How to Add a Cat

## First, do a new page -- OR Click on a link to the cat, and go to Step 2

Click the ***Add New Page*** Button.

Give the page a name. Probably the name of the cat. Or, more likely, click on a red link from the Allegiances page :)

Follow the following guidelines:

* If the cat is currently an NPC, add (NPC) to the name
	+ Examples: Nightfur (NPC), Birchtail (NPC)
* If there are two cats in different clans with the same name, use the clan's abbreviation in the name:
	+ Examples: Stompsnort (RC), Stompsnort (DC)
* If one is an NPC and one is a PC, the (NPC) tag is probably distinction enough. If you're not sure, ask >^-^<

## Apply the Substitution Template

Basically, in this step, we're telling the wiki to take the text of a different page and add it to the page we're working on right now. This is to save us some copy-pasting.

Switch to the ***Source Editor***, by clicking where it says ***Visual Editor.***

Now, enter the substitution command.

To add a new Player Cat, enter the following:

{{SUBST:Cat}}

To add a new NPC Cat, enter the following:

{{SUBST:NPC}}

Hit ***Save Changes.***

If things worked, you'll see the outline of a page :) If it didn't, you'll see the command you entered above. Unless you really messed up lol.

Hit ***Edit.***

### The Sidebar

The sidebar is the thing over on the right of most cat pages. It contains a general breakdown of information for a cat: name, description, family connections, etc. It's the information that you might want to see in a hurry.

There are two ways to edit the side bar.

The first, in the ***Visual Editor:***

* At the very top, there's a little puzzle piece, and the word ***SIDEBAR***. If you click it, you get a little box with the word ***EDIT*** in it.
* Click ***EDIT***. :)
* You now have another popup. There's a list of things like ***1clan***, ***1pastname***, etc
	+ The number is for organization purposes. Look, it's dumb, They're not in order. That's why there are numbers.
	+ It should be pretty straight forward from here: fill in answers, and when you're done, click 'apply' in the upper right.

Notes about HOW to fill in the sidebar are further down...

Alternatively, if you go to the Source Editor...

* You'll see a long, probably purple list, as seen to the right.
* Fill in the information to the right of the =
* This area has the advantage of being in the correct order, and involves less clicking, but it's not as pretty.
* If you love Source Editing, there's a way to make it your default in your user profile :)

### The Main Text Area

This is the region on the left of each cat page, and consists of long text answers, usually in the form of paragraphs. This is for more detailed information.

There's a "short description" mentioned at the top, which should be a short one-to-two sentence description of the cat. I usually use the

## Okay, so what do I fill in?

An excellent question.

If you're filling in a page for a player character, use their character application as a guide. Most of the page template follows the character application as a guide.

If you're filling in for an NPC... Be more selective. Aim for the important details.

For both, if you don't have an answer, don't fill it in. No one wants to go to a page for a 13 moon old warrior, and see that they have none crushes, mates, exmates, kits, etc. Just leave it blank.

If it seems like it should be important and there isn't an answer, then either ask, or fill it in with place holder information. For example, if Stompsnort has a sibling, but that sibling is unnamed, don't make up a name, instead, write: ***Stompsnort's Sibling*** or ***Stompsnort's Sister***. It is assumed that any unnamed relations are NPCs, so don't bother with adding ***(NPC)***.

### Sidebar Specific Stuff

* Generally speaking, try to capitalize answers,
* Type SpaceClan, not Spaceclan.
* If an answer is like a sentence, put a period on it.
* Seriously, if you get this wrong, it's okay. This is RP wiki. It's not important.
* For "Past Names," don't worry about it unless the names are unexpected. Finding out that Stompsnort used to be Stompkit and Stomppaw is not surprising. What IS surprising is if Stompsnort was actually Cloudkit but they changed his name.
	+ If there's something neat and interesting, write it down. If there isn't, then don't.
* For unnamed relations (and in general I guess)
	+ List parents, siblings, mates, children, grandchildren.
	+ Don't list aunt/uncles, grandparents, cousins, etc, UNLESS they are especially important to the character, or are both player characters.
* If a family member is adoptive, note it after the name: ***Brother: Stompsnort (Adoptive)***
* Again, if you get this wrong, it's FINE. Just try to get the important things.

## Navboxes

A navbox is a box with lots of useful links that's at the bottom of each page. You edit it once in one place and it'll change it on every page. We have navboxes for each clan's cats.

At the bottom of each page, you'll either see all of the navboxes

* If you're using the visual editor -- just delete the wrong ones for that cat. Click on 'em, then hit delete on y our keyboard.
* If you use the source editor, they're listed like ***NavboxDC***, ***NavboxRC***, etc. Delete the wrong ones. LC is for non clan cats.

## Categories

Categories are basically... like... sticky notes, that we can put on a cat., or a cat's page. We can then use these sticky notes to find every cat that matches that description in the future.

So, basically, if you want to see all of the Category:Duneclan Warriors, you can just click on that. Neat, huh?

Unfortunately, there's no way to automate this. So here's a list of the categories to scribble down on any given cat.

Categories
NPC
Player - Storm
 Clan
MoorClan
RootClan
 Rank
Medicine Cat
Queen
Apprentice
 Clan-Rank
RootClan Elder
 Gender
Female
Trans Molly
Nonbinary
MoorClan Male

Others:

* Kittypet Heritage - For any cat with a Kittypet Connection
* (Clan) Mother/Father - For cats who are parents, but are not necessarily a Queen currently.
* Retired Character - A character who's initial player has moved on.
* WIP - Indicates that the page is NOT complete. This could be that you have to go, or that you're not sure about something. Just use it.

Okay I think I'm done.