One Piece Wiki:FAQ

What is One Piece Encyclopedia
The One Piece Encyclopedia is a vast array of informative pages detailing the characters, media and story behind the One Piece universe. Contributed by volunteers from the large community, we strive to be as accurate and fair as possible to provide the best quality source of free information for those aiming to learn more about the One Piece world.

Who owns One Piece Encyclopedia?
As mentioned above, no one person, group or corporation owns the One Piece Encyclopedia, as it is a dedicated site driven by the community. Nobody here is paid for their work, the One Piece Encyclopedia is completely volunteer based.

Who is Kayuza?
He's a founder of One Piece Encyclopedia but he was a man of mysteries. In Feburary 2006, he started this site, he made one edit that was suppose to move the main page, after that he disappeared. He left no rules, he does not set up any site foundation, he does not create any starting pages, all rules he was suppose to make was set by other One Piece Encyclopedians. 9 month later he came back, but instead of congratulating the editors, he started banning people unfairly, claiming that we add information to his set without his permission and banned one member disliking something he likes, he was proved to be a bossy type who thought this wikia was his but it took a Wikia Staffer to restore order and told him that this site belongs to the whole community. He apologized for his rude behavior and set up his page. Later Justyn banned him for 1 month, however Kayuza disappeared again and his action still does not explain why he found this site, however his behavior strongly suggested that he thought a Wikia site he created was his. Why he founded this site and the story of his origin of interest remains a mystery.

Who is responsible to edit this Wikia?
Anyone is welcome to edit this page but be sure to follow the rules of vandalism.

What can I do if I needed help?
There is an Help page. A link is available on the left menu (below Recent Changes link).

It is also possible to look at Wikipedia Wikipedia Help page or Wikipedia own FAQ

Where can I find the fansub site
There is a list of main One Piece Sites in the Main Page

Can I use content from other sites here?
Cf Wikia - reguarding other Sites

What should I know before making some edit?
The following pages provides the rules that apply to the wiki :
 * What One Piece Wikia is and not
 * Treatment of Vandalism
 * Spoiler Rules
 * Canon policy
 * Japanese Vs English names
 * Copyrights

The following pages are worth to read for good editing :
 * Referencing Information
 * Speculations
 * Editing Advice
 * Discussions
 * Name Spellings
 * Mythbusters

I don't know wiki syntax, what shall I do
Here are some help pages provided by the Wikia center:
 * Introduction
 * Tutorial 1

One can also look at Wikipedia which provides a guide to learn Wiki syntax

The Table tutorial is also usefull.

The wiki provides an editor, why should I lose time learning wiki syntax
Using Wiki Rich editor is a bad habit, it contains bugs but must of all it is not efficient. Learning the basic of editing (links, chapter, list...) will make your editing 10 times faster.

I'm convinced, but how do I get rid of the editor
In your User preferences (in the User menu, at the top of the page, click on More/Preferences), in the Editing section, uncheck Enable Rich Text Editing.

What is the difference between red, blue and light blue links?

 * Red Links are links to articles who do not exist yet, they shall be avoided. When the article is created they become blue links
 * Light Blue links are link to an existing article
 * Blue links are article one has already navigate to

Where can I discuss pages?
Every page has a Talk page which one access thanks to the Discussion link at the top of the article

It is also possible to access the Talk page by adding the prefix Talk: to the URL article

Ex : Zoro article URL http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Zoro, Zoro talk page article http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Zoro

Somebody reverted my edits, what should I do?
Edit War are a loss of time and prevent the article to be improved, they shall be avoid at all cost. Discussion and respect of the others edits are the best ways to prevent them.

Undo can be made by going to the History section of the article, and selecting undo at the end of the edit one want to revert.

When one undo an edit, one shall give the reason in the Summary section (at the bottom of the Edit box)

If this has been done and you disagree, you can undo the undo (do not forget to motivate your point of view). After this point, one shall not undo anymore and a discussion topic as to be started (Cf Talk Page question). In the article's Talk page, start a new paragraph with an explicit title, resume the different point of view and explain yours. Then add a section to the Users talk page who are involved in the edit war so that they can be aware a discussion has been started.

What is a minor edit?
A minor edit, is a correction which does not provide much information to the article (main exemple are typo correction). They are created by checking the Minor Edit box at the bottom of the Edit Box. They will be noticed with a m suffix in the History section of the article.

How do I create a page

 * If the page corresponds to a red link, click on it. An Edit box will appear. Once the page is saved, the page is created and the red link become blue
 * If the page does not exist, Click on the Create new article (in the main menu on the left) or change your URL to http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/ where  is the title of the page you want to create

How do I delete a page
It is not possible to delete a page without admin right.

