StarfinderWiki:FAQ
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There's too much text here. I just want to ask a question!
Join our Discord server (shared by StarfinderWiki and PathfinderWiki 
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What is the mission of StarfinderWiki?
- See also: StarfinderWiki:Scope of the project
StarfinderWiki's goal is to compile an easily navigable resource for canon of the Starfinder campaign setting. It can be hard to know where to look for information, whether you're a player, a GM, or just someone interested in science-fantasy settings. This wiki aims to be a comprehensive resource document of official Starfinder material.
I don't know how to edit a wiki, but I want to help.
We hear this one a lot. StarfinderWiki uses the same Visual Editor as Wikipedia, which lets you type and format text directly into articles and doesn't require knowledge of complicated syntax to edit existing articles or create new articles. We have a great set of help pages, a tutorial, and a Discord chat to answer specific technical and stylistic questions.
But if that's complicated or confusing, request an account, login, and simply write plain text into an article. Don't worry about style, formatting, categories, or infoboxes. Cite sources with as much detail as possible in parentheses, or denote them another way. Contribute the best you can, and someone with more experience will be by to clean it up and add formatting.
StarfinderWiki is built to be edited. All changes can be improved, any mistakes can be reverted, and every contribution helps. You have our permission to be bold in updating pages.
Check back to the site to see what changes were made and how they changed the look of the page, then try to replicate that style when making your next edit. It's not as steep a learning curve as it might seem, so stick with it. We'd rather you make edits that need to be tidied up than not contribute at all.
Do I have to request an account?
Due to a slew of automated spammers and vandals, only registered users are allowed to edit StarfinderWiki. As such, if you wish to contribute to the project—and we want and encourage you to do so—you need to request an account and be logged in before you can edit any content herein.
If for any reason you don't quickly receive a confirmation of your account, join the StarfinderWiki Discord server and let us know. Administrators might not have any other way of knowing otherwise.
Additional benefits of being a registered member include having your edits and additions to the site attributed to you, customizing how StarfinderWiki looks and works for you, and allowing other members to contact you through your user talk page.
There are a lot of spoiler warnings. Is StarfinderWiki safe for players to use?
StarfinderWiki tries to be a comprehensive lore resource, which by necessity means including information that might spoil products. Since the Starfinder campaign setting also advances in real time, newer products sometimes state as new canon the outcomes of older adventures, which could constitute spoilers for those going back to play them.
Rather than hiding spoiler information, StarfinderWiki attempts to warn when an article might spoil a specific adventure. If you see a spoiler warning for an adventure that you're playing in, check with your GM to confirm whether the article's contents might be a problem for your table.
Do you have permission from Paizo to use their intellectual property?
Paizo Inc., the owners of the copyright to the Starfinder campaign setting and related products, has been extremely helpful and open to the StarfinderWiki and our sister project the PathfinderWiki . In February 2009, Paizo officially released their Community Use Policy (CUP), which granted registered websites and publishers permission to use Paizo's intellectual property for free resources that abided by the guidelines of the policy itself. Paizo's Community Use Policy is recorded at their website.
Why isn't there more information on "x"?
StarfinderWiki is a community-driven operation. We have articles and information only on subjects that others have taken the time to compile and write. If whatever you're looking for isn't here, either no one has had the time or motivation to write that specific article, or Paizo hasn't released official canon relating to that topic. But you're more than welcome and encouraged to start a new article or add to an existing one with whatever information you have on the topic. Someone else might just come along and fill in the missing bits you were looking for in the first place.
If you don't have an account and don't want to register, you can join the StarfinderWiki Discord chat and notify editors there of missing or incorrect information, or provide feedback about StarfinderWiki in general.
Can I add my own homebrew/fan-fiction material to the site?
StarfinderWiki is a resource for canon Starfinder campaign setting content only. If you cannot cite an official Starfinder source for information you post on the wiki, it doesn't belong here. There are many places on the internet where one can post this type of information, but StarfinderWiki is not one of them.
I created a page about spell/feat/trait/etc. but somebody deleted it! I thought you guys wanted people to contribute?
We most certainly want you to contribute, but StarfinderWiki has a No Crunch Policy. Please feel free to rewrite the article from an in-universe point of view without mechanics and repost it.