Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26383550-20170102005636

So for those of you who don't know, there are still quite a few pages that look like, well, total rubbish. Now, those pages are coming very few and far between, (mostly due to other admins and I's delete sprees) but that doesn't mean that they still exist, or that there is still a bad page. So, today I'm going to list our standards, and allow you guys to suggest other rules to follow by. Now don't make these rules strict, we aren't trying to be a new kind of government here. Make them loose, but easilly identifiable if broken. Before we get into the rules, keep in mind it's okay if you are on a tight time schedual and need to finish later. Just say "this page is a WIP" on the page and in the comments (if you have time), wright down how much time you think it will take you to get back to the page. Just remember that some people may edit it while your gone to neaten it up. Now, onto the actual rules you must follow for creating a page here (without it gettign taken down.).


 * The page must have an infobox and an image. This is pretty much one of the basic rules of the wiki, and anyone worth their salt knows this. You must have an infobox to supply basic information about your character. If they don't have something or you wish to make them mysterious, leave "none" "unknown" or other words of the like.To make an infobox go to source editor and type, but keep in mind that other users have designed their own types of infoboxes. The most famus one is . Images are a must to visually show the reader what a creature looks like. To add an image to a page, go to "contribute" and click "add image". Then you must upload the image file from your computer onto wikia, and give it a new name. (or you could keep it the same. It's reccomended to change it's name if the file is a large mumbled mess of characters.) Go back to your pages infobox, and type the EXACT NAME of the image file into the "image" portion of the Infobox, which can be accesed in both visual and source editor.


 * Make sure your page follows CORRECT GRAMMAR, or at least is easilly readable. If your page is so broken other users say they can't read it, or edit it so much it looks brand new, try to study english some more. Now, I get not all of the users are from England, America, Ireland, ETC, and English may not come natuarally to most users, but just because your page has incorrect grammar will not get it deleted. Infact this is the LEAST likely cause of deletion, and will probably just be fixed by another user. BUT, some helpful tips to remember are that there are three "there's". "Their" means it belongs to someone, something, or a group. "There" is relevantly meant to simplify a location, such as "He shouted 'Go over there!'" other then "He shouted 'Go over to the rock behind that hill over that mountain!". And They're is a contraction of "they" and "are", simply meaning, "they are". "A" and "An" are used for the same purpose, but in different ways. "A" is used for words that begin with consonants. Consonants are the letters B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y (sometimes), and Z.  However, the consonants W and Y don't always have "A" infront of them. An example of this is " Like a speeding bullet, Superman flew across the sky." . "An" is used for words starting with vowels. Vowels consist of the letters A, E, I, O, U, and Y (sometimes). An example of this would be "An Airplane flew through the sky at the speed of sound."

That's all for now, and I'm going to leave this thread up for a few days before shutting it down and making the Standards page. I would love to hear what you guys suggest as standards, and I might add them to the list. For now though, cya. 