Thread:Rgis/@comment-27198646-20151112034059/@comment-27229742-20151112061226

I'm going to tell you a lot of what I didn't know when I first came here! My experiences should surely help! Be sure not to copy my examples without the "

Never overlink. Like, if you say "Yandere-chan" on a single article, the next time you say it you don't have to link! Only link the very first example on a page. Overlinking is way easy to fix, so you can start with that!

Also, I've heard one person on Twitter (can't remember who) say that some of the information on the wikia is wrong. Blasphemy! This was only because the page talked about an upcoming feature, but didn't mention that the thing wasn't in the game yet. Be sure to download your own builds if you can (my laptop can't D:) and check if some features are currently in the game. If they're not, you might want to add "this is unimplemented as of current builds" or something like that. I mean, people say bad things about the wikia for silly things like that! As an active member I do not want our reputation to go down like that and I want this place to be very reliable. So always be sure to correct those things!

Another simple thing to look out for is spelling. Some people get these kind of things wrong, so you might see it on occasion. Never spell "Yandere-chan" as "Yandere-Chan". You never need to capitalize the "c". Also never capitalize the first letter of things like "yandere" and "tsundere" because there's really no point. Things like "The Journalist" or "The Nurse" however, should be capitalized because of grammar! Words like "persona", "rivals", or "sanity" should not be capitalized. However, on special occasions something that normally isn't capitalized like "clubs" is now going to be like "Sports Club". Changed for obvious reasons. This actually is surprising news to some users, especially the "c" in "chan" example.

As a person who isn't five years old, you know that you shouldn't use the word "you" in a professional text. That's also easy to know, but  a lot  of users forget that you're not supposed to do that. When others edit I never see them edit out that word! I stalk the wikia and I never see it! It must only happen on rare occasions. Some pages used to be filled with the word "you" in them and most people might not notice since it's so small. You can change that! You can instead type "the player", "Yandere-chan" or "the protagonist" as a replacement. Keep in mind that you should know about the 1980's Mode protagonist, who is really spoilerish, before you change things. Like, saying "the player" and "the protagonist" is always fine. But what about functions and things that might not be in the 1980s at Akademi, like cell phones or students who weren't born yet? Those pages are okay with adding things like "Yandere-chan will have to blah..." However, some pages might in the future apply to both protagonists, such as Homicide. Those pages are perfectly fine to say "the player", but should not include "Yandere-chan" unless it's a specific instance where only Yan-chan can do something while the 1980s player can't. Again, this is an insanely easy mistake to make, so you might see it often. I'm glad this post isn't professional, otherwise...



Anyways, something more complicated that you might've not known (I didn't!) is references! You can easily help with those! This is YandereDev's official Twitter page, a very reliable source! A lot of people love to stalk it and put references for his posts. For example, instead of linking to the page the regular way you can instead go <"ref">link<"/ref"> in Source Mode. Like this:   You get to Source Mode by going to "Edit Page" and going to the three lined thing, as seen in the first picture. You add in the <"ref"> right after the sentence you're giving your source to. You can add a single space between the end of the sentence and the "<" but you don't need to. You do, however, need to put a space after the reference. Otherwise, it just looks weird...

At near the bottom of every page with references you need to add "Refer" surrounded by curly braces (can also be done in Visual Mode, the default mode) or <"references /"> that goes under the heading "References". The second option is best shown in the second picture. The first option doesn't need the heading put in before it because it automatically does it for you. If there isn't already some sort of thing that'll show the <"ref"> you put in, then your references won't work. An example of the references thing can be seen at the bottom of this post.

Did you know that you can link multiple times to references? I only learned that recently! It's amazing for when you want to give a source for something you say but you want to say it over and over again in one article! However, posting the same reference normally over and over would be like overlinking! Some wikias do it, but you can go for a better way! See this thread for details. It's so amazing and it helps a lot. Some new users like to reference different posts from the same Twitter conversation. Instead of doing that, you can find a single post and then let the reader look through the conversation for a few seconds to find their post. Easy! Just be sure not to mess the taggy things at all. If you do, it might do something weird, as seen in the history of Senpai's Sister page. However, because the thing is so easy to mess up, it's easy to fix! At least, that's what I think.

In Source Mode, you'll notice that under the references heading and such, there are the categories, which can't be seen when editing in Visual Mode. If you're not editing a page then you can add categories to the categories box near the end of the article. If you're in Source Mode you can take away categories by simply deleting them like a normal person. Nothing will mess up if you delete unwanted categories, so it's not that bad. Just don't add any category you want! We have a bunch of categories already existing, so if you see a new page one of those already-made categories might fit. Be sure that you don't create a similar category to one that's already there. This all seems obvious, but there were a few of users who made mistakes like this. Don't be that guy!

Pictures also have some small mistakes, so pay attention to those. There are some pictures of old builds, which may be easy to notice if the grass isn't as green as it is now, there's no bathroom building in the background when there should be, the incinerator looks different, all the male students have the same hairstyle, Ryuto Ippongo and/or Pippi Osu have their old hairstyles, there's no fountain in front of school, there's two dumptsters in front of the school when they should only be in the back, the Phantom Girl is near the cherry tree instead of in the third girls' bathroom, etc. If there's pictures like that specify that they're from older builds. That's probably the least that you can do for it.

I got used to this wiki by going to "Random Page" and then just reading all the articles. Some articles are easily forgotten, so this is a good way to get to those while everyone else is updating a popular page. Since those articles are easily forgotten, they'll probably be rife with poop. It's also a good way to get used to the wiki! That's how I did it, at least. You may know the game already, but do you know that there's a page for buckets? When I first came here I didn't expect pages like that! "Random Page" really helps you notice those pages!

That's probably all I can tell you for now. Feel free to ask questions!