User:Xando/New User Information

Welcome!
If you are reading this, you are presumably a new editor who is wanting to help out around this fancy ol' place! If that's the case, then hopefully this guide helps to orient you in your new journey.

The interface
In case you haven't noticed, all of the buttons and pages and stuff here is kinda confusing, as it was for most people who joined. Here are some of the most important features.

Recent Changes
The recent changes page is one of the most important features on the wiki. It shows the most recent edits from whatever time frame you choose. It helps you know what's going on in the wiki, and also lets you know if someone did something malicious to a page.

Signing
On talk pages, people can add questions and suggestions pertaining to the article. Although you may see some people with fancier signatures, they aren't necessary for editing. In some time, though, you'll learn about files and you can add them yourself! Here's some more information: Inkipedia:Policy/Signatures.

User Pages, Subpages, and Files!
At the top of this page, you can see a button, that when clicked sends you to my userpage! Cool, huh? (The button, not my page). If you'd like to create your own page, click in your name in the top right corner, and hit User Page. After that, type in some information about yourself! After that, check out your talk page, where someone (hopefully) (probably named Ratch) welcomed you! If not, it's nothing terrible, as you're reading this now!

Your userpage
As you might have seen, a lot of people have different userpgaes. You can create yours and make it how you want it to be (as long as it doesn't break policy)! They're straightforward to make once you learn about templates and images while editing the wiki. You can also look at user pages and base yours on theirs.

User images and subpages
Now, let's talk about user images and subpages. You may have seen some stuff going on around here recently about the user image and subpage policy, and we're just getting some kinks worked out from the system. A person can create subpages most easily by typing User:/[wherever the page is called] into the search box. People usually make these pages to test out things like tables for weapon pages or write down a draft of a page they'd like to write. Sometimes though, people right down stories and put up pictures of their character in Splatoon, although there's nothing wrong with that somewhere else, we don't really want it here on our site. Please take this into consideration when making a subpage.