User talk:Megadardery/Writing Guidelines

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MarioWiki:Quotes

Quotes are ex-supages given to games pages that feature enough meaningful and/or notable quotes to warrant a separate page. If the game got few quotes which can be included in the game's article without creating an excessively long quotes section, a separate page is unnecessary. This policy page outlines standards that must be followed when creating a quotes sub-page.

Organizing

Quotes will be out in a list (use *), quotes are put between quotation marks, and are italic.

Games

The Name of each quote page would be "List of Quotes by [game]". Each quote page will have a standardized header: "This is a list of quotes by [[character]]." (see here)

Sections should be made for each character, organized by the alphabetical order. Quotes should be put under each section, the most stereotypical quotes will be put at the top (i.e. "Mama Mia" for Mario, "Help me, Mario!" for Peach, etc.). Screams ("ahhh"), nonsense and other stuff that sheds absolutely no light on the character ("hi", "okay", etc.) should not be included; when in doubt, or when there's disagreement, discuss on the talk page.

Characters

These pages would only be for recurring characters, as one-shot characters (mostly RPG characters) already have complete quote lists on their parent games' pages. Discretion should also be used when determining what recurring characters should get quotes pages. If a character is major in one game, but only has a few lines in another game or two, there is no point giving them a quote page either: just give them a Quotes section with {{main}} to the major appearance quotes page, as well as some choice quotes from that and all the quotes from the minor appearance.

The Name of each quote page would be "List of Quotes by [character]". Each quote page will have a standardized header: "This is a list of quotes in the game ''[[game]]''."

The first section will be "General", and list quotes that appear in more than one appearance; if they only occur a couple times, the appearances can be listed at the bottom of the section, but otherwise, just leave them. The most stereotypical quotes will be put at the top (i.e. "Mama Mia" for Mario, "Help me, Mario!" for Peach, etc.). Generic quotes are allowed here - just not things like screams ("ahhh"), nonsense and other stuff that sheds absolutely no light on the character ("hi", "okay", etc.); when in doubt, or when there's disagreement, discuss on the talk page. After that section, go by genre/media type:

1. Platformers
2. Sports
3. Spinoffs
4. RPGs
5. Non-game appearances
6. Misc for commercials ("Mario, Mario, Mario ja nai!" - Peach, NSLU), websites, etc.

Specific series may be given headers, and specific games too, if they produce a large amount of quotes (mostly RPGs); otherwise, just put what game each quote is from following the quote. All sections should follow the "unsorted" quotes; use chronological order for everything at every level as much as possible. For the non-game appearances, sections can be given for the different shows, movies, publications, etc., or just list them "unsorted" like the games/series with few quotes.

MarioWiki:Image Maps

Image Maps are images where different parts of the image link to different pages (as opposed to the entire image being a link to a single destination). For example, Template:Bowsermap is a map of Bowser's body from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, in which every area of the body links to the article corresponding to that area. Similarly, Template:SMRPGmap links to the areas that are visited in Super Mario RPG: The Legend of the Seven Stars, all of which are pictured on the map. The purpose of Image Maps are to allow for easier navigation between areas in a game, as they are visual, rather than name-based. This policy page outlines standards that must be followed when creating a Image Maps template.

Rules

• The Image must be a rip from the game (like this), or an official map artwork (like this).
• Creating Image Maps with less than 8 links is discouraged.
• A Map Image's height or width in article must never exceed 400 pixels.
  • The Map Image's width in the infobox must never exceed 300 pixels
• Creating an Image Map template for a Select level screens is unnecessary and discouraged. (under proposal)

Creating an Image Map

1. First thing is specify the image, upload one if none exists.
2. Specify the name of the template that will contain the Image Map, The name must contain the name if the game plus additional 'map' at the end.
3. Start creating the template, If you cannot specify the coordinates, you could use online tools such as this.
4. Once Done, preview the template and check it appear correctly, and that links works (press CTRL while clicking on the map, to open on another window, and to keep the current page).
5. If every things works correctly save the template, and start adding it to articles.

Upcoming Proposals

A writing guideline for the Quote pages

see here for the draft.

This Writing Guideline is meant to clear thing of when and how a quote page should be created. Everything of what was written in the draft are rules which are already known. It will be created under the name MarioWiki:Quotes. Use the comments section below for comments and suggestions.

Proposer: Megadardery (talk) (lots of help from Walkazo (talk) appreciated)
Deadline: MONTH +14, 2013 23:59 GMT

Support

1. Megadardery (talk)

A writing guideline for Image Maps

see here for the draft.

This writing guideline is meant to clear everything about Image Maps, when to create them, and basic rules. Everything of what are written in the draft are rules which are already known. A help page will be probably drafted, proposed and created as soon as possible. It will be created under the name MarioWiki:Image Maps. Use the comments section below for comments and suggestions.

Proposer: Megadardery (talk) (lots of help from Walkazo (talk) appreciated)
Deadline: MONTH DAY+14, 2013 23:59 GMT

Support

1. Megadardery (talk)