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This page, Improving Pages, discusses an official policy of Wikiality.com. We treat it like we would treat a decree from Our Glorious Stephen himself. Because it is so rich in gut-issued, truth-filled wikiality, this policy on Improving Pages has wide acceptance among members of Wikiality.com and is considered a standard that all users should follow. By following these standards, we are working to create a reality where each user's truthiness reflects the truthiness of Stephen.

CAUTION
Like Iraq, this page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
And also, like Iraq, may always be under construction.
Thank you for your patience, and children.

[edit] Truthiness & Wikiality

• Tube lacking focus / direction?

• Tube is too reality-based?

• Tube is too random?

• Tube needs a point of view?

• Tube has too many memes, cliches, and moldy humor?

• Tube copied from external tube?

• Tube is said to have non Colbert-centric content?

• Tube covers too many ideas?

• Tube introduced idea and dropped/forget idea?

• Tube introduced character and dropped/forgot about character?

[edit] Beauty / Formatting

[edit] Beauty

[edit] Excessive font games

Suggestions:

• Avoid excessive use of bold, underlining, and ALL CAPS by substituting them for moderate punctuation

[edit] Page has too many tags

Suggestions:

• Try to regulate the use of the more overused templates (i.e. Template:American, Template:Commie, Template:Terrorist, Template:Touched) for those templates which see less use.

[edit] Page has no links to other pages

Suggestions:

• Search Wikiality for any people, places, and things mentioned in article
• Most politicians, news personalities, some celebrities and corporations will have their own articles

[edit] Page has too many red links

Suggestions:

• Check the spelling, word usage, and case sensitivity of the link
• Follow the link and create a "stub" page
• Link to similar article topic with a slightly different name (See: Redirect)
• Remove the link altogether

[edit] Format

[edit] Page needs a table or list

Suggestions:

• Use Wikifetish Info Tables to organize information about States, Cities, Kingdoms, Provinces, Words, Networks, and People

[edit] Page contains one giant, solid block of words

Suggestions:

• Add paragraph breaks at the end of each thought/topic
• Make paragraphs of a reasonable length, if not shorter. Most readers just skim so break them in two if you must. See, this is short and you read it.

[edit] Page has no sections

Suggestions:

• Add standardized sections such as:

1. Also See: (or See Also)
2. External links
3. Trivia (or Fracts, Factoids)

[edit] Page has no category(ies)

Suggestions:

• Articles with little content should feature the {{stub}} template. The {{welcome}} template can also be used to invite other contributors.
• Articles currently under construction can be tagged to caution other users against editing (See: Under Construction Templates)
• For other templates, see: Category:Template

[edit] Page is too listy

Suggestions:

[edit] Images

[edit] Little or no Images

Suggestions:

• Search through some of the many unused images
• Search through the full list of already uploaded images
• Search the internets for images related to your article.
• Try using image manipulation/editing to add another dimension to your content

Useful image editing software: endorsement disclaimer?

1. GIMP
2. Adobe Photoshop
3. Jasc Paint Shop Pro

[edit] Image not sourced

Suggestions:
(All image copyright templates and image source URls can be added to the "Summary" section on the upload page or the edit tube for that image after the uploading)

• Cite the source of the image (i.e. Source: [1])
• Always include the for parody use only template: {{fpuo}}
• If image is from...

C-SPAN, use: {{Cspan}}

Google Map, use: {{Googlemap}}

Comedy Central/MTV, use: {{viacom}}

Wonkyear.com, use: {{Wonky}}

[edit] Images too dark

Suggestions:

• Go to the image's file page. Click "Upload a new version of this file" and upload lightened version of image.

[edit] Images "look" off page

Suggestions:

• Realign some images left or right: [[Image:MommieJoan.jpg|right]].

[edit] Images too big/too small

Suggestions:

• Resize the image (See: Changing The Size of the Image)
• Make the image a thumbnail (See: Adding A Caption)
• Go to the image's file page. Click "Upload a new version of this file" and upload larger/smaller version of image.

[edit] Images are stacked

Suggestions:

• Realign some images left or right: [[Image:MommieJoan.jpg|right]] and place in sections where they might best correspond with content.
• When images are in a series or are otherwise related, consider using the image gallery tag.

like so:

<gallery>

Image:MommieJoan.jpg
Image:MommieJoan.jpg
Image:MommieJoan.jpg

</gallery>

[edit] Images have no captions

Suggestions:

• Briefly narrate the picture with the main article's voice
• Add factoid concerning person(s), place or thing(s) depicted
• (See: Write A Caption)

[edit] Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar

Suggestions:

• see: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar