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Hi, and welcome to the Love Live! Wiki, a wiki dedicated to storing and naintaining all information about Love Live! This page is here to help people who are unsure how they can help expand this wiki.

There are multiple ways people can help including but not limited to:
 * Creating an account
 * Adding to articles
 * Adding pictures
 * Adding articles to a category
 * Creating/editing templates
 * Rollbacking and vandal busting
 * Translating songs
 * Formatting articles
 * Tidying up articles

All of these things are common to most anime wikis, but this page will create a guide for each of these. But before editing an articles please check out the wiki rules.

Now let's go on to how to do all the above mentioned things

Creating An Account
Some pages will only be able to be edited by registered users, so creating an account is handy (your ip also won't be on public display). You can create an account by pressing the button on the top right hand corner or by clicking this link: sign up

Adding To Articles
You can add to any article by clicking the "Edit" button next to the article's name. Once you do that it will take you to an edit page where you can add or remove information accordingly.

Some of the things you can do to add to an article:
 * write summaries for episodes
 * Add information to character pages
 * Add valid information to songs and other pages

WARNING: Do not add false or inappropriate things. Do not remove any valid information that already existed before or the might ban hammer shall smite you with the power of a thousand suns

Uploading Pictures
To upload a picture press the "Add a photo" button in the picture section or while editing an article press the add a picture button on the bar at the top or in the "add features and media box".

Adding a picture
To add a picture to an articles press the add a picture button on the bar at the top or the add features and media box while in edit mode. You can also press the add photo button at the bottom of a gallery.

Adding Articles to a Category
Categories are important on the wiki to make it easy to navigate around. You can add an article to a category by pressing the edit button then going down to the "add category" box then typing    You can find a list of categories here: Special:Categories

Note: when adding a category make sure you type it exactly the same as the category name and it is case sensitive!

Editing/Creating Templates
This is for people who know how to code templates. A list of templates can be found. To create a template just make a page called Template:. If you make a template for public use please document it. Before editing any existing templates please ask an admin.

Rollbacks and Vandal Busting
If you see any vandalism go to the edit details section on the vandalism edit and press the undo button next to the user's name. This will bring you to and undo edit page, check that no useful information is being undone then publish the edit. Next go to the Watchlist (no link yet) and follow the steps to report the user. This will alert admins to any vandals that need to be ban hammered.

Translating Songs
If you know Japanese and are willing to help translate songs, go to the song page and there should be a link to stream and listen to the song then right down lyrics and translations in the box provided below the video.

Formatting Articles
You can format articles with templates, headings and subheadings. You can add headings and subheadings while in edit mode like this:

==Size 2 example==

Size 2 example
===Size 3 example===

Size 3 example
====Size 4 example====

Size 4 example
=====Size 5 example=====

Size 5 example
======Size 6 example======

Size 6 example
Note: size one is one used in pages as titles so it is not included here

Offical Formats
Official formats are formats that should be followed on certain page types.

List of Official Formats

 * Character pages - example of this formatting can be found here: Honoka Kosaka
 * Songs - example of this formatting can be found here: Kitto_Seishun_ga_Kikoeru
 * Episode Lists (do not change the formatting of this page, just expand the table for each new episode)

Tidying Up Articles
You can do this by making sure every sentence makes sense, has proper grammar and is where it's supposed to be. Make sure everything is linked and everything is spelt right.