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This page aims to provide a style guide for all Kingdom Wiki articles to follow. [1]

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General guidelines

  1. Maintain proper grammar and spelling.
  2. Avoid profane language and slang.
  3. Always portray information as accurately as possible. Not 100% sure?


  4. Try to consistently use entity names so as to maintain some standard nomenclature across the wiki.
  5. Don't use "you" or "I" on articles.
  6. "Imperative" grammatical mood[2] should be restricted to:
    • pages on the categories Strategy and Technical
    • short sections named "Tips" on articles (long sections should be turned into strategy pages).
  7. Avoid gaming terms


  8. Monarchs don't die, they lose their Crown.


Notability

  1. Articles must contain enough information to warrant a full page. If they do not have enough content, they should be merged with other similar articles.
  2. Articles must pertain directly to Kingdom in some way.
  3. Features that have been removed from the game should be in the "History" section at the bottom of the article it's related to.
  4. Upcoming features should be in a separate section, at the bottom of the article, along with reliable references and the scheduled dates.
  5. Speculations about a topic already covered by an article should be gathered in a subarticle of Theories.
  6. Strategy pages, containing tutorials and guides, should be in Category:Strategy.

Redirects

Creating redirects is helpful when there are many different ways a user might search for a topic. Creating redirects for potential titles helps users find the existing page, and also helps to prevent the accidental creation of duplicate articles.

Redirects are exempt from the normal notability, but must redirect to an article that fits the notability guidelines. Redirects can be created if they fit one of the following:

  1. All secondary acceptable names for a given entity (e.g.: "Worker" → "Builder").
  2. Male/female variants of the title (e.g.: "King" → "Monarch")
  3. Cosmetic biome variants of the title (e.g.: "Samurai" → "Knight" and "Tanuki" → "Rabbit").
    In this case, the first released biome will have the article where all other skin variants should redirect to.
See:   How to create a redirect · List of redirects · Double redirects · Broken redirects

Bugs

Most bugs should not be described on articles. For dealing with them, see the technical page: Bug.

If it should be noted A bug may be included in an article if it meets the following criteria:

  1. It must be properly referenced by including a link to a thread where:
    • a developer or Raw Fury staff member verified the bug's existence, or
    • a multitude of players have shared their negative experience with the said bug (see e.g.).
  2. The bug must be consistently reproducible.
  3. It must cause significant harm in one of the following ways:
    • It causes crashes.
    • It can corrupt save files.
    • It would cause a severe annoyance that could be avoided by warning players in advance.

If it's to be included on the wiki, the bug notation should be done according to the following instructions:

On which article

  • Bugs should never be included in the patch notes pages.


  • A bug, even if affecting multiple elements of the game, should only be described once.


On which section

  • If the bug has been fixed, it can only be described in the "History" section.
  • If the bug still affects the current version of the game, and:
    • the bug affects only a specific aspect of the element, it can be noted as a sub-section below the description of that aspect being affected.
    • the bug affects that element as a whole, it should in most cases be noted in a bugs section, below all the sections describing the normal mechanics, and above the "History" section.
    • the bug affects that element as a whole to the point of:
      • causing game crashes
      • making players lose entire runs, or
      • making most players simply avoid that game element
      in those cases, the note should be placed on the top of the article, above the main image or infobox.

Warning level

Minor glitches should be noted with simple text, with no extra visual appeal.


Switch Switch – If the bug affects a specific platform, it should be marked with the related icon and name.
Attention Mildly severe bugs with a known, really effective workaround should be marked with a warning icon.
Severe bugs causing game crashes, making players lose entire runs, or making most players simply avoid that game element; those bugs should be noted within a {{Context}} box with a red border.

Speedruns

  1. Kingdom Wiki recognizes the importance of speedruns as an entertaining way of learning about the game. The wiki then shares some of these logs to spread awareness among regular readers about the existence of the speedrun practice in the Kingdom series.
  2. The wiki does not intend to provide a comprehensive list of world records (WR), nor the most up-to-date logs on this matter.


  3. The wiki does not verify world records (WR), and only recognizes those listed in speedrun.com[3]


  4. The logs shared on articles are considered a type of "strategy" content, and should be placed in a section called "Speedrun", after all the descriptive sections (those describing the game mechanics), and before the technical sections (Bug, History, References).

Article titles

For the in-game entity naming process, see: Entity names.

An article title is the large heading displayed above the article's content.

