User blog:Blupo/Wiki Style Guide

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This is a style guide for how articles should be written and/or presented.

Item, Mob, and Location Pages Examples: Frogazoid, Salvaje

Writing These pages should have an infobox in every case. These are the official infoboxes for use:
 * Template:Infobox Mob (OFFICIAL TEMPLATE) for mobs
 * Template:Infobox Item (OFFICIAL TEMPLATE) for items
 * Template:Infobox Location (OFFICIAL TEMPLATE) for locations

For item infoboxes, there should be two images: one for the official icon, and one for an in-game image.

They also need an Overview header. It should be a level 2 header  or a Heading in the Visual Editor. The first occurence of the mob/location/item's name on the page itself (usually the first sentence of the Overview) should be bolded.

Overview The Salvaje is...

The Overview should always restate the information in the infobox. There is no consensus as to what other information should be included in the Overview, but some examples of additional information are:
 * Spawn time
 * Drop rate
 * How to travel to a mob/location
 * How to be able to access a floor

The Overview should be short and concise. Don't add loaded words or make it seem like the page is giving an opinion. The wiki's goal is to give factual information.

The Frogazoid is the mini-boss of Floor 7, the Entoloma Gloomlands. It gives 265 XP and 100-301 Vel when killed. It also has a chance to drop the Andalusite Blade and the Vengeance Scaled Wraps, both with a 1% drop rate.

It takes about 1 minute for it to respawn but will spawn faster or slower depending on server lag. This mini-boss has 75,000 health split up into three health bars.

In order to get to the miniboss, you will have to walk and parkour over the floating land near the giant mushroom. There are some paths on the parkour that will trick you and lead to the wrong place (the boss may be in a different location if he was brought there by following players, or if it has fallen off on its own).

Additional sections can be added. A common section to add is Trivia, which lists information that the reader may find interesting, such as statistics or odd behaviors.

Trivia
 * Attacking the Frogazoid's tail lets you loop this creature easier, just like the Wattlechin Crocodile.
 * There is a chance that if the mob doesn't get aggravated it may walk off the floating island.
 * Sometimes when harassed by too many players, a glitch happens in which the Frogazoid leaps out of the world and dies. This may cause it to no longer spawn.

Images For images of items and locations, there are usually official images of them. These are usually uploaded a short while after a new item/floor is released. The location of these images will not be disclosed here as to protect the developers' intellectual property.

For images of mobs and locations without official images, here are some guidelines:
 * Do not show any person in the photo.
 * A clear shot of the mob's face should be visible, as well as it's entire body.
 * For locations, a clear shot of the overall landscape should be visible.

For in-game images of items (i.e. someone wearing/wielding an item):
 * Show as little of the body as possible.
 * Do not show anyone's face.
 * Do not show anyone's username.
 * The item should be clearly visible against the background.

Listing Pages Examples: Auras, Items

These pages should emphasize data. They should have minimal writing. Tables and galleries (or gallery-like tables) are the suggested methods of displaying information.

A common way to minimize information on a page is to use tabbers. However, you should not use them on the wiki. They are incompatible with mobile viewing (the entire page is displayed without them), and they are hard for regular users to edit.


 * -|A=This
 * -|B=is
 * -|C=fragmented (except on mobile).

New Layouts If you want to try a new layout for how pages look, you should try experimenting with your User pages instead of using articles, as you will be asked to move them.

Please remember that the current page layout is throughly established in the wiki, so any changes to it would cause widespread attention. The Guidelines also dictate to some extent how pages should look, so you will have to talk to an admin about it before you can change any pages.

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