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Read on if you are interested in contributing content to the officially sanctioned website, dedicated to the award winning comic series '''Astro City.'''
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Read on if you are interested in contributing content to the official website dedicated to the award winning comic series '''Astro City.'''
  
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== New Users: Aid to Getting Started ==
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|notes = This button is a quick way to create a new page. 
 
  
Please make sure you understand the various parameters and how they work. Please check to insure the page doesn't already existExact spelling is important. Changing the ''Default Name'' is also a good idea.
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The '''Herocopia Project''' dates back to 2003 when '''John Roshell''', of '''Comicraft''', built the first framework for constructing webpages dedicated to Astro City Comics.  It's first big reveal happened in the pages of [[{{LH}} No.3]], and the entry for [[Roustabout]]. Shortly thereafter, this site expanded under JR's guidances and direction. Much of his initial trade dressing remains intact,  other areas have been modified based on his initial designs. Additional updates to this site are influenced or lifted directly from his work on the pages of Astro City Comics.  His presence and design skills remain heavily ingrained in how Herocopia looks, feels, and operates.
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Over the years, culture and conventions have evolved for editing and creating new content. It might be a slight learning curve to get the hang of how things work here, but once you dig in, we think things will come together smoothly for anyone interested in contributing.
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Take note that each page comes with a '''"Discussion" tab'''.  That is a great place to ask questions about that page in particular, and you can use the '''Community portal discussion tab''' for questions about the site in general. Don't hesitate to ask questions. Site administrators and peer authors will provide timely answers.
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First editing tip: this site uses templates to control most of the page constructions.  Besides making things easier, the templates provide a common look n' feel across the entire siteYou are free to build new pages in a free form fashion if you like, but that is probably going to entail a lot more work on your end, and will definitely see a lot of rewrite by other contributors to bring it inline with the mechanics that allow all pages to leverage the functions and infrastructure that we have build into the site.
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There are five major areas (and a lot of little ones too) where '''Herocopia''' is always in need of help.  Each area has specific templates to aid in the editing process. 
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''' [[Help:Character Editing | #1) Authoring Character Pages]]'''<br>
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We use templates for Characters and other things relating to '''Astro City'''. Assistance on how to use them can be found by clicking [[Help:Character Editing | here.]]
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''' [[Help:Building Event Note Cards | #2) Building Event Note Cards for Events and Annotations]]'''<br>
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We are currently in a big push to build Event Annotation Note Cards. These too are template driven, and they are engineered to generate automatic timelines and appearance lists for just about everything related to Astro City. 
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More information on how you can help with this part of the '''Herocopia Project''' can be found by clicking [[Help:Building Event Note Cards | here.]]
  
If you need guidance, see hints below.  --[[User:Infobroker|Infobroker]] ([[User talk:Infobroker|talk]]) 16:09, 14 October 2013 (PDT)
 
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'''[[Help:Non-character Page Editing | #3) Authoring Non-Character Pages]]'''<br>
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These are pages that relate to City infrastructure, places, neighborhoods, organizations and things beyond Astro City proper.  They are built using [[Help:Non-character Page Editing | Device templates]]. 
  
== 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. 
 
  
*[[Template:Character infobox2]]
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'''[[Help:Publication Page Editing |#4) Authoring Publication Details]]'''<br>
*[[Template:Character page]]
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This section of '''the Herocopia Project''' focuses on providing information about all the various comics books, trade collections, and other miscellaneous material published about the World of Astro City. Yep, you guessed.  They too are best edited using [[Help:Publication Page Editing |templates]]
  
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.
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''' #5) General Editing and Fact Checking'''<br>
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In addition, a lot of the longer running characters need updates, or attention, and some could use a touch of editing here and there to make them more readable. Also, we are in constant Fact-Checking mode. This is best done by referencing the source material directly and validating that the information here on the '''Herocopia''' site is as accurate as possible.  Alas, that means reading [[:Category:Publications|Astro City Comics]]. Rough work for sure, but hey(!), someone has to do it.
  
See each templates' associated documentation section for more information.
 
