Help:Layout

The following serves as an overview and example of how articles should be laid out. While some articles may diverge from this format, this should serve as a helpful tool for new editors and a way to keep the wiki easy to navigate and read.

This is a fairly generic guide. Specific, commonly created types of articles may have an available template. Several of these are listed as links when you create a new page (for example, Template:New character).

Many articles will have an infobox. Infoboxes appear along the righthand side of the article and serve to summarize key points about the topic. For a full list of available infoboxes, please see here: Infobox Templates.

If the article has a title very similar to another one (eg: Thordak the dragon and Thordak (episode) the Campaign 1 episode), you may wish to put a link clarifying this at the top, eg: "This page is about the episode. For the red dragon, see Thordak."

The lede of the article is next: this is a brief description of article content. The lede may appear in the mouseover summaries and in search results, so unlike the rest of the article (and wiki), this should be relatively spoiler free. The first sentence should include the article title, and that title should be bolded.

Headers
The information in the article will be put under headers. Often these headers will have standardized names for the type of article; for example, the New Character template's first header reads "Description".

Subheaders
Subheaders go below the header and you can create them by adding additional equals signs. Headers and subheaders will automatically be used to generate a table of contents for the article with links so you can jump to each section.

Not all headers in a template have to be filled out. For example, not all locations are populated, so the "Notable People" section may be empty. You can either hide an unused section by commenting it out like this or deleting it. Commenting out is often useful for articles that may be fleshed out more by the campaign as it continues; deleting makes more sense for articles on topics that are unlikely to come up again. However, we never know, and sections can always be re-added!

Other notes on sectioning
Please refer to the page templates for specific information on some commonly used sections; the New Character template will cover, for example, how to properly format quotes or use the "Appearances and Mentions" section. If you're creating a page for which there isn't a page template, feel free to ask an experienced editor or administrator for advice.

Trivia
Trivia always goes at the bottom of the article. As with other headers, it's okay to remove or comment out if there is nothing that fits under that header.

Trivia should be limited to, well, trivia: relevant and interesting details that don't fit elsewhere in the article. Trivia must still maintain a neutral point of view, even if it is discussing an opinion, and should never be used for canonical information.

Examples of Good Pages

 * Character (NPC): Gurge Kisgregg
 * City/town: Nicodranas
 * Item: Mariner's Armor

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 * Manual of style
 * Editing cheatsheet