Help:Adopting a page

Adopting a game is a great opportunity for new users to own a pikmin game without having to do all the work themselves.

What is Adopting?
Adopting, in simple terms, is taking a poor quality and abandoned game and putting it up for adoption using a template. Only admins or the original creator of the game can put them up or take them down, and while the template is there no one is allowed to edit. If an admin (or buearocrat) placed the adoption template, they are required to inform the creator that the adoption template has been placed.

When a game is up for adoption, a user can go to the admin (or game creator's) talk page and apply to adopt the game. These are the requirements to apply for adopting a game:


 * Must be capable of taking bad quality and making it into good quality. The admin or creator may ask for a sample to prove if this ability is possessed


 * Must not having significant trolling/spamming history. It will do no good if the user were to adopt the game and then totally remove everything


 * Must be willing to hand over the game if the original creator wants it back.

If the admin or creator approves, then the adoption template is taken down, and a "adopted" template is put up in its place. The adopter (and the community, if the adopter permits it) can now edit the game.

What are the Rules of Editing a Game After You Have Adopted It?

 * Keep the basic plot and characteristics of the game (example: if Pikmin Kart were adopted, the adopter could not change it into "Pikmin Arcade"). However, the adopter may improve upon the idea. This is to ensure that no flaming ensues if the original creator finds the game adopted and edited.


 * Try to remove yellow links, and improve upon the already created pages if it is needed.


 * Just as if you were the original creator of the game, you can allow or not allow other users to help.


 * You may take creative liberties, but as stated above, keep the basic plot and characteristics. Adding pikmin, areas, or even more captains and controls is allowed (anything around those lines, really). Adopting a game is not meant to be a task without creativity!


 * The adopter should improve every aspect of the game to the best of his or her ability. This includes: treasures, holes/dungeons, controls, enemies, scenes, etc.

What are the Requirements for a Game to Merit Adoption?

 * Being low quality. This means low, low, looowww quality. If you are at all active and make much of any attempt at good quality articles, the game will likely not be put up for adoption.


 * The creator either wants to put it up for creation, is no longer active, or has abandoned the game. If either of the last two are the case, only an admin can offcially place it up for adoption.

I Don't Want My Game Adopted and Edited Without My Permission!
That is fine. Place the NoAdopt template at the top if this is the case. However, if you are inactive or unwilling to let the game be adopted and have abandoned the game, the game risks deletion. Keep active and/or keep the game in good quality and this will not happen!

If you return to the your game to find it adopted or up for adoption, just state that you are the original creator and the adopter/admin will hand ownership of the game back to you.

This is meant as a way to improve all the poor quality on the wiki. Also, it will both give new users a chance to have a game to call their own as well as help them make good quality articles.

Who Can Set a Game Up For Adoption?

 * Admins and Buearocrats.


 * The original creator(s) of the game

If you are neither of these but believe a game merits adoption, tell a Admin, 'Crat, or the original creator of the game that you believe so. You are not allowed to put up a template that says the game needs adoption.

Who Can Adopt a Game?
Anyone from the wiki, from Porplemontage himself to the new user has only made three edits. This is for everybody!

Adopting Templates

 * Template: NeedAdopt: A template stating that the game is up for adoption. Only an admin, buearocrat, or the original creator of the game can place this template


 * Template: Adopted: A template stating that the game has been adopted. The adopter or the placer of the NeedAdopt template can place this. It signifies the adopter can begin editing.


 * Template: NoAdopt: A template you can put on your game to ensure it is not adopted. However, if you are inactive, the game may be adopted or may even just be deleted.


 * Template: HasAdopted: This is a userbox template signifying that the user has adopted at least one game.

Want to Find a Game That Needs Adoption?
This is in the early stages, so no pages are in need of adoption. However, a link to a list of pages up for adoption will soon be provided!