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This article details rules, represents guidelines and requirements of an article creation on this project to ensure that the content meets tolerable quality standards.
Creation of an article
While creating an article, make sure that there is not already an article about it, the article that was made will be considered a duplicate and will be removed. Articles can be found with ease with the search bar, which will also look for keywords in what you searched for. Use common sense when creating an article. After the initial verification is completed, you may click the menu extension [3 dot symbol] in the top-right corner of the page, and then click Add new page. Some articles have links which don't exist at all and you may be interested in contributing to the wiki by filling the missing pages given to you. Other ways to create an article are:
- Adding a text after
/wiki/will either redirect to an existing article or to the page creator. - Clicking red links on the article which are basically non-existent articles.
While creating a new article regarding the common aspect such as a country page, rely on other existing pages detailing the subject, and to ease work, copy-paste and modify the content. Categorization is important so remember to give the page few suitable categories which list of them can be found here.
Usage of Blogs
When writing/creating a blog, do not include other categories in it, a small list of things to keep in mind when making a blog;
- Use "NationBlog" and "FormableBlog" when writing a fictional/non-existent nation or if it's for Wiki Helper Application. If you use the main ones, it adds it to a category automatically.
- Do not add categories of any kind, this include mentioned above, but is not limited to
- Formables
- Marked for Improvement
- Stubs
- Nations
- Removed
Just because it is not listed, does not mean you are allowed to use it, as of November the 17th 2022, continents are the only exceptions.
Rejected articles
Non-existent features, mechanics, formables and nations. They are capable of mentioning only if they were implemented into testing and public releases. Articles about formables which are considered but not implemented yet, can be made.
Good article
The article can be awarded a medal if the page is written fairly good. It can be only judged by the staff, but the awarding may be discussable by the community.
What Makes A Good Article?
A good article should have:
- A table that shows all the stats, which is the infobox, this infobox is filled in with most things, all you need to put in is the Capital, Continent, Images, Formables, Conscription Law, Starting Ideology, XP Multiplier and Required XP
- Have a small heading with base statistics, that can include Population, income, resources, rankings, a Manpower/Military section, that includes the manpower and home-guard, use the {{Manpower|Nation=<nation>}} template to show the different Manpower it would have, at different Conscription Laws.
- Misc stuff that can go under another heading like Politics, ideology, releasables and formables as an example.
- A section that shows the Geography, which is its Biomes and Terrain, along with cities and borders.
- A small list of threats.
- A decent strategy, read the strategy section in the Manual of Style for this.
- A trivia about the country. A good example is the Germany page, always look in the source code if you're wondering how to use a table or such.
Unnecessary details
Some articles may include unnecessary details, the most common of which being:
- Using a gallery to show the flag and map of the country (This is wrong and it makes the infobox look awkward as there's a section for the map/location).
- Listing the capital/available formables on a formable page, especially when a formable has multiple starting nations causing it to be confusing.
- Adding non-official game information on the infobox of a nation (E.g. The official name of a country).
Uploading files
Images make an article look better and can make the article itself look cleaner. We’re looking to have the best quality images within the articles, so it is important to not upload very low resolution images.
Blog files
- Blog Files names should have a "Blog " prefix, so it is possible to separate non-game items to in-game ones, f.ex; Blog Wikian Empire Flag.png.
- The files should not have any redirects.
Naming files
Naming the files is pretty simple for articles, keep it persistent and easy to find, this will help any future edits being made. Preferably use .png images.
- Territory Files should have the country's name, then territory after it, f.ex; Germany Territory.
- Flag Files should have the country's name, then flag after it, f.ex; Germany Flag.
- GUI Files (Such as the Economics tab, GUI's are the different tabs you can have open) should be the GUI that you're using for the file, with GUI after it to indicate that it's a GUI, f.ex; Economic GUI.
- Files which have no usage in articles, modules, templates or blogs should have the "Miscfile " prefix. Example; Miscfile Hyperant Wiki Profile Banner.png
Territory image
- View mode should be diplomatic.
- Try to include as little of other countries while still capturing the full country.
- Graphic settings should be set to maximum in the client.
- Keep anything that isn’t the Capital Star out, remove troops too.
Updating files
Some flags or territories may need to be updated, for example a formable was revamped, or the flag in game was fixed. You would want to reupload the outdated image. It is important as it happens every so often. This can be achieved by opening the file's page and clicking 'Upload new file' - you should still try to keep it up to standard with the quality of the image and mark it under a license if possible. Rename the file if it doesn’t follow our current style, you should either notify a wiki staff member if it has a lot of pages using the image or change them all yourself, you can rename these files by going to “Move”, and then rename it to whatever it was supposed to be, i.e ‘’’France Flag’’’, you’ll see what articles uses the flag in its media, click “More Information” or search up ‘’’File:<Name>’’’ to find it. The worst cases are starting with RobloxScreenshot and a bunch of letters as the file name, but not only that - they must be either permanently deleted or remade.
