Category talk:Stories by Genre

He who wielded the Staff of Bureaucracy, the Master of Red Tape, gazed upon the Earthen Ring Wiki and said "Users should be able to find stories by genre. Let there be a category for every taste of literature within the World of Warcraft!"

And 'lo, it was so!

Creating a new genre category is rather straightforward.

First, attempt to go to http://earthenring.wikia.com/index.php?title=Category:Name_of_your_genre_here&action=edit

...where "Name_of_your_genre_here" is replaced with whatever the genre is called.

Second, in the text box, put in a blurb describing what the category is about, if the name of the genre doesn't make it obvious. ...or maybe put in a description, anyway, because maybe it's not obvious to everyone. After all, maybe there really are people out there who don't know what romance is.

Third, put in the lines:

To view a list of stories in other genres, please visit Stories by Genre.

and

One of those lines serves as a clear guide to readers that it's a subcategory of a higher category (very important for new people who don't know a wiki too well). The other line will trigger the Wiki program code into actually putting your new genre category into *Category:Stories_by_Genre.

--Cogitatus 07:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)