Board Thread:Special Projects Division/@comment-4501923-20170424192505

Greetings, Fellow Adventurers.

This is Jon, and I’ve got a big announcement concerning the VenturianTale wiki: we are going to soon be having a big cleanup event involving the entire wiki community!

By “cleanup”, I mean that we will be revamping the wiki with new infoboxes, filling in the canon history of different characters, events, and the like, and citing references for different articles.

I know that some of you have questions, and you can leave all of them in the thread to be discussed. Below, I will list some different formats that must be followed in order to correctly get this cleanup started. (These also will all be apart of the wiki rules, which are going to be rewritten later this week.)

Adding Infoboxes
The infobox “Meatball” (ask JJ about the name) is the current one we are going with concerning characters. One thing: I will look into renaming the template. Hopefully it does not conflict with any of the sourcing of the articles. If I do rename it, I will let you all know.

The infobox “Episode” can be used when creating pages for different videos created by/for the VenturianTale YouTube channel. When adding to the “Link” row in the infobox, simply add one bracket “[“ and then copy and paste the link to the video. Then jump one space between the last character in the link and then type the name of the video itself. Then, close it off with one more bracket “]”.

The infobox “Fanfiction” can be used when you want to add an infobox to a fan story. Just fill it the correct parameters as they may be applied.

We also have infoboxes for events, groups/types, weapons, and video games (one for games made by HomelessGoomba, one for games made outside of the VT group). Use them where needed.

If you have an idea for an infobox, leave your idea in the thread and it will be open for discussion.

Citing References
In order to cut down on non-canon information being added, we will need to start referencing different content that is added. In order to do this, go to the “Source Editor” tab and switch to source mode, then go to the end of the sentence where the material from one source ends. Type the following code, just without the spaces (I needed to add them so I wouldn’t make a reference in this post): < ref name=” (insert name of reference) “> [ [ (insert name of the reference in this link) ] ] < / ref >

Then, add a heading titled “References” and type the following code to make a references list (you don’t need to add anything to it; the wiki adds all references to this list on its own): < references / >.

(PLEASE NOTE: There DOES need to be a space in between the last “s” in references and the backslash; do NOT remove it.)

More to Be Added
More will be added to this thread as the cleanup goes on. I will also be making a template for pages that are works in progress, so if someone is in a heavy edit of a certain article, they can post that notice without having to worry of someone messing up their heavy edit. Whenever you see a post of mine with the tag CLEANUP NOTICE in bold letters at the start of it, PAY ATTENTION TO IT. It will be applying to the overall status of the wiki cleanup.

Also, whenever you see a page that is in need of a cleanup, add the category “Articles in need of cleanup” to it. Please type it as it is written, with the capital “A” being the only capital, so as not to make more categories than needed. Also add the category “Cleanup” to articles that are apart of the cleanup.

Thank you all for reading, and I hope this cleanup works very well for the wiki. As I said, if you have any questions, leave them below. Until next time! 