Wikipedia:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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[edit] Scope
This project aims to improve the coverage and quality of articles on the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.
[edit] Related Wikiprojects
[edit] Parentage
This project is a descendant of WikiProject Role-playing games, and the parent Wikiproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Dragonlance, Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Greyhawk, though those Wikiprojects predate this one.
[edit] Participants
To join the project, just add yourself to this list in alphabetical order.
[edit] Userbox
| D&D | This user is a member of the Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject. |
Participants who want to show they're part of the project using a userbox are free to use {{User WPDND}} on their userpage.
[edit] Sympathizers
If you don't want to or have the time to participate yourself, but think the project is worthwhile, show your support by adding your name to this list, in alphabetical order.
- AgentLewis
- AKParker
- Big Mac
- BOZ
- CaptainQuery
- GJD
- Gothenem
- User:Interested2
- Kesh
- Torquebomb
- TrickyYoda
- Trixt
- Waza
- Bondgirl 2170
- JPWoodman636
[edit] Structure
[edit] Introduction
Each Dungeons & Dragons article should begin with either:
"In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, subject is. . ."
OR
"Subject is . . . in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game."
[edit] History
Each article should strive to include some historical overview of the subject, where appropriate. At some point, it may be necessary for some articles to split off this section into a separate article (such as "History of the Nine Hells").
[edit] Creative origins
When known, the real-life inspiration or circumstances leading to the subject's creation should be listed in this section, which should appear before the "See also," "Notes," "References," and "External links" sections. The published source of the information should be listed in References.
[edit] Notes
For citing works, a "Notes" section may be necessary. This should be placed before the "References" section. This section should supplement, not replace, the References section, per [1].
Where practical, the new <ref>...</ref> format for notes should be used inline within the article. If the article has only new-style notes, this will look like:
Some text about a module.<ref>{{cite book |
title=[[Module WP1]] |
author=[[Jimbo Wales]] and [[Gary Gygax]] |
year=1977 |
publisher=[[TSR, Inc.]]}}</ref>
...
==Notes==
<references/>
Items cited in the article will automatically be inserted into the notes section, and a footnote will point to them. Notes should not go under the "References" header, as those items should be alphabetical by author.
[edit] Citation templates
Here are some example citations:
- A module (see above)
- A magazine article (use "cite journal"):
<ref>{{cite journal |
author=[[Erik Mona]], [[James Jacobs]] & [[Gary Gygax]] |
title=The Orc and the Pie |
journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]] |
issue = #400 |
publisher=Paizo Publishing, LLC |
year = 2008 }}</ref>
- A book (see module example, above)
[edit] References
Each article should have a section for references at the bottom, before the "External links" section. Most references listed in Greyhawk articles are in the following format, already adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games:
- Books, modules, supplements, boxed sets, etc: Author or editor. Title of product. Publisher, year published. Available online:URL, if applicable
- Articles in periodicals, or works within an anthology: Author. "Title." Periodical or anthology title issue#. Publisher, year published. Available online:URL, if applicable
- Online sources: Author. "Title." Available online:URL
[edit] Campaign settings
Articles on individual campaign settings should best be handled by related Wikiprojects, should any exist, as should characters, deities, monsters, places, etc exclusive to those campaign settings.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Classes
[edit] Deities
[edit] Game mechanics
[edit] Monsters
The text of monster articles should generally follow the layout found in the Monster Manual IV, utilizing the following sections after the introduction:
- Publication history
- Ecology
- Environment
- Typical physical characteristics
- Alignment
- Society
Additional sections may come after, such as:
- History
- Subspecies
- Monster X in campaign setting X
- Monster X in other media
Etc. Note that the "Creative origins," "See also," "Notes," "References," & "External links" sections should come at the end of the article, in that order.
[edit] Places
[edit] Minor topics
Some articles on what might be termed minor topics, e,g. characters, classes, deities, monsters or places which only appear in a single product are often better placed in a list. Articles can be split off from the list if they grow very large. Some very minor characters are probably not worth writing about, and it would be better placed in the article for the product or product series in which they appear.
