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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 print products (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. - Web sites
- {{Cite web}} for citing a website. Individual web pages are rarely cited often enough to justify a subtemplate.
Informational boxes (infoboxes)
- Category:Infoboxes may have a more complete and/or up-to-date list.
Infoboxes concisely summarize common elements among related articles.
Real-world pages
- {{Infobox|Accessory}} for a non-book accessory product.
- {{Infobox|Adventure}} for an article about a published adventure.
- {{Infobox|Book}} for an article about a novel or sourcebook.
- {{Infobox|Map}} for an article about a map product.
- {{Infobox|Miniatures}} for an article about a tabletop miniature product.
In-setting pages
- {{Alchemical item}} for various alchemical substances.
- {{City}} for any settlement from the smallest hamlet to the most immense metropolis.
- {{Class}} for a character class.
- {{Cosmos}} for a cosmological entity, such as a planet, moon or star.
- {{Creature}} for a creature.
- {{Deity}} for articles on deities.
- {{Iconic}} for iconic characters.
- {{Magic item}} for various magic items.
- {{Nation}} for any nation or organized region.
- {{Organization}} for an organization.
- {{Person}} for a person.
- {{Plane}} for articles on planes.
- {{Region}} for a region within a nation.
- {{Ship}} for articles on ships.
- {{Spell}} for articles on spells.
- See Category:Navboxes for a list of available navbox templates.
Navboxes provide a means for navigating between related articles, such as a nation's settlements, a creature's species, or products within a product line.
Chronology
- {{Yearbox}} is for allowing quick navigation from one year to nearby years.
- {{Yearbox/deaths}}, {{Yearbox/in-politics}}, {{Yearbox/migrations}}, etc. are all templates to divide an article about events in a certain year into obvious sections by topic.