Help:Writing an article about a year

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This how-to guide demonstrates common practices for writing an article about a particular year.

Naming

The article should be named with the number of the year in Absalom Reckoning, followed by a single space, followed by "AR" in upper case. For example, "1332 AR" rather than "1332ar". If the year's number is negative, it should be preceded by a single hyphen, for example, "-200 AR".

Yearbox template

The {{Yearbox}} template produces quick access to the years immediately before and after the current article's year, and also the age in which the year occurred. It is used in its simplest form as follows:

{{Yearbox
| age  = Age of Lost Omens
| year = 4707
}}

This produces a box that contains links to the five years immediately before 4707 AR and the five years immediately after 4707 AR. For many of the earlier years, there is no reason to link to the five years either side because no notable events occurred, and they therefore do not require their own articles. You can specify the five closest notable years in either direction as follows:

{{Yearbox
| age  = Age of Enthronement
| year = 922
| yp1  = 920
| yp2  = 917
| yp3  = 916
| yp4  = 913
| yp5  = 912
| yf1  = 925
| yf2  = 926
| yf3  = 927
| yf4  = 928
| yf5  = 929
}}

If preferred, you can use the same details but put them in date order inside the template, like this:

{{Yearbox
|age  = Age of Enthronement
|yp5  = 912
|yp4  = 913
|yp3  = 916
|yp2  = 917
|yp1  = 920
|year = 922
|yf1  = 925
|yf2  = 926
|yf3  = 927
|yf4  = 928
|yf5  = 929
}}

The resulting navigational box will look and work the same using either method.

The "age" parameter must be one of a set of ages in Golarion's history. You can see the ages and which years they represent on the history portal. If your article's year falls exactly on a boundary (-3500 AR, for example), place it in the age that begins on that year, rather than the age that ends on that year.

Writing the year's events

The events are split into broad categories according to topic, with each topic being started with a yearbox subtemplate, such as {{Yearbox/deaths}} or {{Yearbox/in-politics}}.

Below this, write a bullet-point list of summaries for each event in that topic. Do not include an excessive amount of detail; they should link to the article or articles in question and contain references in order to verify their accuracy.

For example:

{{Yearbox/in-deities}}
* [[Aroden]]'s clerics are cut off from their god after storms wrack [[Golarion]] for three weeks
and the connection is never reestablished, leading most to believe that Aroden is dead.{{Ref|Gazetteer|59}}

Also include a references section at the bottom of the article:

== References ==

{{Refs}}

There are no hard and fast rules about how to group the year's events, and you can add new groups if you think a suitable one does not exist. The following groups are in widespread use and should be placed on the page in alphabetical order as follows, with the exceptions of births and deaths, which should be placed together below the other groups, and in-misc, which should be the last group placed on the page:

{{Yearbox/births}}
{{Yearbox/deaths}}

{{Yearbox/in-misc}}

For an example of an eventful year, see 4706 AR.

Artwork and maps

For especially notable or wide-ranging events, consider adding an image or map to the top of the topical group. Avoid adding more than one image or map per topical group. For examples of both in use, see 4606 AR.

Exceptional years

In certain exceptional years, such as -5293 AR for the events of Earthfall or 4606 AR for the death of Aroden, all (or nearly all) of the year's events across Golarion might be directly related to a single global event that warrants adding a lead sentence before these sections.

Very briefly summarize such an event after the {{Yearbox}} and before the topical subtemplates. Include and bold the year, just as you would the title of any other article, and include a link to the major event's standalone article. Such events also often mark the end or beginning of an age; feel free to also include and link to them as is appropriate.

This brief lead should include only enough information to provide necessary context for the other events, which are still listed as any other year in bulleted lists under topical subtemplates.