[edit] Goals
A basic list
- Find all the pages that are covered by this category
Re-work the main D&D page completely.
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Split past editions into a new article, giving us both more room and more freedom to work with the primary.
- - Decided against plitting by edition, see Talk:Dungeons_&_Dragons#Splitting_the_article
Clean up (and trim) the less important sections.- Cite everything
Feel free to add to thist list as you come up with things, or cross things off as they are finished.
The copy of the main D&D page can be found here. The inuse tag is for anyone working on it, so have at it. Piuro 21:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have suggested a plan to get Dungeons & Dragons fully to Featured Article standard - Waza 11:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Articles that fall into this category:
[edit] Templates
[edit] Project template
- {{D&D}} add to talk page of articles
- {{D&D Books}} add to 3.0/3.5 D&D roleplaying book articles
- {{D&D creatures}} add to creature articles
- {{D&D deities}} add to deities articles
[edit] Infoboxes
- {{Infobox D&D creature}}
- {{D&D Deity}}
- {{D&D character}}
- {{Dungeons & Dragons prestige class}}
- {{Dungeons & Dragons character class}}
- {{DnDmodule}}
[edit] Stub templates
- {{D&D-stub}}
[edit] Userboxes
Add to your user pages only, not to article or talk pages.
[edit] Categories
[edit] Lists
[edit] Articles
[edit] Wikipedia articles on Dungeons & Dragons
[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Dungeons & Dragons
Please feel free to list your new Dungeons & Dragons-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
[edit] Articles proposed for deletion
This section should be used to list Dungeons & Dragons articles currently being considered for deletion, not only by project members, but by all Wikipedians. This will not only bring low-quality D&D articles to our attention, but will also enable the project to be aware of and defend articles targeted by overzealous deletionists. Please post (newest at the top) both the article title and the article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragons of Ice, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragons of Faith, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragons of Light, Dragons of Ice, Dragons of Light, Dragons of Light - Some dragonlance modules are up for AfD. - Peregrine Fisher 01:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Conclusion: These articles have all been replaced with a redirect. Moved discussion on this to talk page. - Waza 23:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Image:DungeonMasterGuide4Cover.jpg - Not an article but an illustration (AD&D ist Ed 4th Printing DMG Cover) will be deleted becasue it is missing rationale for "fair use". I beleive rationale can be added to this to explain "fair use", but this will be deleted in 7 days if no one actually does so. Also there are a large number of other D&D covers missing similar rationale's. Therefore I believe it should eb a concern of this project o fix these otherwise pictures that are important inllustralions in D&D articles could dissapear with little warning - Waza 22:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- Swanmay - A merge, not a delete, proposal. Add your piece to the talk page if you have one.--Robbstrd 20:30, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
- Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has been selected for merger into the main Forgotten Realms article. I don't think the person suggesting this merger understands that one article is (or should be) only about a 3e RPG book published by WotC and the other is about all Forgotten Realms products (including things like Al-Qadim or Maztica) that have nothing to do with the book. Please add your support to the Talk:Forgotten_Realms page. Big Mac 22:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Phargos:_The_Battleground has been suggested for deletion (as well as all references to it from the Githyanki and Zerai articles - I can't find the Zerai article, so it might have been deleted). Big Mac 13:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requests
- Red Wizards (Dungeons & Dragons) to move to Red Wizards: unnecessary disambiguation. Please discuss at Talk:Red Wizards (Dungeons & Dragons). Cheers --Pak21 12:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- As mentioned above Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has been selected for merger into the main Forgotten Realms article. It would help if the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting article could be edited ASAP to move the 3e information to the top, and leave only information about the 2e boxed set (also called Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting) underneath. If all other info was merged into the main FR article by this project it would support the case to retain a separate article. Big Mac 22:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ravenloft (D&D module) - I have done a lot of work expanding and referencing this article over the past week. I would like to nominate it for Wikipedia:Good articles status soon, but would appreciate any feedback from members of this project before I do. This is a article specifically about the original module and it's various revisions, not primarily about the Ravenloft campaign setting which has it's own article. - Waza 11:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Resources
[edit] Archives
- #1
[edit] See also
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