Sample Story Article
(This example article is protected against change. Editors can open it for editing, but they cannot save their changes. It is intended for use as a template only.
Editors creating a new article should:
- Create their new article, leaving it open for editing.
- Open this blank outline page for editing.
- Copy the contents of this page into your new article so that your new page has the same structure as other articles in this wiki.
- Fill in your new article with your content, removing template content as needed. When you are done, your new article can be saved with your changes. ZM User (talk) 08:28, 5 June 2025 (PDT)
(When you're done writing your new article, delete this line and all above it before saving it.)
Sample Story Article for Editors to Use as a Template
(Yeah, that above is your article's title line. Note that you really don't need to type in a title line, as the wiki software provides one anyway in the form of the article's file name. Thus, if you get the file name right, you don't need a title line unless you want a longer title than the file name. In this case, the file name is 'Sample Story Article'. If you're about to create a new article about other things -not a story- maybe you should use Sample Article instead as the article structures are different.)
by: Zen Master
(I wanted to put 'Author Name Goes Here' but since this is supposed to also serve as a link to the author's wiki article, it should be a valid link. Please change this to the correct author name/article name for this story.)
Synopsis: Here is where you put a quick synopsis of the story. In many cases, simply copying what the publication site has for the story's 'teaser' will do.
Location: If the story takes place in a particular place that matters, mention that here as 'inside one of London's CAP testing centers' or 'Aboard unnamed colony transport ship' or 'Aboard CNS Xerxes' or similar.
Timeline: If the story can be located on the Swarm Cycle's Timeline, note that here.
Canon Status: This may be a simple "This story defined original canon" for TH's Average Joes, or maybe "Contains no recognized canon issues". You might be adding a long essay which should start with "Numerous 'canon' issues:". Or, you might be adding a long essay which starts with "Expands 'canon' in the following ways:" Either way, start with a short TL;DR summary.
(Here we have all the assorted data about the story. Common entries include:)
Status: Available on SOL at (provide link to story on publication site).
Links: This is usually part of the 'Status' line above, but if the status is something unusual it may be helpful to use a separate line for links.
Genre: Science Fiction (usually, for the "Swarm Cycle")
Sex Contents: Some Sex (None, Some, Much, Stroke...)
Tags: Ma/Fa, etc, etc, etc
Size: ?? KB | ?? words
Posted: (Date originally published, in YYYY-MM-DD format)
(Someday this will be a navigation template. It will provide a bar across the bottom of each article with useful navigation links. Until then, this is just a placeholder to get rid of all the red "broken link" indicators. -ZM User (talk) 10:00, 3 May 2024 (PDT))
See Also
- (all the related pages you want to send readers to)
- (If you start each line with an asterisk '*' it gets displayed as a bullet list)
(Someday this will be a navigation template. It will provide a bar across the bottom of each article with useful navigation links. Until then, this is just a placeholder to get rid of all the red "broken link" indicators. -ZM User (talk) 10:00, 3 May 2024 (PDT))
The new article gets the 'Story' category and the 'Maintenance' category gets deleted
