Boilerplate:Location Settlements
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.
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Region
Regions of Middle-earth are viewed on the second layer of the Middle-earth map, found on the land maps.
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Area
Areas of Middle-earth are viewed on the third layer of the Middle-earth map, found on the region maps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This template is meant for locations that provide some kind of services. A location with several quest givers but no services should probably use Boilerplate:Location Landmarks. For same-name areas, use this template (see Boilerplate:Location Areas). See more comments at the end of this page.
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== Location ==
'''{{subst:PAGENAME}}''' is a settlement located within the area of [[area]] in [[region]]. {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
== Services ==
The following services can be found within the settlement of {{subst:PAGENAME}}:
* [[]] - [[]] {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
=== Mailboxes ===
* [[Mailbox]] {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
=== Tasks Bulletin Board ===
* [[Tasks Bulletin Board]] {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
=== Crafting ===
* [[]] {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
=== Travelling ===
* [[Milestone]] {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
* [[Stable-master]] - [[name]] {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
{{:name of stable-master}} <!-- only if s/he can be transcluded -->
== Deeds ==
The following [[REGION Deeds|deeds]] can be advanced by visiting this place:
* [[]]
== Quests ==
'''Starting:'''
See [[:Category:{{subst:PAGENAME}} Quests]] OR {{:Category:{{subst:PAGENAME}} Quests}}
'''Involving:'''
* [] [[Quest:|]]
== NPCs ==
{{:Category:{{subst:PAGENAME}} NPCs}}
OR tables as below
-- the following may be the style of a transcluded NPC section (but is not mandatory) --
=== Services ===
The following NPCs provide services.
{| class="altRowsMed" width="500"
! width="200" | NPC !! width="200" | Function !! Coords
|-
| [[]] || [[]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|}
=== Equipment ===
{| class="altRowsMed" width="500"
! width="200" | NPC !! width="200" | Function !! Coords
|-
| [[]] || [[Light Armoursmith]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[Medium Armoursmith]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[Bowyer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[One-handed Weaponsmith]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[Two-handed Weaponsmith]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|}
=== Crafting ===
{| class="altRowsMed" width="500"
! width="200" | NPC !! width="200" | Function !! Coords
| [[]] || [[]] || {{Tooltip Coords||S|W}}
|}
=== Class Trainers ===
{| class="altRowsMed" width="500"
! width="200" | NPC !! width="200" | Function !! Coords
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Burglar Trainer|Burglar Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Captain Trainer|Captain Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Champion Trainer|Champion Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Guardian Trainer|Guardian Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Hunter Trainer|Hunter Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Lore-master Trainer|Lore-master Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Minstrel Trainer|Minstrel Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Rune-keeper Trainer|Rune-keeper Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|-
| [[]] || [[NPC Warden Trainer|Warden Trainer]] || {{Tooltip Coords|||}}
|}
=== Others ===
-- List of common townsfolk and quest givers should go here. --
-- Use table if a table is used above, otherwise a dotted list as below --
* [[]]
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== Lore ==
: ''[insert lore here]''
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{{region}}
Notice:
- Some settlements are so big that splitting them into several pages will make the information easier to find. For example, often a craft fair contains very specific information, thus having long lists of information just dilute the main page of the settlement. Another argument is that contained sections, blocks, squares, and interiors contain information that are very local to that location, hence it is better kept local and not in long list. However, the main page must always present these and make it intuitive were the information are found. For examples, see for example Bree, Celondim, Michel Delving, Thorin's Hall, etc.