Guidelines, Formats, and Guides

This is the official page for the guidelines, formats, and guides for the smaller pages.
Try to follow these as best as possible and if you have any more questions or queries, please ask an admin!

## Guidelines

These can also be found in the Community Messages:

* Remember to be kind and respectful to other users. Keep an open mind :)
* Contribute in any way possible. Any contribution is 100% valid. Just remember to follow the format rules.
* Always check if a page exists before you create a new page!
* The time zone we're using is EST.
* The way we write dates is DD/MM/YYYY.
* No griefing allowed. Please.
* Don't impersonate other users.
* Try to keep conversations relevant to this wiki.
* If you are stubborn and don't cooperate with admins, you will be blocked.
* Jokes are allowed on this Wikia as long as they do not take away from the point of the article. The idea of a serious Wikia for a Minecraft SMP is already funny in its own way.
* Follow the official Wiki's Terms of Use rules.

### Badges

Badges are a system introduced which caused a lot of chaos here. Please read this blog post about it or this edit war which was caused because of badges before you start spamming.

#### Questions

* ..at what point is editing/adding categories/etc. considered spam?

1) the point that it is considered spam is when: 1) you add categories that don’t need to be added (Ex: I personally don’t like the Sunday, Saturday, etc. categories)
2) you add way too many irrelevant categories (there was literally a category called ‘Yeah’)
3) you see a proper category and then proceed to type the same category but in a different case (seeing ‘Character’ & then you type ‘character’) ---- Cherxbimx
## Formats

### **Wars Page Format**

The Wars Page displays a list of all the wars. Most wars have their own dedicated page to it, but minor ones (ex: 10 Second War) do not. A lot of information is not needed, but crucial things could be added. If you want inspiration on how to name the wars (if they weren't named by the people involved), please read this community post.

On a dedicated page for the war, all that's needed is a small summary and then three Heading 3's named 'Cause', 'The War', and 'Results'. (ex: The 100 Second War ). Images may be added if there are any.

**Category ->** Events, Wars

### **Players' Page Format**

*See the page for the Players' Page Format for more info*

### **History Page Format**

*See the page for the History Logs Format  for more info*

### **Factions' Page Format**

*See the page for the Factions' Page Format  for more info*

### **Locations Page Format**

Locations are small pages which just include an image and a summary. It could either be a cave, country, stronghold, or landmark. An image may be added if there are any.

Strongholds (ex: Ancient Stronghold ) have bolded Heading 3's that label the mini-locations within in.

**Category ->** Locations, Landmarks (if applicable), ARG (if applicable), Continent it's located on.

## How To's & FAQ

Users usually make 'How's To's' for things you may want to know. This is done on blog posts. Here's a list of the blog posts made by amazing users.

### Dynmap

#### Blog Posts

* Tips & Tricks For Dynamap by ACoca162 - Coca covers how to link to a specific location and how to take screenshots.

#### Questions

* How Exactly Are Maps Getting the Red Border To Isolate Countries?1) Right-click a faction claim, then click "Inspect" or "Inspect Element".

2) Set \*fill\* and \*stroke\* to "#F00". ---- SimonDoesFandom

### Navboxes

#### Blog Posts

* More Navboxes! byDenightwalker - Denight covers the Factions & Colonies Nav box they created.
	+ ARG template and History Logs template links.

### Gifs

#### Blog Posts

* How to make GIFS! by ACoca162 - Coca comes back with yet another blog post. Here he covers well, how to make gifs.

### Main Page Coding

#### Blog Posts

* Main Page Codes - How to by Cherxbimx - Cher gives you the coding for the main page

*Note: Yes, this is Cherxbimx telling you to please follow the codes on there. The main page breaks quick so thank you!*

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