This policy in a nutshell:To keep articles up to a good standard, there is an article layout guide to follow.
This Layout Guide is an official guide as to how an in-universe article should be structured. Feel free to discuss the Layout Guide on the talk page.
The following are aspects of a well-written article that should be present. The following tags mark how frequently something should be used.
- Required-Should always be present in an article, down to the smallest of stubs.
- Recommended-Should be present in good articles and featured articles, or candidates for such awards.
- If applicable-Should be present if the article is detailed enough and the conditions for such a section are met.
Infobox (recommended)
- A relevant infobox that gives statistics and known information in a comprehensible chart that gives basic background information on the subject.
- Articles that only have an infobox are discouraged; more information in encyclopaedic form should be provided.
Main article (required)
- All in-universe text regarding characters, concepts, etc goes here.
Behind the scenes (notice the capitalisation)(recommended)
- Here, information on inspiration, origin, and reason of creation of the article is usually placed in bulleted form. It is a practice of some users to give author's credit in this header.
Appearances (if applicable)
- The items on this list should be in bulleted form, in an in-universe chronology.
- For a subject's first appearance in the saga (in order of publication, not in order of internal chronology), use {{1st}}
- For short story series, make reference to the actual story, not the entire saga.
- For generic comments, use {{C|Place Comment Here}}.
See also (recommended)
- Links to related topics not already linked in article.
- Usually links to Gallery or Family pages, that don't really belong in the main article
External links (if applicable)
- It's called "External links" even if there is currently only one link.
- Links to other sources or sites which the subject may be mentioned, covered in alternate detail, or discussed.
Category
- Every article should have at least one category. Categorising articles by author doesn't count, but it is encouraged to add that as an additional category to your work.
- Categories should be listed in alphabetical order.