Community:How to Edit on the Wiki

Welcome to the Polcompball Wiki! Before getting started, you should read this quick guide on how to structure a page on the wiki. Refer to Anarcho-Communism or the rest of our Featured Articles for pages that exemplify our guidelines.

Notability
In order for an article to be created about an ideology, it must be recognized, popular and familiar within the | /r/polcompball community or the scientific political community. Personal ideologies or ideologies that otherwise do not meet the criteria may only have their article created on the PolCompBall Anarchy Wiki.

For an ideology to be considered notable enough, it must fulfil one or more of these requirements:
 * 1) At least one active website that is dedicated to publishing theory about the ideology.
 * 2) A well-sourced article about it the English version of Wikipedia.
 * 3) A published piece of political theory that is academically validated and peer reviewed, or appearing in respectable mainstream publications.
 * 4) At least one publicly-accessible online community (preferably on Reddit or similar forum-based sites), with self-sustaining growth, centered around good faith discussions regarding the ideology.

If a proposed ideology does not have enough mainstream recognition or scientifically validated theory and research, and is similar to another generic or more recognizable ideology, you should not create it as its own article, but as a subpage of said ideology. Ideologies may be removed on the basis of complexity, controversy or unfamiliarity to the general reader.

While meeting any or all of these requirements might be enough to get an ideology on this wiki, removal is still up to moderator discretion, and obscure, regional, niche or personal ideologies are subject to removal or conversion into subpages of a comparatively generic and recognizable ideology.

Writing
First and foremost, write along the lines of the page structure, even if it's barebones. Something is better than nothing. Articles lacking content will be given warnings or marked for deletion.

The writing style should vary based on the seriousness of the ideology. Satirical or eccentric ideologies, such as Stransserism, may adopt the humorous writing style of TVTropes, while serious ideologies should mirror the style and conventions of Wikipedia. Articles should not be written in a condescending manner as observed in RationalWiki, or an exceedingly critical tone like that of Conservapedia.

Copying from Wikipedia or any established Wiki is strictly forbidden and will result in a warning at first and a ban at second.

When describing an ideology, you should be describing only its core ideals, and you shouldn't go too in-depth into what it believes (example: Don't write entire paragraphs on this ideology's opinion on how a migration should look). That's what the further reading section is for.

Infobox
The infobox contains a summary and an image of the ideology ball. The  template is used. All infoboxes should follow the structure of the sample infobox on the template's documentation page. Fields that do not apply to a given ideology may be left blank. When making a subpage make sure to use to use this template.

Introduction
A short beginning section, giving a quick breakdown of the political ideology (preferably with where it stands on the cultural, economic and statist axes) and a summary of its philosophy and principles.

History
The history of the ideology and its founder, if applicable, should be summarized in an easy-to-read and objective manner.

Foundations and Beliefs
This section is used to describe the ideology's core values, principles and beliefs.

Personality and Behavior
A section detailing the ideology's personality and behavior in comics. A subsection, titled Stylistic Notes, may be included to indicate common visual and behavioral differences from the ideology's canon design and personality, such as Anarcho-Communism wearing cat ears and exhibiting childish behavior.

How to Draw
In this section you should put in the information regarding the origin of the ball's design then a step-by-step guide on how to draw the ball and next to it the image of the flag or other symbol on which the ball is based on prefarably in an SVG format (if the image is not available in an SVG format, you may ask the wiki user TheGhostOfInky for a conversion). At the bottom of the section you should using the Flag-color template provide the colours of which you would need to draw the ball in the hex code, RGB and CMYK values, refer to the link on how to get each of the values.

When giving information of how to draw a ball remember that you should remember that you're giving advice on how to draw the hardest parts of the ball first as such you should condense easier steps of drawing the ball into a single one and expand on the hardest parts of drawing the ball into multiple steps. As a rule of thumb, don't be like the following meme.

Relationships
(Note: When making a subpage DO NOT add this section to the page)

A section detailing the ideology's relationships with other ideologies, usually written in the first person perspective of the ideology the page is about. The three basic categories are friends, frenemies and enemies, which may be modified or renamed to fit the ideology. All ideologies mentioned should be listed in a bulleted list and have their icon displayed to their left of their name.

Variants
A section which compiles the subpages of the ideology's page. If an ideology is considered to not have enough content to fill an entire page on, yet relevant enough to not get the Anarchy Wiki treatment it gets a subpage.

