using e.g. alphabetic order in lists is encouraged. However, make a distinction between implemented and non-implemented features.
 * 3) Make articles short and concise. Do not clutter pages. Less information is sometimes better.
 * 4) Make use of headings so as to avoid long text walls.
 * 5) Use the same headings for the same type of information and use the same order across articles. There are many exceptions, but also some recurring headings, as seen below. The suggested order is: Appearance - Behavior - Uses - Recipe - Upgrades / Uses in Crafting - Future Plans - Speculation - Gallery - Trivia - References
 * 6) For infoboxes, use the item symbol picture / icon, not an in-game render of the item. This applies to all items players can naturally hold in their inventory, as well as seabase modules and other placeable items.
 * 7) Please use the appropriate templates.
 * 8) Don't place items in both the Placeable Items and Item category, in order to keep them cleaner.
 * 9) Don't create pages on subjects we know next to nothing about. (Ex. people making the Arctic page, stop.)
 * 10) Always include a source when creating a trivia bullet point unless the trivia is about something that used to be in the game.
 * 11) Highlight the term a page is about by marking it as bold throughout the whole text.
 * 12) Do not make use of words like "you"; use "the player" instead.

Pictures and Galleries

 * 1) Images should be as clean as possible with no HUD displaying. You can do this by pressing F6 twice in-game. However, some things you might want to capture vanish when pressing F6. Therefore, it is not always best to use F6.
 * 2) Images should be as large as possible. Therefore, think about the image composition before you hit the screenshot button.
 * 3) If an image needs to be cropped, please keep the same aspect ratio so as to ensure that we don't end up with five different aspect ratios in one gallery. Of course, there are exceptions to this, such as item symbols.
 * 4) Please do only use pictures of objects in their natural state. Spawned-in creatures and terraformed landscapes should be avoided, except e.g. for purposes of size comparison.
 * 5) Photoshopped pictures are only rarely useful and should be avoided.
 * 6) Galleries should always be standard-sized so as to ensure that we do not end up with five different picture display sizes across pages. If this makes a page look weird, try adding or removing a picture.
 * 7) The pictures in a gallery should not be repetitive.
 * 8) For optimal lighting, use the "DAY"/"NIGHT" console commands.
 * 9) Only have up to 6 quality pictures or gifs on each page. Other pictures can be moved to (mainpage)/Gallery pages.
 * 10) /Gallery subpages have neither a quality nor quantity limit, however keep the pictures relevant, non-repetitive and appropriate.