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Bulbanews:Article submission

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Bulbanews is a news service that you can contribute to. The lifecycle of an article is very simple:

Draft submitted ▶ Editorial review ▶ Article published

Unlike most news services, your submissions to Bulbanews are immediately visible to all and are included in updates to the front page (under the heading developing stories) — so even if there are no editors on duty, your contribution will not be missed.

Article submission process

Clicking on "Submit a new article" in the site's left navigation panel will open the new article assistant, a form where the author inputs basic information about the article.

Basic information

  • Title: an informative headline like in a professional newspaper. Only the first letter of the headline and proper nouns are capitalized, and the title must contain a verb.
    • Example: Explorers of the Sky sells 141,771 in first day
    • Example: Secret Key to be available in North America
  • Tagline: also known as a subhead. This is another headline that provides complementary information to the article's title. The following are examples of appropriate taglines for the above two example titles.
    • Example: At top of charts, outselling Mario & Luigi RPG 3
    • Example: To be distributed via Wi-Fi and Toys "R" Us stores
  • Type: type of article.
    • Options: news article, rumor, feature article, column, editorial, opinion piece, opinion column, breaking news, local news
    • Most articles are of the news article type.
  • Category: organizational system for Bulbanews.
    • Major options: anime, events, games, manga, merchandise, Pokémon meta, TCG, TFG
  • Picture: relevant image, if any, that is located on the Bulbagarden Archives server. Images inputted into this text box require only the filename and file extension, no prefix needed. If no image, leave the field blank.
    • Example: Platinum-box.png
  • Caption: a short, two to three word description of the picture. If no image, leave the field blank.
    • Example: Platinum boxart

Source information

  • Type: Most articles are of the Bulbanews type; that is, they are written by a Bulbanews account holder.
    • Bulbanews
      • An article author with a Bulbanews account.
    • Independent writer
      • An article author not affiliated with Bulbanews.
    • Other Web site
      • If the article was originally published elsewhere. This should only be used if an article is directly from the source.
    • Press release
      • If the article is an official press release. This too should only be used if an article is directly from the source.
    • Unknown
      • Avoid using. This would only be if there was a rumor spread person-to-person with an unknown source.
  • Name
    • If the source type is Bulbanews, then it is the author's username.
    • If the source type is external, then name the source.
  • Link
    • If the source is Bulbanews, the link would go to the author's profile.
      • Example: User:Argy
        • If the source is Bulbanews, and the author does not have a Bulbanews profile, but on on Bulbapedia, the link would go to the author's Bulbapedia profile.
          • Example: bp:User:Argy
    • If the source is external, the link would be a URL to the source.

Discussion information

  • Type
    • Options are None or Bulbagarden Forums. If the article topic has a forum topic, select the latter.
  • Link
    • For None, leave this field blank. For Bulbagarden Forums, enter the five-digit thread number (at the end of the thread URL).

Blurb

This, in most cases, will be the lead sentence or sentences of the article. These sentences should give the most important and relevant information of the article. In journalism/inverted pyramid style, this information is generally the who/what/where/when/why/how angle.

  • Example: According to a Media Create weekly rating, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky sold 141,771 in its first day on shelves. The game ranked above Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes and Mario & Luigi RPG 3.
  • Example: The Secret Key will be available over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and at Toys "R" Us stores in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It will be available via Wi-Fi from April 20 to May 12 and at Toys "R" Us stores from April 19-26.

Article text

The article itself, with the blurb text first.

See also

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