  1. Use sentence case
    Titles are written in sentence case. The initial letter of a title is capitalized by default; otherwise, words are not capitalized unless they would be so in running text. When this is done, the title is simple to link to in other articles: A knight requires the iron mine to be unlocked. Note that the capitalization of the initial letter is ignored in links.
    Entity mention vs. article mention: when talking about the article rather than the entity itself, the initial letter of the title keeps the title format. For example, in Use a coin to free the dog., the word "dog" should be lowercased because the entity is being mentioned. But when talking about the article as in For the best companion ever, see: Dog., the word "dog" must use the exact same format of the article title.
  2. Use the singular form
    • Article titles are generally singular in form, e.g. Archer, not "Archers".
    • Exceptions include:
      1. Collection or list: pages gathering different types of an object, for example: Achievements, Challenge Islands, Game basics, Controls, Seasons.
      2. Natural plural form: nouns that are always in a plural form, like Ruins, meaning the remains (also usually plural only) of human-made architecture.
  3. Avoid definite and indefinite articles
    Do not place definite or indefinite articles (the, a, and an) at the beginning of titles. They needlessly lengthen article titles, and interfere with sorting and searching. See an extensive explanation here.
  4. Use nouns
    Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech. Sometimes the noun corresponding to a verb is the gerund (-ing form), as in Defending the Kingdom.

Redirect titles

Redirects should follow these same rules above. For example:

Vagrant  ← article title
Wanderer Yes good redirect to article
Vagrants No unwanted redirect: bad title (no plurals)
Vagrant camp Yes good redirect to section
Vagrant Camp No unwanted redirect: bad title (should use sentence case)

These rules should:

  1. help people to find the existing articles if they type the redirect on the search bar
  2. avoid the creation of new pages with similar content
  3. facilitate the use of singular/plural with wikitext, as in [[vagrant]] and [[vagrant]]s


  4. avoid structures like [[Vagrant Camp|Vagrant camp]] to fix capitalization, as articles and redirects already display the good form to be used in all situations.

Recurrences of the title

In general the subject entity of an article needs to be written in bold for the first time it is mentioned. Other entities need to be written with links to their own pages when they are first mentioned on an article. Creating links for every mention of an entity is inconvenient and unwelcome.

External links

  1. Any link that does not lead to a page within the Kingdom Wiki is considered as an external link.
  2. In general, external links should be limited to popular and reputable websites such as Fandom, Google Search, Youtube, Twitter, Twitch, Wikipedia, Archive.org, Steam and Reddit; in addition to websites officially associated with the Kingdom series and its creators, such as Raw Fury's website. If you want to link to a website that is not mentioned here, please contact the admins about it.
  3. External links need to be explained, either by writing out the full URL, or at least by labeling it sufficiently such as "A user's post in the Kingdom subreddit".
  4. In general, external links should be in the References sections of articles. If you want to use an external link within the body of an article, add the link itself to the References section, and connect it to the article using a reference footnote. This way, readers can be assured that links found within article texts refer only to other pages of this wiki.
  5. If using footnotes would make a section confusing, or harder to read, external links may be directly placed in the main body of the article. In that case, clearly stating the website it leads to is even more necessary (see e.g.).
  6. If needed, several external links can be listed on a section called "External links" (see e.g.).

An auto generated list of all external links currently in use on the wiki can be found here (for http links) and here (for https links).

Categories

For a guide on how to maintain the category tree and edit category pages, see: Kingdom Wiki:Categories.

Capital letters

For the in-game entity names format, see: Entity names § Capitalization.

Kingdom Wiki avoids unnecessary capitalization, which is primarily needed for proper names, and for the first letter of a sentence. This type of capitalization is called sentence case and should be used in article titles, section and subsection headings, infoboxes and tables (headings and rows), galleries and captions, hatnotes and footnotes, bulleted and numbered lists; that is: in all instances of text you may think of.

# Do not use for emphasis
Initial capitals or all capitals should not be used for emphasis. For example:

All caps Do NOT activate the Statue of Knights. No
Bold Do not activate the Statue of Knights. No '''...'''
Underlined Do not activate the Statue of Knights. Yes acceptable for short expressions <u>...</u>
Italic Do not activate the Statue of Knights. Yes good for most cases <em>...</em> or
''...''

# All caps and small caps
Avoid writing with all caps (all capital letters); except when referencing excerpts already in all caps.

Type of excerpt Formating on Kingdom Wiki
Quotes with a few words in all caps keep the already existing caps (see example).
Quotes with full sentences in all caps Replace with small caps
Headlines and titles in all caps Replace with small caps

To "replace" with small caps (all caps at a reduced size), use the Template:Smallcaps.

