Wiki policy

This page contains all the standards and templates you will need to edit the wiki properly, each section will have a header so it is easy to find what you need, also make sure to read the 'Basic tips for editing' as otherwise the rest of the tutorials/policies will not make sense. (Also if you have any questions, please leave a message on a bureaucrat or admin's talk page.)

## Where do I get my information?

All information on this wiki comes from the Lost lore of Avatar Tumblr account, as it is a verafiable archive. *But then why does this wiki exist?* This wiki contains the same information, but in a wiki-based 'climate', just as the original A:TLA encylopedia used to be.

## Basic tips for editing (MUST READ)

If you are brand new to editing fandom wikis then you likely use the Rich text editor (If you click the button that only says 'Edit', then you are using the rich text editor) however this editor has many bugs and will not give you as much access to things as the source editor, to use the source editor click the three-dots to the right of the 'Edit' button, and a drop down menu should appear, then simply click 'source editor' and you're in!

The source editor may look daunting and complex, but once you get used to it it should work perfectly! To start to getting used to source editing you can use the rest of the tutorials below, as they will all be based on what can be done in the source editor.

## Page formats

Formating a page is very simple.

Infobox, (in bold)Information(in bold), text about the character. A great example of a good character page is Avatar Kyoshi.

## Links to other pages (hyperlinks)

Putting links on pages is very easy, you simply put two square-brackets on either side of a word, for example, on Suki's page there is a link to Sokka. If you are going to put a hyper link on a wiki page, first make sure that the page you want to link to exists, to know if your hyperlink has worked properly, click preview on the bar at the bottom of the source editor, if your hyperlink has worked properly then your word should come up as whatever colour the wiki's theme is (in the wiki, it is blue), and if it leads to a page that doesn't exist it will come up as red. (Here are two examples of hyper links, the first one works and the second one doesn't: Master Pakku and Ronald Weasley.

## Images

All images on the wiki must have the image from the original encyclopedia, an example of what these all look like is Avatar Roku, *But some pages on the Tumblr account don't have images*, if a page doesn't have an image, you need to go to the Wiki changes forum to suggest an image that could be used (more info on the wiki changes forum main page).

## Categories

Categories can be added to a page via two ways, 1: Scroll to the bottom of a page's text, click on 'categories', click 'add categories' and type in the category you want to add the page to, the categories that are used on the wiki are the following:

**Categories for living things**

* Human - for any human characters, for example Katara
* Avatar - for any Avatars, for example Avatar Roku
* Spirit - for any spirits, for example Koh
* Water tribe - for any Water tribe citizens, for example Hahn
* Earth kingdom - for any Earth kingdom citizens, for example Suki
* Fire nation - for any Fire nation citizens, for example Iroh
* Air nomad - for any Air nomads, for example Monk Gyatso
* Animals - for any living things (not counting fauna) that are not Spirits, Humans or Lion Turtles, for example Appa

**Categories for non-living things**

* Fire nation misc - Things made or originating in the Fire Nation
* Earth kingdom misc - Things made or originating in the Earth Kingdom
* Water tribe misc - Things made or originating in the Water tribes
* Air nomad misc - Things made or originating in the Air nation
* Unknown misc - Things made or originating from an unknown place

## What do I do if I know the information in a page to be unfair to the character/retconned

On pages where the information has been retconned, or is unfair/only shows part of a character (for example Sokka's page is very unfair to his character), then you may put some text in small (to make small text put <small>text goes here</small>) at the end of the page and say something along the lines of 'This information has been retconned and is no longer canon' or 'This information is unfair to this character and only shows the worse side of the character, an example of a page with retconned information is Appa and an example of a page that is unfair to it's character is Sokka.

## Infoboxes

Infoboxes give basic information on a pages contents, this wiki uses four types: Character infoboxes, Organisation infoboxes,Utility infoboxes, User infoboxes, Location infoboxes and Episode infoboxes, you may not use the default Infoboxes, all correct infoboxes will have the word 'infobox' after the first word, eg 'Favourite food infobox' would be right where as 'Favourite food' would be wrong.

Character infoboxes: These are infoboxes used on character pages, such as Odd Spirit or Aang, below is an example.

## Name will appear here

Organisation infobox:These infoboxes are used on pages for groups or clans, such as The Zhang Tribe.

## The Flying Lemur fan club

### Notable member(s)

Mr. Mushroom, Mrs. Fungus

Location infoboxes: These are infoboxes used on place pages, such as Ba Sing Se, below is an example.

## Holland

### Realm

Spirit world or Physical world

Utility infobox: These are used on pages containing information on weapons, vehicles, bending and a like.

## Harry Potter's broom

### Type

Weaponary or Misc (anything other than a weapon(weapons can be defined by 'things that are used to harm others')

Episode infobox: These are used on pages containing information on episodes, such as The Boy in the Iceberg.

## The Great Divide

### Episode

The number of the episode (eg The warriors of Kyoshi would be 4)

User infobox: These infoboxes are for your profiles! To make a user page simply click on your profile icon on the bottom left had side of the screen, click 'View profile', hover your mouse over the three dots and press 'Edit source', then paste the infobox template in and fill in as many of the slots as you want.