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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. However, if you are new to Ghostbusters Wiki please read the Introduction page.

Official Policy

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

Guidelines

Naming Guidelines
Abbreviation Guidelines
Editing Guidelines
Reference Guidelines

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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-[[Image:Ready to believe.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Have you ever seen a spook, specter, or ghost? We're ready to believe you!]]'''Welcome to the Ghostbusters Wiki!''' We are a very young wiki in terms of our development, so there is a lot of work to do around here. Check out the [[Special:Wantedpages|requested articles]] and [[:Category:Stubs|stubs]] for pages that need creation or expansion. You can also suggest an article on this [[Ghostbusters Wiki talk:Community Portal|talk page]]. If you are new to wiki editing, see the [[:Category:Help|Help pages]] for assistance.
+[[Image:Ready to believe.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Have you ever seen a spook, specter, or ghost? We're ready to believe you!]]
+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. However, if you are new to Ghostbusters Wiki please read the [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Introduction|Introduction page]].
+{| width="100%" cellspacing="8" valign="top"
-==Page type guidelines==
+|-
-''We are currently drafting some general guidelines for page types. Please submit your ideas here.''
+| 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:
-===Character pages===
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Agenda Policy|Agenda Policy]] (Read First!)
-Character pages will need some sort of parameters for defining the contents.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Discussion Policy|Discussion Policy]]
-*Every wiki page, of course, requires a  brief summary at the beginning of every article, beginning with the name of the article in '''bold'''.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Neutral Point of View Policy|Neutral Point of View Policy]]
-*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.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Sock Puppetry Policy|Sock Puppetry Policy]]
-*Beyond this, a personality section is pretty common.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Image Policy|Image Policy]]
-*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.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Speculation Policy|Speculation Policy]]
-*Some trivia section (or a Notes section) is certainly welcome here, whereas it is not on the main wikipedia.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Spoiler Policy|Spoiler Policy]]
-*Perhaps a link to relationship pages, but that's a long time coming at this point.
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Canon Policy|Canon Policy]]
-*A See Also page that links to relating pages (maybe about toys, the character on the cartoon, etc.)
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Ad Policy|Ad Policy]]
-- [[User:TrumpetManLA|TrumpetManLA]]
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px" |
+'''Guidelines'''
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Naming Guidelines|Naming Guidelines]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Abbreviation Guidelines|Abbreviation Guidelines]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Editing Guidelines|Editing Guidelines]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Reference Guidelines|Reference Guidelines]]
+'''Improve Pages'''
-==Image Categories==
-*For images, if an image is of a major character, use the category "Film screencaps major character."
-*Minor character images go under "Film screencaps minor character"
-*Locations go under "Film screencaps locations," etc.
+The following pages detail articles that are in need of improvement:
-==Capitalization standards==
-Please remember capitalization rules: only the first word of any article, category, etc. is capitalized, unless it is a proper name.
+* [[:Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_deleted|Candidates for Deletion]]
-Example: [[Peter Venkman]] (proper name) vs. [[Hotel manager]]
+* [[: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]]
+|-
+| width="50%" style="background: #aaff99; border: 1px solid  #FF0000; padding: 12px 12px 12px; vertical-align:top;" | '''Wiki Projects'''
+These are the projects this wiki is currently in:
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:About|About Page (Basic idea of the Whole Wiki)]]
+* [[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'''
+For those interested in helping Ghostbusters Wiki on a regular basis, there is adminship. Learn what it takes.
+* [[Help:User access levels|Basic User Rights]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Voting Policy|Voting Policy]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Voting on Matters|Voting on Matters]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Administrator Policy and Standards|Policy &amp; Standards for Administrators]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Admins|Current and Past Adminship]]
+* [[Ghostbusters Wiki:Requests for administrator|Requests to be a Administrator]]
+|}