Boilerplate:Regions
This article is a navigation tool to help you create a new location article. There are multiple types of locations and those types are labeled below with their corresponding Boilerplates, which give you a clean copy of the formatted guideline to copy / paste when creating a new location.
Land
Lands of Middle-earth are viewed on the first layer of the Middle-earth map.
- Use Boilerplate:Lands to create a new land article.
- Check out Category:Lands to see if the land article already exists!
Region
Regions of Middle-earth are viewed on the second layer of the Middle-earth map, found on the land maps.
- Use Boilerplate:Regions to create a new region article.
- Check out Category:Regions to see if the region article already exists!
Area
Areas of Middle-earth are viewed on the third layer of the Middle-earth map, found on the region maps.
- Use Boilerplate:Areas to create a new area article.
- Check out Category:Areas to see if the area article already exists!
Settlement
Settlements of Middle-earth, including but not restricted to the blue settlement icon, are viewed on either the third or fourth layer of the Middle-earth map; found on a region or area map (these are named places that may or may not have their own map).
- Use Boilerplate:Location Settlements to create a new settlement article.
- Check out Category:Settlements to see if the settlement article already exists!
Landmark
Landmarks of Middle-earth, including but not restricted to the flag POI icon, are viewed on the Middle-earth map that represent buildings, structures, city sections, and other noteworthy locations that are of outstanding, historical, aesthetic, or cultural importance.
- Use Boilerplate:Landmarks to create a new landmark article.
- Check out Category:Landmarks to see if the landmark article already exists!
Interior
Interiors of Middle-earth that require a character to step into an instance through a portal or interact with an NPC to be transported to. Examples include, but are not limited to, taverns, shops, homes, and rooms in a building and are inhabited by friendly NPCs in most cases.
- Use Boilerplate:Location Interiors to create a new interior article.
- Check out Category:Interiors to see if the interior article already exists!
Dungeon
Dungeons of Middle-earth that require a character to step into an instance through a portal or interact with an NPC to be transported to. These include Crafting Instances, Quest Instances, and Public Dungeons and are usually populated by enemy mobs.
- Use Boilerplate:Dungeons to create a new interior article.
- Check out Category:Dungeons to see if the interior article already exists!
Instance
Instances of Middle-earth that are separate from the world, sometimes duplicate copies of places, usually private and accessed through the Instance Finder, and are used for Epic Battles, Skirmishes, Raids, and World Instances.
- Use Boilerplate:Instances to create a new instance article.
- Check out Category:Instances to see if the instance article already exists!
{{Region Navigation Box
|collapse = no
|header =
|settlements =
|areas =
|landmarks =
}}<noinclude>[[Category: Region Navigation Templates]]</noinclude>
<-- Use this "Bullet" character between links -->
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Example (strongly shortened):
{{Region Navigation Box
|collapse = no
|header = [[Ered Luin]]
|settlements = [[Celondim]] • [[Duillond]] • [[Gondamon]] • [[Noglond]] • [[Thorin's Hall]]
|areas = [[Falathlorn]] • [[Low Lands]] • [[Rath Teraig]] • [[Thorin's Gate]] • [[Thorin's Hall Homesteads]]
|landmarks = [[Amon Thanc]] • [[Frerin's Court]] • [[Skirmish Camp]] [[Thorin's Gates]] • [[Thrasi's Lodge]]
}}<noinclude>[[Category: Region Navigation Templates|Ered Luin]]</noinclude>
Use this page layout for a Region page.
Note that this is formatted for tranclusion into the apropriate Land page.
Clean Copy
[[File:<region-image>.jpg|600px|center|thumb|<Region>]] <-- an image (if any) for the Region goes here
{{Toc-right}}
== <name of Region> ==
<onlyinclude> <- Start of area transcluded into "Land" Page ->
<- Descriptive details of the region
* '''Level:''' <low>-<highest>
* '''Factions:''' [[<Faction>]] and [[<Faction>]]
* '''Crafting:''' <Teir Number> and <Teir Name>
* '''Introduced:''' [[<Game Expansion or Update Name>]], <Date>
=== Lore ===
<- ... Lore information is typically provided by Turbine in the Press Release describing the new Region.
<- It may frequently also include information on the associated Areas, especially geographic descriptions.
=== Areas ===
<blockquote>
There are <NNN> [[area]]s in the <name> [[Region]]:
==== [[Area one]] ====
{{AreaOne}} <- transclusion of the area navigation template for area one ->
==== [[Area two]] ====
{{AreaTwo}}
==== [[Area three]] ====
{{AreaThree}}
</blockquote>
=== Connected to ===
:* [[ConnectedArea1]]
:* [[ConnectedArea2]] <- if more than one ->
</onlyinclude> <- End of area transcluded into "Land" Page ->
=== Reputation Factions ===
:* [[FactionOne]]
:* [[FactionTwo]] <- as needed ->
---- <- provides a horizontal line separator ->
=== Quest Chains ===
<categorytree depth="1" hideprefix="always" showcount="on"><Region> Quests</categorytree>
<blockquote>
{{Questbox| AreaOne Quests | collapsed |
{{:Category:AreaOne Quests}} <- This trancludes the quest list from the Category page for that area.
}}
: Additionally, the Epic Quest line continues throughout East Rohan: <- separate the Epic quest line ->
{{Questbox| Volume III, Book 7: A Fellowship Endangered | collapsed |
[[:Category:Vol. III. Book 7 Quests]]
{{:Category:Vol. III. Book 7 Quests}}
</blockquote>
{{:Category:<Region> Task Quests}} <- transcludes the Region Task Quest list
{{:<region> Deeds}} <- transcludes the Region Deed List
OR
<categorytree depth=1><Region Deeds></categorytree> <- will display a tree with the first level already open
=== Titles ===
{{:<region> Titles}} <- transcludes the Region Title List
=== NPCs ===
<categorytree mode="all" depth="1" showcount="off">The Great River NPCs</categorytree>
=== Map(s) ===
Mouseover for details. Area and instance maps available thru the [[Region#Areas| Areas]] above and thru [[:Category: Region Maps]].
[[File:<Region>_map.jpg|400px|thumb|center|<Region>]] <-- use for single map
[[File:<Region>_map.jpg|400px|<Region>]] <-- use for multiple maps, will generally display 2 to 3 maps per row
[[File:<Region>_map.jpg|400px|<Region>]]
[[File:<Region>_map.jpg|400px|<Region>]]
{{Template:<Region>}} <-transclude the Region Navigation Template
<noinclude>
[[Category:<Region>]] <- This page is a member of the Category for this new region.
</noinclude>
The category structure for a new region should be created as follows:
- Category: Region -- the parent category
- sub-category Region Areas
- sub-category Region Creatures <-- All Creatures go by Region, not by Area. Instance and Skirmish creatures should be referred to as Mobs
- sub-category Region Deeds
- sub-category Region Reputation Factions
- sub-category Region Interiors
- sub-category Region Landmarks
- sub-category Region Maps <-- All Maps go by Region, not by Area
- sub-category Region Location Images <-- All Location images go by Region, not by Area
- sub-category Region NPC Images <-- All NPC Images go by area within Region
- sub-category Region/Area NPC Images
- sub-category Region NPCs
- sub-category Region Quests
- sub-category Region Settlements
- sub-category Region Titles
- sub-category Region Instances <-- Category to hold all the other instance categories (deeds, mobs, etc)
Most of these Categories will be empty at first, being filled in as pages are created.