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Welcome, YellowYoshi398/w!
Howdy! I'm YellowYoshi398 (talk), and I've left this message here on your talk page to walk you through the Super Mario Wiki. You don't have to read this all, but you may find it useful to refer to if you have any questions. You can also talk to me for help; I'll be glad to clear anything up.
Welcome to the Super Mario Wiki!, a collaborative knowledge-base dedicated to the Mario series, as well as sub-series such as the Yoshi series, Wario series, and Donkey Kong series. We're glad to have you as a member. If you have any questions, just post it on the FAQ talk page or ask an experienced member and/or Sysop.
The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the Super Mario Wiki community. If this is your first time visiting, please read our Introduction.
How do I do that?
Specific Help
- Color codes – Help translating colors to hexadecimal. (This is useful for templates, though colors are rarely used in articles.)
- CSS – Help creating an unique monobook.css file for each user. (This is simply advice for creating an alternate skin for the MarioWiki; you may not want to fool with it until sometime later.)
- Communication – How to handle and use talk pages. (You will find this useful when talking to users or when others talk to you.)
- Format – Help formatting text. (These are some various codes in our website's coding language of wikisyntax, some of which will be necessary to know for making certain edits.)
- Gallery – Help creating a picture gallery. (Although galleries aren't used on all too many pages, it nice to learn how to make them sooner or later.)
- Icon – Help adding an icon. (By normalcy, these icons appear only when triggered in various ways in wikisyntax and aren't necessary to know unless you wish to place them somwhere in your user space.)
- Image – Help putting an image on a page. (Image-adding is almost completely necessary to know and ought to be studied, although you may be best off asking another user how to add images to pages.)
- License – Help selecting the license for uploaded media. (Although adding licenses is largely self-explanatory, you may wish to look at this if stumped.)
- Link – Help creating a link. (This is a VERY good thing to drop a look at, unless you already know enough wikisyntax to add links to other articles.)
- List – Help creating a list. (This is rather varied list-related information that you'll probably find useful in the future.)
- Media – Image, audio, and video information. (This is helpful if you intend to upload a file, especially if that file is a video or sound file.)
- Signature – Help creating a signature. (Signatures are useful for writing in talk pages, but you can alternatively write --~~~~ in their place before getting one.)
- Table – Help creating a table. (Tables can be confusing to write, making this a helpful page, but tables are also used rarely.)
- Template – Help creating and using a template. (If you intend on making a template but know nothing about them, this is a good thing to look at.)
- User preferences – Help with your preferences. (This is good if you wish to keep your user preferences up-to-date, although that isn't necessary to do.)
- Userbox – Help creating a userbox. (Userboxes are a nice, though not necessary, thing to have on your user page, so look at this only if you're interested in user page creation.)
- Vandalism – Help stopping a vandal. (If a vandal does ever happen to strike, it is good to have looked at this beforehand. Stopping vandals is a great contribution to the MarioWiki and can easily earn you respect.)
Categories
You are welcome to browse through the following categories, which should contain all help-related articles you may need:
External Resources
Things you can do
Tips
- Use good grammar and keep things formal – Although this rule largely does not apply to talk pages and user pages, we are a serious wiki that demands fairly good grammar and a lack of silliness. (It is exceptionally noteworthy to avoid use of the word "you" in articles, as it, too, is rather informal.) Disobeying this tip, however, is not that big of a deal, as other users can easily translate informal content to normal formalities.
- Categorize articles – When creating an article, you should add it to one of our many categories. You can place in article into a category by writing that category's title in front of the word "Category:" all in hyperlink-like brackets; for instance, writing [[Category:Characters]] at the bottom of an article will add it to the characters category.
- Italicize titles of games, game series, TV shows, and movies – Once again, this does not apply to user pages and talk pages, but it is only grammatically correct to italicize the titles of video games, video game series, television programs, and films. In the editing language of wikisyntax, italicization is done by surrounding words with two commas in editing sources; for instance, writing ''Super Mario Bros.'' while editing an article will make it appear as Super Mario Bros. in-article. You can also do the same thing with <i> and </i> marks; <i>Super Mario Bros.</i> appears in-article as Super Mario Bros.
- Mark all images used in your user space as personal images – Here at the MarioWiki, we refer to images used only in user space as personal images. When uploading one of these personal images, please label it with {{personal-image|YellowYoshi398/w}} (or {{personal-image-sig|YellowYoshi398/w}}, if you intend on using the personal image in your signature) to assure it is recognized as a personal image. By the way, you are only allowed to upload four personal images, as well as a smaller fifth one for use in signatures.
- Avoid uploading images you don't intend to use – New users will often upload images and never use them, usually to simply test out Special:Upload. Although testing is a perfectly fine thing to do, you should most of the time avoid uploading images that will not be used.
If you want to, you may remove or delete this welcome at any time; you're free to do what you wish with your user space. I hope you found my welcome helpful and that you thoroughly enjoy your time here; I'll see ya around.
If you need any more help or have any questions at all, you can feel perfectly free to talk to me at my talk page; I will respond as soon as possible at yours. I'm part of a welcoming committee completely dedicated to helping new users. I also happen to be one of our two patrollers; members of the patroller user rank have limited special abilities such as banning bad users and quickly reverting mistaken edits or vandalism. I'll be happy to help out with anything, and once more, welcome!
Good luck for a good future here,
YellowYoshi398 (talk)
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