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Sorry about the delay! If there are a good amount of notable characters for a faction there is no harm listing them. Especially if there are too many for the infobox, or are in a position not included in the infobox. |
Sorry about the delay! If there are a good amount of notable characters for a faction there is no harm listing them. Especially if there are too many for the infobox, or are in a position not included in the infobox. |
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− | Ex: "Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel#Notable members" --03:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC) |
+ | :::Ex: "Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel#Notable members" --03:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC) |
+ | ::::I think that section is fairly unnecessary considering that the pages [[Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel characters]] and [[:Category:Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel characters]] already exist and cover what would be in the Notable members section. We shouldn't repeat the information that's already present elsewhere on an already large page. --[[User:Kastera1000|Kastera]] <sup>[[User talk:Kastera1000|(talk)]]</sup> 03:44, 5 October 2014 (UTC) |
Revision as of 03:44, 5 October 2014
I've noticed that faction pages generally have the same sections, but these sections don't have a uniform layout. I am attempting to remedy this by creating a guideline for factions. Below is what I propose to be placed in the new (soon to be created) faction article layout guideline page. If you have suggestions or comments, direct them to the section below.
This is the general layout for all factions.
Standard Faction items (top) | |||
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Faction item | Headline | Required | Explanation |
Page management boxes | Page management templates are used if you notice that something is out of order with a certain article or section and want to bring it to the attention of other editors or administrators. If the issue affects the whole article, these boxes should be placed at the very top of an article; if only a section is affected, they should be placed just below the headline of the respective section. The only exception are stub templates; see Stub templates below. For a list of page management boxes, please refer to our template overview or directly to Category:Page management templates. | ||
Project tags | Projects are joint efforts of editors who work together to improve a set of articles that cover a certain area of interest. Some of these projects have tags or boxes which are placed on the pages which the project affects; these should be placed below the article management boxes. | ||
"For" template | {{for}} is used to make a reader aware of other articles they may have been looking for when entering the title of the current page.
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Infobox | The purpose of infoboxes is to summarize data relating to the article. Infoboxes should appear in the top-right corner of an article. For a list of infobox templates, please refer to our template overview or directly to Category:Infobox templates. | ||
"Games" template | {{Games}} should be placed just below the infobox (if there is one). It produces small icons in the top right corner of an article which allow the reader to see "at a glance" what games or sources the article relates to or is based on. The template should be used in every article; almost no exceptions exist.
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Location-specific faction items (standard) | |||
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Layout item | Headline | Required | Explanation |
Lead section | A small paragraph which contains the following information: | ||
Background or History | Any background information on the faction that is present. Background is to be used for small factions; History is to be used for larger, more prominent factions. | ||
Beliefs | If a faction is a religious group, include what the adherents put their faith in and the world views that shape their faction. | ||
Organization or Society | How the faction is organized. This includes any government, hierarchy, economy and/or culture that the faction possesses, as well as any locations they control. Organization is to be used for small factions; Society is to be used for larger, more prominent factions. | ||
Military | Any armed forces this faction may have, as well as the composition and capability of these armed forces. | ||
Outside relations | Any alliances or hostilities this faction has with other factions or peoples. Interactions with the player character should be a subheading of this section. | ||
Technology | The amount and quality of technology this faction possesses. This includes weapons, armor/clothing, and scientific, mechanical and/or medical capabilities. | ||
Notable members | Any leaders or other officials the faction may have and a brief description of their roles within the faction. | ||
Notes | For interesting things about the faction which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum. | ||
Appearances | Which games this faction appears in. |
Standard layout items (bottom) | |||
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Layout item | Headline | Required | Explanation |
Behind the scenes | "Behind the scenes" is the place for information relating to game development and cultural references. See The Vault:Content policy#Behind the scenes for additional information. | ||
Bugs | Game glitches, short "bugs", relating to the article subject should be here. See The Vault:Content policy#Bugs for additional information. | ||
Gallery | If an article contains a lot of images, it is often better to place them in an own gallery section than to have them clutter the article. Please see Help:Gallery on how to use galleries and our image policy. | ||
Videos | If an article contains embedded videos, they are to be placed here. See our video policy for which kind of videos are eligible to be placed in articles. | ||
See also | The purpose of this section is to list links to related topics on this wiki which may not have been linked within the article content. | ||
External links | Links to external (i.e. off-wiki) sites which are not references should be just above "References". | ||
References | If references have been used in an article, {{references}} should be placed here.
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Stub template | A stub template marks an article as being too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject. | ||
Navboxes | Navboxes are navigational aids which allow easy access to other articles in a group the current article belongs to. They should be placed at the end of an article, just above the categories. The most article-specific navboxes should be highest and the least-specific lowest. A list of navboxes can be found in Category:Navbox templates. New navboxes can be constructed with {{Navbox}} .
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Categories and interwiki links | Categories and interwiki links should be added at the very end of an article. A full list of categories can be found on Special:Categories. For additional information, please see our categorization guideline. |
Suggestions/comments
I'm fine with having a standard layout, but all faction articles should have Appearances places above References. Tagaziel (talk) 18:58, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
I think this is perfect, pretty much everything I think we would need on a faction page is included. Shadowrunner(stuff) 20:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Ant2242 (talk) 21:47, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Sounds fine to me.--I really like the idea and the overall look of the guideline. I agree with Tagz that "Appearances" should go before "References" (the latter should probably be mentioned as well). As for suggestions, I'm not sure if "Notable members" section is needed as we usually have them listed in the infobox. For larger factions, maybe. Also, I would mark "Outside relations" and "Technology" as not required. You may have trouble finding enough info for a whole section in case of really small factions like Tusk or Brimstone squad from Fallout Tactics. veryblackraven 21:58, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
- Good points; I will alter the "Outside relations" and "Technology" parameters. I too was mulling over including "Notable members", so I added the brief description caveat because, as you said, most notable figure are already in the infobox. I figured that with such large factions (like the BoS, Enclave and NCR) it would be good to include short descriptions of them to help readers find important people, but since this can easily be done in the infobox, we can nix that section. --Kastera (talk) 22:13, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Sorry about the delay! If there are a good amount of notable characters for a faction there is no harm listing them. Especially if there are too many for the infobox, or are in a position not included in the infobox.
- Ex: "Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel#Notable members" --03:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
- I think that section is fairly unnecessary considering that the pages Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel characters and Category:Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel characters already exist and cover what would be in the Notable members section. We shouldn't repeat the information that's already present elsewhere on an already large page. --Kastera (talk) 03:44, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
- Ex: "Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel#Notable members" --03:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC)