User:Wilhelmina Will

June 6th, 2007.

Dear "Other Account Memebrs",

I am new to the idea of being an account member here. I first logged in on June 6th, 2007, late at night. (In the wee hours of the morning.) This is actually the only thing I am a member of, but I am proud to now be a member.

When I first started editing here in Wikia, I saw that there was a lot of mess amongst the articles for the South Park characters. (This was way back in March, I believe, or it may have been April.) I first started by fixing up as much bad grammar as I could find, and by adding in more information. Then, when I learned how to create chapters in the articles, I began doing so. Recently, I started taking my levels of contributions much higher than that. Just last night, I created a whole article for Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, and just a little while ago, I created an article for Mr. and Mrs. Tweek. I have even learned how to make description boxes for the top right handcorners of the articles, thanks to the help of the "Leopold Stotch" article.

When I saw some of the problems involving the images of the characters who already had their articles, I wanted to help them out. But I'm afraid I have yet to learn how that's done. I've posted requests for this work to be done, or for this knowledge to be given to me, but no one's done so yet. Perhaps some day, one of you will get one of my messages-in-the-bottle, and tell me how I can achieve this goal.

The neat thing is, that is what led to my becoming an account member!

In the meantime, though, I have several of the kid's articles, and Kenny's parents, and soon will have Tweek's parent's articles on my watchlist. So none of you had better try any vandalism on any of the following: Tweek, Mr. and Mrs. Tweek, Craig, Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, and Heidi. Otherwise, I will find out who did so, and I will get them for it... And that, my darlings, is a solemn vow!!!

Anyway, I look forward to participating in further movements for these articles, and possibly starting a few of my own.

Wilhelmina Will.

Fixing the Character Template
When I first began working here, I noticed how there were many red links on the character template, as those articles didn't exist. I then set to work creating them. Even today, as of August 4th, 2007, there are still a few red links left behind, but I shall soon get around to creating them. I also learned that there were a lot of articles that weren't listed in the template, so I set to including them in the proper categories. Now, every time a new character page is created, I add it to the template.

Regarding the template which focuses primarily on the student characters, I've recently been adding more of the student articles to this template, as only a few of them originally were mentioned on it.

Creating Character Pages
In Wikipedia, I noticed that there were a lot more student characters mentioned than there were here. I figured that since this Wikia is dedicated to the South Parkites, it should also include those characters. So I set to creating articles for characters such as Esther, Dog Poo, Lizzy, Millie, and Tommy. I studied how to create those right-hand corner "description boxes" with the help of the article Leopold "Butters" Stotch's edit section. Then I began creating templates for these character pages as well. I also created such family members articles as Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Tweek, and Grampa Marsh.

Lengthening, Rearranging, and Properly Organizing Stub Articles
One of the first things I did was to correct the student articles which already existed. Characters such as Bertha, Craig, Heidi Turner and Anne Polk had a lot of misinformation or were missing a lot of information. These ones were stubs, and I wanted to correct this. The first thing I did was to correct the grammar used, then I corrected the wrong information given. Next, I added in info I considered necessary.

I had wanted to create article sections, like the more advanced articles (e.g., Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Wendy Testaburger, etc.) had, but I didn't know how. Once again, I studied the edit sections of the articles that did have these sorts of sections, and it wasn't long before I had the other articles organized quite nicely.

Requesting the Deletion of Useless Articles
When I checked the list of articles in the Wikia, I realized there were many articles in Italics. These were articles which had either not been named properly, or had been redirected for other purposes. As I still don't know how to delete these articles, I asked User and Administrator Mr Garrison for help on the matter. He has not responded to this, as of yet, but I'm confident that one of us will eventually get the job done.

Creating Episode Pages
I noticed that there were dozens of episode articles which had not been created yet. There were actually more non-existent episode articles than there were existent ones, and there probably still are. But I've already gotten episode pages such as Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, all of the Season Five Episodes except for It Hits The Fan, and two of the Season Six Episodes (Jared Has Aides and Asspen) created. One can expect the other pages to be created by September 1st.

Collecting and Discussing Images
Many of the character articles were missing images, or didn't have very accurate or descriptive images. That was why I became an account member, as I mentioned at the top of this page. In order to upload images on the site, one has to be an account member. I then tried uploading images, starting with one for Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, but I didn't realize that you couldn't just copy an image from a source, paste it in a word document, and then upload that. Realizing this wasn't working, I mentioned the problem up above. Administrator Mr Garrison was kind enough to explain to me how it actually works. (Indeed, I owe him thanks for much of my work on this site.) Soon, I had uploaded images for every character I could find a suitable image for.

After a while, I thought about the character images in such articles as Clyde Donovan, Kyle Broflovski, and Stan Marsh. I thought it would be much nicer if every character had a simple image (one with the character standing alone on a plain white or blue background). I remembered that Wikipedia had a lot more of these sorts of images, so I got ones for Leopold "Butters" Stotch, and Jimmy Valmer, and Wendy Testaburger, and several other characters. For many of the adult characters, I had to get the smaller plain images from southparkstudios.com. Many of these are not as accurate as I would like, but I'm afraid they will have to do until we can get larger, more accurate images.

Most of the articles still have screenshot images of the characters. Again, I asked Mr Garrison for help on finding/creating simple images of these characters. He told it me it would a long and tiresome process: Step 1. I would have to use materials on a link in the southparkstudios.com known as "create-a-character". Step 2. I would have to use the camera icon in a computer program known as PowerDVD, to screenshot the image I had created. Step 3. I would have to save the document then alter the settings a little. Step 4. Save it again, this time in a jpg. format. Then I could upload this new image to the desired page.

