How-to Guide

In this article you will find an easy guide to contribute our Wikia and help us grow. I would like you to read these instructions carefully as it will make it easier for everybody to use this Website.

## Rules

1. Don't publish any inappropriate content or material
2. Respect the publishing format in all your contributions
3. Comment respectfully any other contribution

## Publishing format

The publishing format is made for the Wikia to be easy-going and well-organized. There are four big groups of content.

### **BrantSteele-related pages**

This is the objective information about BrantSteele features, such as explanations about the different simulators and how they work.

This articles can be modified by anyone but always respecting the truth and not adding any wrong information.

It is important to add the words Simulator, Prediction Game or Community Simulation after the article's name to not be confused with the real competition.

Article's name example: Survivor Simulator, Survivor 34 Prediction Game...

### **User pages**

If you are a user on BrantSteele you can create your own page where you can post the links to your simulations.

> **User-pages name writing code:**
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> *[BS User: User name]*
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> *For example:*BS User: Potterims
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You also would need to add a User Infobox in your website. To know more about the Infoboxes click here.

If you want to a see an example of a User Page click **here**.

### **Contest pages**

If you have an own competition with different seasons you can create a general Contest Page, where you can tell about the overall show and showing some relevant information about the whole contest.

> **Contest-pages names writing code:**
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> *[User name: Competition name]*
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> *For example:* Potterims: Big Sister
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You also can add a pre-made Infobox called Contest or design your own.

If you want to see an example of a Contest Page click **here**.

### **Simulation pages**

If you want to just share one simulation (or enlarge the information about each season of your contest) you must create a Simulation page. There you can share whatever you think it's relevant about the simulator and provide (if you have it) a link to the simulation.

> **Simulation-pages name writing code:**
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> *[User name: Simulation name]*
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> *For example:* Potterims: Big Sister 1
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You also can add a pre-made Infobox called Simulation or design your own.

If you want to see an example of a Simulation page click here.

### **Contestant pages**

If you want to create a special page to any of your contestants in your simulations who performed extremely well or who you think deserves special attention you must create a contestant page. There you can share a short bio or a description of your contestant road in the competition.

> **Contestant-page name writing code:**
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> *[User name: Contestant name]*
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> *For example:* Potterims: Erin Brady
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You also can add a pre-made Infobox called Contestant or design your own.

If you want to see an example of a Contestant page click here.

## Infoboxes

Infoboxes are like fact sheets or sidebars in magazine articles; designed to present a summary of the topic of the page. They present important points in an organized and quickly readable format. Infoboxes are generally made using templates, to create consistency across a community.

### **How to insert an Infobox**

To insert a pre-made Infobox you just have to click on Insert on the editor's built-in tools and then click on Infobox. You will find a long list of pre-made infoboxes, some made by The Simulated Universe staff and others which are made by Wikia. You just have to click on the one you want to insert and modify it with your information.

### **How to create a new Infobox**

If you feel that the existing Infoboxes doesn't have all the information you need you can create your own. You just have to click on Insert on the editor's built-in tolls and then click on Infobox. Under all the pre-made Infoboxes list you will find + Add new template. You just have to click in there and make your own Infobox. Make sure that you give it a very specific name once you create it.

IMPORTANT: Don't modify a pre-made Infobox, as that would change everyone's who is using it at the moment.

### **Pre-made Infoboxes**

The Simulated Universe has a list of Pre-made Infoboxes which must be enough for most of the pages, here I present you those.

### BS Features Infobox

Made for BrantSteele Features Pages, such us: simulators, community features, statistics... There you can find general information about a BrantSteele feature. Some pages maybe need less information than others, but the regular BSFeature template displays:

* Name
* Feature (simulator, prediction, statistics, saving...)
* Genre (just for simulators)
* Contestants
* Released date
* Last update
* Versions
* Idea
* Programming
* Inspiration (just for simulators)
* Status
* Link

### User Infobox

Made for User Pages. There you can find the general information about a user like:

* Avatar picture
* User name
* Account name
* Role (user, volunteer or staff)
* Registration date
* Favorite simulator
* Creations (best contests or simulations)

### Contest Infobox

Made for Contest Pages. In this infoboxes you can find the general information about a contest with several seasons like:

* Logo
* Name
* Creator (User name and account name)
* Simulator
* Seasons
* Contestants (overall)
* Winners

### Contestant Infobox

Made for Contestants Pages. In this infoboxes you can write the real facts as well as your simulation facts of your contestant. In this infoboxes there will be three different sections:

**Section 1**

* Name
* Born (date and place)

**Section 2: Real life info**

* Competition
* Season
* Result

**Section 3: Your simulation info**

* Competition
* Season
* Result

If you want to add more information, such as the number of challenges he/she won during your simulations (if she/he competed on a Big Brother or Survivor simulation) or any other else you would have to create a new Infobox. But this is the general one.

## Categories

It is very important that you tag your page after creating it in our categories, because this way your page will be automatically displayed on it's category page so all users can access to it and read it. There are several categories but it is very important that you just select the proper ones. Admins would delete pages that are tagged in wrong categories.

### **How to categorize your page**

After creating your page you'll find a small box located at the bottom of the page, just before the comments,

which displays: *Categories: Add category.*

To tag our page into a category we just have to click on Add category and write in there the category our page belong to.

### **List of categories**

Now we display a full list of possible categories. To tag your page to any of them just type the name of the one you want into the Categories writing box. Remember to just write the ones your page actually belong to:

* **BrantSteele.** Just directly related BrantSteele content such as simulators descriptions, website features...
* **Simulators.** Just the actual simulators pages. For example: click **here.**
* **Community Features.** All actual community features, such as: prediction games or community simulations.
* **Prediction Game.** All the prediction games played on Brantsteele.com
* **Community Simulation.** All the community simulations played on Brantsteele.com
* **Contest.** Only contest pages. I mean, the general page of a more-than-one season competition.
* **Simulations.** All users simulations. Tag here your simulation pages.
* **Users.** Users pages.
* **Contestants.** User's contestants pages.
* **Featured content.** Don't tag any of your pages under this category, as it is just used for Admins.