Style Guide

Our style guide is used to determine how pages should be styled and a brief tutorial on how to insert templates, etc.

Users are recommended to use the source editor, not the visual editor, which can be switched at the top whilst editing.

## Creating a page

### Categories

A page should always begin with the correct category at the right top of the page.

For characters you would put [[Category:Characters|Lastname, Firstname]].

For example:

**[[Category:Characters|Targaryen, Daeron]].**

For houses you would put ([[Category:Great Houses|Name, House]] or [[Category:Vassal Houses|Name, House]]).

For example:

**[[Category:Great Houses|Targaryen, House]] [[Category:Houses|Targaryen, House]]**
or

**[[Category:Vassal Houses|Redwyne, House]] [[Category:Houses|Redwyne, House]].**

### Images

To import an image, a user must go to the top right (where search is), hover over the 3 dots, then click on "Upload New File". This is also where you can make a new page if you don't use the character or house pre-templates on the Main Page.

### Infoboxes

Infobox templates are an important part of a page, and include the main, basic information.

To insert an infobox, you should go to the template page, for example Template:Character and copy and paste the empty template under the **Usage** category.

You could also click the expand button in the **How to Help** section of the Main Page, and enter the pagename name in the appropriate box and click create page (this only applies to house and character infoboxes).

For example, the character template's empty format is shown to the below with an example of one filled in with our theme.

```
{{Character
}}

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```
{{Character
}}

```

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p.s. <br> creates a linebreak and continues onto the next line without you having to make another line in the source.
```

You would copy and paste this format onto your source editor of your page and fill in the details.

Where it says **Type:** on a character, house, etc template, this determines the colour theme of the infobox. Putting **Tyrell** would colour the infobox the Tyrell theme, and so on. If there is no colour for the house/organization you are trying to use for your infobox, please contact Trident on Discord for it to be added.

A complete list of colours available is located at the bottom of the character template page.

For a character, castle, etc page you would need to put heraldry at the top. To do so, you would, as mentioned above, copy and paste the format from the Template:Heraldry usage category, and fill it in. It is further explained there.

### Content

**A page should start with a brief summary of the character for those who do not wish to read through the history parts, an example of this would be:**

Prince **Daeron Targaryen**, is a member of House Targaryen, the Prince of Dragonstone, and heir to the Iron Throne. He currently serves as Hand of the King to his father, handling most court affairs as the king's health slowly declines. Daeron is the wielder of the Valyrian steel sword Dark Sister.

**A page should then have a Biography section, beginning with a background if your character has one, and with subsequent year subheadings. For House pages, it would be a History section, beginning with a background. For example:**

## Biography

### Background

Daeron is the son of King Aegon IV Targaryen and Queen Naerys Targaryen, born in 159 AC. He has a sister, Princess Daenerys. He also has several half-siblings, including Daemon Blackfyre, Brynden Rivers, Aegor Rivers, and Shiera Seastar.

Daeron's objection to his father's plan to invade Dorne supposedly prompted the king to incite a Knight to spread a rumor that Daeron was the bastard son of Prince Aemon the Dragonknight and Queen Naerys.

Daeron was appointed to the position of Hand of the King in 180 AC to help stabilise the realm as his father's health deteriorated. At the same time, Lord Commander Aemon Targaryen of the Kingsguard, his uncle, was appointed as his sworn shield.

**Further sections such as relationships, family, etc can be added if the page author chooses, but they should fit the style of the rest of the page.**