Wiki Style Guide
The following is a guide to creating or editing main content pages on the Stardew Valley Expanded Wiki that follow both established wiki-article style and formatting consistent with other Stardew-related wikis. These guidelines are subject to change, but they should be followed in order to maintain consistency across pages. If there is a compelling reason to deviate from this established style, please create a discussion topic either on that page or on the Admin Team page for further review.
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Image Uploads
All images uploaded to this wiki shall be appropriately licensed.
License & Attribution
- Stardew Valley game assets shall be licensed under
{{License|game}} - Mod assets shall be licensed under
{{License|CC-BY-SA}} - Original assets shall be attributed to their creator and licensed in accordance to creator's direction. If assets are sourced from another wiki, a link to that wiki is required.
Specifications
- NPC portraits shall be sized at 256x256 px
- Objects/items shall be sized at 64x64 px
- Big craftables shall be sized at 48x96 px
- Crop phases shall be sized at 48x96 px
- Please use png formats!
- For any in-game screenshots, please avoid recolors and retextures; stick to vanilla, please.
Page Types
Different page types require different page formats and templates. See the following examples (listed alphabetically):
- For Animals, see Animal page format
- For Artisan Goods, see Artisan Goods page format
- For Building Locations, see Location page format
- For Clothing/Wearables, see Clothing page format
- For Cooked Dishes, see Cooking page format
- For Craftables, see Crafting page format
- For Crops, see Crop page format
- For Fish, see Fish page format
- For Forage, see Forage page format
- For Fruit/Flowering Trees, see Fruit Tree page format
- For Monsters, see Monster page format
- For NPC/characters, see Character page format
- For Seeds, Starters, & Saplings, see Seed page format
- For Weapons, see Weapon page format
- For Wild Trees, see Wild Tree page format
For all other misc items, see Item page format
Table Examples
- For Fish Pond data, the tables will need to be housed on the Fish page, and should follow Fish pond table format
General Wiki Style
- 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'''. Bold can also be used for emphasis on other words in rare cases. - All object, building, recipe, and place names should be written and capitalized in a way consistent with the game (e.g. The Beach, The Stardrop Saloon, Pelican Town, Parsnip Seeds, etc.).
- The first instance of an item/object name on a page should always be linked via double brackets (e.g.
[[Starfish]]). 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
Trivia should only be related to the mod's content.
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 ==Section Title== 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, you could use something like: ==New Format Suggestion==.
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, sign it using -- ~~~~.
Suggestions
Suggestions for format changes are welcome, but be advised that any major format changes to an existing page's structure and layout, or any major changes to templates will be reverted.
Page layout and information adapted from ARK Wiki Style Guide