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=Links and Citations= | =Links and Citations= | ||
If you're writing a page, and you mention another topic in NSA lore, please remember to link to it. For example, if I was writing about Porkypines, I might mention that they are cousins of Baconypines. That's great! But even better would be linking to the page about [[Baconypines]]. It's not hard - just select the text you want the link to be on, and then click the "link" button in the toolbar and search for the page you want to link to. | If you're writing a page, and you mention another topic in NSA lore, please remember to link to it. For example, if I was writing about Porkypines, I might mention that they are cousins of Baconypines. That's great! But even better would be ''linking'' to the page about [[Baconypines]]. It's not hard - just select the text you want the link to be on, and then click the "link" button in the toolbar and search for the page you want to link to. Also - you can link to pages that don't exist yet. Just select the text you want the link to be on, type in the name of the page you think sHOULD exist, and press enter. The link will show up in red, indicating that the page is "wanted." This will encourage other contributors to create that page. This feature shouldn't be overused; we don't need a page about every little thing. But, if there is a topic that you think should be covered in a wiki page, you can link to its nonexistent page. [[Special:WantedPages|Here's]] a list of pages that are currently "wanted." | ||
Similarly, if you were writing a page about a person, and you mention something they did in a historic NSA event, you should cite a page to give proof of that. Citations are similar to links, but not the same. Generally, if you mention a slightly-related topic in lore, you can link to the page about it. However, if you say that an event happened or someone did something, you should cite the page that tells that story more fully, or provides additional context. | Similarly, if you were writing a page about a person, and you mention something they did in a historic NSA event, you should cite a page to give proof of that. Citations are similar to links, but not the same. Generally, if you mention a slightly-related topic in lore, you can link to the page about it. However, if you say that an event happened or someone did something, you should cite the page that tells that story more fully, or provides additional context. | ||