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ProfessorFrink from U.K. Since: Apr, 2014
#1: Apr 9th 2021 at 8:13:27 AM

I've been trying to make a new page for a book entitled 'The Way of Kings', but there is already an entry for a (different) book with this name, so I cannot follow the guide given here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/HowToCreateAWorksPage. I've currently titled the page The Way Of Kings By Louise Searl because The Way Of Kings takes you to the existing page. Is there a way round this? Surely there can be pages for books with the same name?

I'm also trying to make a page for another book by the same author, titled 'Kona's Song'. I'm not sure what to do about the apostrophe - I'm told special characters aren't allowed in the URL, so the current page is Kona's Song and thus the book title appears as Konas Song.

Additionally, I've been unable to add images for either of these pages. The aforementioned How To Create A Works Page says to use the drop-down More menu at the top of the page, but this only gives options for Discussion, To Do, Page Source and Wiki Word, not adding images.

Many thanks for reading!

Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#2: Apr 9th 2021 at 3:25:21 PM

Generally, we default to year of release, so the current The Way Of Kings should be moved to The Way Of Kings 2011 and The Way Of Kings By Louise Searl should be moved to The Way of Kings (2021).

Take a look at How to Make a Custom Title for the special character question.

And to upload images, you need to click edit on an article, any article, and click the "Upload Image" at the top of the edit window.

ProfessorFrink from U.K. Since: Apr, 2014
#3: Apr 11th 2021 at 3:06:58 PM

Thank you very much! I've followed your instructions and made new pages for both the Way Of Kings books and put in a request for the apostrophe in Kona's Song. However, the images still aren't working - I clicked the Upload Image button and selected the images I wanted, but they don't appear after I've clicked Submit. Do they have to be approved before they appear, or am I doing something wrong?

Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#4: Apr 11th 2021 at 4:58:24 PM

After you click submit, you have to paste the code it gives into the article itself.

The code will look like this:

[[quoteright:[000]:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/[x]]]

Just replace [000] with the width of the image — which shouldn't be any larger than 350 — and replace [x] with whatever filename the image you uploaded has.

So, for example:

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/230131_nclogo.jpg]]

Will get you:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/230131_nclogo.jpg

Administrivia.Images In Wiki Pages has more info, but the page is currently glitched so all the images on it are stretched to be enormous, so it's difficult to read.

Edited by Primis on Apr 11th 2021 at 4:58:40 AM

ProfessorFrink from U.K. Since: Apr, 2014
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