For a headline found on Steam Forums like "KINGDOM THE GAME IS OUT", for example, type: {{Smallcaps|Kingdom: The Game is out}}, which will render as: Kingdom: The Game is out

Italics

Italic type (text like this) is produced with double apostrophes around the content to be italicized: ''...''. Italics are used for the specific purposes outlined below:

Instances of “Kingdom”

  • shall be italicized:
    1. when refering to this website-community called Kingdom Wiki.
    2. when refering to the videogame titles: Kingdom series, Kingdom: New Lands, etc.
      On article titles, it's possible to use the magic word {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}[4] to apply italics on game names (see example).
  • shall not be in italics when refering to the in-game territory over which the Monarch rules.

Emphasis

Use italics or em tags <em>...</em> to draw attention to an important word or phrase within a sentence, when the point or thrust of the sentence may otherwise not be apparent to readers, or to stress a contrast.

Quotations

Use template {{Inline quote}} for short/inline quotations and {{Quote}} for long/block quotations.

Date formatting

The Kingdom Wiki is an international community. Countries around the world have different standards for date formatting, which can lead to ambiguity and confusion. To avoid that, this wiki will accept only two date formats:

Format Description Where to use
FULL
D Mmmm YYYY
3 September 2022

D – one-digit day for days below 10
Mmmm – month spelled out in full
YYYY – four-digit year

  • all regular paragraphs
  • reference sections
NUMERIC
YYYY-MM-DD
2022-09-03

YYYY – four-digit year
MM – two-digit month, always
DD – two-digit day, always

  • infoboxes and tables
  • constrained spaces

Below are some bad date formatting examples. First, for dates writen in full format.

03 September 2022 The zero on the day is unnecessary.
3rd September 2022 Sufixes like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th should be avoided.
3 of September 2022 The preposition "of" is not needed.
3 September, 2022 Do not use a comma there.
3 Sep. 2022 Do not abbreviate the month. If there is space restriction, use the other date format.

And here are some bad examples of dates in the all-numeric format.

09-03-2022 Use correct year-month-day order.
2022-9-3 Use leading zeroes on numbers below 10
22-09-03 Do not abbreviate the year. Use the four-digit format.
2022/09/03 Numbers should be separated by hyphens.

When talking about in game time, expressions like "the second winter" are common and useful. However, when talking about real life time, using seasons for dates, as in "summer 2021" or "fall 2022", is a bad idea, because the northern and southern hemispheres have opposite seasons. Instead use phrases like "mid-2021" or "late 2022".

Note that none of these rules should be applied on quoted text. Quotes that mention dates should keep their original date format.

Templates

Templates are only really usable while editing in source mode ([ ]), but they open a lot of possibilities for the standard wiki editor.

Icons

Icons should serve an wiki purpose and not merely be decorative. They should provide additional useful information on the article subject, serve as visual cues that aid the reader's comprehension, or improve navigation. Icons should not be added only because they look good: one reader's harmless decoration may be another reader's distraction.

Appropriate use
Icons may be helpful in certain situations:

  1. inside infoboxes, replacing words to reduce some sentences length (see example);
  2. on hatnotes, along with the important links they recommend (see example);
  3. at the very begining of a paragraph to mark the transition to a specific context (mostly with the games versions; see examples: good and bad).
    • The only exception happens when the paragraph describes two games at a time. In this case the second icon is not "at the very beginning" (see example).
    • Note that the transition to describe another game version should always start a new paragraph.
    • There may be rarer situations where the game name is only been cited in a paragraph for which the game is not the main container (e.g.: To download the Skull Island DLC, one must own Kingdom: New Lands.) For these situations, it is enough to use the italic markup only and/or the link. Using icons here is unnecessary.

Inappropriate use
Do not put icons in headings (editing in source mode: ==This is a heading==). Doing so can break links to sections and cause other problems. Using only text on headings is the way to go (see e.g.).

Icons should not be used in prose in the article body, as in:

"Vagrants can be recruited by dropping a single Coin nearby."
This breaks up the continuity of the text, distracting the reader (see e.g.).

Do not re-purpose icons to represent something else, as in:

"Crown Stealer / Damage: Attacks directly the Monarch's Kingdom: New Lands."
The symbol of New Lands is a crown, but it should not be used to represent the in-game object.

