Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Contributing

How to contribute to EDFM.

EDFM policy commitments — quick reference

• Operator/contact: Elite Dangerous Field Manual (EDFM) is operated as an independent community project. For policy, privacy, copyright, licensing, or site-operation questions, contact [email protected].
• Unofficial status: EDFM is not affiliated with, operated by, sponsored by, endorsed by, or reviewed by Frontier Developments plc. Frontier names, marks, game assets, and imagery remain Frontier's or their owners' property.
• Accounts, edits, and uploads: Anyone may create an account. Logged-in users may edit pages. Logged-in users may upload permitted image types subject to file type, size, rate-limit, licensing, moderation, and anti-abuse rules. Anonymous uploads remain disabled. EDFM may later restrict account creation, editing, or uploads for spam, security, abuse-prevention, legal, or moderation reasons.
• Age: EDFM is not intended for children under 13. If you are under 13, do not create an account or provide personal information.
• Contribution license: Unless a page clearly says otherwise, original text submitted to EDFM is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Frontier-owned game material, third-party material, trademarks, personal information, EDFM software/infrastructure, and EDFM branding are not relicensed by that text license.
• Personal data and advertising: EDFM does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for behavioural advertising. EDFM does not use advertising cookies, cross-site marketing cookies, remarketing, enhanced conversions, Google Ads audiences, AdSense, Meta Pixel, session replay, or ad-personalisation features. Optional Google Analytics is used only after Analytics consent on eligible public pages and is excluded from sensitive account, authentication, Frontier OAuth, and profile pages.
• Account removal and public history: If account removal is requested, EDFM's normal approach is to disable or rename the account where appropriate while preserving public edits, file history, logs, and other records needed for attribution, licensing, moderation, security, legal compliance, and wiki integrity.
• Logs and backups: Operational logs are intended to rotate at about 60 days unless longer retention is temporarily needed for abuse, security, outages, or legal reasons. EDFM takes daily backups; removed or changed data may remain in already-created backups until those backups expire under the backup schedule.
• Cookies and consent: Necessary cookies/storage support login, security, account creation, preferences, and cookie-choice handling. Optional Analytics/site-improvement cookies are controlled through Cookie Preferences. Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent ordinary reading.
• Frontier login and CAPI: Normal Frontier sign-in is for account login/linking only and requests auth, not Companion API (capi) access. Commander-name verification is a separate optional Preferences action; choosing Attach CMDR Name requests auth capi, reads the Commander name once, and keeps that Commander name private by default unless the user later enables public display.

Current stage

EDFM is open to the public and actively under development. Anyone may create an account and contribute to the wiki. Logged-in users may edit pages. Logged-in users may upload permitted image types subject to file type, size, rate-limit, licensing, moderation, and anti-abuse rules. Anonymous uploads remain disabled. EDFM may later restrict account creation, editing, or uploads for spam, security, abuse-prevention, legal, or moderation reasons.

Contributors can optionally sign in with Frontier (see Special:UserLogin) to link a Frontier account to their EDFM account. Normal Frontier sign-in is for login/linking only and does not request Companion API (capi) access or grant the Verified Commander badge by itself. Commander-name verification is available as a separate optional Preferences action: a logged-in user may choose Attach CMDR Name to request auth capi, read their Commander name once, and attach Verified Commander status. The Commander name is private by default unless the user later enables public display. This is not required to edit — ordinary account creation and editing do not depend on Frontier verification.

The site is still in an early stage, so many pages, templates, and systems are being expanded or refined as the project grows. Contributors are welcome to add information, improve existing pages, correct inaccuracies, and help develop the Field Manual.

What contribution looks like

• Editing: edits go through the normal wiki edit flow. Significant or gameplay-fact-bearing changes should carry {{Article status}} with status=Needs review until checked against Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Verification Policy.
• Screenshots: see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy before uploading anything.
• Sourcing: see the source quality guide for what counts as a good source.
• Tone: see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Editorial Policy.
• Legal/privacy rules: see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Terms of Use, Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Privacy Policy, Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Cookie Policy, and Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Image Use Policy.

Reporting problems

Use the article's talk page to flag inaccuracies, and tag the article with {{Unverified claim}} or {{Draft warning}} as appropriate rather than leaving unflagged uncertain content.

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. See Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Legal and Trademark Notice for details.