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The following is a sample character article for the wiki to try and standardize the layout of like articles without having to constantly reference other places during page creation. HTML comments (these ASCII arrow looking things: <code><nowiki> <!-- example --> </nowiki></code>) are used to allow contributors to see this sample as a blank and focus on the overall structure by hiding most of the text from view, to prevent being blindsided by details they don't need to read until they decide for themselves to use this sample as an outline. This also reduces the likelihood of visible placeholder text in articles by negligent or forgetful contributors. If you're ready for more details, edit or otherwise view this page's source to read commented out information about what to put in each section. When copying this sample, edit out this uncommented sentence to make sure there is no (visible) placeholder in your articles that use this sample. | The following is a sample character article for the wiki to try and standardize the layout of like articles without having to constantly reference other places during page creation. HTML comments (these ASCII arrow looking things: <code><nowiki><!-- example --></nowiki></code>) are used to allow contributors to see this sample as a blank and focus on the overall structure by hiding most of the text from view, to prevent being blindsided by details they don't need to read until they decide for themselves to use this sample as an outline. This also reduces the likelihood of visible placeholder text in articles by negligent or forgetful contributors. If you're ready for more details, edit or otherwise view this page's source to read commented out information about what to put in each section. When copying this sample, edit out this uncommented sentence to make sure there is no (visible) placeholder in your articles that use this sample. | ||
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Some general guidelines (as I'm no one with higher authority to enforce a rule but I highly suggest you follow it anyway): | Some general guidelines (as I'm no one with higher authority to enforce a rule but I highly suggest you follow it anyway): | ||
* You don't need to include every section that you see when you copy this article's layout, omit certain parts if unneeded (i.e. remove the gameplay section if the character is exclusive to non-game media) to prevent a generated TOC with many sections only being a couple sentences long. | * You don't need to include every section that you see when you copy this article's layout, omit certain parts if unneeded (i.e. remove the gameplay section if the character is exclusive to non-game media) to prevent a generated TOC with many sections only being a couple sentences long. By the same token, add as many sections not specified here as needed (i.e. including subsections in the Biography section to divide thr character's life by game and/or major plot sections). | ||
* DO NOT comment out incomplete sections, as that will make it harder for contributors to casually notice stubs and decide to expand them then and there. Just label them as stubs as usual. Better that they look unfinished so that others can notice and fix it than to look clean but incomplete in reality and no one notices it without tediously checking every article. | * DO NOT comment out incomplete sections, as that will make it harder for contributors to casually notice stubs and decide to expand them then and there. Just label them as stubs as usual. Better that they look unfinished so that others can notice and fix it than to look clean but incomplete in reality and no one notices it without tediously checking every article. | ||
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The following is a sample character article for the wiki to try and standardize the layout of like articles without having to constantly reference other places during page creation. HTML comments (these ASCII arrow looking things: <!-- example -->) are used to allow contributors to see this sample as a blank and focus on the overall structure by hiding most of the text from view, to prevent being blindsided by details they don't need to read until they decide for themselves to use this sample as an outline. This also reduces the likelihood of visible placeholder text in articles by negligent or forgetful contributors. If you're ready for more details, edit or otherwise view this page's source to read commented out information about what to put in each section. When copying this sample, edit out this uncommented sentence to make sure there is no (visible) placeholder in your articles that use this sample.