  
 
== General Editing Tools ==
 
== General Editing Tools ==
'''Herocopia.com''' is a MediaWiki website. Do you want to contribute, but do not know how to edit pages? These guides might be of help.
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'''Herocopia.com''' is a MediaWiki website. These guides might be of help understanding basic edition techniques at both beginning and advanced levels.  
  
* [[Wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia style guidelines|Wikipedia's style guidelines]] - lots of good style tips here. 
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* [[Wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia style guidelines|Wikipedia's style guidelines]]  
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* [[Wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia how-to|How-to... in Wikipedia]]
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* [[Wikipedia:Category:Wikipedia style guidelines|Wikipedia's style guidelines]]
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting - Formatting tips
 
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting - Formatting tips
  
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== Basic Guidelines pertaining to Herocopia ==
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The intended audience for this  website are the casual readers of Astro City Comics.  It is a place for them to visit when they want additional information about the characters, places and events that occur between the covers of those publications. 
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With that in mind, here are some additional Guidelines for authors to consider.
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* '''Provide Context to your Writing'''
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:Trivia is great, that is a major aspect of what this site is all about.  However, when appending it to Herocopia pages, try to provide context, so the information isn't just noise.
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:For example this information, as presented, isn't very useful to a casual reader:
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::''Earliest Appearance: 1959, 1964 to general population of Earth'' 
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:By contrast, this content provides meaningful context that allows a Herocopia visitor to clearly understand the information being provided. Basically it has meaning and can be easily understood:
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::''In 1959, [[Elliot Mills]] saw and reported this incident for a feature story that he hoped would be printed in the [[Astro City Rocket]] newspaper. It was massively edited before publication and the general public did not hear of [[Shirak]] until five years later.''
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* '''{{Clarify}}'''
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:Usually and in most cases, when "{{clarify}}" is sprinkled into the commentary, it is because some form of specific information is needed to provide context to the commentary. Follow the suggestion mention above and/or a combination of the following is also  suggested as a possibility to fix the problem and remove the ''clarify'' notation.
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# An issue, page and panel reference if it is in story. 
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# If it is out of story, a reference or link to the outside source is helpful. The letters page perhaps, or a thread forum on the web (provide a link if at all possible). 
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# If you are referencing a comment that one of the creators have stated, an exact quote is best, with a link if it is online.
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# Bruisers, the Astro City message board run by John Rosell, is gone. Many Astro City long timers still have memories of the insightful commentary made there, but with it gone there is no link.  So, if you are referring to something from there,  some kind of specific reference to it is helpful, provides context and backs up the comment.
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::Example:
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:::During the heyday of the creator developed message board, '''Bruiser's''', the identity and background of [[The Blue Knight]] caused  quite a flurry of activity.  Many commentators immediately noticed the visual hint of the Blue Knight's image reflected in car mirrors and darkened windows, strategically placed in a few of the panels featuring police officer Joshua Stone.  One poster even tried to elicit commentary by suggesting that not only was Joshua the Blue Knight, but he was also patrolling the streets of Astro City as [[The Street Angel]].
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:Keep in mind, the goal is to provide a reference point, a basis for stating the speculation.
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:Use footnotes if the reference is cumbersome and breaks the word flow of the main commentary.
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* '''Try to avoid "passive voice" sentence structures.'''
  
== Quick tips for creating and editing pages ==
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:They are cumbersome and difficult to read with comprehension. Unfortunately, this site is littered with examples. Please try not to add to the confusion-pollution. If you need help identifying "passive voice,"  this article [http://www.dailywritingtips.com/7-examples-of-passive-voice/] is concise and clear.  Anyway I liked it. You can also "google" for others.
  
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:''Please use good judgement when editing "passive voice" passages. Not all of them are evil.''
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* '''Contributing Tidbits of information, a tiny tidbit at a time.'''
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:Now that we are integrating more and more SemanticWiki queries into the pages of Herocopia, the best choice for containing tibits of data will be by creating new, or adding to the pages of ''Annotation Event Note Cards.''  MediaWiki queries can then be used to extract specific information to create inline information for appearances, timelines, headlines and more.  An added benefit is  maintenance and clarity,  since the note cards provide direct context to the source of the data tidbits being referenced.  See the ''' [[Help:Building Event Note Cards | Help Section on Building Event Note Cards]]''' for further details.
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* '''Other Stuff'''
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:The '''Herocopia Project''' encompassed within this wiki site is constantly changing and maturing. A LOT of details about the tools and structures of mediaWikis  continues to be learned and digested.  Changes will continue as we expand out knowledge set. 
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:The general attitudes here are more lax than the main [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]] site.  Please work to keep them that way.  I hate rules and fiefdoms.
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Thanks for your patience and understanding here.
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- '''The Information Broker'''
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== Quick tips for editing pages ==
  
* Go to the two Character templates and copy the "syntax" portion from the template's documentation.
 
