When creating or updating pages on the BattleBots Wiki, please abide by our Editing Protocol. While some of the following rules may appear overly meticulous, this is simply to ensure that edits remain largely consistent between pages, and across the Wiki.
Fight Write-Ups[]
- Write-ups of battles should be done in the past tense, as they have already happened. A considerable number of old Comedy Central era write-ups were written in present tense, or a mix of both. We are striving to rewrite these to be in the past tense.
- Images and GIFs accompanying write-ups should be positioned in a specific order: left, then right, left, right and so on. They should also be inserted in the order in which they happened during the fight.
- All pages for robots which fought should have their fight write-ups written within a 700 pixel wide table with cells for each battle. Rather than writing the Wikitext itself each time, this can be copied from an existing page's source code and pasted, with relevant details changed.
- Write-ups should be written in American English, irrespective of whether you use American or British English in day-to-day life.
- Names of shows and events should be italicized - e.g. BattleBots, Robot Wars, King of Bots, RoboGames and so on. This can be achieved by adding '' either side of the text you wish to add italics to in the Source Editor.
- Names of branded items should be capitalized and formatted appropriately - e.g. Lexan, Nylon, Magmotors, HARDOX, AR500, etc.
Page Creation[]
- Be sure to name your page appropriately.
- To make the blue box appear as seen on many Robot, Season and Personality pages, be sure to add the relevant template on the Visual Editor by going Insert -> Template -> Search for a template: e.g. Bot, Season, Person, Television Networks and Channels, etc.
- These can then be filled in either in the Visual Editor, or Source Editor.
- Remember to add categories to your new page.
See here for help with understanding Wikitext. Alternatively, check out this cheatsheet for Wikitext formatting used on Wikipedia.
For all edits, cite as much information as possible. This can be done by adding <ref> after a sentence, and pasting in a URL. This will then appear as a small number between square brackets. If a reference list has not already been added, add a References heading above any categories. If in Visual Editor, go Insert -> References List and add underneath your heading. If in Source Editor, you can type <references/> below the heading.