Gswiki:Style guide/Creative works

Creative works are articles written by players to reflect the views of themselves or their character, and may not be reflective of official lore in GemStone IV. Due to the freeform nature of these articles, minor formatting requirements are in place, but are far more relaxed than other areas of the GSWiki.

Form

A semantic form has been created to make it easier for contributors to submit their creative works to the wiki and can be found here: Creative Work Form. This form automatically populates the fields for the template, including a dropdown selection for the creative work type.

Article Title

Article titles for most creative works follow the same expectation as standard article naming convention with a couple of exceptions listed below. While some creative works pages do include the type in parentheses in the article title, it is not a hard requirement. This makes it simpler to view at a glance.

Character Vignettes

Character vignettes are vignettes posted by players for their characters. These may be tied to a storyline, but must always be tied to the character first and foremost. This is done by setting the vignette up as a subpage to their character page. Page naming standard should be as follows:

Character name (instance)/Vignette name

Periodicals

This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!

Player-Run Storylines

Player-run storylines are specifically player-led with no GM involvement, and can take place in any instance.  Page naming standard should be as follows:

Storyline name (player-run storyline)

Creative-work Template

The creative work template is a required template for all creative works, with the exception of character vignettes, on the GSWiki, as it clearly denotes the article as being both player-created and non-reflective of official lore. It should be entered prior to the body of the article.

Using this template will automatically update the list of creative works (with a brief delay). Due to technical restrictions, the "author" field cannot contain any wiki markup. This plain text name will be reflected on the sortable list. Use the "author-displayed" field within the template to add a link to character pages on the creative work page itself.

Copy/Paste Code

{{creative-work
|title = <!-- Name of work -->
|type = <!-- Choose: essay, letter, periodical, poetry, short story, song, storyline, vignette -->
|author =  <!-- Name of author in plain text, will show up on list of creative works page -->
|author-displayed = <!-- Name of author with links to character pages as applicable (optional) -->
|date = <!-- Date creative work published to the wiki. Format: yyyy-mm-dd -->
}}

Form & Template

Form for creative work page creation or editing:

• Creative Work Form

Primary templates used with creative works are:

• Creative-work