Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5371501-20130220230143

Welcome
We see that you are interested in making a valuable contribution to the site! Before you get going there is some information, tips, and guides on how to use many of the basic features that are necessary when writing and submitting your story.

Rules
A few of the most important things that you will need when thinking about creating your story is the rules for doing so. They cover everything from banned pasta types to updating the listing. You may find them by clicking on any of the buttons below.

Main Rules

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Creating a page
To create a new page click the button below.

Create Please choose blank page as it makes writing it much easier for a beginner, enter the title of your story in the box provided. (NOTE: That is the title your story will go by and only an admin may change it so think it through) You will be directed to your page which you will type your pasta in. Please use the Wikia provided "Normal" font for the body of your story and nothing else. After typing out your pasta you will then be able to spell-check it on site by going into source mode which you can to by clicking on the tab at the top. Once your spelling is correct you may feel that it looks rather empty. You may want to add pictures to your article, to do this return to visual mode by clicking on the visual tab next to the source mode tab. Once in visual mode you may see a few widgets on the side one of which enables you to add various photos to your pasta. Click on the widget and choose whether you would like to upload your own or search the site for some, place them and add captions as you wish and repeat if you need or want to. Once you think it looks good to go hit publish. Congratulations you have published your first pasta! Next you will need to add the proper categories to your article by scrolling down and clicking add categories at the bottom of the article. DO NOT ADD NON-EXISTENT CATEGORIES! Now you are finished with the page itself but there is still more to do.

Article Listing
Now that you have added your story to the site you MUST add it to the article listing within 30 minutes or you will receive a 1-day block from the site. Do not fear, if you follow the information in this guide you will have plenty of time to spare as it is much easier to do than you would think. To visit the article listing page click the button below. Article Listing Navigate to the proper page. ex: Slenderman would go into page S. (NOTE:If your pasta starts with "the" you will need to categorize by the first letter of the next word. ex: The Slenderman would go under page S and would look like this Slenderman, the) Please add your page in alphabetical order by clicking edit and scrolling down to where your pasta would go. Create a new space and add a link to your pasta by using proper Wiki link formatting. ex: Full name of the story|Name to be displayed (NOTE:  is really ]] and  is [[ ) where it says full name that's is where you add the name of the page that contains your storyName to be displayed is where you retype the name of the story, if you have "the" at the beginning this is where you take "the" off and add it to the end. Click publish as you did with your first page. You are now in the clear!

User Submissions
If you wrote the story yourself you may add it to the User submissions page by clicking the button below. User Submissions You add it in alphabetical order just like you did with the article listing using the same link format. You then go back to your story and add the category OC to it. You are now done and can kick back and relax. Congratulations on creating your new story and we hope to see you contribute many more in the months and years to come.  