User blog comment:Hidden-in-my-own-shadows/OC Questions/@comment-27115455-20180523010049

hi!! welcome to wiki we're so glad to have you here!! you can call me patch!

for your first question, yes, you can go right ahead and create a page for your oc as soon as you want!

as for your second, you don't have to "trademark" them as i never did, but to be honest i'm not exactly sure what you mean by that. Mattel officially trademarks their characters, lines, products, etc, on trademarkia, but as ocs are not official canon you wouldn't actually trademark them. I know you likely don'y mean literal trademarking them, as the quotations suggest, but i don't know what you're referring to? i get the feeling you might mean the introduction sentence that matches the character pages on theeah wiki. they look like this:

[Character Name] is a [year they were created] introduced and all-around character.

^^ is that what you meant?

but for your third, you most definitely don't need to follow a template!! if you have an idea for what you want your pages to look like, go ahead and use that! but, as you might've already noticed, a lot of the oc pages on here seem to follow a certain format. We do have a template you can use to organize your page if you'd like to use it! additionally, we have a whole page of resources for anyone to use!