Help:Templates

Templates are used across the wiki to make articles more accessible and organised. Please bear 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:Author for an article about a creator of FR material.
 * 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 typical creature.
 * Template:Aberration for creatures that are aberrations.
 * Template:Elemental for creatures with an elemental nature.
 * Template:Fey for creatures from the Feywild or of the fey type.
 * Template:Shadow for creatures from the Plane of Shadow or of the shadow type.
 * Template:Immortal for divine, diabolic, or demonic creatures from other planes.
 * Template:Deity for articles on deities.
 * Template:Ethnicity for articles about an ethnic group, tribe, or clan.
 * Template:Item for an item (specific or nonspecific).
 * 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: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:Spell for articles on spells and spell-like powers, such as:
 * Template:Discipline
 * Template:Evocation
 * Template:Exploit
 * Template:Hex
 * Template:Prayer
 * Template:Prayer/channel divinity
 * 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 two-column table.
 * Template:Volo Used for taverns and inns to show Volo's ratings.

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.
 * There are a number of templates to divide an article about events in a certain year into obvious sections by topic:
 * Template:Yearbox/deaths
 * Template:Yearbox/births
 * Template:Yearbox/in-people
 * Template:Yearbox/migrations
 * Template:Yearbox/in-politics
 * Template:Yearbox/in-conflicts
 * Template:Yearbox/in-organizations
 * Template:Yearbox/in-deities
 * Template:Yearbox/in-environment
 * Template:Yearbox/in-wildlife
 * Template:Yearbox/misc
 * Template:Yearbox/in-games
 * Template:Yearbox/in-novels

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 Headers

 * Template:Cleanup Used as a header on messy articles.
 * Template:Deletion Used as a header on pages to show admins they should be deleted.
 * Template:Incomplete Used as a header on articles aren't finished yet.
 * 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.
 * Template:Nofootnotes Used as a header 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 header for pages that are candidates for deletion due to violating the plagiarism policy.
 * Template:Split Used as a header to recommend a page be split into two or more pages.
 * Template:Unreferenced Used as a header 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:Timescale Used to mark a passage as needing specific dates.