- For the general guideline, see Alone in the Dark Wiki:Article layout guideline.
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This page contains the Alone in the Dark Wiki's article layout guideline for items. It describes the standard layout for articles about ingame items such as consumables or weapons. | |
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Infobox and categories[]
A few additional pointers regarding the applicable infoboxes and categories:
- There are various infoboxes for item pages, depending on the type of item in question. Please refer to Templates for a list of infoboxes. For details on their usage, please refer to the respective template pages themselves.
- Most item pages are only categorized in one category, although specific exceptions exist (e.g. for weapon pages). The category depends on the game the item appears in (e.g. Category:AITD items). Please select the right sub-category of Category:Items for the type of item in question. Examples for sub-categories are the game-specific versions of Category:Consumable items or Category:Weapons.
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 and are collapsed by default. The middle table contains the actual specifics for item pages.
in the "headline" column means that this layout item should not have a headline.
in the "headline" column means that the article should have a headline of that name if you want to include such a layout item.
in the "required" column means that not every item article needs to include this layout item. in the "required" column means that every item article should include this layout item.
Standard layout items (top) | |||||||
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Layout item | Headline | Required | 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. | ||||||
"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.{{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|}} |
Item-specific layout items | |||
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Layout item | Headline | Required | Explanation |
Lead section | Short summary that usually looks something like this:
"{{PAGENAME}} is a weapon in Alone in the Dark 2." 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 drugs, these are the effects. For armor, these include damage resistance, effects and what other items they can be repaired with if any. For weapons, these include damage, special effects, what items they can be repaired with (if any) and general properties (such as what type of weapon it is etc). | ||
Locations | Locations where this item can be found (fixed locations only, no random spawns). | ||
Notes | For interesting things about the item which do not fit into the other categories. Try to keep this section to a minimum. |
Standard layout items (bottom) | |||||||
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Layout item | Headline | Required | Explanation
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Behind the scenes | "Behind the scenes" is the place for information relating to game development and cultural references. See Alone in the Dark Wiki:Content policy#Behind the scenes for additional information. | ||
Bugs | Game glitches, short "bugs", relating to the article subject should be here. See Alone in the Dark Wiki: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. | ||||||
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:Article 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.{{#vardefine:transcludedFrom|}} |