Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms

Some Wikipedists have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the Forgotten Realms. 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] Title

WikiProject on Forgotten Realms

[edit] Scope

Comprehensive Atlas of the Forgotten Realms, limited to canon material (with non-canon allowed for links).

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games

[edit] Participants

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

• David Latapie – Founder
• danjr-s - Fan from the original 1987 release, Cormyr and Suzail specialization.
• RJH
• RYard
• JarlaxleArtemis
• Kelvon - Reader of FR novels, player and DM of FR D&D, player of FR CRPGs... just obsessed about the lore.
• Erolos
• Cynehelm
• Grethko - Creator of the Forgotten Realms Userbox(see their userpage), big NWN player Creator of the NWN Battle of the Dragons
• Miborovsky - experience limited to CRPG, in particular Planescape, BG2 and NWN
• Rizogue - Administrator of the Forgoteen Realms Fan Site, and long time Neverwinter Nights Project at www.Menzoberranzan.net
• Rogue 9 - Longtime FR player, currently working on FR deities pages independent of this project. Would be good to collaborate, I think.
• Silmarillion - Main interest is NWN
• Anand Daniel - Loves FR lore, have most of 3rd Editions books (and some AD&D).
• Fsdemir
• PStrait -- I own nearly ever FR novel and supplement, and having been imagining this world for the last 15 years of my life.
• Deadhoax - I contribute on the french Wikipedia, and on the FR french WikiProject. I can help with simple edits, like interwikis, spelling mistakes...
• Michael Robins - Played through all 3 NWN campaigns, owns several D&D 3E suppliments, has been playing in and DMing the Realms on and off for 10 years.
• Shabook
• User:dragonfirered94
• Turlo Lomon
• Will Holt - Longtime player & DM in the Forgotten Realms setting. Fan of the various books & games the setting has been used in.

[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.

• Big Mac
• CorruptBrent
• dllu
• James.Denholm
• Know-it-all holmes
• NebulanFree
• jbrown6982

[edit] Tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms:

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List any countries that exist or once existed in Realmspace at the Geographical index of Toril. Browse the Timeline of Faerûn for meaningful dates. For now, the date of creation of the various Elven empires, but there is surely much more to find. It requires a lot of time, particularly if you also look at the other timelines on the Web. Create a correct template infobox, see discussion. Merge stubs in Category:Forgotten Realms places. Verify the mergings, see the rearrangement. Expand on one of the many Forgotten Realms stubs Others?

[edit] Proposal for evangelism

This is a message I plan to send to major FR-related entries contributor. Anything to add or remove (plus bad grammar and so on) ?

( title ) Invitation to the Forgotten Realms project

Hi,

We are working on a Forgotten Realms Project to map Toril (mostly Faerûn, at the present). Since you contributed quite a lot on a Forgotten Realms-specific entry, we'ld like to invite you to join the project, so we could improve the “Mapping the Realms” project.

The goal is to create a sort of World Factbook for the Realms. This means:

• A consistent content
• Use of templates
• Entries should be limited to “sovereign places”: states and free cities, as well a moderately-inhabited place such as the Western Heartlands.

On top of this, we also plan to cover Lost Empires, such as Pelvuria or Imaskar and, of course, Netheril

• The project is located here
• The Geographical index of Toril is a good start to get a visual of had been done, as well as the Halruaa entry.

Main contributors are presently

• David Latapie (founder)
• Poulsen

If you know some other person who would be interested, feel free to forward the invitation!

Feel free to take a look. We hope to see you soon mapping the Realms with us!

[edit] Structure

[edit] Using the infobox

[edit] Basic instructions

1. The textbox is a template. That is, every thing that is entered here will be duplicated everywhere.
2. Variables must be added in the core of the article.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

Textbox

| '''Value that appears as the category'''
| {{{name that identifies the value}}}
|-
| {{{image}}}
'''{{{country}}}'''
|-
|'''Capital''' || {{{capital}}}
|-
|'''Government''' || {{{government}}}
|-
|'''Ruler''' || {{{ruler}}}
|-
|'''Population''' || {{{population}}}
|-
|'''Races''' || {{{races}}}
|-

Article

{{Infobox Forgotten Realms Countries |
name that identify the value = value |
image = [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|230px]] |
country = Cormyr |
government = [[Monarchy]] |
capital = Suzail |
ruler = Azoun Ⅴ (infant) |
population = 1,360,000 |
races = Humans, [[half-elves]], [[elf|elves]] |
}}

This will result in:

Forgotten Realms Country Cormyr
Capital	Suzail
Government	Monarchy
Ruler	Azoun Ⅴ (infant)
Population	1,360,000 (est.)
Races	Humans, half-elves, elves

[edit] Formatting

I have a problem with sizing the infobox. Check out with Anauroch. The left margin is way too large but I don't know why. It is a bit better now, though
David Latapie (✒ | @) 12:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Entries in the infobox

[edit] Implemented

• Capital
• Government
• Ruler
• Population
• Races

[edit] Proposed

• Worship
  • comments : only for major worships. See Chondath for example

[edit] Forgotten Realms project-template

I made a template to put at the top of relevant talk pages to increase the visibility of the project, comments are welcome! Poulsen 10:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

To use, type {{Forgotten Realms project}}

Pretty good but it should say "guide to the geography of Toril" instead of "guide to the geography of Faerûn". And the template should have geography in the name so that a pure FR article can use the Forgotten Realms project link. Big Mac 23:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sub-sections

• Concatenated_article
• Invitations

[edit] Articles

[edit] Adopt an article

• List of related articles
• Default article for the purpose of formatting: Halruaa. Notice it may not be the most exhaustive, but it is the one where new feature should be added first

Nominative adoptions below:

• Halruaa : David Latapie

[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.

• 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. (As someone has said that this WikiProject is inactive, I have also reported this to the Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject, in the hope that at least one of you will be able to sort it out.) Big Mac 00:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Don't know if people are even paying attention, but Dove Falconhand, Qilué Veladorn‎, Dragonbait, Alustriel Silverhand‎, Wulfgar (Forgotten Realms)‎ and a slew of other D&D articles are up for deletion. Szass Tam has already been deleted. BOZ 12:38, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requests

• 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. (As someone has said that this WikiProject is inactive, I have also reported this to the Dungeons & Dragons WikiProject, in the hope that at least one of you will be able to sort it out.) 00:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Work on this project is more or less stalled