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Welcome to the wiki! 'The Community Portal' is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the Discussion tab above.

If you just want to notify the community about something without the need for greater debate, check out the Development Portal.

You can find out more general information about the wiki on the About page.

New to wikis?

Don't be a Newbie; read the tutorial on the Central Wikia.
A list of help pages can be found at Help:Contents.
Ask for wiki-related help at Forum:Doo Peas Corporate Tower and gameplay help at Forum:Central Park.
A list of administrators can be found at Administrators.
There is advice on how to structure an article at Manual of Style.

How to help out

Main article: The Sims Wiki:Todo

Report spam and vandalism.
You can find a list of useful templates in Category:Templates, some of which are documented on The Sims Wiki:Templates.

Current discussions

Current votes

Delete SimsVille page? (Vote ends August 1, 2010 00:00 UTC)
Remove white background on our logo? (August 11, 2010 00:00:00 UTC)

Want to discuss stuff?

If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use the talk page for that article.
For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum.
See the Commnunity Portal talk page for changes and issues about The Sims Wiki or see Development Portal talk page for news and notices about the mechanics behind the wiki.

Want to connect with the community?

Join and/or make a contest!
Ask a question on the forum!
Talk with other users on the IRC channel!
Make a talkbox to show off your unique style while leaving messages on talk pages!
Make a userbox for your user page to show people what games you have, information about yourself, and your likes and dislikes!

Things to do

See also: The Sims Wiki talk:Development Portal

Useful activities

Help expand some stubs.
Locate and mark pages that need expanding as stubs.
Create links to some orphaned pages.
Upload and add some images! Visit Special:Upload. Add them to a category too, like [[Category:Images]].
Write a new article that's on the the wanted list!
Consider splitting up very long pages.
Create some links on dead end pages.
Add more...

Other useful special pages

Special:BrokenRedirects
Special:DoubleRedirects
Special:ProblemReports
Special:Uncategorizedcategories
Special:Uncategorizedimages
Special:Uncategorizedpages
Special:Unusedimages
Special:Wantedcategories
Check out the full list of special pages at Special:Specialpages.

Some other interesting pages

Guides and tips written by players

Resurrecting tips
Earning simoleons
Fishing spawner
Guide to achieving the Guitar Star challenge

more...

Vote for Featured Article and Featured Media

What's been going on? Read The Sims Wiki:Newsletter.

Want to find out what you've done so far? Visit Special:Mycontributions.
Find out more about the wiki on Special:Statistics and Special:Version!
Decorate your user page with Userboxes.
Make your opinions stand out with Talkboxes.

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-'''Welcome to the wiki!''' The Community Portal is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the '''Discussion''' tab above.
+'''Welcome to the wiki!''' 'The Community Portal' is where this wiki community comes together to organize and discuss projects for the wiki. To see the most recent discussions, click the [[The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal|Discussion]] tab above.
+If you just want to notify the community about something without the need for greater debate, check out the [[The Sims Wiki talk:Development Portal|Development Portal]].
 You can find out more general information about the wiki on the [[Project:About|About]] page.
 ==New to wikis?==
-* Don't be a [[Newbies|Newbie]]; read the '''[[Wikia:Help:Tutorial 1|tutorial]]''' on the Central Wikia.
+* Don't be a [[Newbies|Newbie]]; read the [[Wikia:Help:Tutorial 1|tutorial]] on the Central Wikia.
-* A list of help pages can be found at '''[[Help:Contents]]'''. Ask for specific help at '''[[Forum:Help desk]]''' and gameplay help at '''[[Forum:Questions]]'''.
+* A list of help pages can be found at [[Help:Contents]].
+* Ask for wiki-related help at [[Forum:Doo Peas Corporate Tower]] and gameplay help at [[Forum:Central Park]].
-* A list of administrators can be found at '''[[The Sims Wiki:Administrators]]'''.
-* There is advice on how to structure an article at '''[[The Sims Wiki:Manual of Style]]'''.
+* A list of administrators can be found at [[The Sims Wiki:Administrators|Administrators]].
+* There is advice on how to structure an article at [[The Sims Wiki:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]].
 ==How to help out==
 {{main|The Sims Wiki:Todo}}
-*Join a '''[[The Sims Wiki:Projects|Project]]''' and collaborate on a specific area of The Sims Wiki
+* [[The Sims Wiki:Report|Report spam and vandalism]].
+* You can find a list of useful templates in [[:Category:Templates]], some of which are documented on [[The Sims Wiki:Templates]].
-* If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various '''[[:Category:stubs|stub]]''' articles by adding content.
-* Another helpful activity would be to check the list of '''[[Special:Wantedpages|wanted pages]]''' for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
-*  To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new users and edits use '''[[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]'''.
-* You can find a list of useful templates on '''[[:Category:Templates]]''', some of which are documented on '''[[Project:Templates]]'''.
-* If you need help editing, you could start with '''[[Help:Editing]]''' or '''[[Wikia:Help:Tutorial 1|the tutorial]] on the Central Wikia'''.
 ==Current discussions==
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 * If you want to discuss anything specific to an article, you can use '''[[Help:Talk page|the talk page]]''' for that article.
 * For more general discussions you can use the Discussion tab of this page, or a Forum.
-*We are currently discussing '''[[The Sims Wiki talk:Requests for administratorship|if we should have a policy for revoking an inactive admin's rights?]]''' and '''[[The Sims Wiki talk:User Created Contests| if unregistered users should be able to make contests]]'''. Discuss what you think with the community.
+* See the [[The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal|Commnunity Portal talk page]] for changes and issues about [[The Sims Wiki]] or see [[The Sims Wiki talk:Development Portal|Development Portal talk page]] for news and notices about the mechanics behind the wiki.
-*See the [[The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal|Commnunity Portal talk page]] for changes and issues about [[The Sims Wiki]] or see [[The Sims Wiki talk:Development Portal|Development Portal talk page]] for news and notices about the mechanics behind the wiki.
 ==Want to connect with the community?==