User:DoomBowser/Sandbox2

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The purpose of creator articles is to detail some basic information about a creator's or team's activities with the M.U.G.E.N community and listing what characters, stages, full games, screenpacks and other miscellaneous items that they have contributed. The layout for creator articles is incredibly simple, as the first part of the article only requires an infobox and some basic informative text about the creator/team, while the second and third parts are a list of all the creator/team's content that they have released publicly and any ongoing W.I.P. projects that can be proved to exist, respectively. This is the typical layout a creator article follows, clicking on one of the following links will make the page jump to the corresponding section in this tutorial:


 * 1) Creating and naming the article
 * 2) Infobox
 * 3) Parameter explanations
 * 4) End result
 * 5) Basic creator/team information
 * 6) Team membership list
 * 7) Alternate account list
 * 8) Creations list
 * 9) W.I.P. list
 * 10) References
 * 11) 'See also' section
 * 12) External links
 * 13) Categories

Creating and naming the article
Note: Articles can only be made about a creator or team if they HAVE MADE AT LEAST ONE CREATION FOR THE M.U.G.E.N ENGINE, articles about creators/teams that have not made any creations for the M.U.G.E.N engine will be swiftly deleted.

Before any editing can be done to an article, it first has to be created and named, which can either be done by typing the name you want to give the article in the URL bar after /wiki/ and pressing enter, then clicking on the create box on the subsequent page the wiki goes to, going to the home page and scrolling down to the 'How to contribute' section, then typing the name of the article in the For stage articles section and clicking create, or going to any wiki page and clicking the Contribute button under the wiki's clock on the upper right, then selecting Add a Page from the drop down menu and making an article with the blank layout (as the standard layout is the template for character version articles).

The article's name should either be the pseudonym by which the creator is currently known by or the current name of the team by which multiple creators operate under, should a creator currently have multiple pseudonyms, use the one by which they are most known by. Always remember to adhere to all letter casing and any punctuation in the creator's name, as well as any accents and other symbols, should a creator have inconsistencies in letter casing or spelling, use the version that's most frequency seen.

Note: Creations created by a creator separately from a team DO NOT get listed on that team's article, but creations made in conjunction with the team DO get listed on that individual creator's article.

Infobox
The infobox is the first thing placed into a creator article so that it appears at the top of the page (not counting maintenance templates), all of it is handled in a template known as, of which there are seven mandatory parameters and one optional parameter.
 * WikiaAccount=}}

Parameter explanations
The following section gives a general explanation as to what is required for each infobox parameter.

Name
This should always be exactly the same as the article's name; it is often more convenient to omit the parameter entirely, as the text at the top of the infobox will then automatically change with the page getting renamed, which can happen frequently with creators who change their pseudonym often.

Image
This should be an avatar used by the creator/team from a M.U.G.E.N website or YouTube, which includes the MUGEN Database; in accordance with the wiki's rules, the avatar must be safe for work, with any image that is considered to breach these rules being swiftly deleted and action taken against the image's uploader and the user that added the image to the page (provided they aren't the same user). Images should ideally be named (Creator/Team)(website)avatar and be in .png or .jpg format (though .png is strongly preferred); should an image be unavailable, leave the parameter intact but write nothing after the '=' sign; an image placed into the infobox needs to be preceded by File: in order to work.

Images wider that 200 pixels need to be scaled down to the aforementioned value by putting  |200px at the end of the image filename, images taller than 300px need to be scaled down to an appropriate value where the image looks a reasonable size (as it's not possible to scale an image by its height, only its width).

Caption
The caption should describe the image above it, so it shouldn't need to be anything more complicated than (website) avatar, though an additional small description of what's in the avatar is acceptable. Should there be no image, leave the parameter intact but write nothing after the '=' sign.

Status
The creator's current status within the M.U.G.E.N community, can only be one of five things:


 * Active -- The creator/team is still making content for the M.U.G.E.N engine and/or is still frequenting M.U.G.E.N-related websites.


 * Retired -- Only applies to individual creators, where they have confirmed that they have stopped making content for the M.U.G.E.N engine. Note that creators may come back and start making content again at a later date, so retirement is not necessarily permanent.


 * Disbanded -- Only applies to teams, similar to retired, the team have confirmed that they no longer operate together. Note that teams may get back together again at a later date.


 * Deceased -- Only applies to individual creators, where they have since passed away.


 * Unknown -- A creator/team's whereabouts is unknown, they haven't confirmed retirement/disbanded, haven't known to have died and aren't knowingly active; a creator/team with an unknown status is not presumed to have retired/disbanded, as they could be creating content in secret.

Characters
The amount of characters that a creator or team has made as a numerical value, should the amount of characters exceed 100, round down to the nearest multiple of 50 and add a '+' sign directly after the value. In the event that a creator or team has made character edits, denote this in brackets next to the character amount value with (including X edit(s)), where 'X' is the number of edits; should the creator or team's only characters be edits, use (edit(s)) next to the character amount value. |Characters=5 (including 2 edits)

|Characters=2 (edits)

Stages
Exactly the same as what is done for the characters parameter, but for stages instead.

Website
The external link to the creator/team's website where they host their creations; similar but not identical to what is done when linking to a creation on that creator/team's website, as the link should be to the homepage rather than the specific part of the website where the creation is hosted. The following are NOT acceptable for this parameter:


 * Adf.ly links, as they are in breach of both this wiki's rules and Wikia's advertising policy, any users who add adf.ly links may find that action is taken against them.
 * MUGEN websites or the part of a MUGEN websites where the creator/team's characters are not being hosted, such as a link to a forum.
 * Social media accounts.
 * YouTube, DeviantArt and similar accounts.
 * Links to file hosting websites such as MediaFire.
 * Links to Userpages or Message Walls on this wiki.

Should a creator/team not have a website, use 'None' for the parameter.

WikiaAccount
The only optional parameter, as it should be the name of that creator's Wikia account, which not all creators will have. Omit this parameter for teams, as it is very unlikely that a team will be using one Wikia account between them.

End Result
The following is an example of how a finished infobox appears in the editor and on a article respectively, this example being the infobox used on Gudine's creator article.

'See also' section
This is an optional section that will only usually contain a maximum of two entries: the category links to the characters and stages made by the team/creator, should they exist on the wiki.