Pencils Wiki:How to Create a Page

This page will show how you should edit or create a page in this wiki. Please follow these rules. They will be updated as much as possible, and have all of the information you need.

Main Articles
A main article is something you read on the wiki. An example of this would be https://pencilspencils.fandom.com/wiki/Ticonderoga. Main articles have subpages, which will be explained later here. A subpage example would be https://pencilspencils.fandom.com/wiki/Ticonderoga/Pencils. This page shows the pencil boxes available from Ticonderoga.

Templates
Templates are pre-made bases ready for you to use in articles. The types vary, from notices to infoboxes to designs. This wiki mainly uses infobox templates, but we have some design templates for pencil box pages.

Infoboxes
An infobox template gives general information about the topic of the page. The infobox in Edwin Binney shows his jobs and family, while the infobox in Crayola shows an example pencil and it's price, as well as the creation information. To add an infobox into a page, simply click "insert", then "template". Search the name of the template (Pencil for a pencil brand, and Person for a person), and click on it. Click "add template", fill out all known fields, and click "insert". Your infobox is complete!

Designs
Design templates are used in lists. They can show different things, such as an image or a pencil price. More information about these can be found under the sub-article section.

Quick Description
The first part of any main page is a quick description. For people, this includes their beginnings to their company. For pencil brands, it includes the creator and the thing the brand sells (pencils or colored pencils). The quick description should not be more than three or four sentences, if it is even that long.

Pencil Brand Pages
Pages for pencil brands (such as Crayola or Ticonderoga) show information about the brand. There are different parts to these, all of which will be explained here. Please note that if a company (like Crayola) makes things other than pencils/colored pencils (like crayons), that they will not be acknowledged in this wiki.

Timeline
The first part of a pencil brand page is the timeline. There should be a heading named "Timeline". Right on the next line should be a sub-heading (1) showing a year, and what happened. An example of this is "1827-Dixon Begins Business" or "1900-Crayola Makes Pencils". After each section should be information, gathered from a website (read the website part of this for information on citing pages).

Pencil Types Page
The next heading in a page should be called "Pencil Types". The exact wording should be "You can find information about each box (Brand) sells here.", with the page name replacing "Brand". Here will be a link to the Pencil Types Page, a subpage which will be talked about more in the subpages section.

Description
If possible, provide a description. This is a quick description of the basic pencil of the brand. This could be "The Ticonderoga pencil is a yellow hexagonal pencil, which says Dixon Ticonderoga on it. It has a pink cylindrical eraser, with green metal holding it in place. The Ticonderoga pencil usually comes sharpened." It is the one piece of a page that doesn't have to be cited at the end.

Person Pages
Pages for people (like Joseph Dixon or C. Harold Smith) show information about the person. There are different parts to this, which will be explained here.

Childhood
If there is any information about the person's childhood, put it here. This can include their birth date and place, and their parents.

Adulthood
This should be a very excessive section, and should tell about the person's entire adult life relevant to pencils or colored pencils. It can also include a bit of personal information, like their partner and children, or how they met their coworker (if they have one).

Subpages
A subpage is a page that is rooted from a main article, such as Ticonderoga/Pencils. They have the same url, but with a slash before the subpage name.

Making a Subpage
To create a subpage, simply go to the top of your screen to the url. At the end, add "/Pencils" or whatever you want it to be (including the /). The only type of subpage that this wiki currently uses is Pencils Boxes, which use /Pencils. Below are instructions on how to make these.

Making a Pencil Box Subpage
These pages show different boxes sold from a brand. It helps readers to compare different pencils without having to go to amazon.

Beginning
First, you need to make a subpage using /Pencils. Create this page by using the Pencil Type template.

Pencil Type Template
This template should be added once for each pencil type. It will accept name (number), desc (description), price, and an image. If you have no image, use No_Image.png (more info about images later on this page). You can use amazon as a reference for this, and you don't need to list it in references (which will not exist at the bottom of these pages).

Images
Images are pictures used by this wiki. Below is information about them.

Uploading an Image
To upload an image go to the rounded rectangle at the top of the screen. Hover over the three dots, and click on "Add New Image". Upload the image that you created, and make sure to label your reason.

Pencil Image Names
If you took an image of a pencil, name it appropriately using the following.

Brand_Pencil or ColoredPencil_Pencil Number

Some examples of this would be:

Ticonderoga_Pencil_33892

Crayola_ColoredPencil_6840245049 If you have an image that you are using for a Pencil Boxes subpage, it must be the size of the pencil image shown below. After the classic name (above), add _Small to show that it is the correct size for these page types. These can be inserted into pencil box subpages.

Person Image Names
It is very rare if you manage to take a photo of a person on this wiki (most of them have passed, after all). If you do manage to do this, do it in the following style.

FirstName_LastName

If it is the small size, add _Small to it, as you would with pencils (although there is no current reason to make a small size).

No Images
If you have no image for something, use No_Image.png, a file that can replace a blank spot. It is small-sized, and since it exists, you are expected to use it in any pencil pages you create with it, or any pencils that you put in a pencil box subpage.