Monster High Wiki:Notability

As the Monster High franchise grows, so too must the. And this does not only mean edits to existing pages, but also the creation of entirely new pages. But that in turn raises the question: What topics deserve their own page? The has a few 'notability guidelines as detailed below to answer that question. Mind, these are by no means set rules, as what constitutes a worthwhile topic evolves with the wiki's growth and exceptional cases always exist. One particular guideline to keep in mind, though, is that page creation, just like any edit, must be done for the sake of the. The wiki has seen a number of pages come (and go) that were created because the user wanted to claim a page as theirs. This is a misguided view on the purpose of pages, and has led to much unwarranted anger when "their" page was deleted (for not being a worthwhile topic, not allowed, or not up to standards). Pages aren't anyone's. In the same vein, users shouldn't rush to create a page from scratch. Knowing what a page requires comes from experience, so contributions should start in the form of small edits.

Creating a page
There are three ways to start creating a new page. One can click the Contribute button in the upper right corner and select "Add a Page"; one can follow a red link (of which a collection is found here), or one can fill out the intended page address in the address bar and click "Create". What follows is a blank slate to work with. It is generally advised to switch from Visual to Source mode when making edits and this goes doubly so for page creation. The reason is that while Source does require much more knowledge of wiki coding than Visual, it also offers much more control and does not produce unncessary by-coding as Visual is prone to do. If the new page is part of a 'series', like another webisode page or another character page, it is worth copy-pasting an older page within that series and on the new page delete and replace what is not true or relevant to the new page's topic. An easily forgotten part of creating a page is categorizing it. Every page needs to be in at least one category, so make sure to know where the topic belongs.

People
Principally, all people who have been personally involved with MH deserve a page. This mean that, for instance, Kellee Riley, who has done much artwork for Monster High, deserves a page, but Justin Bieber, who was the inspiration for the character Justin Biter but not himself involved with MH, does not deserve a page. There are no location~localization limits to people who deserve a page. For instance, the French voice actress of Toralei Stripe deserves as much a page as the USAian one.

Characters
The main guideline for characters is that if they have a name or title, they are qualified as notable. Whether the name is found within the fiction, within the credits, or within an official other