If you're new to editing wikis, you'll need to familiarize yourself with a few of the basic editing rules on the wiki. It's also important that you need to skim through the basic etiquettes of editing wikis, especially when it comes to formatting, structure, and the overall look and feel of the wiki. We want to keep a neat and consistent styling all over the wiki.
Basic editing guidelines
- For further editing help from Community Central, see Help:Editing.
Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and typos
If you noticed a typo, don't be afraid and make any changes for what is right, you need to mark your edit as minor by checking on "This is a minor edit" at the bottom of the page, otherwise, you don't have to if you're making big changes to an article.
When it comes to writing constructive, consistence articles, grammar and punctuation come into play. It's important to be mindful of how you structure a sentence or break lengthy paragraphs, and remove any unnecessary buzzwords for brevity. All articles should be written specifically in American English, it has vast differences on how words and sentences are structured when British English was used. Such as the use of have and take, or "color" is spelled as "colour".
We strongly recommend contributors to install Grammarly on their web browser, as it detects any grammatical errors when writing articles.
If you think your edits are okay, you might need to double check it before you save your changes, you could either click the "Preview" button or pressing the hot key combinations Alt + ⬆ Shift + P and it will open a preview window, press Esc if you want to make further changes.
There are other times that it doesn't show or will show an error like "HTTP 500: Internal server error"; the possible fix for this is to add a single character, immediately remove it, and hit the preview hotkey again.
Adding Images and Videos
As long as you upload images that are relevant and pertain only to Lucky's Tale related, it's optional to include licensing as well - you can upload screenshots, concept photos, etc. in the game. You can upload fan-made content on blogs, but on articles, we unfortunately have to abide by under Creative Commons license and we forbid anyone adding any fan-made content on articles as we don't want to run any potential issues on copyright infringement.
For keeping Lucky's Tale Wiki as organized as possible, do not upload the duplicate file with a different file name. If you have a higher resolution or if you need to replace a picture, you go to its file page and click "Upload a new version of this file", this way - it will retain its file name and can be reverted back if necessary, important note - it needs to be the same format in the original file it was uploaded, for instance, if the original file is in .jpg format, and wanting to replace it, it needs to be in a .jpg format as well.
Uploading images on your user page
You can upload any image ONLY for your user page, but not you shouldn't place it on any articles as may not be relevant to its content, so keep that in mind. Otherwise, your edits will be reverted.
Article format
Every article you create needs to be in this specific format:
- Icons (might be applicable but required for character characters)
- Notices
- Infobox
- Quotes
- Leading text
- References
- Sections
- Images (if necessary for added context)
- Navbox
- Categories
Icons
Icons display on the top-right corner of a page. For character pages, it's required if they have a title or a part of a group they're in. For example, the page Lucky has icons displaying a Guardian and Swifttail icons.
These are the available icons, taken from the {{Icons}} documentation.
Displays icons on the top right of some articles.
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Protection icons - adding -nocat removes categories from icons.
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permpp |
This article is permanently protected. | |
permpp-vandal |
This article is permanently protected due to vandalism. | ||
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fullpp |
This article is temporarily protected. | |
fullpp-vandal |
This article is temporarily protected due to vandalism. | ||
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semipp-notice |
This article is temporarily semi-protected. | |
semipp-notice-vandal |
This article is temporarily semi-protected due to vandalism. | ||
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semipp |
The article is semi-protected. | |
semipp-vandal |
The article is semi-protected due to vandalism. | ||
| Franchise-related icons | |||
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guardian |
This page is associated with Guardians. | |
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kittylitter |
This page is associated with Kitty Litter. | |
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swiftail |
This page is a part of the Swiftail family. | |
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wikipedia |
This article uses content from Wikipedia. | |
Notices
Notices are message boxes that appear on topmost of a page. Whether to expect spoilers, page expansion, etc. If necessary, you may provide a message that will require a specific change on a segment or page deletion. It also helps attribute to other sources such as Wikipedia, and other references.
Stub notices make at least 22.92% of all the pages in Lucky's Tale Wiki. You may remove the template if you think if you provided a sufficient amount of information. If not, make sure you provide 5 to 10 sentences or 2 paragraphs in a section.
Stub templates by sometimes be pushed by an infobox. For an non-intrusive notice, use {{stub-small}} or any of it's variants.
Infobox
Infoboxes allows readers to get a glimpse of information about the character's background, world levels, etc. There are currently 0 infoboxes on this wiki. Each infobox is different, so it's split to different categories to be used in a corresponding article and it has it own set of parameters to be filled in. Mostly, infoboxes can be transcluded with another template. For a more comprehensive guide for formatting infoboxes, see Lucky's Tale Wiki:Layout Guidelines/Infobox.
Leading text
This is the first impression of a page. For character page, this section might contain the character's full name, its voice actor, it's brief physical appearance and background information.
A navbox can help users navigate to a related article much faster and are always placed in the bottom in every article. There are currently 0 navboxes on this wiki, with the same parameters.
If you're inserting two or more navboxes, add |margin=-1. For example:
{{Navbox Characters|margin=-1}}
{{Navbox Franchise}}
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V · ELucky's Tale franchise by  Playful Studios
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| Games |
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| Soundtracks | |||||
| Playful Studios |
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This way, both navboxes will sit flush with each other.
Categories
Categories help organize and type of a page. Placing certain infoboxes will automatically place it's corresponding category (i.e. placing {{Infobox character}} will be placed in the Characters category.); it's order doesn't matter as long as you include one of the criterias:
For character pages
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For game pages
- By platform
- By year
- 2016 releases
- 2017 releases
- 2019 releases
- 2020 releases
- 2021 releases and so on...
Any unrelated categories will be removed.
Creating a gallery page
You may create a gallery page by typing /Gallery from it's main page (ex. Lucky/Gallery), however it needs to contain 5 or more images, otherwise, place the images on that corresponding article.
The format for creating a gallery article is as follows in source editor:
- Tabs
- Gallery Notice
- Tabs of photos/images
{{Gallery Tabs}}
{{Gallery Notice}}
<tabber>Tab1=
<gallery>
<!-- Images in here -->
</gallery>
|-|Tab2=
<gallery>
<!-- Images in here -->
</gallery>
</tabber>
You can also nest tabs under tabs by following this format:
<tabber>Main tab=
{{#tag: tabber |
Sub tab name 1=
<gallery>
<!-- Images in sub tab 1 -->
</gallery>
{{!}}-{{!}}
Sub tab name 2=
<gallery>
<!-- Images in sub tab 2 -->
</gallery>
}}</tabber>
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