User:Echostar/Sandbox/Setting-up Guide Revision

'''Echostar Note: This is a rough idea of a new setting-up guide for the wiki, since the current one is a bit confusing. I will not propose this until it is completely finished.'''

So you've decided to join this roleplaying wiki. That's great! However, you may struggle at setting up your character. Here is a guide on what to do.

Sorting
To be sorted, go to Forum:Sorting, and take the quiz, putting yor answers in the post, with your characters name, and what year you would like to be (Don't forget you have to bold your answers!). An admin will finish sorting you, and let you know what House and year you're in.

After That
1.Create your character page.

2. Type a brief description of your character. If you have an image, feel free to add it. If you want to make an image you can use some online things to draw them for you (such as http://www.dolldivine.com/), but you may want to do it yourself. You are not limited to any certain style, for instance George Robertson's image was that of some sort of angry stick figure.

3. On the character's page put Category:Characters at the bottom, as well as a the category for character is in (e.g. Category:1st Years, Category:2nd Years, etc.). After you complete a term, DO NOT CHANGE THE CATEGORY (the category with the year). We have a bot that will automatically find and replace all year categories.

4. On Your user page, put a link to your characters page. If this is not done, we don't know what user owns what character and it makes talking to people very difficult!

5. On the bottom of your character's page, put a link to your user page, so we know who the character belongs to.

Renaming Your Character
Administrators will allow users to change their character name once and only once. Thus, before you make a formal name request, consider whether the new user name is in fact what you will want to be called weeks or months into the future.

PLEASE DO NOT RENAME THE CHARACTER YOURSELF

Creating your character box
To create a simple character box, do the following steps.

1. First, type your character's name in the below box and click create. align=left break=no prefix=Template: buttonlabel=Create Character Box

2. Copy/paste the following into your character page. Remember to remove the s and all text in them.

An example of a box would be:

A full list of things you can use to customise your box can be found here.

If you have questions on how to do this, or how to customize them further, feel free to ask User:Bond_em7 on his Talk page.

3. Once you know what you want your bubble to look like, you need to turn it into a template. To do this, create a new page called "Template:User Name", so mine is Template:Bond_em7. Copy and paste your talk bubble code into the page, and add this at the bottom:

4. Use the character box like so:

E.g. {User Name|text=George Robertson banged his head against the door. "Ow!" he yelped.|time=}}

In action:

5. If you're running an adventure in the Individual RPs forum and are using the GM template, do this: {C}

Again, if you have questions on how to create bubbles, create the template, or how to customize them further, feel free to ask Bond_em7 or Head of Ravenclaw.

Diagon Alley
Go to Diagon Alley and visit each of the places and buy things according to your list. Remember, you only need either an owl or another animal, not both.

An admin should respond to all of your things with a comment accepting it or charging you for it.