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<br>{{Nutshell|Even if you've never edited a wiki before, you can create a [[Special:QuickAdd|quick listing]] in MyWikiBiz.}}

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==Overview==
To become a contributing member of MyWikiBiz, you ought to add some content to our directory.  And here's the good news: adding a listing is '''easy'''.

First, you need to [http://www.mywikibiz.com/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup register] for an account which requires only a $5 activation fee (see [[Help:Registration]] for more details).  Only '''registered users''' may create or edit content on [[Directory:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]].

Second, make sure you have thoroughly [[Help:Searching|searched]] MyWikiBiz to confirm that an article about your topic isn't already established.

Then, if you're certain your topic has not yet been addressed, you must next decide if your listing belongs in the [[Help:Directory Space|Directory Space]], or whether it is more suitable for the [[Help:Main Space|Main Space]] pages (or even [[Help:User_Space|User Space]]).

===Primary Listings===

'''Directory Space''' topics should include anything that has standing in a court of law:
:*Commercial businesses (''title of page should be the business name, not the industry or marketing tag'')
:*Web sites
:*Non-profit organizations and foundations
:*Formally organized or registered private clubs
:*Governmental bodies
:*Living persons (including yourself)
:*Deceased persons who still have an active legal estate

===Secondary (Property) Listings===
:*Property or products (such as Mickey Mouse or Microsoft Word), should be created as a sub-page of the company listing
::--For example, '''<nowiki>[[Directory:The Walt Disney Company/Mickey Mouse]]</nowiki>''' or '''<nowiki>[[Directory:Microsoft/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Word]]</nowiki>'''

===Ownership===
<blockquote>Note: <font style="background:yellow">during this important time of building up our new directory, users are allowed to create Directory Space articles about entities which they do not own or have a legal interest in</font>.  Of course, you may not use MyWikiBiz to defame or libel others.  When the rightful owner of the subject of a page topic arrives at MyWikiBiz, they may "claim" the page, to which edit privileges will be transferred immediately by a MyWikiBiz sysop.</blockquote>

===Main Space===
'''Main Space''' pages should include everything else that doesn't have standing in a court of law.  This would include things and processes like:
:*Fiber optic cable
:*Glue
:*[[Heating oil]]
:*[http://www.hotsauce.org International Society of Hot Sauce Aficionados]
:*[[Sir Isaac Newton]]
:*Rainfall
:*Rocky Mountains
:*[[Surfing]]

==Add a ''Directory'' Listing==

{{Help:Listing/Add}}
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==Add a ''Main Space'' Article==
If you wish to create a '''Main Space''' article (remember, it must conform to [[NPOV]]), simply click your cursor so that it appears after the  ''':''' in the text box below, then type the name of the article as you want it to appear in MyWikiBiz, then click Go! The screen will be pre-populated with text, Infobox and graphic (image) information derived from our article about [[Heating oil]]. All you need to do is save the form (feel free to preview first), then go back and replace and edit the respective information so that it describes the new article information (''don't forget an [[Help:Uploading_images|image]]''), and not Heating oil:

{| style="float:center;border:1px solid #ffccff"
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!style="border:1px solid #ffccff;background:#ffccff"|&nbsp;&nbsp;Main Space&nbsp;&nbsp; 
|style="border:1px solid #ffccff;"|
<inputbox>
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 bgcolor=#ffccff
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 buttonlabel=Go!
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 editintro=Template:Instructions QuickAdd
</inputbox>
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