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Nawapedia User Guidelines and Helpful Tips

Nawapedia is an online encyclopedia for the rope world. Like our sister site SMPedia, we strive to provide accurate and interesting information about notable SM rope artists, models, illustrators, actors, events, groups, clubs, films, educators and concepts. Currently, our mission is to translate SMPedia into English, but we also welcome SM rope information from around the world.

Page Organization

Pages are organized by the following categories:

• Kinbakushi: Individuals skilled in tying, and generally refers to here as those who tie professionally or as part of another SM occupation.

• Mistress: Professional dominatrices or those performing similar activities.

• Writer: Authors or others who are known for their written materials.

• Artist: Painters, illustrators, sculptors, musicians etc., who create works on SM-related themes.

• Photographer: Individuals who create photographs on SM-related themes.

• Models: Individuals who are tied for SM entertainment and products, or who are partners of kinbakushi.

• Editor: Creators, managers and editors of SM books, magazines and related products (both print and online).

• Performer: Any person conducting SM activities that do not fit in the above categories.

• Publishers: Professional companies or individuals who create, print and/or distribute SM materials.

• Magazines: Periodicals on SM-related themes.

• Films: SM movies or any movie with significant or notable SM content.

• SM Video: Typically non-theatrical videos with significant or notable SM content.

• Nawa World: SM bars, clubs, events or notable concepts.

Please see Special:Categories for all available categories.

Special Note: Nawapedia is dedicated to providing accurate information. Therefore, we ask that all entries include citations as much as possible. Please avoid personal opinions, rumors or unverifiable information. We also ask all users to avoid using Nawapedia for advertising, personal promotion, or to curate one’s personal online presence.

Helpful Tips

Here are a few common tips to help you more easily format pages.

Edit Text

	Type code here	Readers will see
Italics	''Italicized word''	Italicized word
Bold	'''Bold word'''	Bold word
Bold Italics	'''''Bold Italics'''''	Bold Italics

Text Alignment

	Type code here	Readers will see
To align text left:	<div style="text-align: left;”>LEFT</div>	LEFT
To align text right:	<div style="text-align: right;”>RIGHT</div>	RIGHT
To center text:	<div style="text-align: center;”>CENTER</div>	CENTER
To justify text:	<div style="text-align: justify;”>JUSTIFIED</div>	JUSTIFIED

Links

	Type code here	Readers will see
Links to other Nawapedia pages:	[[PAGE LINK]]	PAGE LINK
Links to external pages:	[http://NAME_OF_WEBSITE EXTERNAL WEBSITE]	EXTERNAL WEBSITE
For example:	[http://smpedia.com SMPedia]	SMPedia

Images

	Type code here
To insert an image:	[[image:IMAGE.jpg|Image caption]]
To insert a thumbnail:	[[image:IMAGE.jpg|200px|thumb|Image caption]]

Citations

	Type code here	Readers will see
Footnotes	<ref>Footnote text here.</ref>	Blah blah blah
Group footnotes	<ref name="name">Citation text here.</ref>	Blah blah blah
	<ref name="name">Citation text here.</ref>	Yeah yeah yeah
	This is used when adding one footnote to multiple places on page.	See below.

Reference format for books and other sources

Nawapedia cites sources in two ways.

The first is the usual wiki method. For example:

My Favorite Book (Publisher, Date)

or

My Favorite Book (Date)

The second uses the MLA method. For example:

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Date.

Please use the MLA method in the Bibiography section of pages. Otherwise, you can use whichever method you prefer.

See MLA examples for more details. Or visit the MLA website.