User blog:ZedKiller13/Editing in the Town of Salem Wiki

This is a reference guide for those who want to engage in editing and fixing up the Town of Salem Wikia.

There are multiple factors to look forward to and some key icons to look out for, and there are parts that can be edited to add better quality to the passage or text itself, even if the quality is minor.

I will go over these factors and how to tackle them directly.

Grammar/Spelling

This specific factor is very easy to look for. When scrolling through a page, look out for red lines underneath any words. Those words are spelled incorrectly and can be easily and quickly fixed. These can become prevalent because while editing that red line does not appear and you may never know you spelled something wrong directly.

For grammar, this takes some time. When scrolling through a page, take the time to read each sentence aloud or in your head. Does it sound correct? Would it sound good on paper AND when applied to the wiki? If not, you can do either of these things:

1. Change out the wording that sounds wrong and add in the correct words or phrases to make it sound better.

2. If another article is about the same topic and has little to no differences between passages, delete the entire thing away. Please make sure to specify why you are deleting the passage, however, as us administrators may not look back through the page and see it as vandalism.

Grammar also deals with correct uses of specific apostrophes or background grammar. "Its" and "It's" are very good examples. Say the sentence aloud. "It's" stands for "it is", and if the sentence works with "it is", that's the one you've gotta use. Otherwise, "its" works for anything that can't fit with it.

Some examples:

"It's" going to be hard to lynch a as a solo  member.

Getting the truth out of someone can be hard, especially if the person you are accusing is with all "its" members alive.

See the differences? The second sentece cannot use "it's" as "Coven with all it is members alive" is poor grammar.

When looking for grammar, also make sure to look for repeating or run-on sentences, sentences without conjunctions, and poor capitalization when involving quotation marks.

Templates and Links

Templates are very fun to use and brighten up a page and provide a valuable link to that specific page at any point in time. Links, or blue-colored words, also work the same but are usually meant for pages that don't have templates for them. In Visual Editor, these are the easiest to use and almost never cause an error so long as they are managed.

In Source Editor, this is when you must be careful.

If you leave two brackets open and not closed, looking like this: [[, and they have a specific role or name to a template, the entire page can break, replacing every other bracket with an icon or role of that specific link. It's happened multiple times in the past and can get scary to work with.

Templates on the other hand are safer. Leaving two special brackets ({{) open can cause some mayhem, but if text is put inside of them usually nothing breaks.

When using templates/links, always make sure to close those ends. Visual Editor does it for you as adding {{ opens up a tab to search for the template you want to add into the page.

When editing pages, please feel free to replace any text-shown roles with templates of that role! If it is a large quantity of them, they count towards edits in Townie of the Month and spice up your mainspace count.

Infoboxes

Infoboxes are the large boxes you see on the right of pages when looking at a role. They include the avatar and all the specific role card attributes, abilities, and goals and those they must eliminate/win with. These are pretty specific but qualify as a good mainspace edit.

These boxes must be 100% relavent to the MOST RECENT VIEWING of the role card in Town of Salem itself. The attributes and abilities must both entirely match. If the ToS role card has poor grammar, add the sentence right before the poor grammar hits. (The {{Arsonist}} is one example of a poor grammar role card in-game).

Infoboxes can also have text inside be replaced with templates in order to spice them up and add a polishing touch. Some of my edits focus on those specifically. The "Must kill" section is a good start for polishing, if I haven't got to it already.

The {{Juggernaut}} is not shown as a "Must-kill" but is included because it is a solo faction that must be eliminated for the game to end, so we leave it in there.

Strategies/Updated Information

Strategies, updated information, and anything of the sort is free game for anyone. If you have a strategy of your own, feel free to include it! Make sure however before you insert it that the strategy you want is not already in the text itself or it may be removed. Text can be added to increase the size of the strategies themselves.

The game updates over time. If anything involving older updates that no longer apply is in a strategy, feel free to remove or replace that section and any further sections with updated information. This is a Wikia, after all, so we need the most accurate information available!

This completes my small guide to editing and what to look for when editing pages. Feel free to use this reference at any time.

Happy hanging!