User:Soika/Guide to editing List of Micronations

Welcome! If you're reading here I'm guessing that you're either only just adding your nation to this page, or you are in fact starting your own country. Either way, it's an exciting time, I know, but you can't let this excitement throw you off and rashly edit this page, as it's previous incarnations have suffered greatly because of this.

PLEASE NOTE: This guide uses the Classical Editor as it is much easier for editing source code on, if there comes such a time where Classical Editor is no longer usable then this will be updated to fit that situation.

On the table, your nation should end up looking like the following:

Step 1: Getting Started with your flag.


Firstly, make sure your country has a page on the wiki, any redlinks or nolinks will be deleted immediately. Secondly, ensure that you have the flag of your nation uploaded on the wiki (Add a photo here) and then add it to the first column, make sure that you have reduced the size of the flag to 20 pixels and kept it on the left alignment.

Step 2: Removing the thumbnail box around your flag.


Often, when placing an image anywhere on Wikia, it will have an annoying mauve-colourless box around it. To remove this, simply switch to the Source editor, and remove the |thumb section where your image is located, hey presto it's just a flag in a table.

Step 3: Adding your information and making sure you aren't redlinking.


Hop back over to the visual editor, and you will find your flag inserted (hopefully) in the "Nation" column of the table. Next to your flag, put the name of your nation. If your country has a prefix (such as Republic of, or Principality of), input your nation like the following: "Sealand, Principality of", without the quotation marks, then you should use the link button located next to the bold and italic buttons along the top line of the editor to link the text to your nation's page without changing the actual text in the table.

Ensure that you are using your Nation's main title for it's alphabetical placing on the table, for instance the Principality of Sealand, which in the table would look like Sealand, Principality Of - would go into the "S" section of the table.

Once you have inputed your nation's name, you may start filling the other sections of the table in.

For Capital, if your Capital City/Territory has a page here on the Wiki, put it in double brackets like the following:



Obviously, without the quotation marks once again. Following this should be the continent your nation is located on. Do not link this to any page on the wiki, instead just type the continent's name, eg. "Europe".

Finally there is the Leader(s) section, in which you should put the Head of State, and/or the Head of Government of your country's name. Once again, if they have a page on the wiki, their name should be put like this:



Need to remove a country?
If you are removing a nation from the table, either because it is redlinked, deadlinked or defunct, simply highlight all of the information in the row and press backspace, you may have to press backspace again to delete the row depending on how much you highlighted.

Ground Rules

 * 1) If you remove another nation because they've annoyed you or for any non-valid reason, your edit will be reversed and you may face action from administrators.
 * 2) The same as above goes for vandalism.
 * 3) Please make sure you follow all 3 steps to make sure the table looks neat and the page is quality, it isn't much to ask.
 * 4) Any enquiries of changes to the page that are dramatic should be reviewed by the administrators and do not try to contact the writer of this article about problems with vandalism/goes against the rules. Do feel free to contact me on any problems you face with this editing guide or editing the page or if the guide becomes outdated.