General guidelines
General guidelines to keep the tolerable quality of an article:
- Don't use subjective wording, try to be as neutral as possible. Adding subjective categories such as "Difficult Formable" shouldn't be used - this also includes easy formables/nations.
- Proper grammar, capitalization, spelling, paragraphing and punctuation. Readable texts are not walls of text, but properly divided paragraphs and contents of the page. We’ll be using American English for writing, NOT British English, this would mean using “Color”, “Neighbor”, etc, check in with a Trusted Editor or a Content Moderator if you’re not sure.
- If an edit is minor, mark it as a minor edit using the "This is a minor edit" toggle.
Things not to do
These are some of the general things you shouldn't do ever or without permission:
- Adding categories to Blogs, this will make the blog appear in said category or categories, which we do not want. The blog will be deleted if so.
- Adding references outside of the Trivia section on nation/formable pages, for example; Adding "Not the Polandball Republic" to Poland's page.
- Going off-topic within a heading, try to keep it relevant.
- Put links in headings.
- Don't put a link every single time something is mentioned, as that can make the article look colorful and make it difficult to read as the colors shoot out.
Templates
Templates are pages that are embedded into other pages to allow for the repetition of information, often with customizable input. They can be summoned in the article by typing {{template}}. The wiki is customized within several templates for nations, formables, units, and for userpages, useful for decorating an individual user page. Parameters are optional in most templates, e.g. nation infobox, so avoid labelling the information as "unknown, none" etc.
Non-mainspace pages
This type of page represents all existent pages which are neither filepages, templates or articles. They include userpages, blogs or sandbox pages. Users can freely manage their userpage to their own likings as well as blog page et cetera. First of all, remove all categories from the blog page. They likely attach to the mainspace category hence they integrate with wiki articles. The only category suitable is [[Category:Blog posts]]. Blog posts should not describe rejected suggestions. Any off-topic article and blog is prohibited.
Writing a strategy
A strategy or strategies-related-to-themselves is an article whose purpose is to teach players about tactics, doings used in the game later. An article must meet general guidelines, should be detailed and understandable. These guidelines strongly increase the value of the method.
- When writing a strategy, you should remember minor details such as a recommended or dead-set amount of Electronic Factories, a minimum of units (mainly for smaller nations) and if it’d be a good idea to pre-justify on a country during a specific step.
- Strategies should be based on skill and execution, not luck, while some luck such as if someone is X country is fine, generally luck should be avoided.
- Make sure your strategy doesn’t include invading others within a certain time period, such as invading Y country by 2022 January.
- Strategies should never make it so the reader’s nation goes into deficit/debt during a step (F.ex if they have an excessive amount of units, developing cities, etc).
- Strategies must be written precisely and should only be changed by those who have more knowledge about the game than the average player.
- Keep strategies to skill-based strategies and not luck-based, f.ex “When you get ´monopoly formation event, use it for quickly developing cities for money and to pump out units”, always have the assumption that events are non-existent within the game when making a strategy, you can have it as an option if there’s an event that helps with the strategy.
For a random example, do not advise readers to form an alliance with every nation possible, because in reality they are likely to white peace the invader - though it may be used in scaring others out, but the sense of that tactic is still negligible.
Formable Strategy
Formable Strategies should be kept to the corresponding formable, while leaving countries to have a strategy on how to fend off threats and how to grow as bigger and stronger, the formable strategy should be linked to in corresponding country, which means link the French Empire strategy in France's strategy section. For large formables such as the African Union, sections for each major nation are required (Top 15 nations are major, anything below is regional power or minor power in this context), while having a vague but understanding strategy in that could apply to any <Major Nation in their scenario for their region, could be split up into North, South, West, East and Central.
Formatting
Each page has an infobox, said infobox contains information about the country’s starting stats, these should be written in a specific way for a consistent theme, don’t reword stuff to give them more letters if it causes more confusion than explaining, f.ex saying “The country then needs to acquire these specific nations”, should be simplified to “The country needs to conquer these specific nations”. Information about the nation and formable infoboxes can be found here: Template:Nation, Template:Formable.
Formables
Formables should always be using Template:Calculator (or Module:Calculator), this is so population, city count, square city count, etc, can be added up easily for the infobox.
Formables are required to use the decision section in the infobox, as every formable has a unique decision button name and description. If the formable has a custom alert, it should be added to the infobox. Formables have a unique format too, though all that is different is the formable should include required nations to form, starting nations, what other formables it can form, which will vary greatly depending on nation and exclusive formables.