Gongjin's Campaign Memorials:Style Guide & How-to

The Article Layout Page is here to show you exactly how an article should look and also contains a few small hints on how to make it look like you want. Thank you for taking your time to check this article.

Why a Layout Page?
Here at The Three Kingdoms Wiki all articles in the same category should look more or less the same; meaning they will all have the same headers (if that header can contain info) and the headers will always be placed in the same order. By doing this, visitors will easily find their way through each article and will feel they 'know' the Wiki rather quick. They know exactly where to look when, for example, they wish to know about historical & fictitious differences of, for example, Zhang Jiao; at the bottom of his article.

Also, people will make less distinction (quality-wise) between articles.

Read on to see a layout of every category.

Character Articles
Aside from reading through this part of the article, I would also like to ask you to look through existing character articles.

Infobox

 * Always present on Character articles.
 * Information in the infobox is ALWAYS listed in the same order.

Step-by-Step filling of the infobox:


 * 1) Box Title - Name of the Character in Roman letters.
 * 2) Image - When using an image from Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI it should be 256x256 pixels.
 * 3) Caption - Write down the characters nickname here, example: Sun Jian, The Tiger of Jiangdong.
 * 4) Born - Write down the characters d.o.b. here (day-month-year). If not known, write 'Unknown'.
 * 5) Died - Write down the characters d.o.d. here (day-month-year). If not known, write 'Unknown'.
 * 6) Style name - Write down a characters style name here.
 * 7) Pinyin - Write down a characters pinyin here. Wade-giles are NOT used on this Wiki, because Pinyin has superseded its use.
 * 8) Chinese - Write down a characters name in Chinese here, in this order: traditional; simplified; style name.
 * 9) Served - A list of which warlords and/or empires the character has served. If a character has served different warlords that ruled the same empire, list that empire. Example: Zhuge Liang served Liu Bei and Liu Chan, but will be listed as having served 'Shu'.
 * 10) Participation(s) - A list of battles and events the character has participated in.
 * 11) Achievement(s) - A list of things the character has achieved. This can range from winning an entire battle, defeating an officer during a battle or gaining a high rank.
 * 12) List of Kills - A list of people the person has killed, directly or indirectly. (example for indirectly: Emperor Ling ordered the execution of Lu Zhi, but didn't execute him himself.)

Life

 * Use this space to write down a characters entire biography.
 * Don't leave anything out! The biography should not be a summary of one's life, but should be as complete as possible.
 * Feel free to use sub-headers, but don't use the header 'Early Life', which I've seen some contributors use.
 * Don't write down d.o.b., d.o.d. or style name, they are already listed in the infobox.
 * Don't write down any fiction. Don't even refer to it!

Family

 * List ones' family here.
 * In this order: (great) grandparents; parents; wifes/relationships; sons; daughters; brothers; sisters; cousins; other.

Suggestions or Ideas?
Leave them here: Suggestions