Help:Templates

Templates are used across the wiki to make articles more accessible and organised. Please bare this in mind when creating new pages.

Citation
Citation is important because it allows the wiki to demonstrate that a statement is true and beyond dispute. Articles with statements lacking citations run the risk of becoming disputed, and this is often more complicated than providing a good citation in the first instance.

Consider first what you are citing in order to decide which template is most appropriate.


 * Template:Cite book Use Cite book for citing books (novels or sourcebooks) – in general you can use  – see Category:Citation templates for a huge list. Most of the novels and sourcebooks should already have their own template. If not, you might have to create one or request that one is created for you.
 * Template:Cite dragon Use Cite dragon should be used for easily citing Dragon magazine.
 * Template:Cite dungeon Use Cite dungeon should be used for easily citing Dungeon magazine.
 * Template:Cite web Use Cite web for citing a website, with subtemplates much like above, but less useful (because of the large number of potential websites out there from which things can be cited). Check Category:Web citation templates to see if there is already a template for the web site you are citing. If not, use the general Cite web template, or if you think that there will be lots of citations concerning the web site, create a subtemplate, or request that one is created.
 * Template:Cite frlist The [Forgotten Realms mailing list archives] are full of information of one kind or another. Use Cite frlist to cite an individual message on the list archives, but beware of the accuracy of these posts. Most are made by Realms fans and not authors, so should not be relied upon.

Infoboxes
Infoboxes are used to summarize key information at the beginning of a page. These are some of the most popular infoboxes on this wiki.Category:Infoboxes may have a more complete and/or up-to-date list.


 * Template:Book for an article about a novel or sourcebook.
 * Template:Building for articles on inns, taverns, temple etc.
 * Template:Class for a character class.
 * Template:Computer game for a computer game.
 * Template:Creature for a creature.
 * Template:Deity for articles on deities.
 * Template:Location for an area, like a country, territory, city, town, etc.
 * Template:Organization for a group of individuals, like a clan, movement or guild
 * Template:Person for a person.
 * Template:Plane for articles on planes.
 * Template:Spell for articles on spells.

Chronology

 * Template:Roll of years to specify a DR year and its name, and have the number converted to other reckonings automatically.
 * Template:Yearbox is for allowing quick navigation from one year to nearby years.
 * Template:Yearbox/deaths, Template:Yearbox/in-politics, Template:Yearbox/migrations, etc are all templates to divide an article about events in a certain year into obvious sections by topic.

User Pages

 * Category:Userbox templates Userboxes can be used on your userpage to personalize it.
 * Template:Members Infobox you can use on your user page.

Page Headers

 * Template:Cleanup Used as a header on messy or incomplete articles.
 * Template:Deletion Used as a header on pages to show admin they should be deleted.
 * Template:Merge Used as a header for pages that should be merged into one.
 * Template:Nocrunch Used as a header for pages that break the No-crunch Policy.

Other Useful Templates

 * Template:Alignment grid Used in infoboxes to show alignments.
 * Template:Quote Used for text that is from another source, like a person or book blurb.
 * Template:Volo Used for taverns and inns to show Volo's ratings.