Help:Guidelines

In order to keep the project well organised and coherent, there have to be some standards to follow. Don't worry if you miss one of them when editing, a reviewer will correct it, but it is highly recommended and expected for every user to read and know the guidelines in the major possible extent. That way the reviewers will have less work to do and could focus on extending the contents instead of checking every edition.

Notice that these guidelines are still provisional, and hence subject to change at any moment.

Faction and conflicts
As this project is not intended to cover only GeoQuestia and the future seasons of the server, but is also meant to cover the past of GeoEarth and GeoTerra, there has to be some coding at the final of each article about a faction or a conflict.

The seasons with an asterisk are example ones.

Following these guidelines, if you wanted to write about a faction that was present in the 2nd season of GeoEarth, you should write (gE S2) right after the name of the faction. For instance: Soviet Union (gE S2).

In case there were different factions with the same name in different servers or seasons, a disambiguation page will be required too.

If a faction was present on the same server in different seasons, the coding will be as the former example, but with a tiny addition:
 * If there is continuity across the seasons: (gQ S1-3).
 * If there isn't continuity between the seasons: (gQ S1/3).

When the faction you want to write about was present in both GeoEarth and GeoTerra, in this instance the following coding should be followed: (gE S1-2; gT).

For factions that existed in GeoEarth or GeoTerra before, but are made again, only the GeoQuestia coding should be added, but the page itself should reflect the information about the past of the faction at either server or both, depending on the case.

Players
For players, the ign would have a priority, with the possibility of making a redirection from the discord name when it is unique enough as to not cause any confusion. In some instances, the discord name may be less confusing than the ign. This should be analysed in a case to case basis.

Article structure
Every article should have the proper infobox with as much information as possible, an introduction explaining the most basic and important aspects about it, as well as the sections that are going to be described, depending on the kind of article.

Factions

 * History: subdivided by ages and trying to show some continuity between seasons when possible. If there are some doubts about how to structure it because the history of the faction in different servers was decidedly independent, an independent section for the history of the faction on the other server could be an effective solution.
 * Geography: the administrative subdivisions should be included in this section, as a subsection, as well as any puppets in case there exist some. Any other interesting geographical information, like terraforming, will be welcomed.
 * Economy
 * Demographics: specially useful for big factions, or for factions that has/had colonies or puppets. It is even advised to add a graph about the evolution of the faction population with that template: (still on work).
 * Politics
 * Architecture: a photo gallery template will be developed to help with this section.
 * Notable Players: with a tiny description of the role they played.
 * See also

Infobox info
The proper infobox is found here, with an example of use. You can introduce it easily just copying and pasting the following code:

Players

 * Biography: Some kind of biography of the player in the servers. It is allowed to mention superficially how the achievements of the player in other servers (any other that isn't GQ, GE or GT) are affecting their history.
 * History: this section can be seem similar to the former, but this one would have a more roleplay-like tone, speaking about what the player during each season, or time period into a faction.
 * Timeline: A template with a timeline of each faction the player has been in. (pending)
 * See also

Infobox info
As with the faction one, the proper infobox is found here. You can introduce it easily just copying and pasting the following code:

Conflicts

 * Background
 * Development
 * Results
 * See also

File names
Try to use representative names for the files, so it is easier to find and utilise them on articles. Anything like asdfasdfasdf.jpg shall be renamed.

Categories
Each article and file should have the proper categories added to them, so the navigation is easier. Most templates will include a basic categorisation that can be complemented afterwards.

Templates
As the wiki is still starting, the only important templates to add are still the one and the infobox. This will be updated as soon as more templates are designed.