This page will show you what we expect of a page on this wiki!
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How to Edit a Wiki Page
Step 1. Editing/Creating a Page
Firstly, you need to create a page to understand how to edit a page. This may be your own or for someone else (provided you have permission for their creation being placed on the site). To create a page, use the desktop version of the site and look to the top right of the screen. There should be three dots in a vertical line. Hovering over them will showcase extra buttons to other parts of the site, including "Add new page". Pressing/clicking on this will display the page title selection icon (where you write your title and a blank page generates from there).
When editing the page, you should see a small button titled "Edit" with a pencil icon (✏️) to the top right of the page. If you've generated a new page, chances are the editor mode as already opened for you.
Step 2. Visual/Source Editor Toolbar
Secondly, when editing a page, it should look something like this:
At the top of the page when editing, there should be a toolbar used to change the text, add images/videos as well as link in other sources/pages. More on this will be explained in the next step.
Near to the bottom of the page, there is an edit summary where you can describe what was changed. This isn't mandatory however and merely here for commentary made by the editor.
Where the "Edit" button was, you can now access viewing either the Visual Editor or Source Editor. Visual Editor is for those who are more accustomed without coding their page with HTML/Java scripting. This and Visual Editor helps to view the page's preview as well as view a template/gallery before uploading. Source Editor is for those who are more accustomed with coding their page with HTML/Java scripting. This may include colored text, imagery/video adjusting, etc. You can also see the preview of the page via the "Preview" button located near to the edit summary.
Step 3. The Toolbar
As mentioned before, the toolbar can be used to place down headings, preformatted text, block quotes, etc, using the "Paragraph" section of the tools (found to the far left of the bar). Bold, italic and underline text is fairly obvious via their well-known icons (B for Bold, I for Italic and U for Underline). Using the T icon next to these buttons will open up an options selection like this:
This will introduce new text-related buttons such as strike-through text, superscript/subscript text, and even separate language(s).
The "Insert" button will lead to an options selection like this:
From here, you can add existing templates, tables, galleries, reference lists, etc. It is advised to use the template "Creepypasta" for developing a character on the site.
Step 4. Pages Notices & Settings
Some users may notice when editing certain pages that a small caution icon will appear to the far right of the toolbar. If pressed, a notice will appear explaining the page's previous/current status. For example, if the page was previously deleted, it may display a warning regarding that it had been terminated by [insert staff-member here] in-case the page recreation was a mistake on the editor's behalf. A visual reference can be found below:
In terms of the page's settings, these can be found when pressing the small cog icon (⚙️) near to the three straight lines on the far right of the toolbar. This helps to add categories to the page without needing to upload its contents first, changing the title if necessary or introducing new languages for the page. For reference, see below:
There is also a "find and replace" section to find a keyword on the page you wish to replace in-case you need this feature. This can also be accessed automatically via pressing CTRL + G or CTRL + F on your keyboard.
Step 5. Upload the Contents!
Once you've sorted out the page's quality and resources, feel free to upload it to the site provided it meets up to the Page Guidelines and excludes any blacklisted topics.
Page Layout and Expectation
- Since the majority of users who access the site speak English fluently/accurately, please attempt to keep the majority of the creation within English (this does exclude the titles nor certain characters' names being within another language, so long as most of the content besides these are English).
- Page titles have to be capitalized (To attract more attention to your page and not make it seem childish, please capitalize your page title). Example: nina the killer (Incorrect) Ticci-Toby (Correct)
- If you are having further problems with capitalization, here is a Title Capitalization Tool website to assist you.
- You can either make a page for a pasta character or post even your full own pasta. BUT, both the character description and the pasta’s FULL story cannot be on the same page. Sure, a short summary of the pasta or the origin is allowed but writing the whole thing isn’t. If you do both, they need to be set on different pages. Example: Laughing Jack's character page, and story.
- Remember to check for grammar/spelling mistakes (If your Creepypasta or character’s page has many grammar/spelling errors, it can ruin the quality of your work leading to the loss of interest to many users and this may cause your page to receive a "Marked for Deletion" category).
- Your story and character, once posted, will be judged by our administrators and content moderators before will either get a "Marked For Deletion" or be good to go. Click “Marked For Deletion” to learn more about it!
- However in some cases, the page will be Marked for Review if the staff needs some time to figure out if the page should be marked for termination or not.
Page Outline (usually expected)
- A very short summary of your character on the top (to interest your viewers at a first glance) and an infobox.
- A full, but short, origin story. Or if the character does not have an origin story, you can try to write some stuff about the character such as what they do and what's currently known about them.
- Describe their appearance (try to add a picture in the infobox of their appearance if possible).
- Describe their personality or how they act.
- Add some facts about the character and make sure to also link the creator of the character.
- Theme songs and quotes are optional.
- Make sure to add categories to your characters page so people can find your character in the categories. (Note: Also please do not create new categories unless given permission to by a staff member).
Pages are not for...
- Advertisement of other wikis on FANDOM as well as other websites relating to Creepypasta (this is mostly allowed for Blog-Posts).
- Uploading content from an entirely separate wiki (this does include using existing pages on the correct wikis we partner with to upload on the wiki, if you are mostly a Roblox/Minecraft Creepypasta fan, please use the correct wikis for uploading your creations found here).
- Uploading content that is not related to Creepypasta.
- This does include: Content that is not related to horror that not only doesn't fit the Page Guidelines but also could be deemed as intentional copyright infringement, content that is deemed inappropriate towards the site or may contain various triggering elements towards the users without any given warning, and content that may be seen as entirely irrelevant towards the Creepypasta franchise.
- Fanfictions relating to Creepypastas (please, no Wattpad Lemons or smut fanfictions nor even the fluff type ones, we are the Creepypasta Files Wiki for a reason).
- Recreating deleted pages (as a general rule when an admin deletes an article or category it cannot be recreated without admin approval. However, if you can provide a valid reason to do so you may proceed).
- Happypastas (once again, whilst we did make exceptions to Splendorman and such, this is merely for the clarity to settle in for commonly spread Happypastas, please use the correct wiki "Happypasta Wiki" for such creations).
- Creepypastas made by another user on a separate platform without credit/permission to do so. Please remember that some users may wish to upload their creations in their own time or by their close friends and users caught uploading several creations (along with artwork) without appropriate credit to the original author will be blocked depending on the severity of the offense.