Wasteland Wiki:Article layout guideline

On structure
One of the most important parts of wiki editing is how to structure an article. Structure dictates what information the reader reads and when they read it. It can influence what people contribute, where they put it and how it is written. Good structure is likely to produce high quality articles.

Organize sections in an article in a hierarchical structure like you would an outline. Try using a shallow structure rather than a deep one. Having too many nested sections usually leads to a confusing or unreadable article.

Section order and naming
The following table is a short overview of Wasteland Wiki's standard article layout. Its purpose is to provide a quick reference for order and naming of standard layout items. This does not mean every article needs to have all of these layout items.

No in the "headline" column means that this layout item should not have a headline.
 * Yes in the "headline" column means that the article should have a headline of that name if you want to include such a layout item.

Section ordering in multi-game articles
In articles whose subject spans multiple Wasteland games, the sections for the various games should always be ordered by canonicity.

As an example, an article describes the various drugs which are known to exist in the Wasteland universe. It has sections for Wasteland and Wasteland 2. In this case, the Wasteland section would come first, then the Wasteland 2 one.