American Girl Wiki:Article Creation

Overview
New articles are the way the Wiki grows. However, each article needs to be well done. Every new article should have a strong backbone and outline for new editors to come in and add information, and articles that don't do this make it so much harder for people to contribute as a whole new outline must be done and the article is essentially scrapped.

Basic Rules

 * All new articles must have a basic layout in likeness to articles of a similar nature. If you're not sure, please look at other pages like the article (for example, if you are creating a character page, look at another character).
 * All articles must have categories listed at the bottom of the pages. most things on the wiki apply to characters or lines; there is a category for almost everything. Use to locate categories.
 * Articles should never consist of short lines. "Ana's son" is not an article anymore than "the dress is blue" is.

Suggestions

 * Make internal links. A page that doesn't point anywhere is a dead-end page; a page that is neither linked to nor linking to others ia n orphan, and these are bad.
 * if you can locate good pictures of items or unique images, please upload them.

Non-Compliant New Articles
Any new article that does not follow the basic rules will be deleted immediately with no warning. After two "short" articles by a user, he/she will be warned; if any more articles are created that do not follow these rules, the IP or user will be banned.

For Article Creation Bans, please e-mail the admins for reinstatement.

This policy is effective immediatly on 1:36 PM PST, Feb 27, 2009.

--Nethilia