* Then navigate to the page you want to create, i.e. to create a page for "Samaritan" enter <pre>http://www.herocopia.com/Samaritan</pre> in your browser.
 
* Click the "edit" tab, paste the template code, and start creating!
 
  
 
=== Link to another page ===
 
=== Link to another page ===
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* Wikipedia Categorization FAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorisation_FAQ
 
* Wikipedia Categorization FAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorisation_FAQ
  
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=== Creating Pages ===
  
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* Use the special starter templates provided for the standard Herocopia pages (Characters, Devices, and Events).  There are links above for more information on how to use them.
  
 
== Image Uploading ==
 
== Image Uploading ==
  
 
* Check Special:Imagelist to see if the image you need already exists.
 
* Check Special:Imagelist to see if the image you need already exists.
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* If not, upload a new image here: http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Special:Upload
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* Try to find clean images that are complete.  By that, I mean don't chop word balloons in half, don't make small images larger than their scanned size. In other words, use good visual editing skills when choosing images.
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* Except for covers provided directly from the publisher's website, don't pirate images from other sites.  Scan them yourself, or if you aare getting your Astro City Comics digital, screen grabs from Comixology are fine, and probably provide the best images.
  
* If not, upload a new image here (400 pixels across is a good size for most images): http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Special:Upload
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* To reference the image on your entry, place this tag into the page: <pre>[[Image:filename.jpg]]</pre>.
 
 
* Then place this tag into the page: <pre>[[Image:filename.jpg]]</pre>.
 
  
 
* To align the image to the right, use this tag: <pre>[[Image:filename.jpg|right]]</pre>.
 
* To align the image to the right, use this tag: <pre>[[Image:filename.jpg|right]]</pre>.
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* More image help: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files
 
* More image help: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files
  
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=== Pages that Need Help ===
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While you are always welcome to edit and add to any page(s) that catch your attention, the following pages have been marked as "stubs" and could use some help.
  
== Become a Digital Archeologist For Herocopia ==
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== Stubs List ==
One of the most precious aspects of the '''Herocopia Project''' has been the accumulation of a warehouse of information about the Characters of '''Astro City.''' Unfortunately, '''Herocopia.com''' underwent a crash that left a lot of interesting data for and about '''Astro City''' hanging in the limbos of the massively complex cavities of the internet. We are working diligently to restore as much of this previous information as possible. While the majority of it has been recovered in one form or another, there is still some old pages to recover.
 
  
We have been searching the web for old saved '''Herocopia''' pages, along with checking local hard-drives of veteran contributors. We have discovered that the '''Wayback Machine''' located at www.archive.org is a fairly good source and can be mined for '''herocopia.com''' content from the past.  The only problem, it requires a lot of hand editing to bring it back to a format suitable for mediawiki development and deployment.
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{{#ask: [[Stubs::Yes]]
 
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# Be sure to check the '''Wayback''' timeline to find the best capture of data from the original '''Herocopia''' site. Dates from 2009 are proving the most fruitful, but it can vary dramatically from page to page.
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# Add a <code>"{{{cutPaste}}}"</code> template at the top, to indicate this is a cut-n-paste entry that still needs editing, and if appropriate, a <code>"{{{stub}}}"</code> template at the bottom to signal that this page needs more authorship work.
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#Later on, you or a fellow Herocopia author can incorporate the old raw information into the new template structures that we use now. More information on that coming right up, after we take a '''Links-break.'''
 