However you can suggest to delete the page by adding the Delete template  (Warning : suppressing the page content and adding the template can be considered as Vandalism), or by starting a new section in the dedicated article Vote for Delation. In all cases, deleting a page shall be discussed by the Wiki community

How do I redirect a page
It is possible to redirect a page by using the #REDIRECT option.

For Ex to redirect Mr. 0 page to Crocodile page, Mr.0 ones only contains #Redirect Crocodile. When one clicks to a Mr. 0 link, one is directed towards Crocodile page with the Redirected from Mr. 0 mention.

It is also possible to redirect a page by using the Move option in the article menu.

Why are Redirect pages needed?
Redirect pages are usefull because they allow to keep the validity of the links without having redundant articles. In our former example, if only Crocodile page is kept, all links refering to him as Mr. 0 would be lost, however it would be stupid to have a Mr. 0 dedicated article since it is the same character.

Redirect are of particular importance wrt the Name Spellings issue.

How do I insert an image into a page
One insert an image by adding a link to the Image page like for every other link (ie by enclosing the Image page title between double brakets). For example to insert Luffy's character box image to an article add or

Note : The size of the image is essential for the article layout. To control it, you can add options to your image link :
 * Thumb option ( Luffy.png ) : The image appears in a smaller size at the right of the page
 * Right option ( Luffy.png ) : The image is justified on the right
 * Left option ( Luffy.png ) : The image is justified on the left
 * Size option ( Luffy.png ) : The image size will be  pixels in size, the wiki's standard is 200px

Several options can be entered at the same time, they just have to be separated by a |

The image I want to insert does not exist yet
First you have to check that a similar image REALLY does not exist, by making an Advanced search (In the search page, in the Advanced search box at the bottom of the page, uncheck Main and check File, then enter your keyword and start the search)

If the search is unsuccessfull, you have to upload the image into the wiki (ie create the image page). This can be down by selecting the Upload a new image link on the left main menu or by clicking to the Add picture icon in the Edit box of an article. In the first case you will have to add the link manually in your article, while in the second case it will be done directly.

How do I upload an image?
Cf Above

How do I link to images?
Cf Above

How do I sign my name at the end of my posts?
There is a special sequence to help you sign your posts : ~

Note that signing your posts is compulsary in the Users and Articles Talk pages

How do I create a template?
Cf Help:Templates

Meta Wiki Help Page provides examples of templates but it is best to know the basics before reading it.

How do I use a template?
Simply add the Template name between two double braces

Ex to add the Template:Pirates, add where you want the template to appear

How do I know which Template are used in a page ?
First open the article in Edit mode, the templates used are shown below the Edit section at the bottom of the page



All the templates are shown, ie if a template uses sub-templates, main and sub ones are displayed.

Is there some Template I shall know about ?
The wiki contains a high number of templates, here are a few ones which are good to know

Special Templates
 

The template   "clears" both margins; it is often used before a header to make sure that the header will be the full width of the page. If you edit this section, you will see that it has been used to separate this paragraph from the image, without it the article would appear like this :

 | 

The template | is a special template which only contains the character |. Since | is a special character to indicate the value of a parameter, this template allows to use it without its special behaviour.

The most common use is when a table (which contains | by design) is entered as a parameter or when one uses Parser functions Cf meta wiki help for examples.

Information templates

 *   adds a comment to indicate that the article needs to be extended
 *   adds a comment to indicate that the article is candidate for delation
 *   adds a comment to indicate that the article needs more References

Others
  can be used to insert the Beli sign :

How do I create my userpage?
Your User page is automatically created once you have an account.

It is accessible by cliking to your Alias in the top main menu.

How do I make a subpage for my userpage?
If you want to make draft article, it is usefull to create a user subpage rather than creating a new article.

To do it create a page with User:/ as a prefix.

For example to create the Sandbox subpage for User Toto, go to URL http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/User:Toto/Sandbox

Warning : There is no automatic link to Subpage, so to remember them, create a link toward them in your User page

How do I change my Preferences
Your account preferences are accessible from the top main menu which also contains link to your User page.

The most important preferences are :
 * The Watchlist section. The Watchlist is the list of the articles from which you will receive an E-mail each time they are modified
 * Editing section. Enable Rich Text Editing option will provide you with a wiki editor, also it is more easy for the beginner, it is worth to learn how to write article using the Wiki syntax as it is much more powerfull

Where can I make test edits?
The best way is to create a Sandbox Subpage Sandbox.

Where do I find recent changes ?
There is a Recent Changes link in the left main menu which directs toward a page containing the last Wiki edits. It is a good habit to check it regularly as it reveals what is happening to the wiki (Cf Help:Recent changes for more info).

In particular it can help showing :
 * Vandalism (when a page as a significant red number next to it, something abnormal happened that shall be checked)
 * Edit war (when a page as an abnormal number of modification, it is often an edit war)
 * Talk page discussion and eventually voting requests