User blog:Gracey91/How to...

Hello all, since the 1.1 update there has been a flood of new content and a fair bit of useless content added as well. So i thought i would make a blog to explain to the newer/less experienced users how to do some of the easier things and how to deal with with the unwanted content/users.

To start off, one of the most useful things is the template. This allows you to mark pages, comments, images and blogs for deletion. To use the template you simply edit the page, then add to the top of the page then publish it. Then there is the template, which works the same as the  template, except this is for pages that are spam or vandalism. When using these templates they will add the categories for you.

Many pages are created each day with slight spelling mistakes, these pages are useful since others may make the same spelling mistake. The way you deal with them, is make them redirects by adding #redirect Page name it should link to. So say you have a page called "Traps" and someone makes one called "Trap" you would add #redirect Traps to the "Trap" page. You can also link them to sections of pages like so Environments which goes here.

Lately i have notice a lot of url linking such as Traps on content pages. The correct way to make links it get the words after /wiki/ which in this case is Traps so you just add 2 square brackets to each side of the word, like so [[Traps . You can also add letters right next to the last set of brackets that will appear as part of the link. So say you have the link Bomb but you want it to be Bombs you do this Bombs and it appears link this Bombs.

If you come across someone who is vandalizing the wiki, please report it to an admin. There is a list of the admins on the navigation under the "Community" heading, you can also see a list here, but please don't report it to my bot account. Additionally if there is someone vandalizing and there are no admins on, try reporting it to a member of rollback (active members names are green). If you want to clean it up yourself but don't know how to, read this help page.

Last off, for the people who have been posting comments and they just disappear(well they appear just with no content). You have triggered an abuse filter, for either swearing or shouting. So there isn't much point posting those kinds of comments.

If there is anything people think is important that needs to be explained, let me know and i'll try to cover it. If you have any questions, ask away.