Smallville Wiki:Community Portal
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[edit] New Editors
Creating a username and password is strongly encouraged. Logged-in users can upload images and rename pages. A Userpage is a space on the site for editors to tell the community about themselves, and the User Talk page allows editors to receive messages from others. Everybody's opinion is valued. All editors are encouraged to use the Talk pages for any concerns and participate in community discussions.
General questions or comments can be left here or on the Main talk page. News pertaining to the site can be found on the Current events page.
[edit] Article ratings
The new wiki skins allow visitors to rate articles according to quality with a five-star rating system, located at the bottom of the page. Please remember to rate the articles you edit or visit so that a list of the highest-quality articles can be generated.
[edit] Wiki Maintenance
As the wiki gets older and bigger, many pages need to be renamed or moved to meet the conventions of online wiki encyclopedias. You can read more about these guidelines in the Wikipedia Manual of Syle. After the pages are moved, please fix redirects and links from other pages. This is also resulting in hundreds of minor edits as redirects are changed. Users can filter these minor edits out on their Recent Changes pages to only reflect significant edits if they wish.
This list of examples is incomplete. Please add any that need to be worked on.
- Moving Cleanup - Links to redirects need to be removed after an article is moved.
- Thumbnail/Poor quality images- Some images are 150 px or smaller thumbnail sizes, resulting in poor quality and limited use. These images need to be replaced by larger, better-quality, (but similar images). Logged-in users can upload a new image over the old filename, and avoid having to change links on pages which the image appears. Alternately, they can upload the new image as a different file, change page links, then mark the old image to be deleted.
- Unused Images - There are several dozen unused images stored on the wiki. Users please find a home for these images and place delete tags on poor-quality or unused images so an admin can delete them.
- Requested Images - Please upload an image of newspaper from Visitor of Helen Bryce holding a copy of the Metropolis Inquisitor with the headline: "Gold-Digging Doc Bags Billionaire Baldie!" Also an image of the Veritas Society keys is needed.
[edit] Green text
Throughout the wiki, green text is used to differentiate plot summary that happens in a dream sequence, flashback, or alternate reality, a device frequently used on the show. If the majority of users are opposed to this, the practice will be abandoned. Please do not remove the green text code on a page, but contribute an opinion here so the community can come to a consensus and maintain conformity among pages. See a few examples on pages for Scare, Relic, Slumber, Labyrinth, and Lexmas. Since this issue concerns readers moreso than editors, anonymous comments are welcome.
- Support- I think the text is useful for when the dream-sequence action is interspersed with "real life" action. Green is the best color because most people's links are blue. (and I think it's creative.) The exception being Noir, because all the alternate-reality stuff is contained in one sequence. Marikology 06:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
- Ambivalent - When I first saw the green text, I was a bit confused. I would prefer just italics or something... but I'm fine with the green text. I figured it out soon enough :-) --Kanamekun 04:00, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- Support - I have been thinking about this some more, and I think any confusion by readers might be resolved by explaining what the green text means at the top of the Recap. For example, The green text below indicates flashbacks or The green text below indicates a dream sequence. --Kanamekun 16:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Kara's Krypton Chronicles
The CW has released several animated mobisodes (cell phone videos) detailing Kara's life before the destruction of Kryton. The plot summaries for these would be a great addition to Kara Kent's page.
[edit] Stubs
- Check the stubs page to see what articles need additions. Some signficant stubs that could use work and additions include:
[edit] Episode Pages
Each episode of the show has an individual page, but no page is ever "done." Copy-editing and addition of new details are always welcome. Some helpful hints:
- Check out a finished page to make sure you have the correct format. Copy/Paste the templates from other pages.
- Visit the Screencaps page for a tutorial and screencap tips.
- Airdates and production codes can be found on many tv websites, such as TV.com.
- You don't have to credit any info you can get just from watching the episode, like music or guest stars. Please do not to copy recaps from other places (such as Wikipedia or TV.com), but if you do, don't forget to credit the page. But try writing your own. Don't worry if you're not a good writer- someone will come and fix it.
- More details about episode page conventions can be found on the List of Policies page.
[edit] Seasons
- All episodes for Seasons 1-3 have complete episode pages, but improvements can always be made.
- Season 4 have complete episode pages, but some episodes have recaps copied from TV.com and need to be replaced with originals: Onyx, Forever, Recruit and Sacred.
- Many of Season 5's pages have recaps copied from TV.com: Lockdown, Solitude, Void, and Vessel. Feel free to write an original recap for any of these pages. These pages might also need additional details or screencaps.
- In Season 6, Combat needs an original recap.
[edit] Pages needing images
Images greatly help improve an article. There are a few articles that could benefit from images to break up a large amount of text and make them easier and more interesting to read. Many articles can use images already stored on the wiki, or users can upload additional ones. This is also a great use for unused images.
- Main Street
- List of Policies
- Whitney Fordman
- Near-death experiences character pages
- Alien
[edit] Image Uploads
The pictures on the Wiki are categorized by season. The screencaps are listed on the category pages in order of episode airdate. To prevent duplicate images, please view the category page to double-check to see if your screencap has already been uploaded. When you upload an image, please include the category, including the season and episode number, on the image description page.
For example, if you are uploading an image from Fever, it is the 16th episode of Season 2, so your category would look like this:
[[Category:Screencaps Season 2|216]]
Please read the Screencaps page for more details.
