Editing Instructions

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Adding a Book

Want to add a neuropathography to this wiki? Then follow these three simple steps:

  1. Open the editing page for the mental disorder category to which the neuropathography belongs.
  2. Add a new row to the table by copying and pasting the following five-line sample code, substituting the book's title, author, year, and purchase link where indicated.
  3. Preview & Save.

Sample Code

|-
| [[Title]]
| Last name, First name(s)
| Year
| [link Vendor]

Line-by-Line Instruction & Explanation

  1. This designates a new row in the table.
  2. Provide the book's complete title, including the subtitle, if present.
    • Enclose the title in double square brackets to create a page that can be edited in the future.
  3. Provide the author's full name, last name first.
  4. Provide the year of publication.
    • If the book has multiple editions, provide the year of the first edition followed by the year of the most recent edition, separated by a slash (e.g. 1980/2000).
  5. Provide a direct link to purchase the book from your favorite vendor (e.g. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.).
    • Type the vendor's name after the address to create a shorter link for the table.
    • Enclose the entire line in single square brackets to create an external link.

Where to Paste

The tables are sortable, so it doesn't matter where the new code is pasted, as long as it doesn't break up the code for any existing rows. See the example below for more information.

Cross-Listing

A neuropathography that belongs to more than one category of mental disorder may be cross-listed by inserting the same code in multiple tables.

Example

|-
| [[Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness]] 
| Styron, William 
| 1992 
| [http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Visible-A-Memoir-Madness/dp/0679736395 Amazon]

The above code creates a table row that looks like this:

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Styron, William 1992 Amazon

Which can be inserted into existing table code, like so:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title 
! Author 
! Year 
! class="unsortable"|Purchase
|-
| [[Title A]] 
| Doe, Jane 
| 1980 
| link
|-
| [[Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness]] 
| Styron, William 
| 1992 
| [http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Visible-A-Memoir-Madness/dp/0679736395 Amazon]
|-
| [[Title B]] 
| Smith, John 
| 2000 
| link
|}

Which results in the following table:

Title Author Year Purchase
Title A Doe, Jane 1980 link
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Styron, William 1992 Amazon
Title B Smith, John 2000 link

This table can be sorted by title, author, and publication year.

Adding a Mental Disorder

What if the neuropathography you want to add deals with a mental disorder not already on the wiki? Say, "Mental Disorder X". Then follow these steps to add a new mental disorder category.


1. Open the editing page for the wiki's main page and insert

* [[Mental Disorder X]]

at the correct alphabetical position in the list of mental disorders, like so:

| list_title = MENTAL DISORDERS
| list_content =
* [[Autism]]
* [[Mental Disorder X]]
* [[Schizophrenia]]


2. Save your changes, then click on the "Mental Disorder X" link you just created.


3. Copy and paste the following code, substituting your book's information as outlined earlier:

This is a list of neuropathographies by people with Mental Disorder X.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title 
! Author 
! Year 
! class="unsortable"|Purchase
|-
| [[Title]]
| Last name, First name(s)
| Year
| [link Vendor]
|}


4. Preview & Save.