Help:Overview

Pages about notable, professional, semi-pro, or especially talented beginners are always welcome. To begin a page, use the cosplayer template code below. Simply copy the code, paste into the new page, and fill out the fields:

{{Cosplayer
|name= 
|image= 
|aka= 
|gender= 
|born= 
|birthplace= 
|nationality= 
|ethnicity= 
|started= 
|height= 
|weight= 
|hair= 
|eye= 
|site= 
|fb= 
|twitter= 
}}

• Cosplayer picture: preferably the cosplayer out of costume to show how they appear naturally

• Sites: only the link needs to be inserted, in its entirety

• Categories: the template auto-categorizes based on gender and nationality, so no need to add more categories!

Page format

• Background, preferably from the official site of the cosplayer; if that isn't available, Wikipedia is permitted, so long as it is formatted and correctly attributed. This minimally suffices at the end of the section: <ref>[fullurl Background taken from Wikipedia]</ref>

• Awards, most notable

• Media
  • Images: gallery of images
    • <gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="220px" spacing="small">
    • naming: images should be created with the format "CosplayerName-CharacterName" abbreviations of cosplayer names is acceptable, if needed (such as Marie-Claude Bourbonnais to MCB, for instance)
    • nudity is not permitted
    • images should be as far removed from nudity as possible, barring accurate representation of the character (such as Vampirella); images will be removed at admin discretion
    • images should be quality; "joke" images and poor quality cosplay will be removed
  • Videos: gallery of videos
    • Types of videos to include are interviews and tutorials; unless the video is solely about the single cosplayer, convention videos should be relegated to the separate convention pages

• References
  • If on the page, then include this section with the {{reflist}} code.

• External links - include any additional official links that are not included in the infobox (so not the official page, FB, or Twitter)

Note: In terms of franchises, characters will be listed under the parent franchise rather than sequel/expansion. So, for instance, Bloodseeker is listed under Defense of the Ancients rather than Defense of the Ancient 2. A note can be made on the character page, of course.

Follow the format as found at Deadpool. The goal is a very lean page that is easy to navigate:

• Place {{CompactTOC}} at the top of the page.
• Add a Cosplays gallery section and, if applicable, a Crossplays (opposite-gender cosplay) gallery section - captions should be the cosplayers name, linking to their page (include linking even if the page doesn't exist).
  • Only one cosplayer's picture per character, sorted alpha by first name; additional pics can be included if the cosplayer is showing another costume of the character
  • gallery format: <gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="220px" spacing="small">
• In a Background section, a brief paragraph about the character. If source of character isn't in intro, include it above the section, as shown on Eevee
  • Image: a single character image only, with as forward-facing position as possible, preferably full-length to show the entirety of the character. No larger than 200px (vertical)/250px (horizontal).
• References - as above; generally attempt to obtain information from a wiki on this network; failing that, from Wikipedia or an official source
• External links - to major wikis on this network, if not used as a reference
• Categories - for now, only genre-related categories for which that particular character is best known (Anime, Comic Books, Video Games, Television, Movies); if a character is part of a team/franchise, that may also be included