Template:PldAuthors

Author pages on this wiki have three functions. A first section should provide an overview of the writer in general. For instance, you can describe (in prose): The list above is non-exclusive. For biographical details that relate to the fandom (such as how the writer became a brony, if they consider themselves as such), you can use interviews or other publically available sources. If you do, please provide links to those sources.
 * when he/she joined the fandom;
 * which fan fiction repositories he/she uses;
 * his/her writing style;
 * common themes;
 * characters he/she likes to use;
 * characters the author may have created which have proven very popular;
 * non-writing-related projects the author may have been involved with (fan sites, fan art and music, radio/podcasts, charity projects, ...).

Please keep this page related to Friendship is Magic and its fandom. Do not use the writer's real name or other non-pony related biographical details unless they are already widely known; even then, always provide sources for claims about personal information.

The rest of the page should provide an overview of the writer's pony-related works, and spotlight one or more of the author's shorter stories. At least one spotlight of a completed story is mandatory if no other story by the author has a page of its own on the wiki.

Spotlight
The spotlight is essentially a miniature edition of a normal fan fic page for stories that are so short a whole page could not be dedicated to them (3000 words and below, typically). It needs to at least consist of a summary of the story.

The green puzzle piece to the left represents an infobox: a small table containing the most important information about the fanfic you're writing about. Hover over the symbol, then click on "edit" in the form that pops open, and fill in the fields. Only the fields relevant to the story in question should be filled (e.g. no "show connection" if the story is not strongly connected to a specific episode). You can add an image, but please make sure that the image is either explicitly inspired by the story in question, or has previously been used as a cover image on Equestria Daily, FIMFiction, or another fanfic repository where it has been approved by the author.

You can write about as many (short) stories by this author as you like in this fashion, as long as the individual sections are longer than a few sentences. You can copy and paste this section (including the puzzle piece) as many times as needed.

Other stories
Use this section to provide an overview over the author's other works.
 * For stand-alone stories, the list can be formatted as a bullet-point list of titles with a brief synopsis of the story.
 * For prolific authors, you don't have to list all of them; a selection is adequate.
 * Stories which already have a page on the wiki should always be listed and linked to from here, however.

Subsection
For descriptions worth at least a paragraph, you can also use subsections. This is particularly sensible when you want to write about a series of connected stories, but not give each of them a spotlight (or a page of their own) yet.