Newcomer need help for creating a page correctly.

Hi, so I stumbled on a old post in the trope repair shop about making a page for the real-life character known as Rasputin. I know a great deal about the guy and his reopresentations in fiction, so i would do it, but I don,t know how to do a character page,especially for a real life guy. So , would someone be helpful enough to guide me in the right direction.

Well, the simple answer is, you look at pages for other common characters like The Joker and use them as a template (although I'd skip the first person foolery if I were you). You create the article by making a redlink: Rasputin, clicking it, then editing the page. Once it's done, you then have to add it to one or more relevant indexes, and add wicks to it from other pages so that it has a presence on the wiki.

We're having an ongoing debate about how to manage articles that are about recurring characters, so you might want to wait until some of that debate's participants chime in.

edited 14th Oct '10 9:11:13 AM by Fighteer

He's talking about Real life Rasputin rather than any particular use of him as a charatcer. Probably the best idea would be to put a page about him in UsefulNotes.Rasputin. Click that redlink and start editing.

edited 14th Oct '10 9:15:19 AM by Madrugada

Well, I was more interested a page like the Adolf Hitler one - it talks about who he is, the trope associated to him in Real Life and the most prominent appearance of him in the media.

My motivation for doing it is mainly because Rasputin is a very mysterious character that has been used one way or the other in fiction covering most media, including music. He already has a trope named after him because of hsi death, but other aspect of his legend needs a mention I think.

My advice would be UsefulNotes.Rasputin for actual facts about him, and Rasputin for the Theme Park Version and appearances in fiction.