Wikipedia:WikiProject Greyhawk

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for 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.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

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[edit] Scope

This project aims to improve the coverage and quality of articles on the World of Greyhawk campaign setting.

[edit] Related Wikiprojects

[edit] Parentage

This project is a descendant of WikiProject Role-playing games. WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons is regarded as our parent, though this project predates that one.

[edit] Sibling Wikiprojects

This project is a sibling of Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms and Wikipedia:WikiProject Dragonlance.

[edit] Participants

To join the project, just add yourself to this list in alphabetical order.

[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.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Introduction

Each Greyhawk article should begin with either:

"In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, subject is. . ."

OR

"Subject is . . . in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game."

[edit] History

Each article should strive to include some historical overview of the subject. At some point, it may be necessary for some articles to split off this section into a separate article (such as "History of the Great Kingdom").

[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] Greyhawk characters

All specifically-Greyhawk character articles should have a uniform format, with sections for "Description," "History," "Writings," and "Spells," if applicable. See Mordenkainen for an example of these sections, plus more. Mortals who ascended to divine status may have additional sections.

[edit] Greyhawk deities

All specifically-Greyhawk deity articles should have a uniform format, with sections for "Description," "Clergy and temples," "Artifacts," "History," and "Myths and legends," if applicable. They should also contain the Greyhawk deity infobox. See Lendor for an example of some of these sections. Deities who were formally mortals may have additional sections.

[edit] Greyhawk places

I would prefer to structure the articles on soverign nations like Keoland has been formatted. I adopted this format from the CIA World Factbook.

Some locations, such as White Plume Mountain and the Vault of the Drow, may also be the names of modules or sourcebooks. In some cases, it may be necessary to have a separate article for each.

[edit] Goals

  1. Create new Greyhawk articles and stubs.
  2. Flesh out and unify format of existing Greyhawk articles and stubs.
  3. Add categories and contextual setting information to non-specific Greyhawk articles that are still relevant to the setting (such as monsters, magic items, deities, modules, etc).

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

[edit] Templates

[edit] Project template

This user is a member of WikiProject Greyhawk.


[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Stub templates

{{Greyhawk-stub}}

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Greyhawk

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Greyhawk

Please feel free to list your new Greyhawk-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 Greyhawk articles currently being considered for deletion, not only by project members, but by all Wikipedians. This will not only bring low-quality Greyhawk 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

  • Alhaster -
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  • Bilarro -
  • Blackstone (Greyhawk) -
  • Bluto Sans Pite -
  • Boneheart -
  • Cobb Darg -
  • Company of Seven -
  • Day of Great Signing -
  • Drax (Greyhawk) -
  • Drelnza -
  • Dungeons & Dragons Gazetteer -
  • Edwina (Greyhawk) -
  • Egg of Coot -
  • Elmshire -
  • Emirikol the Chaotic -
  • Father of Obedience -
  • Fiend-Sage of Rel Astra -
  • Gnarley Forest -
  • Greytalk -
  • Halmadar -
  • Hardby -
  • Hazen (Greyhawk) -
  • Hazendel -
  • Horde of Elemental Evil -
  • Ivid V -
  • Jaran Krimeeah
  • Jumper (Greyhawk) -
  • Kieran Jalucian -
  • Korenth Zan -
  • Lawrence Schick -
  • Living Greyhawk Journal -
  • Magepoint -
  • Narwell -
  • Neb Rentar -
  • Nolzur -
  • Nosnra -
  • Null (Greyhawk) -
  • Octych -
  • Onnwal -
  • Osson -
  • Philidor (Greyhawk) -
  • Quaal -
  • Rhennee -
  • Riggby -
  • Safeton -
  • Seekers (Greyhawk) -
  • Seer of Urnst -
  • Shattados -
  • Shield Lands -
  • Society of Magi (Greyhawk) -
  • Steaming Springs -
  • Sunndi -
  • Sustarre -
  • Touv -
  • Tuerny -
  • Ye'Cind -
  • Yrag -
  • Zeech

[edit] Resources

[edit] Archives

  • #1

[edit] See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates