User:Kiwismurf/sandbox/EasyPageBuilding

Step by Step guide to creating a new Character Page
Tutorial written for User:GTAFan86

Outline
This guide is targeted at the specific task of creating pages for minor characters with Lifeinvader profiles in Grand Theft Auto V but the process can be followed for just about any new page.

While there are many ways to create new pages, this guide will focus on one method, just to avoid confusion.

Step 1: Template
Decide what you want your new page to look like.

Find a similar page. In this example, we will use Sacha Yetarian.

This will be your template for each new page.

Click the Edit button to edit the page. You will note that the page can only be edited in the Source Editor.

Select all the text in the source code window and copy it (CTRL+C or right-click>Copy)



Close the source page (don't save any changes).

Step 2: Create a Link
Create a new link to your new page title. It will be a "redlink" as the page does not exist yet. In this case, we will convert an un-linked name on the Lifeinvader table to a link.

Edit the section. Add the square brackets around the name to make it a link. Publish the page.

Step 3: Use the Link
Click the new redlink.

Fandom will prompt you to Add New Page. Select the "Blank Page" option and click next.

Step 4: Add the copied content to the page
Because our template page was only editable in "Source mode", we will need to switch to "Source mode" in our new page too: Now we can paste in our copied Sacha Yetarian page content.



Step 5: Change the copied data to your new character
Now we can start editing in our new character details.

Make sure to remember to add your categories and remove any interwiki links that applied to the source (Sacha) page, and you are ready to preview and hit Publish

Summary
You can now repeat from Step 1 for the next character in the table.