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=== Links ===
 
http://web.archive.org/web/20090217195513/http://herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Heroes
 
<p>http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223306/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Villains</p>
 
<p>http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223551/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Teams</p>
 
<p>http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223253/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:Civilians</p>
 
<p>http://web.archive.org/web/20100401223556/http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Category:The_City</p>
 

Revision as of 18:42, 19 January 2022

Read on if you are interested in contributing content to the official website dedicated to the award winning comic series Astro City.

New Users: Aid to Getting Started

The Herocopia Project dates back to 2003 when John Roshell, of Comicraft, built the first framework for constructing webpages dedicated to Astro City Comics. It's first big reveal happened in the pages of Astro City: Local Heroes No.3, and the entry for Roustabout. Shortly thereafter, this site expanded under JR's guidances and direction. Much of his initial trade dressing remains intact, other areas have been modified based on his initial designs. Additional updates to this site are influenced or lifted directly from his work on the pages of Astro City Comics. His presence and design skills remain heavily ingrained in how Herocopia looks, feels, and operates.

Over the years, culture and conventions have evolved for editing and creating new content. It might be a slight learning curve to get the hang of how things work here, but once you dig in, we think things will come together smoothly for anyone interested in contributing.

Take note that each page comes with a "Discussion" tab. That is a great place to ask questions about that page in particular, and you can use the Community portal discussion tab for questions about the site in general. Don't hesitate to ask questions. Site administrators and peer authors will provide timely answers.

First editing tip: this site uses templates to control most of the page constructions. Besides making things easier, the templates provide a common look n' feel across the entire site. You are free to build new pages in a free form fashion if you like, but that is probably going to entail a lot more work on your end, and will definitely see a lot of rewrite by other contributors to bring it inline with the mechanics that allow all pages to leverage the functions and infrastructure that we have build into the site.

There are five major areas (and a lot of little ones too) where Herocopia is always in need of help. Each area has specific templates to aid in the editing process.

#1) Authoring Character Pages
We use templates for Characters and other things relating to Astro City. Assistance on how to use them can be found by clicking here.


#2) Building Event Note Cards for Events and Annotations
We are currently in a big push to build Event Annotation Note Cards. These too are template driven, and they are engineered to generate automatic timelines and appearance lists for just about everything related to Astro City.

More information on how you can help with this part of the Herocopia Project can be found by clicking here.


#3) Authoring Non-Character Pages
These are pages that relate to City infrastructure, places, neighborhoods, organizations and things beyond Astro City proper. They are built using Device templates.


#4) Authoring Publication Details
This section of the Herocopia Project focuses on providing information about all the various comics books, trade collections, and other miscellaneous material published about the World of Astro City. Yep, you guessed. They too are best edited using templates.


#5) General Editing and Fact Checking
In addition, a lot of the longer running characters need updates, or attention, and some could use a touch of editing here and there to make them more readable. Also, we are in constant Fact-Checking mode. This is best done by referencing the source material directly and validating that the information here on the Herocopia site is as accurate as possible. Alas, that means reading Astro City Comics. Rough work for sure, but hey(!), someone has to do it.


General Editing Tools

Herocopia.com is a MediaWiki website. These guides might be of help understanding basic edition techniques at both beginning and advanced levels.

Basic Guidelines pertaining to Herocopia

The intended audience for this website are the casual readers of Astro City Comics. It is a place for them to visit when they want additional information about the characters, places and events that occur between the covers of those publications.

With that in mind, here are some additional Guidelines for authors to consider.

  • Provide Context to your Writing
Trivia is great, that is a major aspect of what this site is all about. However, when appending it to Herocopia pages, try to provide context, so the information isn't just noise.
For example this information, as presented, isn't very useful to a casual reader:
Earliest Appearance: 1959, 1964 to general population of Earth
By contrast, this content provides meaningful context that allows a Herocopia visitor to clearly understand the information being provided. Basically it has meaning and can be easily understood:
In 1959, Elliot Mills saw and reported this incident for a feature story that he hoped would be printed in the Astro City Rocket newspaper. It was massively edited before publication and the general public did not hear of Shirak until five years later.