I tried to follow the first step by creating an image of Heidi Turner, but unfortunately, most of her body parts weren't available. I pointed this out to him, and he responded "Sadly, that's the curse of create-a-character. It's easy and quick, but not accurate enough." It wasn't until a few weeks later, that I came up with the idea of doing something like: Step 1. Find a screenshot which contains the desired character, and use the camera icon on this shot. Step 2. Alter the settings after saving this document, by removing everything in the image except the character you're seeking. Step 3. Save this in a jpg. format, and upload it. Then you're free of the hassle of trying to find the right body parts. He replied that it was a "damn good" idea. Unfortunately, I had a few problems when I tried to use the camera icon, so it may be quite some time before this plan is put to action.

Researching for the Articles
In order to get character/image/episode information, I've looked to many different sources for help. Often, when I need a referrence for minor character names, for incidents, or for plotlines, I go to this site known as southparkstuff.com, and I look at the episode scripts. I also look to Wikipedia for this sort of help. Indeed, for episode pages, i usually copy the articles from Wikipedia, then paraphrase them here, and save the new pages. I have saved character and episode images from both these sites, and from the Willie Westwood South Park pages.

Restoring Pages
Somebody had redirected Sharon Marsh's article to an article which focused on both Randy and Sharon Marsh at the same time. I didn't approve of this, especially since, looking at the history of Sharon's article, I found that it had had a very good, simple image of her. I then restored the article to its former glory, and extended it from the stub article it had been. I also created a separate article for Randy, and deleted the link to their merged article.

Adding Episode Quotes to Episode Pages
I've also been adding in a "Quotes" section to the episode pages. Currently, all of the Season 1 pages have their quotes. I did not have to add in any episode quotes for the first of the second season episodes, as it already had its quotes listed, but I think I've added in quotes for a few other episodes in season 2.

Contributary Things I Did on August 4th, 2007
Note: The following is listed according to the timeline which works where I am.

1. I created the page for the episode: Freak Strike.

2. I added in the rest of the student characters to the South Park children template.

3. I created a template for the main families, by copying and pasting the data in the edit section for the student template, into a new article. I then altered a few things, and erased the articles connected to the template, and created a whole new one. On this one, I added in the names of Randy Marsh, Sharon Marsh, Shelley Marsh, Grampa Marsh, Jimbo Kern, Gerald Broflovski, Ike Broflovski, Kyle Schwartz, Mr and Mrs McCormick, Stephen Stotch, Linda Stotch, and Mr and Mrs Tweek.

4. I added the template to the bottom of each of those articles.

5. I uploaded a temporary screenshot image of Kyle Schwartz to his article.

Contributary Things I Did on August 7th, 2007
1. Added a template and a simple image to Tuong Lu Kim. Also bolded his name the first time it was mentioned in his article.

2. Moved the image of Dr. Mephisto with Kevin to Kevin's section of the article. Also added in a simple image of Dr. Mephisto.

3. Created the template: Template: Various South Park Townsfolk.

4. Added this template to the following articles: Big Gay Al, Dr. Mephisto,  Mayor McDaniels,  Mr. Derp,  Ned Gerblansky,  Officer Barbrady,  Priest Maxi,  Scott Tenorman,  Sergeant Yates,  Tuong Lu Kim,  Darryl Weathers,  Midget Wearing Bikini,  Farmer Carl Denkins,  and Skeeter. Also fixed up a few of those articles along the way.

5. Changed the image of Lizzy to one of her standing alone.

6. Created a frame and a summary for the second image in Dougie's article.

7. Added in an image of Kevin McCormick to Mr. and Mrs. McCormick's article.

8. I rewrote Dougie's article, step by step. I had to do each part separately because for some reason, the computer tried to delete my work each time I nearly got it all done at once. So I saved it partially each time, and eventually I got it done. (Luckily, I had written the whole original article down on paper, then I worked out each part in a draft before writing it all down in the article.) I also added the Template: South Park children to his article at the bottom, and I added in an image of Dougie as Bart Simpson.

9. I changed Bebe Steven's image to one in which there was less background shown, and she was more upclose to the reader.

10. I created the Template: South Park Elementary Staff.

11. I added this newest template to the bottom of the following articles: Chef, Mr. Mackey,  Mr. Slave,  Mrs. Garrison,  Ms. Choksondik,  Mrs. Crabtree,  Principal Victoria,  Ms. Ellen,  Mr. Adler,  Nurse Gollum,  Pearl,  Ms. Claridge, and  Ms. Stephenson.

Contributary Things I Did on August 18th, 2007.
1. I fixed up Leroy's article so it's no longer a stub (I added in a section of how he appears), and then corrected the grammar.

2. I added in a character description box and an image to Starvin' Marvin's article.

3. I added in as much information as possible to his article.

4. I created yet another template; this time, one for the Miscellaneous Characters.

5. I added this newest template to the following articles: Bart Simpson Chef's Parents  Crab People  Gobbles  Mr. Kitty  Scott the Dick  Starvin' Marvin  Ugly Bob  Visitors  Gregory  The Mole.

6. I fixed up Gregory's article a good deal.

Contributary Things I Did on August 19th, 2007
1. I added in another section and partly repaired the grammar in Craig's article.

2. I created the article for Scott The Dick, and added in a character description box, and an image at the same time (woohoo to that!!!)

3. I then edited it again, and added in the Template: Miscellaneous Characters template to the bottom of his page.

4. I created the page for Ugly Bob, and added in a description box. {Though I could not find a suitable image of Ugly Bob, and therefore was unable to include certain info on him that the image might have given.)

5. I added the Miscellaneous Characters template to his article.

6. I removed the useless links on the South Park Character Template.