Help:Templates
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List of useful content templates
Citation
Citation is important because it allows the wiki to demonstrate that a statement is true and beyond dispute. Articles with statements lacking citations run the risk of becoming disputed, and this is often more complicated than providing a good citation in the first instance.
Consider first what you are citing in order to decide which template is most appropriate.
- Books
- {{Cite book}} for citing books (novels or sourcebooks) – in general you can use
{{Cite book/Name of book|page number}}– see Category:Citation templates for a huge list. Most of the novels and sourcebooks should already have their own template. If not, you might have to create one or request that one is created for you. - Articles within Pathfinder or other multi-article books
- {{Cite article}} should be used for easily citing Pathfinder or other multi-articled, multi-authored publications – in general you can use
{{Cite article/Name of book|page number}}– see Category:Citation templates for a huge list. Most of the applicable sourcebooks should already have their own template. If not, you might have to create one or request that one is created for you. - Web sites
- {{Cite web}} for citing a website, with subtemplates much like above, but less useful (because of the large number of potential websites out there from which things can be cited). Check Category:Web citation templates to see if there is already a template for the web site you are citing. If not, use the general {{Cite web}} template, or if you think that there will be lots of citations concerning the web site, create a subtemplate, or request that one is created.
Page templates
- Category:Infoboxes may have a more complete and/or up-to-date list.
- Template:Book for an article about a novel or sourcebook.
- Template:City for any settlement from the smallest hamlet to the most immense metropolis.
- Template:Class for a character class.
- Template:Cosmos for a cosmological entity, such as a planet, moon or star.
- Template:Creature for a creature.
- Template:Deity for articles on deities.
- Template:Nation for any nation or organized region.
- Template:Organization for an organization.
- Template:Person for a person.
- Template:Plane for articles on planes.
- Template:Spell for articles on spells.
Chronology
- Template:Yearbox is for allowing quick navigation from one year to nearby years.
- Template:Yearbox/deaths, Template:Yearbox/in-politics, Template:Yearbox/migrations, etc are all templates to divide an article about events in a certain year into obvious sections by topic.
