TV5 Wiki:Layout Guide

This Layout Guide is an official guide as to how a typical article should be structured. Feel free to discuss the Layout Guide on the talk page.

Top template

 * The Icons template should be placed at the top of every article, if needed.
 * The following order should be used for parameters on the template:
 * Article status. These are to show if an article has previously been reviewed and approved as a status article, so should only be used if an article has previously passed a Featured, Good, or Quality article nomination. Status parameters are: "fa" (if the article is a Featured article), "ga", and "qa" (if the article is a Quality article). Only the most recent applicable parameter should be used, so if a Good article had its status removed but later became a Featured article, it should only use "featured".
 * Protection level. These are to show if an article has been protected by an Administrator. Articles should only have one parameter for the level of edit protection, although articles can have both edit and move protection, in which case the edit protection should come before the move protection. Protection parameters are: "fprot" (full protection), "sprot" (semi-protection), "mprot" (move protection), "uprot" (upload protection), and "cprot" (cascade protection).

Hatnotes

 * Generally used when it is possible that a user has found one article when they were actually looking for another of a similar or same name.

Templates (on the top of the articles)

 * Use  if the article is about an upcoming TV5-related subject. Often used with.
 * Use  if the article is a stub.
 * Use  if you get information from Wikipedia.
 * See the for the list of templates.

Infobox

 * Used to present vital statistics of subject. Various infoboxes can be accessed by using the standard preloads just below the "Save page" button.

Introduction
Articles shall only have an introduction section, commonly called an "intro," if the article body reaches 165 words in length, not counting the "Behind the scenes" section or any other content (infobox, captions, quotes, etc.). Such articles will then employ sectioning in the article body.

Body
The body of an article should look like this: Name of article is/was... (insert introductory sentence or paragraph)

Images

 * Images should be placed where they are most relevant and should not interrupt the flow or the aesthetics of the article.
 * Placing them immediately underneath a heading or subheading usually works quite well.
 * Images should typically alternate from the right-side to the left-side. If there is a long infobox at the start, multiple images can be left aligned until the infobox ends.

Citations, footnotes, and references

 * To get the references to show up in this section, use the Reflist template.
 * Reference lists may only be multi-columned if more than 20 references are cited.

Categorization

 * Every article must have all applicable categories.
 * Categories should be listed in alphabetical order.
 * MediaWiki allows use of the DEFAULTSORT magic word to eliminate unnecessary coding while still achieving the desired result of categorizing articles by last name (ie, one need not use Windu, Mace; use the below method)


 * In alphabetical order, please sort the people by last name (or otherwise stage name).