List of icons

Code Result Description
{{KC}} Kingdom: Classic Marks information only applying to Kingdom: Classic.
{{Kingdom|C}} Kingdom: Classic Kingdom: Classic
{{KNL}} Kingdom: New Lands Marks information only applying to Kingdom: New Lands.
{{Kingdom|NL}} Kingdom: New Lands Kingdom: New Lands
{{Skull}} Skull Island Marks information only applying to Skull Island.
{{Skull Island}} Skull Island Skull Island (New Lands)
{{KTC}} Kingdom Two Crowns Marks information only applying to Kingdom: Two Crowns.
{{Kingdom|TC}} Kingdom Two Crowns Kingdom Two Crowns
{{Coin}} Coin To replace the word coins inside infoboxes and tables.
{{Gem}} Gem To replace the word gems inside infoboxes and tables.

Context banners

Context banners are simple boxes to be inserted at the very beginning of articles or sections. For further details, click on each template call below. For info on how to create other context banners, like {T|For}} and {{About}}, see Template:Context.

Typing Results in...
{{Page|C}}
Kingdom: ClassicThis is about Kingdom: Classic.
{{Page|NL}}
Kingdom: New LandsThis is about Kingdom: New Lands.
{{Page|TC}}
Two CrownsThis is about Kingdom Two Crowns.
{{Page|NL-TC}}
This is about New Lands & Two Crowns.
{{Page|all}} No visual cue. Categorizes for all games.
{{Page|strategy|a=?}}
This is a strategy page. For the descriptive article, see: [[RELATED ARTICLE]].
{{Page|theory|a=?}}
This is a theory page. For the factual article, see: [[RELATED ARTICLE]].
{{§|C}}
ClassicThis section is about Kingdom: Classic.
{{§|NL}}
New LandsThis section is about Kingdom: New Lands.
{{§|TC}}
Kingdom Two CrownsThis section is about Kingdom Two Crowns.
{{§|C-NL}}
This section is about Classic & New Lands.
{{§|NL-TC}}
This section is about New Lands & Two Crowns.
{{§|DL}}
Dead LandsThis section is about Dead Lands.

Notice boards

Lt !

This is a notice board
Where and and how to use such boards is explained below.

Notice boards are large notices to be inserted at the very beginning of articles, even before the "context banners". For info on how to create other notice boards, see Template:Notice. The wiki also has premade notice board templates, listed below with links to their documentation pages.

Use... If...
{{Outdated}} The article's contents may be outdated because of changes made in a recent update.
{{Missing information}} The article is not a stub but is still missing key information.
{{NeedsAttention}} The article is needs attention because it does not meet the style guide, or another reason that can be written within the notice.
{{Delete}} The article is a candidate for deletion.

Modifying templates

To assist you in breaking down and understanding certain templates, give these articles a read:

Polls

As of 4 August 2022, Fandom has closed StrawPoll.me, causing all polls to break, again.

English

Kingdom Wiki is an English site built for and used by an international community.[5] In practice, this means that:

  1. English is the only language allowed in articles [1]
  2. Other national languages are welcome and should be encouraged in all conversation and user related spaces [6], providing they are written clearly enough for automatic translators like Google to give us at least their general sense.
  3. A comment, blog post or forum thread writen in other national languages, can be answered in the original poster language or in English. Comments or answers to that post in languages other than these two, may be deleted by an admin to avoid confusion.
    For example: someone asks in the comments “Dónde puedo encontrar un nuevo perro?” As the question was made in Spanish, we expect the replies to be writen in Spanish or in English. An answer like “Si tu as perdu ton chien, tu n'est plus un roi.”, that is in French, may be deleted, even if it's correct content wise.

Other languages

We encourage non-English speakers to create other "Kingdom Wiki's" in their own language. The English wiki community is glad to share images, templates and any other content to help build those other communities. Users from other Fandom wikis related to the Kingdom series do not need any kind of permission to take, copy, translate or modify content from the English wiki.

For now there is only one active non-English wiki: the Flag ru Russian Wiki.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 A Kingdom Wiki article is a page on this site that has information about the Kingdom series. Most articles consist of a title, paragraphs, an infobox (or table, or infographic) and images (or videos). These pages are included in the Main/Article namespace, the one without a title prefix followed by a colon (:).
  2. Imperative mood on Wikipedia.
  3. speedrun.com for Kingdom: Classic, New Lands, and Two Crowns.
  4. DISPLAYTITLE on Wikipedia.
  5. As of May 2020, approximately one quarter of the visits to Kingdom Wiki come from non-English countries like Brazil, Germany, France, Turkey, and Russia.
  6. The conversation and user related spaces are:
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