elanthipedia:Manual of Style/Items

Manual of Style Article

This page is part of the Elanthipedia's Manual of Style section. This page lists information for the standardization of articles and templates, as set down by community consensus.

• If you disagree with or have suggestions for improvement of the standards, please post on the accompanying talk page and give ample time for debate before making any edits. Failure to follow this proceedure will result in removal of your edits.

Manual of Style Index

Abilities

Categories/Concepts

Commands

Creatures

Events

Items

NPCs

PCs

Posts

Shops

Spells

Templates

This page contains information on the standards for all pages relating to items and equipment.

Templates

The following templates should be used for items whenever possible.

• Template:Armor
• Template:CraftedItem
• Template:Item
• Template:Shield
• Template:Weapon

Article Names

To enable the Template:ShopItem to work correctly, all item articles should omit any capitalization from the name and instead use the name= field to make any corrections.

The leading articles, a, an, some, and the are not included in the page name or name= field. Quantities (for example, "pair of" and "set of") are included.

Drinks

For drinks and other liquid consumables, please omit the container from the item's page name. (Feel free to include them in the display name, but please still omit the leading articles.) For example, "a bottle of Rissan brandy" should be linked to Item:Rissan brandy.

The reason for this standard is that the "container" component can change as the liquid is poured or consumed.

It should be OK to include the containers in food.

Name Field

The name field of the templates are not normally filled out unless the item name differs from the page name. Capitalization, quotation marks, and parentheses are good examples of differences.

Player Crafted Items

Name

In the case of player crafted items, they should have their page set up by the name of the template, minus any material name, and the words " (crafted)" appended to the end. For example: Weapon:bludgeon (crafted).

Contents

If the page applies to more than one craft, such as both weaponsmithing and carving, each area should separated from each other by headers.

The page should first list all relevant crafting details that are immutable, such as template difficulty, amount of material required, and the nature or use of the product.

If the craft uses materials that have gradiated stats, such as the metal used in forging, then an easily available metal should be used to craft a standard item for each template, for ease of comparison. If the materials are discrete, such as the stone used in carving, no standard is needed.

Finally, an area should be included to list the useful examples of each material.