ENWiki:Editing Guidelines

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This page lists some guidelines for making new wiki pages and editing old ones. They are designed to help make editing easier and to prevent naming collisions (when two pages want to have the same name). These guidelines can be discussed in this thread on the forums or on the talk page.

1. Links: A wiki is all about links! Link to other wiki pages as much as possible. If you think a page should be there (even if it isn't) then make a link! Somebody will come around and make the page you want later. Making a link to a nonexistent page is a good way to encourage wiki expansion.
2. Templates: Use them as much as possible. Create new ones if you see the need and link them to the templates page.
3. Categories: Use them as much as possible as well. Take a look at the list of categories and add any to your page that you think are applicable. Pages taken from OGL sources should all be in a specific category.
   1. New Categories: When making a new categories, the name of the category should be plural. For example, "Category:Monsters" instead of "Category:Monster."
4. Campaigns and Settings: To avoid fighting over page names, large groups of pages that go together, like users' campaigns, should have one main page created for them and all other pages should be subpages of the main page using this sort of formatting:
   1. MyCampaign
   2. MyCampaign\Classes
   3. MyCampaign\Races
   4. MyCampaign\PCs
5. Naming collisions: When you want to create a page for something that already exists, like multiple versions of a class or race, and it's not a part of a specific campaign or setting there should be one main "disambiguation" page for the topic and all the different versions of the topic should share the name of the main page but contain information about what makes them different in parenthesis. This is similar to how Wikipedia does it. Example:
   1. Bard
   2. Bard (Official 3e)
   3. Bard (Merkuri's 4e)
   4. Bard (Someone Else's 4e)
6. One item per page: When possible, only list one item for page. This goes for spells, classes, races, feats, and other similar items. If you wish to group a similar batch of items add them to a category or create a page that links to the individual pages.
7. Open Gaming Content: When adding open gaming content, add a link to it to the OGC Compilation page and follow formatting the instructions on the bottom of the page.