ARK Survival Evolved Wiki:Style guide

=Style Guide= The following is a guide to creating or editing mainspace pages on the ''Ark: Survival Evolved Wiki in accordance with the established article style. These guidelines are not set in stone, but they should generally be followed in order to maintain consistency across pages, unless there is a good reason to make an exception.

Standard Wiki markups can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet.

Page types
Different page types require different page formats. See the following examples:


 * Flak Helmet.png For Armor and Saddles, see the Armor page format
 * Cooked Meat.png For Consumables, see the Consumable page format
 * RaptorHead Icon.png For Creatures, see the Creatures page format
 * Birthday Cake.png For Events, see the Events page format
 * Forest Coloring.png For Items, see the Item page format
 * Note.png For Patch Notes, see the Patch Notes format
 * Map Icon.png For Locations, see the Location page format
 * Metal Ingot.png For Resources, see the Resource page format
 * Dinosaur Gateway.png For Structures, see the Structures page format
 * Crossbow.png For Tools and Weapons, see the Weapons page format
 * Flag.png For Tribes, see the Tribe page format

For Mod page guidelines, see the Mod guidelines.

General guidelines

 * The first instance of the page title should be bold. This should usually be in the first sentence of the article. No other instance of the page title should be bold. To make a word or phrase bold, place three apostrophes (') on each side. For example: . Bold can also be used for emphasis on other words in rare cases.
 * All item names should be capitalized (e.g. Flak Armor Helmet).
 * The first instance of an item name on a page should always be linked, via double brackets (e.g. ). Further mentions of the same item should generally not be linked, though multiple identical links can exist if they occur far from each other and would be helpful to readers. An example might be one link in the introductory section along with an identical link in a section, table, or template occurring further down. Duplicate links may be especially helpful on larger pages that would require scrolling to find an item's first mention.
 * Be sure to read the page before editing. Editors frequently add notes, tips, and trivia items that duplicate information already contained in the article's paragraphs above.

Trivia
While most users of this wiki are likely dinosaur fans and would probably be interested in learning interesting facts about them, this is a wiki for ARK: Survival Evolved, not for the creature or object itself. Trivia should be related to the in-game version of the creature or object in question, and references to the real-world equivalent should describe interesting differences between the two. For example, this would be considered appropriate: "Jerky in real life must be made with raw meat in order to retain enough moisture to still be palatable, as opposed to cooked meat like in the game, which turns it into edible bark." - taken from the Cooked Meat Jerky page

This would not be considered appropriate: "Megalosaurus is a member of Megalosauridae", but "The dossier says that Megalosaurus is a member of X, but it is actually a member of Megalosauridae" would be.

There are however, some areas of trivia where the line is more ambiguous, such as the meanings of names. If you aren't sure whether a piece of trivia is appropriate or not, please make a post on the article's discussion page first.

Talk
Talk pages are for suggestions regarding the structure or contents of a page, or for a discussion with a user. When editing a Talk: page, use  to create a new section header if the topic you want to discuss is not already on the page. For example,  to suggest a change in the format of a page. If the topic you wanted to discuss is already on the page, you should always use a colon before your reply to make it easier to follow the flow of comments. When you are finished with your editing, insert a break tag by using  to move your signature to the next line and then sign it using.

Suggestions
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