Contents 1 When to create a new page 2 When NOT to create a new page 3 How to create a new page 4 How to format the NAME of the page 5 How to format the CONTENT of the page 6 The edit box

When to create a new page

• When an artist, album, or song does not exist on the site, and you are sure you are spelling it correctly.
• When you want to add an artist, an album, or the lyrics for a song that you see as a red link
• When you want to add lyrics to a song which isn't even linked to from the artist page. Double-check to make sure you know the correct title.
• When you know of a commonly used but incorrect name of a song, album, or artist. In this case, you merely need to create a page that redirects to the proper page.

When NOT to create a new page

• Before you have checked to make sure that the page doesn't already exist. We have hundreds of thousands of pages of songs, albums, and artists. It is likely, although not definite, that we have the song, album, or artist already.
• When you are not sure of the name or spelling of the artist/song. Please first use Google, Yahoo!, or another search engine or source.

How to create a new page

The easiest way to create a new page is to click a dead-end link in an existing article. Dead-end links appear in red, and clicking them takes you to an edit page that you can use to create the new page.

If you are creating an entirely new page that isn't linked to from anywhere on the site (for example, a new Artist page), follow these steps:

1. Type a LyricWiki URL into your browser's address box exactly as if the page already exists. For example, if you're trying to create a page for the band "Abc Defghi and the Jklmnops," enter this URL: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Abc_Defghi_And_The_Jklmnops. (Be sure to follow the page-naming guidelines below and on LyricWiki:Page Names.)
2. When you see a page with "This page needs content. You can help by adding a sentence or a photo!", click either the "Create" button or the "Add to this page!" link to go to an edit page that you can use to create the new page.

How to format the NAME of the page

See also LyricWiki:Page Names

• General Rules
  • Capitalize Each Word In The Title Of The Page. This applies to all Artist, Album and Song pages.
  • Try to avoid using both ampersands (&) and slashes (/) or and ampersands (&) and semicolons (;) in titles, since this causes pages to break.
  • Leave "The," "A," and "An" at the beginning of the title. For example: "The Distance" by Cake should be "The Distance", not "Distance, The".
  • Punctuation within titles usually follows the same rules as text that is written or typed.
    • Parenthetical phrases, such as in Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)", or for Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", include a space between them and any other text in the title.
    • In general, an album's subtitle should be after a colon, which will be the second colon in the page title. There should be a space after that colon, such as in Bat Out Of Hell: Live With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2004).
  • Use typewriter (straight) style punctuation as opposed to typographic (curly). For example: (') and (") as opposed to: (‘) (’) (“) (”).
• Artist Pages
  • Simply titled as The Artist Name
  • Example: Pink Floyd
• Album Pages
  • Titled as The Artist Name:Album Name (YEAR OF ORIGINAL RELEASE)
  • A blank space should be placed between the album's name and the open parenthesis.
  • If the year of release is not known, use (????) to distinguish that the entry is an album and not a song. In many instances, such as with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, there are albums and songs with the same name. The use of the release year in parentheses marks the page as an album page.
  • Example: Pink Floyd:Wish You Were Here (1975)
• Song Pages
  • Titled as The Artist Name:Song Name
  • Example Pink Floyd:Wish You Were Here

How to format the CONTENT of the page

• Artist Pages
• Album Pages
• Song Pages

The edit box

When you create a new page, the edit box will automatically be populated with a template based on the page name. For example, if you create a page that ends with 4 characters in parentheses, an Album page template will be present. If the wrong template appears, click on the appropriate template above the edit box in order to populate the correct one instead.

There are also a number of buttons immediately above the edit box to help you with the following tasks:

• Format text (bold, italic)
• Insert links (within LyricWiki and outside of the site)
• Insert headlines
• Embed media and link to media
• Insert a mathematical formula
• Prevent text from being formatted by the wiki
• Insert a time, date, and signature stamp (especially useful when making comments on a discussion page)
• Insert a horizontal line

To discover what each button does, hover your mouse pointer over a button to display help text.

In most cases, to use a button:

1. Highlight the text you wish to affect.
2. Click the appropriate button.

The highlighted text will be automatically surrounded with the correct wiki code.