Eastshade Wiki:Writing Articles

Hello! Thanks for expressing an interest in developing the Eastshade Wiki. This page will demystify the various expectations we have in article quality.

First things first, we ask that you own and use a Wikia account before making significant changes to our Wiki (e.g., in the form of adding pages). It makes the process of contributions much more uniform and traceable, and also stops your IP address from potentially being public.

Writing articles
The general expectation is that all articles should:
 * Have grammar, spelling, and punctuation of a good and qualitative standard. I understand that this is not always possible, however, so I am always willing to edit articles that have been written to keep them up to standard.
 * A variety of links so that other articles may be accessed. Links can be added like so:
 * Old Lyndow becomes Old Lyndow
 * the inn becomes the inn
 * Categories to be added. You can see the various categories our wiki has from other pages, but some examples are Characters, Quests, Objects, etc.
 * Ideally, pictures that have meaning to a page should be used so that the images don't look bare. I understand that this is not always possible.
 * Pages should really be objective and non-biased as they are intended to help players rather than act as personal reviews. Pages should be informative and, when dealing with quests, instructive, but not entirely self-representative.
 * If you have taken a reference from something, be it Danny Weinbaum's Twitter, the Eastshade website, or something else, please reference it by putting it in . It will produce a footnote, as you can see at the end of this sentence. Your references should go into another heading, like so:

Templates
There are several templates on our wiki, which include infoboxes and heading templates. The heading templates are:

This is used to represent real-world articles.

If somebody's name is not mentioned, this is added to the top of an article to say that their information is based on conjecture.

This header defines a page as still being developed/added to intermittently.

Questions
I hope this has ironed out any of your questions, but if you have any more then please do not hesitate to message me.