Help:News

ArmchairGM allows anyone -- yes, even you! -- to write sports news that will be published for an innumerable readership. All you need to do is follow these simple instructions.


 * Step One: Create a free account. You do not have to do this, but this helps others communicate with you, in case you (or they) say something that needs further explanation.


 * Step Two: Type the title of your news article in the box below. (Before you hit "Create," you may want to open this link in a new window.)   Please try and make your title descriptive -- if you are writing about a trade, you may want to say "Player X traded to Team A for Players Y and Z."  Of course, it does not have to be that boring!


 * Step Three: If the "Create" button took you to the template, you are almost done.  If it took you to a page with a lot of writing, well, someone already took the title you wanted.  (Sorry!)  If that's the case, repeat Step Two with a different title.  Otherwise....


 * Step Four: Write your page! You can learn more about writing and editing pages at Help:Editing Overview.


 * Step Five: While editing the page, you'll see two lines.  One says " ==Date== " while the other says " ==Sources== ."  Under the first, please put the date, in Month Day, Year format (no abbreviations!).  Under the second, please put any sources you used in writing the article.  (If that includes your blog, so be it!)


 * Step Six: Click "Save page." Congrats, you have written your article!

Now, let's get people to read it.


 * Step Seven: In order to help bring your opinion to the masses, we suggest adding it to categories. For more on how to do that, see Category:Opinions.  Specifically, though, be sure to link your article up with the topics it involves.  See this opinion for example -- it is in categories MLB Opinions, Buster Olney Opinions, Bert Blyleven Opinions, and National Baseball Hall of Fame Opinions.    Adding your article to relevant Opinions categories allows ArmchairGM to automatically promote your article, driving traffic to it.
 * Read more about how this works.


 * Step Eight: You may wonder why the above-linked opinion is also in Category "On the DL."  That is the title of the author's Opinion Clubhouse.  Opinion Clubhouses act as a repository of opinions by that specific author.  It is highly suggested that you create one for your own opinions.  To learn more about Opinion Clubhouses, click  here.