My Little Pony Fan Labor Wiki:Guides/Authors

Author pages on this wiki have three functions. A first section should provide an overview of the writer in general: The list above is non-exclusive. 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.
 * 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, ...).

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.

You can write about as many stories by this author as you like in this fashion, as long as the individual sections are longer than a few sentences.

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.