How to edit a page

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This page is to help you find everything you need to know about editing pages on the Forbidden Library.

Markup Language

This wiki uses its own markup language that is just like Wikipedia's. Using different tags will get different results. While editing your page, you may see small boxes just above the input field. These will call up the tags for you to use, such as making text bold and italicized, and how to link to other articles.

How to organize your articles

The lead section should be first, and may contain optional elements presented in the following order: disambiguation links (dablinks), maintenance tags, infoboxes, images, navigational boxes (navigational templates), introductory text, and table of contents, moving to the heading of the first section.

Headings are located at the top of sections and subsections, which they delimit. Very short or very long sections and subsections in an article look cluttered and inhibit its flow. Headings help make an article clearer, and they populate the table of contents that users can choose to view (the default) or not to view, under their "Preferences". Headings are hierarchical; you should start with a second-level heading (two equals signs on each side: == Heading ==). A subsection of a section should have a third-level subheading (=== Subheading ===), and a subsection of one of these subsections should have a fourth-level subheading (==== Subsubheading ====). Between sections, there should be only a single blank line; multiple blank lines in the edit window create too much empty space in the article. If the order in which sections should appear in a longer article is unclear, alphabetical or chronological order can be helpful.

Images

Near the bottom of most pages on this wiki, you will find a link that says "Upload File". To upload a file, click that link and browse for the image you would like to upload from your computer. Once the image is uploaded, it can be placed on a page in your article by using this code:

[[:Image:example.gif]]

Replace "example" with the name of the image you uploaded.

Now, let us say we want either (a) text to float (wrap around) the picture, or (b) to specify where it gets put (left, right, inline, etc). To do this, we simply append the placement statement. Note that, when placing images, you should edit the entire page, rather than just one section, to avoid unexpected overlaps with other sections of the article.

[[:Image:example.gif|right]]

This will have our picture float to the right. Instead of dividing the text, it will position itself to one side. If you would like it to float to the left, replace "right" with "left".

[[Image:example.gif|frame|right|Here is a really cool caption]]

This command will push an image to the right, and add a caption to it. Replace the text that reads "Here is a really cool caption" with text of your choosing.

But what if your image is too large?

[[Image:example.gif|100px]]

Use this code to resize it. Adjust the value to get different sizes. Do not use images that are too large.

You should always be watchful not to overwhelm an article with images by adding more just because you can. Images should ideally be spread evenly within the article, and relevant to the sections they are located in. All images should also have an explicative caption. An image should not overwhelm the screen; 300px may be considered a limit. It is a good idea to try to maintain visual coherence by aligning the width of images on a given page.

To add an image gallery, use this code:


<gallery>
Image:example.gif|Hi
Image:example.gif|Hi
Image:example.gif|Hi
Image:example.gif|Replace with your own text!
Image:example.gif|Replace with your own text!
Image:example.gif|Replace with your own text!
Image:example.gif|Replace with your own text!
Image:example.gif|Replace with your own text!
</gallery>

Fill in the area on the right side of the "|" with text of your choosing.

Infoboxes

Infoboxes are those table-like boxes that are usually found at the beginning of an article.

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image
Developer(s)	example
Publisher(s)	example
Designer(s)	example
Released	example
Genre	example
Mode(s)
Rating(s)
Platform(s)	example
Media

What info box to use depends on the type of page you're making. If it is a page that belongs in the Video Game category, use this code:


 {{Game2 |title = title
|image = image
|developer = example
|publisher = example
|designer = example
|released = example
|esrb = example
|genre = example
|platform = example
}}
</noinclude>

If it is a page that belongs in the Characters category, use this code:


{{Characters |title = title
|image = image
|appearance = example
|role = example
|weapon = example
|ability = example
|music = example
|gender = example
}}
</noinclude>

If it is a page that belongs in the Music category, use this code:


{{Music
|title = 
|image = 
|composer =
|released = 
|genre = 
|length = 
|label = 

}}
</noinclude>

Remember, you must use [[:Image:example.gif]] to get your image in the infobox to appear.

Write the content you wish to appear in the infobox where you see "example." Infoboxes should be used once per article, and at the top of the article.

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