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Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Verified Commanders

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What the "Verified Commander" badge means on EDFM, and what it doesn't.

== Summary ==
A '''Verified Commander''' is an EDFM user whose linked Frontier account and associated ''Elite Dangerous'' Commander have been successfully verified through EDFM's Frontier authentication and Companion API (CAPI) integration.

This confirms one thing only: that the account/Commander relationship checks out. It is '''not''':
* a grant of moderation or administrative authority;
* an indication that EDFM endorses that user's contributions;
* a claim that the user is a trusted contributor; or
* a statement about the accuracy of anything that user has written.

Ordinary account creation and editing on EDFM do not require this status. See [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Contributing]].

== How someone becomes verified ==
Two separate steps both have to succeed:
# '''Frontier sign-in.''' The user signs in with their Frontier account (see [[Special:UserLogin]]). This proves they control that Frontier account, nothing more.
# '''Commander verification.''' EDFM's CAPI integration confirms which ''Elite Dangerous'' Commander is actually associated with that Frontier account.

Signing in with Frontier by itself does '''not''' make someone a Verified Commander. Only the combination of a successful Frontier sign-in '''and''' a successful CAPI Commander check does.

== Current status ==
EDFM's Frontier OAuth/CAPI integration is still being built out (see [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Terms of Use]] and [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Contributing]]). The <code>verified</code> group and this page exist so the mechanism is in place and consistent ahead of that integration landing; no accounts are marked Verified Commander until real CAPI verification is live.

== Privacy ==
Verified status is independent of Commander-name visibility. A user can be a Verified Commander without their Commander name being shown publicly anywhere on the site. Frontier account IDs, customer IDs, OAuth/CAPI identifiers, tokens, and similar authentication metadata are never exposed through this badge or any public profile display.

== Removal ==
Verified status can be removed if the underlying Frontier link is disconnected or replaced, or by administrator action. It is not removed for routine, temporary reasons such as an access token expiring or a one-off Frontier/CAPI outage.

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Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Legal and Trademark Notice

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''Elite Dangerous Field Manual'' is an unofficial, non-commercial community project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments plc. Game assets and imagery from ''Elite Dangerous'' are used with permission of Frontier Developments plc. ''Elite Dangerous'' and related trademarks and assets remain the property of their respective owners.

== No endorsement implied ==
Nothing on this site should be read as suggesting Frontier Developments plc has reviewed, endorsed, sponsored, or otherwise approved of this project.

== Trademarks ==
''Elite'', ''Elite Dangerous'', ''Frontier'', the Frontier Developments logo, and other related marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. This site uses the game's name descriptively, to identify the subject matter it documents, under nominative fair use principles — not as a claim of ownership or affiliation.

== Assets ==
Game assets and imagery from ''Elite Dangerous'' — including screenshots and in-game visuals used to illustrate articles — are used with permission of Frontier Developments plc, under Frontier's fan content policy for non-commercial community projects. That permission does not extend to Frontier's official company logo or proprietary fonts, which this project does not use. Branding on this site (logo, colour scheme, layout) is original work created for this project, not Frontier's. Screenshots hosted here are original captures by contributors — see [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy]] — not copied from other fan sites.

== Content license ==
Original text content on this wiki is licensed under the '''Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)''' (updated from 3.0 on 2026-08-07). This means:
* You may copy, redistribute, and adapt content from this wiki, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate attribution and license your own contributions under the same terms.
* Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

'''Note on how this was decided''': this license was applied to match the Elite Dangerous Fandom wiki's license based on Fandom's well-established, long-standing platform-wide default (CC BY-SA 3.0 applies to virtually all Fandom wikis unless a specific wiki's admins changed it). A live fetch of this specific wiki's footer to double-confirm was attempted during setup and blocked by Fandom's automated bot protection. If this turns out to be incorrect for that specific wiki, this page and docs/licensing-decisions.md should be corrected accordingly.

This license covers original '''text''' contributed to this wiki. It does '''not''' automatically cover:
* EDFM's proprietary software, infrastructure code, scripts, deployment tooling, configuration, or other technical components. Unless expressly stated otherwise, those materials are not licensed for copying, modification, redistribution, or reuse and all rights are reserved.
* Game assets/imagery used under Frontier's fan content policy (see Assets above) — that permission is Frontier's, not a CC license, and doesn't transfer to someone reusing content from this wiki.
* Any third-party or imported material (this project does not import content from Fandom or elsewhere — see below).

== Third-party/imported content ==
This project does not import, scrape, or reproduce content or images from Fandom or any other wiki/website. Matching Fandom's license here is about using a compatible, well-understood license for '''original''' contributions to this project — it is not, and should not be read as, a claim to have imported anything from Fandom.

== Contact ==
For legal or trademark concerns about this fan project, contact: <code>contact@edfieldmanual.com</code>.

Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Legal and Trademark Notice

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''Elite Dangerous Field Manual'' is an unofficial, non-commercial community project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments plc. Game assets and imagery from ''Elite Dangerous'' are used with permission of Frontier Developments plc. ''Elite Dangerous'' and related trademarks and assets remain the property of their respective owners.

== No endorsement implied ==
Nothing on this site should be read as suggesting Frontier Developments plc has reviewed, endorsed, sponsored, or otherwise approved of this project.

== Trademarks ==
''Elite'', ''Elite Dangerous'', ''Frontier'', the Frontier Developments logo, and other related marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. This site uses the game's name descriptively, to identify the subject matter it documents, under nominative fair use principles — not as a claim of ownership or affiliation.

== Assets ==
Game assets and imagery from ''Elite Dangerous'' — including screenshots and in-game visuals used to illustrate articles — are used with permission of Frontier Developments plc, under Frontier's fan content policy for non-commercial community projects. That permission does not extend to Frontier's official company logo or proprietary fonts, which this project does not use. Branding on this site (logo, colour scheme, layout) is original work created for this project, not Frontier's. Screenshots hosted here are original captures by contributors — see [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy]] — not copied from other fan sites.

== Content license ==
Original text content on this wiki is licensed under the '''Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)''' (updated from 3.0 on 2026-08-07). This means:
* You may copy, redistribute, and adapt content from this wiki, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate attribution and license your own contributions under the same terms.
* Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

'''Note on how this was decided''': this license was applied to match the Elite Dangerous Fandom wiki's license based on Fandom's well-established, long-standing platform-wide default (CC BY-SA 3.0 applies to virtually all Fandom wikis unless a specific wiki's admins changed it). A live fetch of this specific wiki's footer to double-confirm was attempted during setup and blocked by Fandom's automated bot protection. If this turns out to be incorrect for that specific wiki, this page and docs/licensing-decisions.md should be corrected accordingly.

This license covers original '''text''' contributed to this wiki. It does '''not''' automatically cover:
* This project's own infrastructure code/scripts (separate, still-undecided license — see `/opt/edwiki/docs/licensing-decisions.md`).
* Game assets/imagery used under Frontier's fan content policy (see Assets above) — that permission is Frontier's, not a CC license, and doesn't transfer to someone reusing content from this wiki.
* Any third-party or imported material (this project does not import content from Fandom or elsewhere — see below).

== Third-party/imported content ==
This project does not import, scrape, or reproduce content or images from Fandom or any other wiki/website. Matching Fandom's license here is about using a compatible, well-understood license for '''original''' contributions to this project — it is not, and should not be read as, a claim to have imported anything from Fandom.

== Contact ==
For legal or trademark concerns about this fan project, contact: <code>contact@edfieldmanual.com</code>.

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