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Help:Layout
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To maintain a high level of quality at Bionic Wiki, articles should follow a consistent layout of section headings and page elements.
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Improperly Formatted Articles
Articles that do not conform to standard article layout should be tagged with the Stub template to mark that the page requires changes to the article's layout. This allows the editing public to quickly find a page that needs additional work.
Copy and paste the Wiki code below to mark a page that requires updating.
{{stub|needs=layout standardization}}
To find a list of articles that require additional work, see: Category: Stubs.
Article Naming Conventions
In general, article titles should be made as descriptive as possible.
Certain BionicWiki articles follow a described naming convention:
| Article Type | Naming Convention | Suggested Layout | Examples |
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| Episodes | Episode:Episode Name | See Template:Newepisode | Episode:Pilot |
| Spoilers | Spoiler:Article Name | Spoiler:Pilot | |
| Things | Possessor's Object Name | Jaime's eye |
Article Layout
Article content should follow the following layout to improve readability and editing:
- Introduction
- Section Headings
- Navigation Elements
- Categories
To help maintain organization, articles should follow the following generic layout:
| Section | Used in ... | Definition |
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| Messages | All | If necessary, message templates such as {{stub}}, {{noimage}}, or {{needsmaintenance}} should be placed at the very top of an article. For a list of message templates, see Messages. |
| Infobox, Image, or Table of Contents | All | If applicable, an infobox template should be placed at the top of an article, but after any messages. For a list of infobox templates, see Sidebars. If the article has no infobox, a right-aligned lead image can be used. If the article has no images or infoboxes, use the {{tocright}} template to place the article's table of contents in place of a lead image or infobox. |
| Introductory sentence | All | Provide an introductory sentence for the article, including a reference to the article title in bold. |
| Notable Places | World Locations | When a Location (such as a City) has associated Places (such as businesses, residences, etc.), use a bulleted list to reference each place. |
| Notable Employees / Residents / Visitors | World Locations, Places | Bulleted list of Characters that have visited the Location or Place |
| About | All | Generic description of the titled content, usually written from the Bionic Woman series perspective. Exceptions include:
For more on perspective, see Help:Perspective |
| Summary | Episodes | High level sequence of events that occur in the Episode. Episodes should use a bulleted list. |
| Story Development | Episodes | A [[Template:blurb|blurb] of new articles related to the episode. |
| Character History | Characters | Description of involvement / activities in Episodes. For non-character articles such as Places or Items, the episodic history goes under About. |
| Synopsis | Episodes | Detailed sequence of events that occur in the Episode |
| References | References | List of examples within Bionic Woman that refer to the Reference. Include a brief description of the scene, with reference justification and episode link. |
| Episodic Recurrences | Recurring themes | Bulleted list of examples of the theme, broken down by episode. |
| Characters | Enhancements | List of characters that possess, or duplicated, the special enhancement. |
| Limits | Enhancements | Description on the apparent limitations on the special power. |
| Examples | Enhancements | Bulleted list of examples of usages of special enhancements. Include a reference to the Episode where the enhancements was exhibited. |
| Enhancements | Enhanced Humans | Brief description of the character's special abilities. |
| Memorable Quotes | All | Notable quotes by the character or about an object. Quotes should include the phrases mentioned, followed by characters involved, and Episode appearance. |
| Notes | All | General in-world notes about relations, hints, etc. |
| Trivia | All | Factoids and little-known items of interest relating to the article. |
| Gallery | All | Articles with a larger than normal amount of images should group the images in its own Gallery section using the <gallery> tags. Additionally, the article should be added to the Galleries category. |
| See Also | All | Used for references to disambiguation pages, as well as references to articles with similar topics and continuations. |
| External Links | All | Bulleted list of links to off-site articles. References to interviews should include the hosting site's name and date of interview. |
| Fan Theories | All | See Template:Theories for more information. |
| Spoilers | All | See Template:Spoiler for more information. |
| Navigation Templates | All | If applicable, a navigation template should be placed at the bottom of an article. For a list of navigation templates, see Navigational Elements. |
| Categories | All | Categories should be grouped at the bottom of an article for easy editing. Articles can be sorted in the category by piping an alternate name in the category, for example, [[Category:Series Crew|Barret, David]] will put the article in the Series Crew category sorted under B. |
| Localization | All | If a translated version of this article exists on one of the localized versions of BionicWiki then adding an interwiki link to that localization will automatically add a link to the "in other languages" toolbox. (e.g. [[pt:{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}]] will create a toolbox link to the same article name on the Portuguese version of BionicWiki.) |
Sample article layouts
The following pages contain blank preformated layouts which can be cut and pasted into new articles. Be sure to remove any unused sections, apply any necessary category sorting, and fill in all details.
Episodes should use the new episode template.
See Also
See also: Help: Style
