Changes: His Dark Materials:Layout guide

Revision as of 11:44, 14 August 2018

For the His Dark Materials Wiki to remain uniform, orderly, and cohesive, there must first and foremost be certain stylistic ground rules articles must adhere to. For information on basic article editing techniques and protocols, see Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

Layout structure

All articles on characters, locations, organizations, and other elements of the His Dark Materials multiverse should follow a uniform layout and style, as demonstrated below.

Main Article

This is where the bulk of the information goes. This section should always be from an in-universe, past tense perspective, unless the article deals with a specifically out-of-universe topic.

Physical Description

For a description of the appearance of a character/object

Behind the Scenes

This is an out-of-universe section designed to add out-of-universe commentary on in-universe topics.

Appearances

In this section, the book or supplement that the subject of the article appears in should be referenced. All in-universe articles must contain this section.

External links

For linking to off-site related pages.

(Notes and) References

All articles should have a references section. When adding new information to the wiki, references should always be added. If this section also includes notes, then please add "Notes and" in front of the References title.

Category

Category tags go at the bottom of the page.

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 All articles on characters, locations, organizations, and other elements of the [[His Dark Materials]] [[multiverse]] should follow a uniform layout and style, as demonstrated below.
+;Main Article
-*''Main article:''  This is where the bulk of the information goes.  This section should ''always'' be from an in-universe, past tense perspective, unless the article deals with a specifically out-of-universe topic.
+This is where the bulk of the information goes.  This section should ''always'' be from an in-universe, past tense perspective, unless the article deals with a specifically out-of-universe topic.
-*''Stub message:''  Stub templates should be placed at the end of the main article.
+;Physical Description
-*''Behind the scenes:''  This is an out-of-universe section designed to add out-of-universe commentary on in-universe topics.
+For a description of the appearance of a character/object
-*''Appearances:''  In this section, the book or supplement that the subject of the article appears in should be referenced. All in-universe articles must contain this section.
+;Behind the Scenes
-*''See also:''  For linking to related articles.
+This is an out-of-universe section designed to add out-of-universe commentary on in-universe topics.
-*''External links:''  For linking to off-site related pages.
+;Appearances
-*''Notes and references: ''All articles should have a notes and references section. When adding new information to the Wiki, references should always be added.
+In this section, the book or supplement that the subject of the article appears in should be referenced. All in-universe articles must contain this section.
-*''Category:''  Category tags go at the bottom of the page.
+;External links
+For linking to off-site related pages.
+;(Notes and) References
+All articles should have a references section. When adding new information to the wiki, references should always be added. If this section also includes notes, then please add "Notes and" in front of the References title.
+;Category:
+Category tags go at the bottom of the page.