The Vault:Fallout 3 locations project

 

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Fallout 3 locations project This article is within the scope of the Fallout 3 locations project. This project is dedicated to standardizing Fallout 3 location articles. If you want to participate, please check the project page.

The The Vault:Fallout 3 locations project is a project which aims to improve the vast quantity of location articles, both marked and unmarked, for Fallout 3.

Scope

To create an element of cohesiveness and symmetry for all of the location articles.

Articles which fall within the scope of this project:

• all articles in Category:Fallout 3 locations
• all articles in Category:Fallout 3 unmarked locations

Guidelines

Standard layout

This is the standard layout for all location articles except settlement and district ones. Make sure the sections are in the order given (omitting ones which are not needed in the specific article).

Standard layout items (top)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Page management boxes	No	No	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	No	No	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	No	No	{{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.
Infobox	No	Yes	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	No	Yes	{{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.

Location-specific layout items (standard)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Lead section	No	Yes	Small paragraph which contains the following bits of information: location name (and alternative names) in bold. type of location (building, factory, metro tunnel etc) size (small, medium, large); for buildings inside towns, this is replaced by the owners/inhabitants faction (wastelanders/ghouls/Outcasts etc) which inhabits it number of interior zones it consists of
Background	Yes	No	If there's any background story/history for the location.
Layout	Yes	Yes	Describe the layout for each section: what it looks like, connections to the other sections, how many and what type of enemy can be found here. Make a subsection for each zone of the location, titled with the ingame name of the zone. Start with a section called "Exterior" where you describe the entrance area. The basic premise is that the section should give someone who has not seen the location an idea of what it looks like and how it is set up.
Notable loot	Yes	No	List unique and rare loot here with a short description of where to find it. See Help:Notable loot.
Related quests	Yes	No	If there are quests which start or take place in this location, list them here (just link them, no need to go into detail).
Notes	Yes	No	For interesting things about the location which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum.
Appearances	Yes	Yes	Which games this location appears in.

Standard layout items (bottom)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Behind the scenes	Yes	No	"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	Yes	No	Game glitches, short "bugs", relating to the article subject should be here. See The Vault:Content policy#Bugs for additional information.
Gallery	Yes	No	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	Yes	No	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	Yes	No	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	Yes	No	Links to external (i.e. off-wiki) sites which are not references should be just above "References".
References	Yes	No	If references have been used in an article, {{references}} should be placed here.
Stub template	No	No	A stub template marks an article as being too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject.
Navboxes	No	No	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}}.
Categories and interwiki links	No	Yes	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.

Sample article: The Vault:Fallout 3 locations project/standard

Settlement/district layout

This is the layout for settlements and districts. Make sure the sections are in the order given (omitting ones which are not needed in the specific article).

Standard layout items (top)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Page management boxes	No	No	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	No	No	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	No	No	{{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.
Infobox	No	Yes	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	No	Yes	{{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.

Location-specific layout items (settlement/district)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Lead section	No	Yes	Small paragraph which contains the following bits of information: type of location (settlement) size (small, medium, large) faction (wastelanders/ghouls/Outcasts etc) which inhabits it number of interior zones it consists of (if applicable)
Background	Yes	No	If there is any background story/history for the location.
Layout	Yes	Yes	General description of the location's layout. If the settlement/district is split into multiple zones, describe each of them here and which buildings are located in each. Describe what it looks like, connections to the outside world, how many and what type of enemy can be found here (if there are any). Make a subsection for each zone of the location, titled with the ingame name of the zone. The basic premise is that the section should give someone who has not seen the location an idea of what it looks like and how it is set up.
Buildings	Yes	Yes	Buildings/other locations in the settlement/district which can be entered (list)
Inhabitants	Yes	Yes	The town's inhabitants (list). For districts, this only needs to be present if there are named non-hostile NPCs living in the area. Hostiles should be described in the "Layout" section.
Notable loot	Yes	No	List unique and rare loot here with a short description of where to find it. See Help:Notable loot.
Related quests	Yes	No	If there are quests which start or take place in this location, list them here (just link them, no need to go into detail).
Notes	Yes	No	For interesting things about the location which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum.
Appearances	Yes	Yes	Which games this location appears in.

