Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-3045005-20191211220131

I apologize if the questions I ask here have been answered elsewhere before. This wiki is kind of a big place and information is in lots of places, and it can be hard to find a "perfect example" page that hasn't also possibly been edited after the fact to be...less standard. And the infoboxes have been changed and upgraded and such over time. I just thought it would be nice if some style questions could be definitively decided upon. These do not all need to be answered or discussed at once if people don't have time to look it over, just broaching the subject.

I also apologize that this is rather stream-of-consciousness style.


 * Should dotted lists appear in infoboxes?  I like how they look that way.  I think I like it better than commas.  I have seen a few infoboxes that used dots, and started using them, but haven't completely consistently.  Should ALL parts of infoboxes that require a list use dots, or only some sections?  Example of both: Iron Throne Headquarters. Area codes are dotted, people are comma-separated.  Another example: Isle of Balduran, which does not use dots but every person and area is on a new line via   ...but the area codes are comma-separated.


 * Temple of Umberlee's NPC section gives a brief description of the person's function in parenthesis, even though the reader can probably find that in the main text or simply by clicking on the people. Yes or no to this practice?  I think it is unnecessary and clutters the infobox.


 * Thoughts on capitalization? Another random area...Beregost.  Looks good, however unlike some other pages the "areas within" section gives descriptions of services provided by each location, and notably for Kagain's Shop says "no store," I guess to let people know that calling it a shop is a misnomer.  The Burning Wizard - "inn" is not capitalized, Feldepost's Inn - "Rooms, Buy and Sell, Drinks" has a lot of capitalization.  The "services" section says "Inns, stores" without stores capitalized.


 * Ending punctuation in infoboxes? This may not always apply to just areas.  Again picking a page at random...Halberd +1.  Both the "proficiency" and the "appears in" sections end in a period, but the rest do not (except for lbs. and ft.).  I am not in favor of this; complete sentences are for the page text and not an info sheet.


 * Should all area codes be ?  What about superscripted when following an area?  Example: Cool PlaceAR0000  I have seen both approaches on different pages but I can't find them at this moment.  Should they always be followed by .are?  It is on South Beregost Road.


 * Format for when an area contains multiple areas? Compare the area code section of Iron Throne Headquarters with The Friendly Arm.

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 * The Friendly Arm has an extremely fancy people section that


 * Is there a standard size that should be targeted for location screenshots? If the area is a building then should the screenshot simply encompass that building, no matter the building's aspect ratio?  Again, see Iron Throne Headquarters.


 * Should we be providing coordinates anywhere/everywhere? My goodness I have seen a lot of different coordinate formats.  Jovial Juggler has (x 3634 y 3601).  Kagain's Shop has (1658.2005) linking coordinates like that, with a period and no x and y.  The Friendly Arm is the same but precedes the coordinates with "at."  Larswood gives coordinates in the body of the article in plain text with no x and y or parenthesis or anything.


 * Beregost Cave lists "people" as "Rats, Bats." Appropriate?  If so, should "people" perhaps be changed to "inhabitants?"


 * Friendly Arm Inn gives some conditions for NPCs appearing in small text in a short sentence. Peldvale does the same for Raiken but much briefer, and also not small.  Should these practices be carried through everywhere?  There are many special conditions in these games.  Obviously we wouldn't be listing NPCs and say (not present if killed by Gorion's Ward), but I know that's a ridiculous suggestion.


 * How best to wield the game icons?  Preceding the person or thing from that game, or following?  I believe have seen it both ways.  Did I do it right Iron Throne Headquarters?


 * I had asked this question on CompleCCity's talk page, but I will restate it here to make it a more public matter. Template:Infobox area has a lot of sections with a sort of indistinct purpose, or purposes which seem unnecessary or of limited use. For example I'm not sure how often "worships" would be relevant info that needs to be in an infobox at the side of the page; if people in the area worship Umberlee or whoever, that can be mentioned in the article itself. I don't see it as especially gameplay-relevant, nor is it filled in on many (any?) pages. "Primary functions" and "other functions" feel like they overlap with "type" and other sections, for example if the area is primarily for shopping then that will be taken care of under "services." Not sure what "notable1" is, or what to do with "layout" and "other layout."  If "basement" is really just to describe whether the area has a basement, that seems overly specific and not broadly applicable to a majority of areas.

Anyway, that is probably quite enough for now. It feels like any page you click on will be inconsistent with every other in this respect. 