Help:Adding a Character Page

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The Production Staff at Devilshire MUX encourages its players to freely create character pages for APPROVED CHARACTERS ONLY. All PCs use the same format.

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New Wiki Pages

As a reminder, all Wiki Pages aside from your character's individual Wiki Page *must* be approved by staff (Theme Staff plus Plot Staff) prior to creation. This is to ensure themeliness.

1) Staff will usually create a wiki page for your character immediately after its approval. This page will provide a bare bones setup for you to add to. Please wait for staff to create your page. The naming format is your character's first and last name.

2) NPCs: All NPCs go only on your character's individual wiki page. Please remember that not all NPCs need to be cast; please restrict to major NPC characters and make sure the actors haven't already been taken. Being sparing on casting actors means future players have more options for PCs.

3) Businesses: If your character owns a business, please page wiki staff to ask if you can create a business page. The answer is probably yes, but please check first. Please refer to existing business pages.

4) Teams: Once your team is approved, feel free to create a page for it. Please refer to existing team pages for guidelines.


Image Guidelines

  • All main cast images must not be greater than 250 pixels for width or 300 pixels for height. This is to promote a cohesive image gallery amongst all character pages.
  • All other images should be at maximum 300x250 pixels, horizontal or vertical. Pic Resize and ResizR are two free online web applications you can use; you also might want to consider using a Google search for a program. If you still require assistance in cropping an image, contact Vorpal via page, @mail or +request in-game.
  • Images accent text; try not to go overboard.
  • No, seriously. Character pages can have a maximum of to 20 pictures. Images linked from the casting page do not count toward this limit.


Character Infobox & Page

Feel free to augment them how you like, or just copy and paste the information below in to your Edit box and fill in all the necessary information. If a field does not have any information, still include the field but use a - for the blank.


Title: Character's Name for the Header
Image: The Link followed by the Caption
First: First Appearance. Utilize the html wiki code to link to the appropriate log on the forums.
Last: Last Appearance
Name: Character's Full Name
Status: Alive or Dead
Birthday: Character's Date of Birth - October 23rd, 1908, etc.
Age: Character's Age
Kind: Species - Human, Faerie (Type), Demon (Type)
Affliation: Any Affliations - Usually School, Family or Team
Powers: Notable Powers - Claws, Slayer Powers
Theme: Character's Theme Song
Quote: Character Quote
Actor: Character's Casting
AStatus: Available for Application - Taken or NPC

COPY & PASTE THE CODE LISTED BELOW TO THE LINK ON THE CASTING PAGE.

{{Infobox Devilshire Character|
Title=Your Character's Name|
Image=[[Image:Wiki_YourCharacterName.jpg]]<br>Your Character's Actor as '''Your Character's Name'''|
First=-|
Last=-|
Name=Your Character's Name|
Status=Alive or Dead or Whatever|
Birthday=Character's Date of Birth|
Age=Your Character's Age|
Kind=Human, Demon, Vampire or Whatever|
Affiliation=Team, School, Business|
Powers=<br>
* These can be Qualities
* Or even general junk like...
* Keen Intellect or
* Awesome Shoes but
* Try Not to Go Overboard |
Theme=-|
Quote=-|
Actor=Your Character's Actor|
AStatus=PC|
}}


'''Character Name''' is ''position of character (IE: Sophomore at Devilshire University). Brief Paragraph about the character.


== History ==
Your Character's Background. Any subtopics are accepted.

== Personality ==
Your Character's Personality.

== Powers and Abilities ==
Your Character's Powers & Abilities. If there are none, do not add this subtopic.

== Friends & Family ==
Your Character's Friends & Family

== Recent Unfoldings ==
Your Character's Most Recent Events

== Trivia ==
Your Character's Trivia such as:
The character of Jimbo Jones was originally conceived as a sort of space monkey.

[[Category:PC|{{PAGENAME}}]]
Any other applicable Categories.

Category Note

{{PAGENAME}} should be left as-is.

Category Note II

Here's an example of applicable categories for your character.

[[Category:PC|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:NPC|{{PAGENAME}}]]

[[Category:Human|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Demon|{{PAGENAME}}]]

[[Category:Devlin Family|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Harget Family|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Moore Family|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Swann Family|{{PAGENAME}}]]

The remaining list of categories, please write them in alphabetical order, are posted on this page. Add the appropriate ones for your character: Player Categories.

Wiki Etiquette

As a player, you are in control of your own wiki page. You are not in control of anyone else's; please do not make changes to other people's pages without their permission. If you are part of a team or the owner of a business, you can also edit those pages.

Log Template

Plenty of users add a Log Subcategory to the Character Wiki Page. Feel free to utilize a table format located at Log Table Template. For alignment purposes, change center to left or right.

Image Notations

Uploading duplicate images results in the older image being deleted in a few days. If you'd like something deleted, please feel free to make a note of it in the page summary update box. If staff accidentally deletes the wrong version of an image file, please @mail or +request wiki staff immediately and it will be restored.

Secondly, to upload a revision of an image, go to the image's page. Should be: www.devilshire.org/Image:<filename>.jpg (or .png or .gif). Scroll down to Upload a new version of this file and upload as normal.

Questions? Need cropping or manipulation help? Need to gripe about the Wiki? Let wiki staff know.

Missing Something?

If there's a template, infobox, category, etcetera that you would like added to the Devilshire Wiki, contact Vorpal In-Game via +request or page.

Need Further Assistance?

Contact the Devilshire Administrative Staff In-Game via +request or page. Vorpal offers her admin services to build skeleton character pages as well.

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