  • [clarification needed]
Usually and in most cases, when "[clarification needed]" is sprinkled into the commentary, it is because some form of specific information is needed to provide context to the commentary. Follow the suggestion mention above and/or a combination of the following is also suggested as a possibility to fix the problem and remove the clarify notation.
  1. An issue, page and panel reference if it is in story.
  2. If it is out of story, a reference or link to the outside source is helpful. The letters page perhaps, or a thread forum on the web (provide a link if at all possible).
  3. If you are referencing a comment that one of the creators have stated, an exact quote is best, with a link if it is online.
  4. Bruisers, the Astro City message board run by John Rosell, is gone. Many Astro City long timers still have memories of the insightful commentary made there, but with it gone there is no link. So, if you are referring to something from there, some kind of specific reference to it is helpful, provides context and backs up the comment.
Example:
During the heyday of the creator developed message board, Bruiser's, the identity and background of The Blue Knight caused quite a flurry of activity. Many commentators immediately noticed the visual hint of the Blue Knight's image reflected in car mirrors and darkened windows, strategically placed in a few of the panels featuring police officer Joshua Stone. One poster even tried to elicit commentary by suggesting that not only was Joshua the Blue Knight, but he was also patrolling the streets of Astro City as The Street Angel.
Keep in mind, the goal is to provide a reference point, a basis for stating the speculation.
Use footnotes if the reference is cumbersome and breaks the word flow of the main commentary.


  • Try to avoid "passive voice" sentence structures.
They are cumbersome and difficult to read with comprehension. Unfortunately, this site is littered with examples. Please try not to add to the confusion-pollution. If you need help identifying "passive voice," this article [1] is concise and clear. Anyway I liked it. You can also "google" for others.
Please use good judgement when editing "passive voice" passages. Not all of them are evil.


  • Contributing Tidbits of information, a tiny tidbit at a time.
Now that we are integrating more and more SemanticWiki queries into the pages of Herocopia, the best choice for containing tibits of data will be by creating new, or adding to the pages of Annotation Event Note Cards. MediaWiki queries can then be used to extract specific information to create inline information for appearances, timelines, headlines and more. An added benefit is maintenance and clarity, since the note cards provide direct context to the source of the data tidbits being referenced. See the Help Section on Building Event Note Cards for further details.
  • Other Stuff
The Herocopia Project encompassed within this wiki site is constantly changing and maturing. A LOT of details about the tools and structures of mediaWikis continues to be learned and digested. Changes will continue as we expand out knowledge set.
The general attitudes here are more lax than the main Wikipedia site. Please work to keep them that way. I hate rules and fiefdoms.

Thanks for your patience and understanding here.

- The Information Broker

Quick tips for editing pages

Link to another page

  • Surround the word in double brackets...
    [[Samaritan]]
    ...and it will link to that page, whether it exists yet or not.

Linking Page to a Category

  • At the bottom of a page, enter
    [[Category: (category name)]]
    and it will link to that category, as well as include the page in that category (whether the category exists yet or not).
  • To create a link to a category *without* including the page in that category, add a colon in front, i.e.
    [[:Category: (category name)]]
    .

Creating Pages

  • Use the special starter templates provided for the standard Herocopia pages (Characters, Devices, and Events). There are links above for more information on how to use them.

Image Uploading

  • Check Special:Imagelist to see if the image you need already exists.
  • If not, upload a new image here: http://www.herocopia.com/index.php/Special:Upload
  • Try to find clean images that are complete. By that, I mean don't chop word balloons in half, don't make small images larger than their scanned size. In other words, use good visual editing skills when choosing images.
  • Except for covers provided directly from the publisher's website, don't pirate images from other sites. Scan them yourself, or if you aare getting your Astro City Comics digital, screen grabs from Comixology are fine, and probably provide the best images.
  • To reference the image on your entry, place this tag into the page:
    [[Image:filename.jpg]]
    .
  • To align the image to the right, use this tag:
    [[Image:filename.jpg|right]]
    .
  • To place a thumbnail of a larger image, use:
    [[Image:filename.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]
    .
  • Any text entered in the tag that isn't recognized will appear as a caption in the thumbnail image, i.e.
    [[Image:filename.jpg|right|thumb|250px|This is a picture of Samaritan]]
    .

Pages that Need Help

While you are always welcome to edit and add to any page(s) that catch your attention, the following pages have been marked as "stubs" and could use some help.

Stubs List

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