Changes: Ghostbusters Wiki:Community Portal

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Welcome to the Ghostbusters Wiki Community Portal. This page serves as the general rules for Ghostbusters Wiki. It also covers the ethics of the wiki, and what is and is not permitted here.

Official Policy

The Guidelines and Policies of this wiki can be found here:

Improve Pages

The following pages detail articles that are in need of improvement:

Wiki Projects

These are the projects this wiki is currently in:

About Page (Basic idea of the Whole Wiki)
Ghostbusting Equipment 101
Paranormal Database
Ghostbusters Franchise (coming soon!)

User Rights

For those interested in helping Ghostbusters Wiki on a regular basis, there is adminship. Learn what it takes.

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 Welcome to the Ghostbusters Wiki Community Portal. This page serves as the general rules for Ghostbusters Wiki. It also covers the ethics of the wiki, and what is and is not permitted here.
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-'''Currently up to date on December 23, 2010.'''
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-''All updates for January 2011 will be <span style="color:Black;background:Yellow">highlighted in Yellow.</span>''
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px; vertical-align:top;" | '''Official Policy'''
+The Guidelines and Policies of this wiki can be found here:
-==Manners and Ethics==
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Article Editing Policy|Article Editing Policy]]
-Before writing articles or editing them, it would be a good idea to think about who is reading this, and if the content is useful to the reader.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Spoiler Policy|Spoiler Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Discussion Policy|Discussion Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Image Policy|Image Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Speculation Policy|Speculation Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Voting Policy|Voting Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ad Policy|Ad Policy]]
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-===Content for Fans===
+'''Improve Pages'''
-Do not address content within the page as bad or wrong. If there is issues with content like say [[Ghostbusters II]], make a Criticism section on the page. Fans shouldn't feel threatened by content.
+The following pages detail articles that are in need of improvement:
-===Respect to Publishers===
-Do not edit content on [[Ghostbusters Print|print related articles]] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_%28media%29 Spoilers] revealed til atleast 4 months after the print has been released. This means no adding content on other articles that may reveal information that ruins the contents ending.<br />
+* [[:Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_deleted|Candidates for Deletion]]
-This rule is in place to promote a healthy sale time for products in print media.<br />
+* [[:Category:Stubs|List of Stubs]]
+* [[Special: Recentchanges|Recent edits]]
+* [[Special:Newpages|New pages]]
+* [[Special:Categories|Categories]]
+* [[Wikia:Help:Tutorial|Wiki tutorial]]
+* [[Special:Specialpages|Special Pages]]
+|-
-===Respect Fellow Posters===
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid  #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px; vertical-align:top;" | '''Wiki Projects'''
-While not a problem at this wiki, lets address it now so everyone knows. If you are having issues with edits of another editor or the administrator, you need to address it. There are a number of ways to deal with it including:
-*Using the Talk page for the article
-*Ask a [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Admins|Administrator]] of the wiki to resolve the ordeal
+These are the projects this wiki is currently in:
-===Credit for a Edit===
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:About|About Page (Basic idea of the Whole Wiki)]]
-While it is important to acknowledge who made comments on talk/discussion, it isn't as useful to do that on articles. Articles are meant to be a group effort, and the credit is to the Ghostbusters Wiki as a whole, therefore nothing here is owned by any of the editor/supporters of the wiki. Adding credits for users on articles will be seen as a form of vandalism, and will be removed.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ghostbusting Equipment 101|Ghostbusting Equipment 101]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Paranormal Database|Paranormal Database]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ghostbusters Franchise|Ghostbusters Franchise]] ''(coming soon!)''
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px" | '''User Rights'''
-==Basic Editing Rules==
-*When editing a article, take into account the articles current design of information.
-*If section or more of information is going to be added, make sure the content looks like content of similar articles.
-*It is never a good thing to take text off a article. If more than a sentence of text is being erased, it may be a better idea to go the the talk page of the article and ask to remove the text, and explain why.
-*No information should be directly copied from another website or source. That means even from other wiki projects.
+For those interested in helping Ghostbusters Wiki on a regular basis, there is adminship. Learn what it takes.
-- Updated on Mar. 20, 2010
+* [[Help:User access levels|Basic User Rights]]
-==Image Adding Rules==
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Administrator Policy and Standards|Policy & Standards for Administrators]]
-*No image should be copied from another website.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Admins|Current and Past Adminship]]
-*No fanart will be allowed at this wiki on any pages, other than on the User pages.<br />
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Requests for administrator|Requests to be a Administrator]]
+|}
-===How to Add Images===
-Adding images to a article should be done with the "Add a photo to this gallery" button.<br />
-[[File:Addimagetogallerybutton.png]]<br />
-If there is no gallery on the article/page, first hit "Edit this Page" and go to the edit scroll box and go to the bottom of the page to add the gallery. Before adding the gallery itself, put the following headline tag in <nowiki>==Gallery==</nowiki> and then hit Enter/Return to go down to the next line. Then scroll up (the scroll bar closed to edge of the browser window) til you see the edit icons and then you hit the "Insert a Photo Gallery" button.<br />
-[[File:Addgallerybutton.png]]<br />
-Note you should set the thumbnail size to "125" and use the drop down and set caption to "center". Hit the "Save" button in the lower right side.<br />
-[[File:Editgallerysettings.png]]<br />
-After that hit "Save page".<br /><br />
-To Add images to a article you can also use the "Add Picture" button, however it is not the perfered method. Images shouldn't be shown at more than 175 px wide. (However, sometimes images are chosen to be a bigger size by Admin due to special nature of image.)<br />
-[[File:Addimagesbutton.png]] <br /><br />
-Images in template infobox should be set at 225.<br /> <nowiki>| image_size=225px</nowiki><br /><br />
-==Video Adding==
-The wiki doesn't want videos posted due to they limited time nature. Also, some may end up getting taken down as soon as they are discovered due to copyrights. The only videos that should ever be posted are official ones made by Sony.
-==Page Design Guidelines==
-===Stubs===
-[[:Category:Stubs|Stubs]] at this wiki are any article under 320 bytes. Note that even if a article meets the 320 bytes it may still seem unfinished. To know how many bytes a article is, look at the "History" of the article (next to "Edit this page" at the top of the page). If it is at or under 320 bytes, edit the article and add a <nowiki>{{Stub}}</nowiki> right above the <nowiki>{{Copyright}}</nowiki> tag or if no copyright tag, place it at the bottom of page/article.<br />
-*Every wiki page, of course, requires a  brief summary at the beginning of every article, beginning with the name of the article in '''bold'''.
-*Once the character boxes are up, we'll be able to put in pictures, occupations, list which films/series the character appeared in, and put a link to the IMDB profile for each actor.
-*Beyond this, a personality section is pretty common.
-*Also, there can be some room for describing their role in whichever movie they were in, subdivided into a section for [[Ghostbusters]] and [[Ghostbusters II]], or [[The Real Ghostbusters]] and [[Extreme Ghostbusters]].
-*Some trivia section (or a Notes section) is certainly welcome here, whereas it is not on the main wikipedia.
-*A See Also page that links to relating pages (maybe about toys, the character on the cartoon, etc.)
-*In keeping with the general interest in quotes, I think it is a good idea to have an identifying quote at the top of each character page; something that in some way defines that character.
-===Quotes===
-*I am aware that many of the fans of Ghostbusters' favorite bits of trivia are their favorite quotes.  There is already a large amount of quotes gathered in the Wiki Quotes section for Ghostbusters.  For the time being, at least, please refrain from adding superfluous quotes into the body of articles.
-[[category:Community]]