Template:Organization/doc

This template is for use on articles about organizations or groups.

Parameters

 * image         : Optional - The file name of a picture to illustrate the organization, or its logo. The image will automatically be resized to fit the box. For backward compatibility,   and   tags should still work.
 * caption       : Optional - The caption to be displayed underneath the image. This field will be italicized for you.
 * name          : Required - The name of the organization. For backward compatibility, organization will also work.
 * aliases       : Optional - Any alternate names by which this organization is known.
 * type          : Optional - The type of organization&mdash;clan, merchantile, religious order, etc.
 * base          : Optional - The location of the headquarters of the organization or the main area of activity.
 * leadertitle   : Optional - The title by which the leader is addressed.
 * leader        : Optional - The person in charge of, or possessing power over, the organization. Occasionally this might be more than one person.
 * symbol        : Optional - A textual description of the symbol of the organization.
 * favored deity : Optional - The favored deity of the organization.
 * favored weapon : Optional - For religious organizations, this is the favored weapon of the deity.
 * domains       : Optional - For religious organizations, these are the domains available to clerics of the organization. This only applies to 3rd and 4th edition (and perhaps beyond).
 * formed        : Optional - The year in which the organization was formed.
 * disbanded     : Optional - The year in which the organization was disbanded.
 * basicrefs     : Optional - Put   tags here and they will be placed in the section header instead of cluttering up the data.
 * members       : Optional - The number of members. Don't list member names here, use the memberstable instead, and/or set the showmembers parameter below.
 * memberstable  : Optional - This parameter will give you the full width of the infobox to fill in, typically with a Class table or Split table displaying a list of member classes, races, or perhaps totals by date in history.
 * memtableheader : Optional - A header in bold type spanning both columns of the memberstable.
 * alignment     : Optional - Use an alignment grid to describe the possible alignments of the membership.
 * races         : Optional - A comma-separated list of the races found among the membership.
 * memrefs       : Optional - Put   tags here and they will be placed in the section header instead of cluttering up the data.
 * event1, event2, event3, event4 : Optional. The names or brief descriptions of any major events between the establishment and disestablishment of this organization.
 * date1, date2, date3, date4 : Optional. The dates associated with those events. These are free-form fields so you may specify a range of dates, e.g. 1223 DR–1226 DR, approximations like circa &minus;3000 DR, or whatever is appropriate.
 * leader1, leader2, leader3, leader4, leader5 : Optional. You may link the names of up to five past leaders of this organization. If you specified a leadertitle above, then it will be used here also.
 * leaderyear1, leaderyear2, leaderyear3, leaderyear4, leaderyear5 : Optional. The years for leader1 etc., as an integer (no commas) in Dalereckoning that the leader assumed office or control. Do not link the year, it will be linked for you. Dashes will be converted to minus signs.
 * leadertable : Optional. If you have more than 5 leaders, or you want to specify ranges for the dates, or you just want to format it your own way, then use this parameter. This will place a small bold heading of "Leader History" above your input and give you the full width of the infobox to use. Typically a Split table is used to make a nice two-column presentation.
 * histrefs : Optional. You can place  tags here and they will go in the History subheading rather than clutter up the infobox.
 * allegiances   : Optional - Any other organizations with which this one has a positive relationship.
 * enemies       : Optional - Any other organizations with which this one has a negative relationship.
 * relrefs       : Optional - Put   tags here and they will be placed in the section header instead of cluttering up the data.
 * showmembers   : Optional - If set to "yes" a link will be provided to the category called "Members of Organization" where Organization is the value of the orgname parameter, or the page name if not set. Don't set this to "no", just leave it blank if you don't want this to appear in the infobox.
 * orgname       : Optional - Only needed if showmembers is set to "yes" and the full name of the organization does not match the page name. Sometimes, the organization name will begin with the word "the" but the article name will not. In order for the category link to work properly, you will need to set this parameter to the name of the organization, including the word "the" (all lower case) unless the article is about an organization that does not begin with "the". For example, an article exists at Purple Dragon Knights, but the category containing its members is called Category:Members of the Purple Dragons, so in this case, this orgname parameter should be set to "the Purple Dragons".

Standardized Sections
These are the typical section headers for an article about an organization, as discussed in this forum thread. You can easily cut and paste it from here and delete the ones you don't use: