Help:Style guide

So you want to make a creator page for The Evection Project? Excellent! There are just a few things to know.

Creating the page

The name of the page should be the creator’s best-known one, regardless if it is the creator’s legal name. If the name includes initials, it should be rendered, for example, J. R. R. Tolkien, not JRR Tolkien or some other variation. You can find your new, empty page by typing its title into the search bar.

The lede

Once you have your page, you can start with any part, but the content should always appear on the page in the same order. At the top, you'll usually have a Status template—see the Help:Status page for a guide on how to use those—and, if the creator tolerates fanworks, a Fanworks banner. Following that comes a paragraph-level lede, which mentions the creator’s legal name, the creator’s pen/artist name or names (in bold), and up to four or five of the creator’s best-known works (in italics). The lede should also include a summary of the creator’s position on fanworks.

Linking to other pages

If another creator is mentioned in the lede (or later, in the Statements), that creator's name should be surrounded in square brackets (like [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]) the first time the creator is mentioned. This should be done whether or not the other creator already has a page—if the other creator does not already have a page, this will place that creator on a list of ones who need pages. Please take care in making sure that these links follow the previously outlined protocol for page naming (for example, if in the Statement it merely says Tolkien, the link will look like [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]).

Statements

Next comes the Statements section, with a Heading-level header of that name. Each statement you’ve found can be pasted there, under a Sub-heading 1-level header with the year in which the statement was given. If there are multiple statements from the same year, you can add identifying information to the header.

Spoilers

Where possible, you should elide with ellipses, ..., any part of the quoted statement that isn't relevant to the topic of the creator's views on fanworks. However, if a spoiler for one of that creator's—or any other creator's—works needs to be included, it should be enclosed in the following markup: <span class="spoiler">the love interest dies in act three</span>. This makes the text redacted except while clicked, like this.

Statement sources

After this, you have the Statement sources section, again with a Heading-level header of the same name. Here, you will link to the sources you quoted about, labeling each with the title you gave the section it corresponds to.

Can I cite this wiki?

Unfortunately, no! While creators are more than welcome to make pages for themselves on The Evection Project, any statements those pages include must first have been posted elsewhere. See, while you know you're the creator you're posting about, there's no way for anyone else to be sure, so we can't present original statements with confidence.

Works

Finally, you will put a Works section. Here goes a bullet-point list of all the creator’s works. This will make the page come up no matter what a user of the wiki searches for. For bonus points, you can label each work with the year it came out, so people reading the page can easily see which works had been released at the time of each statement.

That's all! If you still have any questions, you can look at existing pages and/or ask an admin. Thanks in advance for contributing to this project, and good luck!