Thread:OmegaDragonite/@comment-4097945-20130414164948

Regarding your articles:

1. Plagiarism: Don't copy anything. Experienced users like me or admins know user's writing style and we detect differences from copied content from original one, mainly because of spelling errors.

2. Grammar: The previous point brings me here. No one, and I repeat no one reads pages with bad grammar, and this reflects badly on newer pages, because we might think we're going to read another death threat to the English language. If you lack the skill, just read other pages to learn vocabulary, because English is not my first language and I've never had a complaint, in fact, I've corrected others.

3. Appearance matters: A user's first impression of a user is the appearance of their articles. I'm proud to say I'm very perfectionist and picky, and my pages have a polished look to them, as I clean up mistakes, choose good images, format properly and overall keep it organized. Finding images can be difficult, especially when talking about characters (because of their specific looks and limited sources), but I can say that Google is out of the question to find images, and so are famous anime characters, because if I read a page with Ichigo's image, I'll only see Ichigo, not the character the user wrote about. I personally prefer manga images for two reasons:


 * You don't have to watch anime online and crop the screen to get a good quality picture (after all, most free online anime has bad image quality).


 * Online manga is easy to find, with big manga-reading websites having constant updates on new chapters and series. I suggest these: mangapanda.com (not so good quality, but good for constant updates and clean interface), mangastream.com (the best manga image quality you can find, but has limited storage, as it only keeps the last 4-5 chapters of a series, and very few series) and mangastream.to (a website that stores high quality manga chapters from all around and my usual "harvesting ground".)

To edit manga images, I use MS Paint; just copy the image and crop it to your liking.

4. Translations: Since I know you don't know Japanese, don't risk making bad translations. It's already great that you don't make your own, because new users tend to butcher the Japanese language by using Google Translate, thinking it's any good. If you do want the Japanese name for techniques, just ask me or an admin like Pythonraptor.

5. Originality: Don't just push content out. I made that mistake several times. Instead of making many pages, make a few great ones. Think thoroughly about the characters and techniques you'll create and the concepts around them. There are so many things in the wiki which are overdone that if you make it, people just won't care *cough*Uchiha*cough*. I noticed you have a tendency of naming things after Western culture elements, like Hades Fire, Sword of Ares. These names are from Greek Mythology, and just don't fit in the Naruto universe. That's why sometimes translations are needed, to improve the technique's name, because, if you don't have you, you have to rely on those references to add impact to the attack.

6. Power: Here's a big topic: the syndrome of "My guy is the strongest, coolest, badassest ninja ever!". If you think like that, just stop. Even Naruto struggled, I mean, during Part 1, he could barely defeat Kabuto without suffering great damage and paying the consequences afterwards. Superman had his kryptonite, so no one is invincible or strong from the beginning. If your character is strong, there needs to be an equally large reason for that.

The most I can give to a character is two chakra natures and one Kekkei Genkai. No more. You just need to work on them and really build the character with detail. That's the issue I find: users give KG, KT, and natures, as well as 20+ jutsu because they don't bother to make things original.

Also, a bad guy can be powerful, but there is "bad guy powerful" and then there's "OP powerful". Antagonists are not all Madara/Pain/Tobi. In fact, only one to two guys are like that. If you need further knowledge about this: Naruto Fanon Wiki:Guide to Godmodding.

That's it for now. If I remember something else, I'll post it. For now, just read articles to see what yours need more or less of. I hope it helped, and if you need anything else, just message me. 