CotH-Wiki:Featured articles/Updating
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Jump to navigationJump to searchUpdating the template with new entries
Just a simple, step-by-step guide explaining how to update this template.
- Identify a character profile to feature
- The easiest way to do this is to go to the Character images category
- All featured articles should have an image
- Using existing featured profiles as a template, write up the summary
- Update the image reference; you may need to resize
- Include an introduction to the character (usually the first portion of the history)
- Ensure that the first mention of the character's name links to the article
- When applicable, the first mention should use the character's full name
- Introduction should be approximately 750 characters
- Change the more link so that it references the character's article
- Ensure that the profile looks good by clicking the Show preview button
- If so, save your changes
- Add the character to the template
- Each entry is prefaced in the template with |#= where # is the week that it will be displayed
- Make sure that you do not have duplicate weeks
- You cannot preview what it looks like until that week, which is why it is originally added to the Featured articles page
- Edit the character article to include the Featured article template, preferably at the bottom of the page
- If desired, leave a comment in the Discussion identifying its new status as a featured article
Archiving old templates
Each year the old template is archived, and the template should reset with new entries.
- Go to the Featured articles page
- Copy the entire contents found after Featured character profile
- Click any link in the archive box found at the top of the page
- In your browser's address field, update the year
- For example CotH-Wiki:Featured articles/Archive2012 can be changed to CotH-Wiki:Featured articles/Archive2048
- This is a simple method of creating a new page
- Paste the profiles copied from the Featured articles page
- Edit the Featured articles page archive box to include a link to the new archived page
- Blank out the contents of the Featured articles template and start over for the new year