First of all, I would like to thank our new contributors for all their efforts in uploading new images, adding new details to articles, updating existing data, and of course fixing my speedy fingered typos. Kudos and enjoy your badges!
Today's post here will address documentation of articles. As with all researched data, giving proper credit is important and a wiki is no different. If you visit Wikipedia [1] you will find various methods of documentation used, including citations, footnotes, and external links.
Credits in Notes[]
I've used Notes previously to track where certain info has been obtained in order to give credit to those player fans who have diligently gathered information for their own War Metal and Tyrant sites. This section emulates the Citation and Footnotes of Wikipedia's main site.
External Links Template[]
By adding this template at the bottom of each page, it is my hope that visitors here will also visit their sites for further information and updates. The only pages not displaying it are the main article and Resources, which duplicates (or should duplicate) all of the links presented in the template.
If you are not familiar with how to add templates to a page, you may copy and paste (or type) the code here (enclosed in double curly braces - '{' and '}' ) to add to your new pages: ExternalLinks
Additionally, any links added to the template or to the Resources page should also be added to both areas for consistency.
External Links and Template Codes in Blog Posts[]
External Linking here leaves me with a work around to point to the Wikipedia site. Wiki Template coding overrides the "Code/preformatted" tag. When presenting an external link within a Blog post or in a template a single set of brackets is used - '[' and ']' to enclose the link. The pipe '|' is used to separate link from text used to name the link.
I hope to provide more Wiki Markup lessons in the future. Drop me a line on my Talk page if you have any specific areas you'd like me to address. Refiner 21:29, March 13, 2011 (UTC)