Rules, guidelines and tips

Rules

USER CONDUCT:

All users engaging in flame wars, trolling, or any other kind of offensive behaviour will receive a ban; repeat offenders will be banned permanently.
Do not spam in an article's discussion page; such behaviour will lead to a ban; repeat offenders will be banned permanently.

ARTICLE RULES:

Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will ultimately result in a ban for repeat offenders; the entire article must be your own, though direct quotes are acceptable (so long as they don't comprise the majority of the article's content).
Articles must be of a competent level of quality, with correct punctuation, spelling, paragraphing, etc.
Pieces of lost media are only eligible for an article if they are relevant enough to warrant one, ie. they must be relatively known amongst the general public; if unsure of a potential article's eligibility, please contact a staff member.

ARTICLE GUIDELINES:

The title of your article should abide by the site's article naming convention, ie. Title of Media (status and brief description; year or time period), for example, Mickey Mouse in Vietnam (found silent animated short; 1968).
Articles should be written as factually and unbiased as possible.
Articles should be around 500 words minimum, unless information on the topic is scarce. Longer articles are perfectly fine if there is an abundance of information on the subject, just try not to include any excessive or unnecessary content.
Articles should contain references and/or external links where appropriate.
Articles should include an infobox (see the Tips section below for an example of the code used to generate one).
Articles should only contain subheadings when there is an overabundance of information available on a particular subject.
Font styles and quotation marks should be used where appropriate; bold for the first mention of an article's subject matter, italics for the title of a production (eg. an album or a TV show) and quotation marks for individual parts of said production (eg. a song or an episode).

ETIQUETTE:

Please do not edit another member's User page; doing so grievously will lead to a ban.
Please do not remove content from an article unless you have justifiable proof that said content was either incorrect or irrelevant.

EXAMPLE MEDIAWIKI CODE:

Lost media infobox:

{{InfoboxLost

|title=Sesame Street episode 847

|image=Margarethamilton-witch.jpg

|imagecaption=Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West, alongside Oscar the Grouch.

|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>

}}

Found media infobox:

{{InfoboxFound

|title=Mickey Mouse in Vietnam

|image=Mickey sarajevo.jpg

|imagecaption=Screenshot originally supplied by the Sarajevo Film Festival.

|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>

|datefound=22 Apr 2013

|foundby=[https://www.youtube.com/user/abadhiggins abadhiggins]

}}

EmbedVideo, centered, 480p:

{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBA2HpqQDcE|640x480|center|Mickey Mouse in Vietnam|frame}}

EmbedVideo, right justified, 240p:

{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBA2HpqQDcE|320x240|right|Mickey Mouse in Vietnam|frame}}

EmbedVideo, side-by-side (max 2 videos per table):

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=und9h6i6F-k|320x240|center|tapio1985's bootleg Vincent Price intro.}}

| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAbAd4QBL1s|320x240|center|Ricsie's VHSRip.}}

|}

See here for further EmbedVideo functionality.

Image gallery, packed, 120p:

File:Mickey sarajevo.jpg

File:Margarethamilton-witch.jpg

File:SnuffysParentsGetaDivorce.jpg

File:Giant vulture.jpg

</gallery>

See here for further images and galleries functionality.