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{{Wiki essay}}
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Welcome, aspiring editor! This work-in-progress guide will hopefully help you get your bearings on the wiki.
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==Policy==
===Be bold===
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If you have an idea for an edit or page, but you're not sure whether others will like it, just do it! Everyone can easily bring a page back to a previous version, so it's impossible to permanently "ruin" anything. [[mw:Help:Patrolling|Patrolling]] ensures that every edit will be inspected by at least one other person.
===Be messy===
{{Hatnote|See also [https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/MSPA_Wiki:Sloppy_is_fine the MS Paint Adventures Wiki policy] and the talk page for this article.}}
An unfinished or messy page is infinitely better than no page at all. Even if you never come back to it, [[Special:AncientPages|someone else surely will]].<ref group="lower-alpha">Heck, this very guide started as barely more than an outline!</ref> Slap a <code><nowiki>{{Needs work}}</nowiki></code> template on top and let others work their magic.
(But as a corollary, do make the page however good you can, so that others can work off of it as easily as possible.)
===Notability===
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If you cite anything, please [[Project:Citing sources#Archiving sources|archive it]]! Links to Discord uploads are temporary, and so must be archived.
===Details and organization===
There are some useful rules of thumb for coming up with details to include, and deciding how to organize them.
*'''{{w|Inverted pyramid (journalism)|Inverted pyramid}} style:''' Give important info and "conclusions" first. For example, explain common [[style]]s and prototypical usages before [[:Category:Experimental sections|experiments]].
*'''{{w|Five Ws}} (and H):''' The details "who, what, when, where, why, how" are important background information. If these are missing, you can tag the sentence with <code><nowiki>{{wh|</nowiki>''who?''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> or similar.
*'''Follow established layouts:''' You can check articles on similar topics to see how they're laid out and what details they tend to include. (Not a hard rule; some articles do call for unique section headings.)
*'''No {{w|Project:Manual of Style/Trivia sections|trivia sections}}.''' This has a few prongs:
**Put new facts in relevant sections. The lead section counts! If no section fits yet, you can add one—just make it specific. The heading can be any {{w|noun phrase}}, after all.
**No lists of miscellaneous information. These grow rampant and disorganized into [//tvtropes.org/Administrivia/ThreadMode walls of contradictory points], where even general info becomes impossible for the reader to find.
**Something literally {{wikt|trivial}} ("of little value") need not be on a wiki. (But many "trivia" points sell themselves short, and would be useful if better placed!)
===Red links are not bad===
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==Notes==
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