Amaranth Legacy:Page Guidelines
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This page lists the guidelines for page content, which includes categorization, page naming, and other related topics.
If you are looking for the community policies and guidelines, see the policies and guidelines page.
Page naming
You can name your page anything as long as it does not conflict with another existing page.
If there is a page title collision, you must:
- add your scope name in parentheses to the title and
- add your page to the disambiguation page (normally at the original name).
If a disambiguation page does not exist, please create one with the general format of:
__DISAMBIG__
There are several pages named '''{{subst:PAGENAME}}'''.
You may be looking for:
* (page in scope A)
* (page in scope B)
* ...
[[Category:META: Disambiguation]]
If a disambiguation page does exist, please add a link to your page on the existing disambiguation page.
For example, Earth is present in several scopes and therefore requires the colliding pages to have their scope in parentheses. (Like Earth (Universe 6E) and Earth (Borealis Universe).)
Page hatnotes (notices at the top of a page)
If you are writing for an already existing scope, see the scope's page on which template to use; it will usually list the specific one.
If you are writing for a new scope, the general format for a scope hatnote template is:
{{Hatnote
|file=(scope symbol)
|color=(scope color)
|primary=(text on the first line)
|secondary=(text on the second line)
}}
<includeonly>[[Category:Scope: (scope name)]]</includeonly>
This will look like the following:
Put the content above into a new template page (name it something like "Template:(scope name)" or "Template:(scope name)Hatnote", like Template:Ambrosia, Template:Cosmoria, or Template:Galvyria). Use the source editor; this will not work in VisualEditor.
If you want additional customization, please see the hatnote page itself.
If you do not know or understand how to do this or are confused, please see the section below on where to ask questions. We are happy to help you and can do it for you if you're still confused.
Infoboxes
If you want to add an infobox (the box on the right of a page that gives a quick overview) to your page, there are premade templates for you to use. Search for "Infobox (name of thing)" (like Infobox Nation) and add your content.
Category naming
Content categories
(An example would be a category for every species or planet.)
Before making a content category, there must be at least a significant amount of pages (around 10) that fall under the category.
For content categories, you must use title case.
Scope categories
(An example would be a category for the species or planets in a scope.)
The general format for naming scope categories is the following:
If you have seperate settings
Scope: (scope name)- These categories are broad; they contain all the content in a scope.
Scope: (scope name) - (scope setting)- These categories are more narrower; they contain all the content in one specific setting.
Setting: (scope setting) - (subcategory)- These categories are the most narrow; they contain only specific content (example: plants) in a specific setting.
Setting: (scope setting) - (subcategory) - (...)- You may choose to break those categories down even further.
If you have no seperate settings
Scope: (scope name)- These categories are broad; they contain all the content in a scope.
Scope: (scope name) - (subcategory)- These categories are the most narrow; they contain only specific content (example: plants) in a scope.
Scope: (scope name) - (subcategory) - (...)- You may choose to break those categories down even further.
For subcategories, there are no restrictions or requirements for creating them.
Content categorization
If you create a page, upload a file, or create a template, it is recommended to add an author category. Don't worry about this too much; if you do not, it will be fixed for you.
The general naming of author categories is the following:
- Pages: "Author: (author name)"
- Files: "Files: (uploader name)"
- Templates: "Templates: (author name)"