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For the general guideline, see Voyage Century Wiki:Article layout guideline.
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This page contains the Wiki's article layout guideline for items. It describes the standard layout for articles about ingame items such as armors and hats, potions, weapons etc.
Infobox and categories[]
A few additional pointers regarding the applicable infoboxes and categories:
- Every item page should have an {{Infobox item}} template. For details on usage, please refer to the template page.
- Most item pages are categorized in multiple categories. Every item page should be put to Category:Items and then to more specific categories such as Category:Character equipment, Category:Ship equipment, Category:Beliefs...
Item article layout[]
The layout is composed of three tables. The top and bottom tables are standard layout items found in every article; they are only included here for completeness. The middle table contains the actual specifics for item pages.
| Layout item | Explanation | ||
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| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Layout item | Explanation | ||
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| Lead section | Short summary that usually looks something like this:
"{{PAGENAME}} is a level 145 profession weapon." In general, it should contain:
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| Background | If there is any background story/history for the item. | ||
| Characteristics | Properties of this item. For potions, these are the effects. For armor, these include statistics, skill effects etc. | ||
| Availability | Locations where this item can be found. This section should have subheaders with the appropriate information, such us Crafting, Exchange, Quest... | ||
| Related quests | If there are quests which are related to this item, list them here (just link them, no need to go into detail). | ||
| Notes | For interesting things about the item which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum. | ||
| Layout item | Explanation | ||
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| Trivia | List of interesting facts about the article. | ||
| Bugs | Game glitches, short "bugs", relating to the article subject should be here. See 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 below "References". | ||
| References | If references have been used in an article, {{references}} should be placed here. | ||
| Stub templates | Stub templates mark an article as being too short to provide more than rudimentary information about a subject. All stub templates can be found in Category:Stub templates, only the most specific should be used. | ||
| 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}}. | ||
| 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. | ||