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List of useful content templates

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}} for citing print products (novels or sourcebooks)—in general, you can use {{Cite/Name of book|page number}}—see Category:Citation templates for a huge list. Every book with a facts page should have a matching citation template created automatically.

Web sites

{{Cite web}} for citing a website. Individual web pages are rarely cited often enough to justify a subtemplate.

Informational boxes (infoboxes)

See also: Help:Infoboxes

Infoboxes concisely summarize common elements among related articles.

Real-world pages

• {{Infobox|Accessory}} for a non-book accessory product.
• {{Infobox|Book}} for an article about an adventure, sourcebook, or novel.
• {{Infobox|Map}} for an article about a map product.
• {{Infobox|Miniatures}} for an article about a tabletop miniature product.

In-setting pages

• {{Abyssal realm}} for articles on the various realms in the Outer Rifts.
• {{Alchemical item}} for various alchemical substances.
• {{Archetype}} for pages about archetypes (2E).
• {{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}} or {{Creature tabbed}} for a creature.
• {{Deity}} for articles on deities (use this template for both 1E and 2E stats).
• {{Hellknight Orders}} for Hellknight orders.
• {{Item}} is for notable adventuring gear.
• {{Magic item}} for various magic items.
• {{Nation}} for any nation or organized region.
• {{Organization}} for an organization.
• {{Person}} or {{Person tabbed}} for a person.
• {{Plane}} for articles on planes.
• {{Prestige class}} for pages about prestige classes.
• {{Region}} for a region within a nation.
• {{Ship}} for articles on ships.
• {{Spell}} for articles on spells.
• {{Technological item}} for articles on advanced technology.
• {{Vehicle}} for articles on advanced technology.

Navigational templates (navboxes)

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.

Successionbox

Another type of navigational template is a successionbox designed to link successive lineages, such as for heads of state. The basic form is here: {{Successionbox}}; but see Category:Navigational templates for a list of available pre-made successionbox templates.

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.