User:MrRald/sandbox/guidelines

Welcome, new editors! These pages are for acquainting you with our guidelines and traditions. They represent a loose consensus among our active editors. As such, please follow these guidelines while creating and editing articles unless there is a good reason not to (in which case you should first bring up your reason on the article's talk page). We recommend that editors not make (significant) changes to the help pages without first proposing the changes on a talk page for consensus.

Policies

You should read the full overview of our various policies regarding conduct, humor, not-being-Wikipedia, and more. Some of our policies are also expanded on in separate articles:

• Official info - How to tell if your information's source is one we consider acceptable for our Wiki's purposes.
  • Citing sources - How to specify which official source you used for your information.
  • Coming soon - Our policy on when your information on recent toys or fiction becomes eligible for adding to the Wiki (and how to handle articles where information exists that can't yet be added).
• Spoilers - How to add information that is a spoiler for recent toys or fiction.
• Images - What to do and consider when uploading files.
  • Captions - Dos and don'ts about our most common type of humor.
  • File deletion policy - Information on when and why we delete uploaded files.
• Copyrights - How we handle copyrighted material added to the Wiki.
  • Copyleft - One possible type of copyright.
• User page - Etiquette regarding yours and other people's user pages.
• Ads - Policies and information regarding the advertising that supports this site.
• Speedy deletion - How to deal with articles that should be quickly deleted due to vandalism or technical problems that can't be fixed another way.

Style Guidelines

In addition to our main policies, we also have a full overview of how we structure our articles to maintain consistency. Some separate articles also expand further on aspects of our article styles:

• New Pages - How to create new pages that meet our standards and guidelines.
  • Article types and titles - How to properly name your new page according to its content.
  • Nameless - What to do when writing about things that don't have official names.
  • Disambiguation - What to do when more than one article has (or should have) the same title.
  • Franchise identifiers - Our standard names and abbreviations for the several dozen Transformers franchises. See also our comprehensive Series List.
• Categories - Everything you need to know about handling categories.
• Timelines is not a continuity family - Covering one of the more... difficult aspects of continuity family identifiers.

Example Articles

Some overviews and explanations on the structures of our most frequently-used article types:

• Example character article
• Example book article
• Example comic issue article
• Example episode article

Editing Tips

Last, but not least, we have an overview of basic wiki formatting and article organization, as well as other expanded articles:

• Interwiki linking - How to easily link to articles on other wikis.
• Preview - Please be kind to our Recent Changes page - make regular use of the "Preview" button.

Other Helpful Pages

• Community Portal - Community discussion about ongoing issues. If you've got questions or comments that affect multiple pages, this is the place to ask.
• Tech - Information on the wiki's underlying technical issues and functions.

External links

• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Help:Contents|{{#if:Wikipedia Help Contents|Wikipedia Help Contents|Help:Contents}}]] - Since this wiki uses the same software as Wikipedia, you may find their help documents useful.

Postscript

After you've read, absorbed, and learned to love the policies and guidelines that cover about 99% of wiki editing situations...

• Ignore all standards - What to do in the other 1% of situations.