A subpage should be formatted in such a way that it is easily distinguishable from the main page as such:


 * All sections on a variant page should be first order subsections.
 * A subpage is not allowed to have the Relationships, Gallery or any sub-variant sections
 * A subpage needs to use a simplified version of the Ideology infobox called the Ideology-Variant infobox.
 * In the Further Information page the sources should be NOT be categorised.

Further Information
(Note: When making a subpage DO NOT categorize the further information)

A section offering readers further information on the ideology, with books, Wikipedia pages, YouTube videos and online communities dedicated to it. Resources should be categorized under the subsections Texts, Videos and Miscellaneous Articles (for Wikipedia articles, blogs and other short sources). Formally published and scientifically validated theory should be prioritized to short-form content.

Free content is heavily preferred owing to its ease of accessibility by the general reader. If no free and safe download of the resource is available, a link to its scientific publication or Amazon link to purchasing the text should be substituted.

Free resources may be found on: Additionally free resources can be found by searching the name of the source with the phrase "pdf" and "for free" and the like next to it.
 * The Internet Archive
 * Library Genesis
 * Z-Library
 * Google Books
 * Project Gutenberg
 * University Websites
 * The Mises Institute (Economic Liberalism, with a focus on [[File:Austrobert.png]]Austrian Economics)
 * Marxists Internet Archive (Far left politics, with a focus on [[File:Ormarxf.png]]Marxist theory)
 * The Anarchist Library ([[File:Awaj.png]]Anarchism and [[File:Prog.png]]Progressivism)
 * Online Library of Liberty ([[File:Indiv.png]]Individualism and [[File:Libertarian.png]]Libertarianism)
 * World Congress of Families Archives ([[File:Conservative.png]]Conservatism with a focus on family values)

Addition of fraudulent or malicious links to this section will result in an immediate ban from the wiki.

Gallery
(Note: When making a subpage DO NOT add this section to the page)

Finally, this section showcases popular comics and art on | r/polcompball and | r/polcompballart. Art in this section should feature the page's ideology prominently, rather than as a background detail or supporting character. A detailed guide to adding galleries through wikitext is available on the Fandom Community Wiki.

All art displayed in this section must be appropriately credited by including the title of the work and creator's Reddit profile in the caption. The original Reddit post and creator's profile must be hyperlinked, if applicable. A sample of a gallery and its source code is available below.

Categories
Don't forget to categorize the page with the appropriate categories, namely Category:Characters, the ball's quadrant, and descriptors such as the ideology's cultural position or ideological supersets. A full list of categories is available at.

Adding Icons
Visit the List of ideology icons page to learn how to add flairs and to see what flairs you can add to pages.

Ideologies mentioned in an article, even outside of the Relationships section, should have their articles hyperlinked and have their icon displayed to the left of the link.

Infobox Details
An ideology's infobox must contain its name, icon, quadrant and ideological relationships. A clear image of the ideology must be included.
 * To prevent an excessive family section, only first-degree relations (parent/child/sibling) with canon ideologies should be included. Second-degree relations (grandparent/grandchild) may be included if the relationship is significant and depicted often in comics. Unless the relative ideology has a fixed gender (such as [[File:Awaj.png]] Anarchism always being female), relations should be labeled in gender-neutral terms.

Pictures
Before you add your own picture, check if someone has already added a picture of the ideology. If they have, check if yours is of better quality than the one currently on the page; if it is, then go ahead and replace it.


 * Cover images of ideologies must abide by the quality guidelines indicated in this tutorial (Original Reddit post). Low-quality or rule-breaking images may result in the article's removal.
 * Cover images should depict the ideologyball against a white or transparent background. Detailed backgrounds, such as this, make for good comic panels, but obscure the ball's appearance.
 * The ideologyball may be given relevant accessories and placed in a pose, as long as the accessories and pose do not obscure the main motif of its flag. This image is a good example of an accessorized ball whose design remains clearly visible.

Redirects
If an ideology has an alternative name or acronym, a redirect page should be created to allow readers to search for the page more easily. Redirect names should follow the naming conventions of regular pages.

Visual Editor
 * 1) Create a page with the alternate name
 * 2) Click on the 3 bar icon on visual editor
 * 3) Choose "Options"
 * 4) Click the box next to the "Redirect page to" text
 * 5) Put the name of the page of the ideology there.

Source Editor
 * 1) Create a page with the alternate name
 * 2) Insert   in the editing interface.