Help:Contributing/Editing help

This page includes help for creating and editing articles.

Creating new articles

How to create articles

Start by searching for the name of the article you want to create. If there is no article with that title already, it will show a red link at the top of the search results asking if you want to create that article.

Just click that red link and it will bring you to an editor where you can start typing the article. From this page you can assess two ways to create the article:

• Visual Editor – The visual editor lets you type on the page and see how it will look when the page is published. This is converted to wiki text behind the scenes. Visual Editor is recommended if you aren’t familiar with editing wikis.
• Source Editor – The source editor lets you directly type in wikitext format. For documentation on Wikitext formatting, see wikipedia:Help:Wikitext.

To switch back and forth between editors, use the pencil icon in the top-right corner.

If you get a 503 error while editing a page, just press the back button in your browser and try again. Your changes will not be lost as long as you don’t refresh the page.

Article and section naming

When creating new articles and sections, use sentence case for the title unless it is a proper noun.

e.g. Sly 2:Entity swap tutorial is correct, but Sly 2:Entity Swap Tutorial is not.

Titles like Sly 2:Jean Bison or Sly 1:Freecam Mod are fine because they are proper nouns

Namespaces

When you create a new article for something specific to a certain game, put it in the namespace for that game (either Sly 1, Sly 2, Sly 3, or Sly 4). For instance, if you are making an article for a topic in Sly 1, put the article in the Sly 1 namespace; That just means putting Sly 1: at the front of the article title.

e.g. If you create an article for the Difficulty mechanic in Sly 1, name the article Sly 1:Difficulty, not Difficulty or Difficulty (Sly 1).

Likewise, if you create an article for the Difficulty mechanic in Sly 2, name the article Sly 2:Difficulty.

If you come across an article in the wrong namespace, you can rename it by mousing over the the More menu at the top-right of the page and clicking Move.

Adding images

How to upload images

To upload images (or any other kind of file), go to the page Special:Upload or click the Upload file link in the sidebar. From there you can select a file, give it a name and description.

Image guidelines

When uploading images, please follow these guidelines:

• The preferred file type is PNG. Only upload JPEG images if the only available file is a JPEG and there is no alternative.
• For in-game screenshots, capture the screenshot at the native resolution. This can be done by setting your PCSX2 resolution to native and capturing the screenshot through PCSX2 directly.
  • If you only have a screenshot that is non-native resolution and you are unable to take a new one, you can still upload it if it is a PNG. Just put {{Replace image|Not native resolution}} in the image description and someone will eventually come along to replace it.
• Use descriptive files names, eg. Sly 1 May demo debug menu.png instead of SCREENSHOT_202207050937.PNG.

If you can improve the wiki by adding an image, please do so! When in doubt, an image will need to be replaced is better than no image if it will improve the article.

Citing Sources

You can cite sources using <ref></ref> tags. If you come across an unsourced statement needs citation, add the {{Citation needed}} tag. If you are able to replace a ^{[citation needed]} with a reliable source, please do so!

Citing websites

The preferred method of citations is to include the article title, publication name, and date published as follows:

<ref name=“sly 4 review”>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/11/17/the-sly-collection-review?amp=1 The Sly Collection Review] - IGN, 4 May 2012</ref>

The above code will add a reference to the bottom of the page that looks like this:

The Sly Collection Review - IGN, 4 May 2012

If you’re in a hurry, you can just include the URL ref tags. A citation with just a URL is better than no citation.

Citing the games

If the information you are citing is coming directly from one of the games, you can use the template {{Sly 1}}, {{Sly 2}}, {{Sly 3}}, or {{Sly 4}} in the reference. For instance:

<ref>{{Sly 1}} - Developer commentary for ''Into The Machine''</ref>

This will render as:

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - Developer commentary for Into The Machine

References section

If you use ref tags in an article, put a References section at the bottom of the page, after all the other sections but before any maintenance or navigation templates. In the source editor it should look like this:

== References ==
<references/>

This is because if you do not include the <references/> tag somewhere in the article, the references will show up at the very bottom of the page, meaning they'll be below any templates like {{stub}} or {{Navbox Sly 1}}.