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Revision as of 20:02, 21 February 2015
This input box and button provide a quick way to create a new page for characters, teams, even City infrastructure.
Please make sure you understand the various parameters and how they work. Please check to insure the page doesn't already exist. Exact spelling is important. Changing the Default Name is also a good idea.
If you need guidance, see hints and tips below.
Character Page Templates
We've got templates. Not very many, but for editing Characters, these work great. They work for Heroes and Villains (the templates signed a neutrality clause) and for now, can even be used for Teams, Civilian pages and other miscellaneous stuff. It might be a stretch to get them to work for City related pages, and until they have templates of their own, perhaps building a new City page can best be done by using an existing Landmark, Neighborhood, or other City page as a model. Plans are in place to design special templates for these other page categories as time permits. But for now think of the character templates as being generic, and use them wherever you feel you can make them work for whatever content you are doing.
A Character Page is usually constructed using the following two Character templates. In fact, for consistency across the Herocopia site, it is highly recommended to use them. With practice, you will find them very helpful and much easier than building a Character page from scratch.
Each template has several parameters (all optional) that can be filled in where appropriate. It will depend on the character, how much information is available from the stories, or if the information applies. Currently two of the best examples are the Silver Agent and Astra Furst pages.
These two templates are also undergoing major editing work of their own, mainly cosmetic. But any future changes made to the templates, should not effect the outer mechanics of authors using them to construct pages. Another reason to stick with using these templates when building a character page.
See each templates' associated documentation section for more information.
