Template:Style Guide

Welcome to. All contributors are asked to adhere to the following guidelines when creating or editing wiki articles.

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Creating an Article
Mediawiki has provided a guide to creating wiki articles. Please see the following article [| Help:Tutorial].

For all articles, please do not introduce any code, and use only the formatting made available through wikia. You may not use underlines, or introduce erroneous formatting through the use of span or div tags. Such tags are reserved strictly for templates on the back-end of the wiki.

Please make sure that all articles are properly categorized. For example, all Employee Files should be labeled as such with the following code
 * The same must be done for Race, Class and Path.

A list of all Categories is available here.

Creating and Editing your Employee File
For all characters, there is a auto-generating form linked on Portal:WildStar. Please use your character's name (not your in-game name as these may vary) to create your Employee File.

Employee File
Employee Files are expanded knowledge about your character. These character files should contain information that is mostly unchanging, to prevent the need to constantly update the article, and thus saving you and the wiki administrators time. These biographies can contain information that is not common knowledge to supplement your Employee File.

Quotes
Adding a quote by or about a character Using is simple.
 * This template displays text within enlarged quotes, and centers it on the page.
 * Syntax
 * Type  somewhere. The first parameter enlarges the size of the quotes, the second parameter defines the width of the quote, the third displays who said the quote, and the fourth is for where the quote came from.
 * Sample output
 * gives...
 * "Lorem ipsum"


 * gives...
 * "Lorem ipsum"

- Julius Caesar


 * gives...
 * "Lorem ipsum"

- Julius Caesar

Infoboxes and You
Please refer to the individual infobox templates when editing the infobox on your Employee File. This will cover the meaning behind all the parameters of the infobox, as well as code in case your infobox is missing, or is accidentally deleted, or code is corrupted during editing. Category:Infobox templates.

Infoboxes are quick stat information at a glance. Do not use prose when writing for the infobox. Use shorthand.

Image Policy
All images on the site should be either screenshots from WildStar Online or original art created for your character. Please do not use any Not-Safe-For-Work images.  For infoboxes, images should be 275x275 pixels, squared. All other images on articles should be placed under the gallery sub-heading, utilizing the following parameters.
 * 
 * orientation=landscape
 * columns=dynamic
 * Width=250
 * spacing=small
 * Captionsize=medium

For all other images in non-character articles, please make sure that images are no more than 300 pixels wide on the largest side.

Mediawikia has provided a [| guide] for image formatting. To upload images, use Special:Upload or the Add Features and media section on the right side of the editor.

Things to Avoid
To make wiki editors and contributors lives' much easier, please do not use any span tags, div tags or any other non-wiki supported formatting or code in your articles. Please do not add or change any sections to extend templates and articles. Please do not edit any templates under any circumstances. There should be plenty of sections in these templates, and there should be plenty of templates for everyone's needs. If there are not, administrators will discuss changes in templates based on the needs of our members.

Work-in-Progress and Other Stubs
If an article is considered a work-in-progress, or is otherwise incomplete, please use a Stub at the top of your article. To use a stub, place the following code at the top of your article

A listing of all available stubs can be found here.