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Creating subpages

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Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

I know you were having trouble creating subpages in their proper location. Here's a quick primer.

There are three ways of creating a subpage. Let's say you want to create a subpage to Star Wars/Characters for an obscure fellow by the name of Freddy the Jedi. Here's how you could go about it.

Number one:

The simplest is to go to Star Wars/Characters and then add a slash and the name of the new page to the URL in your browser's address bar:

You don't need to do anything fancy like add underlines in place of spaces or turn extended characters into special codes -- just type a slash and the name, then hit enter.

Number two:

Every work page has a line of buttons across the top, and one of them is "Create New". Click that button, then go to the very bottom of the menu that opens, where there is a prompt for you to type in a custom page name. That prompt holds just the work page's name, so to create your subpage for Star Wars/Characters you'll have to type in "/Characters/Freddy the Jedi" as has been done in the picture to the right, and click the "Go" button.

Number three:

The third way to create a subpage is to go to the Page Creator (which can be found in the menu along the left edge of the page under "Troping Utilities", or you can click the link I just embedded here). On that page are four text boxes with buttons next to them. Go the first one (the one with the button reading "Create new page"), and enter the full name of the page name you want to create there:

Then click the button.

In all three cases this will open the page editor with the boilerplate dropdown. You probably know this part already, since you've been creating pages, but here you pick the page type from that dropdown -- in this case, it would be a Characters page, the boilerplate for which is about three-quarters of the way down the list.

I hope that helps. I'm still not sure what you meant by "link bars" which caused you problems, but it really isn't very hard to put a subpage in the proper place.

If you have any questions, either answer here or drop a note on my talk page.

-- Looney Toons

SmileyB (talkcontribs)

Thank you much. I appreciate it.

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

You're welcome. I did give one bad piece of information in there -- the first method doesn't open up the page editor. Instead you'll get a page that says "There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or create this page." The phrase "create this page" is a link to the page editor; click that to open it up.

Robkelk (talkcontribs)

Hello again,

I see that you have created two characters subpages for My Hero Academia, but you didn't include the boilerplates in these pages - or, if you did, you deleted essential sections of the boilerplates.

I'll add the boilerplates for you. This will take a while - it would have been much easier if they were included to begin with.

In the future, please follow the steps that @Looney Toons provided above., so that we don't need to go in and do by hand what should be an automated process.

SmileyB (talkcontribs)

I thought I did. I used that text bar under the create page button. Isn't that the boilerplate?

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

If the boilerplate is there, it will be very obvious, both before you save and after. If before you add anything, there's nothing in the editor, you've forgotten the boilerplate. If after you save you're missing the buttons across the top of the page, the box of categories at the bottom, or both, you've forgotten the boilerplate.

Whenever you create a subpage, you need to select the boilerplate manually before you start adding new material. I mentioned that above, and I will quote what I said there:

In all three cases this will open the page editor with the boilerplate dropdown. You probably know this part already, since you've been creating pages, but here you pick the page type from that dropdown

The boilerplate dropdown isn't hard to find. It's inside a box with the title "Select boilerplate" at the top of the page, above the edit box proper; there's a big "Load" button next to it. You can see a picture of it on All The Tropes:Page Templates. Any time you're creating a page, that's there -- even if there's a prepopulated boilerplate.

Robkelk (talkcontribs)

One sure sign that a boilerplate has been loaded is that the edit box has some categories entered into it. If you have an empty edit box, then you've found one of the ways to create a page that doesn't automatically load a boilerplate (there are more of those on the wiki than I like!) and you'll need to load a boilerplate from the menu at the top of the create-page page.