Standard layout items (bottom)
Layout item	Headline	Required	Explanation
Behind the scenes	Yes	No	"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	Yes	No	Game glitches, short "bugs", relating to the article subject should be here. See The Vault:Content policy#Bugs for additional information.
Gallery	Yes	No	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	Yes	No	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	Yes	No	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	Yes	No	Links to external (i.e. off-wiki) sites which are not references should be just above "References".
References	Yes	No	If references have been used in an article, {{references}} should be placed here.
Stub template	No	No	A stub template marks an article as being too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject.
Navboxes	No	No	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}}.
Categories and interwiki links	No	Yes	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.

Sample article: The Vault:Fallout 3 locations project/settlement

Images

Ratio

• All scenery images (i.e. the top image in the infobox) should be ratio 1.33:1 (width to height).
• All Map marker images should be ratio 2:1.

Quality

• Local map and world map images should be free of scan lines. Use this mod (http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=274).
• Other images should show no parts of the UI.

1. Press the "~" key on your keyboard to bring up the console.
2. Type "tm" (without the quotation marks).
3. Press the "Enter" key.
4. Press the "~" key on your keyboard to close the console.
5. User Interface is now disabled.
6. Take the screenshot(s) you desire by pressing the "Print Screen" key.
7. After you are done, press the "~" key to bring up the console, type "tm" (without the quotation marks).
8. Press the "Enter" key.
9. Press the "~" key on your keyboard to close the console and enable User Interface.

Infobox

Which fields a location infobox needs to have filled out to qualify as complete depends on the type of location. For explanations what the different fields should contain, please refer to the {{Infobox location}} template documentation.

All location infoboxes should have the following fields:

{{Infobox location
|games            =FO3
|type             =landmark
|image            =
|map marker image =
|map marker       =
|local map        =
|factions         =
|cell name        =
|refid            ={{ID|}}
}}

Settlements should also have:

{{Infobox location
|games            =FO3
|type             =settlement small
|image            =
|map marker image =
|map marker       =
|local map        =
|sections         =
|buildings        =
|factions         =
|leaders          =
|doctors          =
|merchants        =
|cell name        =
|refid            ={{ID|}}
}}

Metro and other tunnels should also have:

{{Infobox location
|games            =FO3
|type             =metro
|image            =
|map marker image =
|map marker       =
|local map        =
|factions         =
|connects to      =
|world map exits  =
|other exits      =
|cell name        =
|refid            ={{ID|}}
}}

Districts should also have:

{{Infobox location
|games            =FO3
|type             =district
|image            =
|map marker image =
|map marker       =
|part of          =
|local map        =
|factions         =
|buildings        =
|metro exits      =
|other exits      =
|cell name        =
|refid            ={{ID|}}
}}

Buildings inside towns/districts should also have:

{{Infobox location
|games            =FO3
|type             =building
|image            =
|part of          =
|local map        =
|factions         =
|owners           =
|cell name        =
|refid            ={{ID|}}
}}

General checklist

This is a list of things people should look out for when improving the location articles:

• Headlines: The location articles should follow the layout descirbed above. This includes naming (including capitalization) and order of the headlines/sections.
• Notable loot: These sections need to be reduced to actually notable, i.e. rare and important loot.
• Notes: The Notes sections should be kept to a minimum. They should be merged with other sections where applicable. It should also be checked whether there's a more suitable article for a given note - for example, notes relating to characters or quests should be in the character/quest article, not in the location one.
• Infoboxes: should be checked for completeness. A lot of articles are missing the faction field, for example.
  • Cell and Ref IDs: Are largely missing and need to be added.
• Local maps: Need to be added where they are missing.
• Navboxes: Check for missing navboxes and add them where applicable. This mostly concerns buildings which are part of towns, these should have the town-specific navbox.
• Bugs: Reduce to bugs which are specific to that location. No general FO3 bugs which may happen anywhere, no bugs which relate to quests or characters in that location.
• Behind-the-scene: Reduce to obvious references.

Participants

To participate, simply add your name below using {{userlink|your user name}}. Place every participant on a new line. The list is alphabetised (with exception of the project leader). Please add your username to the list appropriately.

