RWstyle

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We hope you'd like to contribute to this wiki, by adding new articles, or correcting and improving existing ones. This page describes little things that make pages consistent.

User Account
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Optionally, you may want to create your user page to tell others a bit about yourself. See Help:User page for more information.

Editing
The following link is a useful summary of general wiki markup: Wiki markup.

Licensing
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Also note that contribution to this wiki are generally licensed to the general public under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Wiki Style Conventions
So far, we've worked out some conventions for grammatical tense, categories of articles, character page names, and book references.

Grammatical Tense
Most of the articles in this wiki are written in-universe, that is from the frame of reference that the fictional universe of is real. Those articles are generally written in past tense. The exception are real world articles, which include author and source material information, and timelines which are written in present tense no matter when an event occurred.

Categories
We have a tree of categories:

It's best to put an article into the most specific category. For instance, a city should be in Category:Cities rather than Category:Locations. An article can belong to multiple categories. You put it into a category by entering at the bottom of the article , where XYZ is the appropriate category name.

Some of the more common categories in use, with sample articles:
 * Characters: Byron Avengene
 * Locations: Barony of Bristol
 * Cities: City of Montfort
 * Corporations: Montfort Forge
 * Schools: Vargrend Academy
 * Chapter-related articles: (these are generally populated by book citation templates below)
 * Chapter 70 articles: Desdemona Avengene
 * Chapter 57 articles: Town of Evandell
 * Books (for books, scrolls mentioned in ): Art of the Sword
 * Beings: Orcs (for species and types of beings, not individuals)
 * Gods: Nurtriste
 * Sources (sources for this wiki): Dragon's Inn
 * Weapons: Rapier

Character Pages
The best way to start a new character page is to enter, and save the page. This will create a "skeleton" character page, with section headings and categories. You can add or delete section headings, if appropriate; and, or course, add text to these sections.

Alternatively, you can use the following form (enter the character name): editintro=Create_Intro align=left buttonlabel=Create Character Article preload=Characters_Preload

Pages should be named after the full name in. For instance, "Bradley Bostwick" rather than "Brad Bostwick".

Some people are never called by their full name, like Morgan or Mrs. Dejan. In that case, use just the name known.

Titles and ranks, like Mr, Dr, Sergeant, etc. should not be used as part of the page name. The exception is when that's the only way to distinguish the individual, for example Warlord Bristol, whose first name is not known.

If a person is commonly known by two different names, we can put a redirection link from an alternate name, e.g. create a page for "Valkura" that has only #REDIRECT Brianna Barter. If the other name is significant, like representing a long-term cover for spy, a separate page can be created for the cover identity, with links to the real name and vice versa.

Location Articles
Since in many cases, the same (usually noble family) name is used for a region, central city, surname, and even as a title, locations include the type of landmark in the name and the article. Thus, the City of Rosehaven rather than Rosehaven, Barony of Liaern rather than Liaern, and River Augustana rather than Augustana.

Book References (Citations)
If you want to refer to, or a particular chapter, we recommend that you use the following template. The references are particularly useful for relatively obscure facts, like the middle name of a person that appears only once in the book.

If you use one of these templates in your article text, it will insert a footnote with the reference to the chapter or just the book (if no chapter is specified). It will also automatically add the article to a category related to this book.

for a footnote to Chapter 4 for a footnote to the Baronial Map for inline link to The Chronicles of Rapina

Materials from the forums at Asstr.org should be referenced as  for "Old Forum Posts 2004" for "Old Forum Posts 2005" and so on.

You can go to the Bristol Manor page which has a number of book and forum references; and click "edit" to see how the coding was done.