Board Thread:Admin noticeboard/@comment-362861-20200514190348

Hello all, I've seen some new editors here and would just like to give you some pointers for editing:


 * Titles of things, should as books, games, movies, whatever, should be italicized. This does not apply to episode titles, however.


 * Bolding and italicizing should not be used to emphasis things on articles. When you write “Causing her to get burned by the fire”, you should not italicize words such as “burned”.


 * Your opinions don’t belong on articles. Neither do personal wording. A common example of this is “bears a striking resemblance”. Firstly, half the time this isn’t even accurate, or it is a very common trope among anime cliches. Only if a character seems to be an explicit references (ala RiCO) should be a resemblance trivia be made, and even then it has to be very convincing. Be warned that even if you add them with certainty in YOUR mind that it is a reference/similarity, does not mean it will stay.


 * Personalized images aren’t allowed here. We’re no an image hosting site sorry! You may use any and all images on your profile from the wiki, but your own images sans your avatar are not allowed.


 * Coding. HTML or any sort of coding isn’t easy to learn. I have difficulties with it myself. But if you’re going to use it, learn from what is already there and works. If need be, copy and paste it and edit it from there. Doing it haphazardly leaves a mess for others to clean up.


 * When things are confirmed. This is a tough thing to explain. Information concerning video games, character editions, and so on and so forth are only confirmed by Capcom themselves. I’m aware of the many reputable Mega Man fan sites and Youtube channels out there and their words are probably just as good as Capcoms, but when citing something or linking something, it must be from Capcom.


 * Images must be categorized and named properly. This is our sorting system. Forgetting is human nature, but uploading 30 images and neither categorizing them or naming them is a headache to sort through. For example, if you are to upload an image of (for example) Proto Man making a cameo in Mega Man ZX, please name your file “ProtoManZXcameo” or something of that sort. You can rename files you upload on the file page if you can’t do it on your own system.

That’s a few things I’ve noticed. People have been doing a great job adding to the wiki and we’re shaping up real good, but please keep an eye on what you’re doing!

DragonFaku, Quick, Adv128, if you have anything to add please do! 