Help:New Editor's Guide
This is a link to various help files, policies, and guides as they become available.
New Editor's Guide
Don't know where to start? This is for you!
- Getting Started - create an account and learn how to get around
- Guidelines - rules of thumb for style, structure, layout, and etiquette
- Markup Basics - how to make your edits look right
- References & Citations - how to cite your sources
- Images - how to upload and add images
- Categories - what categories are and how to use them
- Templates - what templates are and how to use them
- What now? - where to get more help and what to do next
More Help Pages
- Times & Dates, for information on in-game times, dates, and names for seasons.
- Style Guide, for information on writing conventions, capitalization, and other guidelines for the LOTC Wiki.
- Editing and Wiki Syntax, for help with typesetting potentially unfamiliar wiki syntax.
- Categorization, for info on categories and the category hierarchy.
- Article structure, for standard article formats and headers.
- Discussion, for info on how to participate in talk pages.
- Speculation & Bias, for when it is appropriate to add speculation or bias to an article, and how to do it properly.
- Namespaces, for the basics on how pages are organized into namespaces.
- Infoboxes, for information on infoboxes.
- Artists, for details about how to get new art and artists into LOTC and how to properly reference and credit them.
- Character histories, for tips and tricks on writing histories on Character pages.
Other Documents and Resources
- About LOTC
- Copyrights info on copyright policy
For more projects, assistance, or general conversation about the Lord of the Craft Wiki, please visit the LOTC Community Involvement Discord or message a Wiki Team Member!
