Daniel Larson Wiki:Editor's Guide

Welcome to the Daniel Larson Wiki! If you are viewing this page, you are likely interested in becoming or are currently an editor. That's awesome, and the wiki can't thank you enough!

Editors are the backbone of this wiki and every edit is appreciated as it makes this wiki better. On this page, general rules will be outlined as well as some tips and tricks.

General Rules/Suggestions

These are general editing rules everyone should keep in mind as well as the site rules.

Bias

Try to keep your edits unbiased.
A lot of topics about Daniel are heavily debated with arguments going both ways. The wiki is not here to pick a side but to do its best presenting both sides neutrally.
Use words like "This is highly debated in the community" and "some people think" with references if you can. The opinion of the editor should never be clear.

Details

The more details, the better. Try to account for readability, though.
We really can't have enough details about incidents that happen. Add as much as you can, full transcripts, descriptions, comments, etc are encouraged. In 5 years, people should be able to reference things and get a full picture of what happened.
This rule applies to Daniel, and Daniel only. Not his family, friends, or the professionals trying to help him. They have pages, and are involved in incidents, but should not have their lives dug into.

NSFW

Daniel has been involved with a lot of NSFW videos. They should be documented here, BUT NEVER UPLOADED OR EMBEDDED!
Link to the video where it is hosted, preferably on Archive.org.

Slurs and Cursing

Cursing can be included in articles
Slurs (E.G. the N-word, R-word) are not to be included in any articles.

New Pages

You are more than welcome to create new pages but first ask you self these questions:

Is there enough content for new page?
1. For example: Daniel posting a single TikTok that's only a slide show and background music is probably enough content for half a sentence and should not have its own page. Feel free to add it to the Timeline though!
Is the content that I am thinking of making a new page for better fit on another page?
1. This can be hard to figure out, so use your best judgement. If a certain incident happened during an arc it's probably better to add it as a heading inside the arc page instead of a new page on it's own. Then once more information is added / found a new page can be created if it's needed.
Does the page already exist?
1. Check Alternative titles for the page you are thinking of creating
2. Make general searches for the content you have to see if it is already referenced elsewhere

Page Titles

Once you have answered the questions above and you know you need to make a new page, you are ready to move forward. Here are the rules for page titles:

Capitalized following APA title capitalization rules!
1. For an easy tool check out this website: https://capitalizemytitle.com/style/APA/
Descriptive
1. Titles should be concise but also descriptive. it's encouraged to add "Incident" to the end of titles or include the year / month when appropriate (eg: Denver Coflax Marathon 2022 )

Creation

To Create the page simply search for the title that you want the page for be and select the red text inside the "Create the page "Example" on this wiki!" prompt.

Editing a Page

One of the main activities that editors do is edit the pages found here on the wiki. If you have ever used word / google docs before you can probably figure out the main editor that wiki uses. To edit a page, go to the page that you wish to edit and select the "Edit" button in the top right of the page.

Part of being a good editor is accepting that your content will and should be edited by others. Please correct any mistakes, add content, reformat, anything that you see on this wiki. Including this page!'

References

References are vital as it is the proof to what you are writing about. Embedded videos are probably the best proof you can get but at the very least you can use a <ref> tag

Headings

Use them! Headings are a good way to break up content and make things easier to read. Check out the Chris Chan wiki as well as just wikipedia for good examples.

Media

Pictures and Videos are highly encouraged. Pictures can be uploaded to this wiki however videos are generally frowned upon as they take a lot of storage (aka money) to host. This site generally favors hosted videos on Archive.org.

How to Embed Videos

Switch to the source editor by going to the pencil icon and selecting "Source editing" and paste the following

{{#evt:
service=youtube
|id=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<videoId>
}}

Youtube tags are only for temporary uses. All videos need archival in case they are taken down. You can download Youtube videos using 4K Video Downloader.

<youtube></youtube>

For Archive.org videos, change the service to "archiveorg". The ID just be what is found in the url after /details/. More information about this extension can be found here

Amboxes

Ambox stands for Article Message box, which is a metatemplate. They are pre-set messages used in articles to clarify the or to give disclaimers for the contents of any articles.

These are all current amboxes on the wiki, and are to be sorted at the top of the article in the order presented. If you are unsure that an ambox is to be put on a page, ask in the discussion page. If you want another ambox to be created and are unsure if it should be made, ask in the ambox discussion page.