Help:Guidelines

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General
Make sure the character you want to add wasn't added before. You can find all entries in All Pages or in The List itself. In case a different character with the same name was already added to the list, add the series of your character in braces  after the name. For example. Entries can be added using the Create Page, which automatically populates the edit field with the Character template or by simply typing  in your address bar.

Character Template
Every page needs to include the Character Template. Details can be found below.

Images
Images need to be uploaded before they can be used in an article. If you encounter a name conflict, please choose a new filename. A shot of the face in a 2:3 format is preferred. Try to keep it below 500kb. You don't really need more than 200x300px. An image that was uploaded can be exchanged with a new version by visiting the file's page and clicking "Upload new version of this file". '''Please use screenshots from the source of the work only. If a series was originally a manga, even if it has an anime adaptation, only use screenshots from the manga.'''

Age
Instead of an age, you can fill the age field with a birthdate in the format  and it'll calculate the age for you:

Types and SubTypes
Every character has to be tagged with a Type and if applicable, SubType. The available Types and SubTypes can be viewed on The List or in the Types Category. If a Type has no SubTypes, the SubType field should be left empty. If you do not tag your character with Types that actually exist, it will not show up on The List.

Series/VA
If your entry has appeared in multiple series/has multiple VAs, the series titles/VAs are to be separated by a. For VAs, you can describe for what they performed in braces. For example Flandre from Princess Resurrection was performed in the anime by Shiho Kawaragi and in the OVA by Yuka Iguchi. For the automatic linking to properly work, the VA field could be filled like this which then become two clickable links to the wikipedia pages of the VAs:

Note that if multiple series are specified, The List will only display the first one. See for example Temuorin/The List

Custom Linking
You can also add custom wikipedia links by adding your wikipedia destination in square brackets like this  to the series/VA field:

Similarly you can make the field link to a completely custom URL like this :

This is, of course, compatible with multiple series/VAs separated by commas:

Medium
The medium of the source. E.g. Manga

Role
The importance of a character in a Series/how much the character shows up, so you don't get baited into reading Owari no Seraph for Krul. Valid values for this field are,   and  , standing for Main, Side and Minor character respectively. Use your own judgement to determine as what you'd classify the character.

The List
Entries that are tagged with the correct categories will automatically be added to The List. On its own, this can take anywhere from a few minutes to multiple hours. However, logged in Users have the ability to manually update a page by clicking on More > Purge cache at the top right of a page, left of the search bar.

The Character Template
Every character page needs to have the Character Template (see below) included and filled out at the very beginning of the article. This Template will automatically tag the page with the appropriate Categories and add the character info to a database that is then used to assemble The List. (Note: it might take anywhere between a few seconds to multiple hours for your entry to show up on the list)

If you're a tech illiterate caveman and are using the visual editor instead of edit source, you can add the template under Insert>Template>Character.

Fields
The Image, Name, Kana, Type (and if applicable SubType) and Series fields are the absolute minimum that need to be filled out for an entry to be valid. Please fill out the remaining ones (Kanji, Age, VA) to the best of your ability.

Example
An example of a correctly filled out Character Template:

Etna is written with katakana, not kanji. Thus, the kanji field can be left empty. Etna has the main type Demonic. This main type does not have any further subtypes. Thus, the SubType field is left empty. This then becomes the table seen over on the right.

The Main Body
Ideally the Main Body of the wiki entry would have some information about the character and their role in the series like Isadora Finnsdottir or Ymir. This however is, of course, extremely time-consuming and not required.

A guide to wiki formatting can be found here.

Linking to Characters
Every entry added to The List automatically gets its own Anchor, meaning you can link directly to the location of an entry on The List like so:

Please note that any spaces in your character's name will need to be replaced with an underscore.

For wiki-internal links however, replacing spaces is not necessary:  becomes

If your character name contains braces  to specify their series like, for example, Nemesis (Infinite Dendrogram) you can also link to their Anchor, however you'll have to replace   with   and   with   respectively:

Linking to Types
Similarly, every Type and SubType also has an Anchor, meaning that you can link to them aswell: The List

Technical Bullshit/Help
There's a lot of weird shit that happens with formatting in this wiki. Mostly because CSS is an absolute piece of shit and whoever developed it should be eternally whorshipped as the mortal incarnation of all things evil. To a smaller part, because my coding is terrible.

If you have any questions, it's probably easiest to just ask me over at my talk page by clicking Add Topic. Keep in mind that these messages are publically viewable.

If you don't want to do that, I'm going to start listing shit here as I remember things and hopefully you can find your issue:


 * If your series title doesn't hyphen/split properly in The List, add  to where you want your hyphen to be placed.
 * example: Blanc/The List


 * If your series title has a comma, replace the comma with.
 * example: Rory Mercury


 * If your entry has appeared in multiple series, you can add all of them, separated by commas (",") to the series field.
 * example: Chloe von Einzbern


 * If your entry has was voiced by multiple VAs, you can add all of them separated by commas (",") to the series VA field and describe their role in braces("").
 * example: Flandre, Temuorin


 * If your series title is too long and gets cut off on The List, get fucked.
 * example: The List


 * If your character name contains a  and you used Create Page or Template:NewPageScaffold to create your page, you'll have to manually replace   with the correct name.
 * example: Illyasviel von Einzbern (Fate/kaleid)