Help:Templates

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

Preload Templates
The most common new pages created on the wiki have preload templates that will pre-populate a new page with the correct infobox and the standard section headings that we use. Just click on one of the options and then delete the headings that you don't use, but please leave the full infobox in the article. In the Visual editor, it looks like this: and in the Source editor, it looks like this: If you are in the Visual editor and click one of the choices, it will take you to the Source editor. Simply save the page and then reopen it to get back to the Visual editor.

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. If you use one of the preload templates, the blank infobox template will be automatically added to the page.


 * Template:Real-world person for an article about a creator of D&D or FR material.
 * Template:Book for an article about a novel or sourcebook.
 * Template:BookIU for an article about an in-universe book.
 * Template:Building for articles on inns, taverns, temples etc.
 * Template:Class for a character class.
 * Template:Computer game for a computer game.
 * Template:Creature for a typical creature.
 * Template:Deity for articles on deities.
 * Template:Disease for diseases, conditions, and afflictions.
 * Template:Event for articles about events, such as holidays and treaties.
 * Template:Conflict for articles about battles, skirmishes, wars, and so on.
 * Template:Ethnicity for articles about an ethnic group, tribe, or clan.
 * Template:Item for an item (specific or nonspecific).
 * Template:BGitem specifically for items from the Baldur's Gate series of games.
 * Template:Substance for articles about substances or materials.
 * Template:Language for articles about a language, dialect, or language family.
 * Template:Location for a geographical area, like a country, territory, city, town, or other place governed by a political entity, etc.
 * Template:Body of water for a pond, lake, stream, river, sea, or ocean.
 * Template:Dungeon for a whole dungeon or one particular level.
 * Template:Mountain for a mountain, mountain range, or volcano.
 * Template:Road for a road or trail between points of interest.
 * Template:Organization for a group of individuals, like a church, clan, movement, or guild.
 * Template:Person for an NPC.
 * Template:Plane for articles on a Plane of existence.
 * Template:Plant or Template:Fungus for vegetation.
 * Template:Ship for articles on ships and vessels.
 * Template:Spell for articles on spells and spell-like powers, such as:
 * Template:Channel divinity
 * Template:Discipline
 * Template:Evocation
 * Template:Exploit
 * Template:Hex
 * Template:Prayer
 * Template:Ritual

Infobox Helper Templates

 * Template:Alignment grid Used in infoboxes to show alignments.
 * Template:Class table Used in infoboxes to list class/level pairs. Optionally generates categories for them.
 * Template:Currency table Creates a table comparing values of coin denominations.
 * Template:Desc Used in infoboxes to add a "descriptor" or "keyword" to a spell or power. Also generates categories for them.
 * Template:Numeric table Used in infoboxes to present a tabular list with quantitative data, like a membership-by-race list.
 * Template:Percentage table Used in infoboxes to present demographic percentage info, usually for a Location.
 * Template:Spell table Used in infoboxes to list class/level pairs and automatically generate categories for them.
 * Template:Split table Used in infoboxes to create a completely customizable two-column table.

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 place.

Consider first what you are citing in order to decide which template is most appropriate. If a template for the source already exists, look at Help:Citing sources for how to use it. See Category:Citation templates for a huge list of all possible citation templates or try one of the links below.


 * Template:Cite book for citing books (novels or sourcebooks) – in general you can use  – see Category:Novel citation templates and Category:Sourcebook citation templates. 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 for easily citing Dragon magazine using the issue number. See Category:Dragon citation templates for the full list.
 * Template:Cite dungeon for easily citing Dungeon magazine using the issue number. See Category:Dungeon citation templates for the full list.
 * Template:Cite game for citing info from video, card, and board games, as well as software. See Category:Game citation templates for the full list.
 * Template:Cite adventurers league for citing Adventurers League publications. See Category:Adventurers league citation templates for the full list.
 * 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 website you are citing. If not, use the general Cite web template, or if you think that there will be lots of citations concerning the website, create a subtemplate, or request that one is created.

Chronology
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 * Template:Roll of years to specify a Dalereckoning year and have the number converted to other reckonings automatically. If the year has a name, it will be automatically displayed.
 * Template:Yearbox is for allowing quick navigation from one year to nearby years.
 * There are a number of templates to divide an article about events in a certain year into obvious sections by topic:

User Pages
All user page templates are meant for personalizing your userpage and providing various info about you throughout the community. Specific user page templates:
 * Category:Userbox templates Userboxes are small colored boxes used as short distinctive communicative notices or info. You can use one or more of them on your userpage.
 * Template:Members The main infobox you can use on your user page.

Page Notices

 * Template:Cleanup Used as a notice on messy articles.
 * Template:Deletion Used as a notice on pages to show admins they should be deleted.
 * Template:Incomplete Used as a notice on articles aren't finished yet.
 * Template:Merge Used as a notice for pages that should be merged into one.
 * Template:Nocrunch Used as a notice for pages that break the No-crunch Policy.
 * Template:Nofootnotes Used as a notice for pages that may have some references but need in-text citations.
 * Template:Otheruses4 Used to disambiguate a page by giving a very brief description of the current page, another possible interpretation, and a link to it.
 * Template:Plagiarism Used as a notice for pages that are candidates for deletion due to violating the plagiarism policy.
 * Template:Split Used as a notice to recommend a page be split into two or more pages.
 * Template:Unreferenced Used as a notice for pages that need references.

Other Useful Templates

 * Template:Fact Used to mark a passage as needing a citation.
 * Template:Quote Used for text that is from another source, like a person or book blurb.
 * Template:Fq "Floating quote" offsets a quote or other content in a styled box that can float left or right.
 * Template:Timescale Used to mark a passage as needing specific dates.
 * Template:Climate Used for creating a bar chart of temperature, rainfall, or snowfall.