Editor guidelines

Remember: These are just guidelines! ;-)

Templates

Templates gives you a fast way to create complex tables, infoboxes or texts while keeping the format the same. You can see the heroes wiki's complete template list from here, and some help to create templates from here.

Text templates

Here are a few text templates, that are mainly used in addition to text. All text templates can be found from Category: Text templates. Most of the template pages include instructions how to use them.

Template	Effect
{{homm}}	Heroes of Might and Magic III
{{roe}}	Restoration of Erathia
{{hommroe}}	Heroes of Might and Magic III: Restoration of Erathia
{{ab}}	Armageddon's Blade
{{inab}}
{{sod}}	Shadow of Death
{{insod}}
{{hc}}	Heroes Chronicles
{{inhc}}
{{inabhc}}	Template:Inabhc
{{insodhc}}	Template:Insodhc
{{wog}}	Template:Wog
{{inwog}}	Template:Inwog
{{Comboartifact}}	Template:Comboartifact

Large templates

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

Grail structures

{{Grail|Town Type}}
 *Specific effect

produces

• Specific effect

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

Spells

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

produces

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

Categories

Use categories to group pages.

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.

Create a new category

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

List of existing categories

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

Images

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

Upload

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

New images

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

Unused pictures

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

What to do?

Most wanted page

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

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..

Short pages

Special:Shortpages shows the shortest pages in the wiki.

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.

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.)