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.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Related Wikiprojects 2.1 Parentage 3 Participants 4 Sympathizers 5 Structure 5.1 Introduction 5.2 History 5.3 Creative origins 5.4 Notes 5.4.1 Citation templates 5.5 References 5.6 Campaign settings 5.7 Characters 5.8 Classes 5.9 Deities 5.10 Game mechanics 5.11 Monsters 5.12 Places 5.13 Minor topics 6 Goals 7 Templates 7.1 Project template 7.2 Infoboxes 7.3 Stub templates 7.4 Userboxes 8 Categories 9 Lists 10 Articles 10.1 Wikipedia articles on Dungeons & Dragons 10.2 New Wikipedia articles related to Dungeons & Dragons 10.3 Articles proposed for deletion 10.4 Requests 11 Resources 12 Archives 13 See also

[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.

• Efgardiner
• Everchanging02
• J Milburn
• Jeske Couriano
• mordicai
• Peregrinefisher
• Piuro
• Robbstrd
• Serpent's Choice
• shadzar

[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
• Big Mac
• BOZ
• Trixt
• Torquebomb

[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 withing 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, date). Available online:URL, if applicable
• Articles in periodicals, or works within an anthology: Author. "Title." Periodical or anthology title issue# (publisher, date). 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:

• 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.

• Split past editions into a new article, giving us both more room and more freedom to work with the primary.
• 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)

Articles that fall into this category:

• Dungeons & Dragons

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project template

• {{Project D&D}} add to talk page of articles

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Stub templates

{{D&D-stub}}

[edit] Userboxes

Add to your user pages only, not to article or talk pages.

• User:Llama man/Userboxes/Dungeons & Dragons
• Template:User ad&d

[edit] Categories

• Category:Dungeons & Dragons
• Category:Wikipedians who play Dungeons & Dragons

[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.

• Monster Mythology

[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 (alphabetically) both the article title and the article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.

[edit] Requests

[edit] Resources

• Dragondex
• TSR Archive
• D20 SRD

[edit] Archives

• #1

[edit] See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates