Guide:How to make an article for your character

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This article serves as a guide that is intended to help both novice and experienced writers create a clean and well-made wiki page for their custom character in Vaktas.

## Title parameters

The first part of any article is the title. While it may seem obvious, there are a few simple rules to follow. The capitalization rules apply to every article, but for characters we normally just capitalize every part of their name.

### Official rules for capitalization

* Capitalize the first letter of the title.
* Capitalize proper nouns (specific person, place, or thing) in your title.
* Capitalize every letter in an acronym.

Its important to note that the above rules apply to any heading or subheading in the article as well!

### How to pick a good title

Character page titles should use the character's first and last names, and additional modifiers only if they are commonly used by the character. For example, Queen Elizabeth's Wikipedia article is titled "Queen Elizabeth II", even though her official title is "Queen Elizabeth II, her Majesty the Queen".

## Lead section

All articles should begin with an introductory "lead" section. The lead section should provide a short, concise summary of the information found within the article. For characters, the lead section should include a minimum of the following information:

* Where does the character currently live?
* What is the character's race?
* What is the character's gender?
* If the character is married, to whom?
* What is the character's job?

If an article is only comprised of a lead section, or a lead section and one other section, the article is considered a stub and should be marked using the stub template. The author is highly recommended to add more to the article.

## Body sections

The body sections are the meat of the article. This is the part of the page that will set a great article apart from a good article, and it also has the potential to create a bad article. Pay special attention to your body, and ensure that you keep this guide section in mind when writing body sections. Each body section is topped by a Heading, which can be selected using the dropdown menu on the far right side of the visual editor task bar.

### How sections should be divided

Each body section should encompass a different sub-topic about the character. Normally, character pages have a body section for the character's backstory, and a section for the character's history in game. The backstory describes what happened before the player took control of the character. This is what you are doing when you write an application to join Vaktas. The in game history describes what the character has done in game. You might also have a section about all of the different books that your character has published, or buildings they have worked on, or titles of nobility they have etc. The body section is where you can afford to get creative. To recap, here is a list of common body section ideas:

* Backstory (e.i. what the character did before you started playing)
* In game history (e.i. what the character did after you started playing)
* List of accomplishments
* Get creative!

If your character has a really long backstory, or has done a lot of stuff, it is okay to group the things they have done into multiple backstory sections. However, never split body sections that should be in the same section. Its always best to have too much stuff in a body section then it is to split your body section up when it should not be split.

### What kind of tone your body section should have

It is really important to know the difference between a work of fanfiction, and a submission to this wiki page. Fanfiction can be described as