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.

Or, long story short:

It doesn't matter if you are the first to create an article. It matters if you are the first to create a GOOD article. Quality Over Quantity

Basic Rules

• 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. At the bare minimum, use the character name or brand line. Use [[Category:TYPE]] to locate categories.
• Articles should never consist of one or two short lines. "Ana's son" or "green dress with white ribbons" is not an article anymore than "the dress is blue" is an article.
• Any article that is simply a copy-paste of the website descriptions will be deleted immediately. This is not intended to be a rehash of the website and doing so constitutes a copyright infringement.
• All new articles should 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). While the article need not have everything, it should have sections.

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 is an orphan page. These are bad.
• If you can locate good pictures of items or unique images, please upload them.
• If the article is short or incomplete, please put {{stub}} on the page.

Non-Compliant New Articles

Any new article that does not follow the basic rules is subject to be deleted immediately with no warning. After two "short" articles by a user, he/she will be warned and given a one-week block; if any more articles are created that do not follow these rules, the IP or user will be banned for a minimum of one month.

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

This policy is effective immediatly, including any changes.

--Nethilia