Editor Guidelines

From The Heroes of Might and Magic III wiki

Remember: These are just guidelines! ;-)

[edit] Templates

Fast ways to type complex things, and/or have one place to format certain things.

See also the complete template list, and Wikimedia's Help:Template.

[edit] Small templates

Here are a few templates I've created and recommend everyone use.

Combination artifacts were introduced in the expansion Shadow of Death,
and are only available when it is installed.

[edit] Large templates

[edit] Creature Statistics

Format: {{creaturestats|Town name|Attack|Defense|Shots|Damage|Health|Speed|Special Abilities|Picture|Basic Growth|Cost per unit}}

{{creaturestats|Rampart|5|3|0|2-3|8|6|None|C_nopic.PNG|14|70 [[gold]]}}

produces

Town: Rampart

	Attack Skill	5	Damage	2-3
	Defense Skill	3	Health	8
	Speed	6	Shots	0
	Growth	14	Cost	70 gold
Special: None

[edit] Grail structures

{{Grail|Town Type}}
 *Specific effect

produces

Grail building for the Town Type.

To build this structure, find and bring the Grail artifact to a Town Type town, and click on the Village/Town/City Hall or Capitol, and you will be asked if this is where you want the permanent home of the Grail to be.

The Grail grants the following to all town types:

• 5000 extra gold per day
• 50% additional creature growth

The Editor Guidelines in particular also:

• Specific effect

[edit] Skills

The Skills template is also used in spell pages to show the effect of having a secondary skill in the relevant school of magic.

{{skills|Damage|100%|110%|125%|150%}}

produces

[edit] Spells

{{Spelltable|Earth Magic|6|1 round for each [[Spell Power]]|1st}}

produces

[edit] Town's Creature List

The following should be typed all on one line. It's been broken up so as not to widen the page.

{{creaturelist|Centaur|Centaur Captain| \
 Dwarf|Battle Dwarf| \
 Wood Elf|Grand Elf| \
 Pegasus|Silver Pegasus| \
 Dendroid Guard|Dendroid Soldier| \
 Unicorn|War Unicorn| \
 Green Dragon|Gold Dragon}}

produces

[edit] Categories

Use categories to group pages.

[edit] Add page in a category

Just add [[Category: name of category]] somewhere in the page.

A page can have multiple categories.
Just add more [[Category: category]] links on the page.

[edit] Create a new category

Do exactly like when adding a page to a category. If the category doesn't exist, it will be created.

[edit] List of existing categories

Special: Categories - Some of them may be removed later.

[edit] Images

You can get a complete list of images at Special:Imagelist.

[edit] Upload

You need to be registered and logged in to upload pictures. Once you are, go to Special:Upload. See also the Upload Log.

[edit] New images

You'll find a list of newly uploaded images on the Special:Newimages page.

[edit] Unused pictures

Special: Unusedimages - See if there's anything you want to write about

[edit] What to do?

[edit] Most wanted page

Special:Wantedpages shows a list over the pages that have most links to it. This would be a good start.

[edit] Recent edits

Look through the Special:Recentchanges page and see if there are some spelling errors, some layout you could fix, some info you could add..

[edit] Short pages

Special:Shortpages shows the shortest pages in the wiki.

[edit] Surf around

Surf around. See if you find places you know something that's not in the text, look for red links, make a new page if needed.

[edit] Don't forget

Make sure there isn't another page like the one you make (a good example would be Knowledge Tree and Tree of Knowledge.)