• Nitpicker of the Wastes (talk · contribs) - project leader

• Ant2242 (talk · contribs)

• CompleCCity (talk · contribs)

• KristofferAG (talk · contribs)

• Porter21 (talk · contribs)

• Shadowrunner56 (talk · contribs)

Inactive Participants

• aFollower (talk · contribs)

• Almighty Higgey (talk · contribs)

• Cartman! (talk · contribs)

• Chief editor 13 (talk · contribs)

• EB683 (talk · contribs)

• Gauzz Rifle (talk · contribs)

• GlassJAw667 (talk · contribs)

• Jackasaurus (talk · contribs)

• Jspoelstra (talk · contribs)

• Kingclyde (talk · contribs)

• LawdyMissMaudy (talk · contribs)

• MickeyHikaruMouse (talk · contribs)

• Nemerian (talk · contribs)

• Tim to the Adams (talk · contribs)

• VAULT DWELLER (talk · contribs)

• GamerAddict7796 (talk · contribs)

• sanelynutz (talk · contribs)

Progress

• Add your name to the tasks you are currently working on (simply insert {{repeat}} ~~~, this adds your signature without date)
• Mark tasks you have completed with {{yes}} ~~~
• Once all other tasks have been completed, someone else should review the result. This is done to ensure nothing has been overlooked. If that has been done, add {{yes}} ~~~ to the "peer review" and "all done" columns.

Progress/assignment tables

Broken Steel

Broken Steel
Article	rewrite/ rearrange text	complete infobox	add cell/ ref ID	scenery image	map marker image	local map images	peer review	complete
Adams Air Force Base
Adams Storage Facility			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK
Air Control Tower
Hank's Electrical Supply	Yes Shadowrunner56		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK
Holy Light Monastery	Yes Shadowrunner56		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK
Mobile Base Crawler			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK
Museum Authority Building	Yes Shadowrunner56		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK
Old Olney S. Wilson Building
Old Olney Underground
Olney Powerworks
Presidential Metro
Presidential Sub Level
Rockland Car Tunnel	Yes Shadowrunner56
Satellite Relay Station	Yes Shadowrunner56

Mothership Zeta

Mothership Zeta
Article	rewrite/ rearrange text	complete infobox	add cell/ ref ID	scenery image	map marker image	local map images	peer review	complete
Biological Research			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Bridge			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Cargo Hold			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Cryo Lab			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Cryo Storage			Yes FLaSHBaCK			Yes FLaSHBaCK
Death Ray Control			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Death Ray Hub			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Decompression Chamber	Yes - CNavellier		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Engine Room			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Engineering Core	Yes - CNavellier		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Experimentation Lab			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Hangar	Yes - CNavellier		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Holding Cells	Yes - CNavellier		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Living Quarters			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Maintenance Level			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Mothership Zeta				Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Observation Deck			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Research Lab			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Robot Assembly	Yes - CNavellier		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Space Walk	Yes - CNavellier		Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Steamworks			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK
Weapons Lab			Yes FLaSHBaCK	Yes FLaSHBaCK		Yes FLaSHBaCK

Operation: Anchorage

Operation: Anchorage
Article	rewrite/ rearrange text	complete infobox	add cell/ ref ID	scenery image	map marker image	local map images	peer review	complete
Anchorage Reclamation simulation	Yes Master1337cheeZ	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Porter21	Yes Vault 815
Bailey's Crossroads	Yes Shadowrunner56	Yes Porter21	Yes Porter21	Yes Porter21	Yes Porter21	Yes Porter21	Yes Porter21	Yes
Bailey's Crossroads Metro	Yes Shadowrunner56	Yes Vault 815	Yes Sentinel 101	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815
Outcast Outpost	Yes Shadowrunner56	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815	Yes Porter21	Yes
U.S. Army Field Headquarters	Yes Shadowrunner56	Yes Vault 815	YesSentinel 101	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes Vault 815	Yes Vault 815

The Pitt

The Pitt
Article	rewrite/ rearrange text	complete infobox	add cell/ ref ID	scenery image	map marker image	local map images	peer review	complete
Abandoned Apartments	Yes Shadowrunner56				Yes EB683
Abandoned Area	Yes Shadowrunner56	Yes EB683
Haven	Yes Shadowrunner56			Yes Like-minded
Midea's Quarters	Yes Shadowrunner56
Mount Wash
The Pitt
Radio Tower
Steelyard
Supply Plant	Yes Master1337cheeZ
The Hole	Yes Master1337cheeZ
The Mill	Yes Master1337cheeZ
The Pitt Bridge	Yes Shadowrunner56
The Pitt Downtown	Yes Shadowrunner56
The Pitt Trainyard	Yes Shadowrunner56
The Pitt Underground	Yes Master1337cheeZ
The Pitt Uptown	Yes Shadowrunner56
Train Tunnel	Yes Shadowrunner56
Wernher's Hideout	Yes Shadowrunner56

Related resources

• Cell ID - list of location ref IDs and cell names in Fallout 3.

Related projects

• Unified page layout project