Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:NoxiousSludge/Tough work ahead of us./reply (6)

Creating new pages is easy. There are several ways to do it.

Probably the quickest and easiest is to click an existing redlink -- like, say, your handle in your signature. (If you need a redlink to click, you can just code a link in a page you want to connect to your new page -- I'm pretty sure you know how to do that by now.) Anyway, clicking a redlink will immediately open an editing window where you can create the new page. At the top of that window is a dropdown where you can select from a couple dozen page types to insert a "skeleton" of an empty page (called a "boilerplate") of the appropriate type into the edit window. Then all you need to do is add the text.

Another way is to just go up into the address bar of your browser and type the URL for a non-existent page, like

(Protip: You don't need to put underscores between the words -- but you'd better make sure things are capitalized and punctuated the way you want them.)

Hit enter, and the wiki will present you with a page that says, basically, "there's nothing here -- do you want to do a search or edit this page?" Chose "edit this page" and you're at the editing window I mentioned above.

The last way is to search for the page you want to create. You'll get a page of results which leads off with a note that reads "Create the page "Nonexistent Page for Example" on this wiki!", with the pagename redlinked. Click the redlink and once again you're at that handy-dandy edit page with the boilerplate dropdown.

Note that if you want to create a trope, you need to create the page in the Trope Workshop -- but right now the automated stuff for the Workshop isn't working.

Works pages, and subpages for existing works, creators, tropes and other stuff, are free -- you can just make them without having to get a consensus first.

Hope that helps!