Greyhawk Wiki:Manual of Style

This page describes the style that all pages in the main namespace should follow.

Manual of style

This wiki follows the Chicago Manual of Style

• This wiki uses the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition as its basis for use in cases of grammar, punctuation, citation, word use, etc.
• This wiki also follows the D&D House style Guide (updated January 2019) for specific use of mechanics, formatting, term usage, numbers in game terms, etc.

Writing guidelines

• For more explicit or individual guidance, please also see the general Writing Guidelines policy and specific guidelines by type of page for the Great Library of Greyhawk wiki.

Naming conventions

Page names

Singular titles

All page names should be in singular (e.g., "elf" not "elves", or "deity" not "deities", although there can be some exceptions like Lists or Categories (for example, List of Greyhawk adventures in Dungeon magazine or "Orcish deities"). They should be as short as possible without being an abbreviation (unless the abbreviation is far more common than the full name). If an article can have two or more names, it should be named with the most popular word and then create redirects from the other possible names.

Though page titles should be singular, they should not include sigular definite articles such as "A" "The". It should only be included when it is part of a proper noun. For example, "University of Magical Arts" not "The University of Magical Arts", or "Spectre" not "The Spectre", even though it may be said that way. But, "A Guide to the World of Greyhawk" is the correct name of the sourcebook. Note: this may lead to very narrow distintions between some articles. For example, the "City of Greyhawk" (a place) and The City of Greyhawk (a source).

Multiple names

Sometimes, a page can have multiple titles. In this case, the most well-known word should be used. For example, the common name of the moon is Luna, though it is technically also named Raenei.

Sentence case

Both page/article names and section headings will contain a capital letter at the start, and should not contain any other capital letters unless the title is a proper noun, eg: a person's or places given name.

Correct	Incorrect
Rumors and legends	Rumors and Legend
Publication history	Publication History
Selintan River	Selintan river
Royal Opera House	Royal opera house

Generic terms and items

Magic items

• Unnamed, generic, or otherwise non-descript magic items do not get their own pages.

For example, wand of fireballs, staff of the magi, scroll of strength, +5 holy avenger, or elven chainmail, etc.

• Do include pages like Fragarach, Hand of Vecna, Kuroth's Quill, Sword of Dunstan or other items, especially artifacts or "named" items which have lore specific to Greyhawk™.

Self-evident terms

General terms not specific to the World of Greyhawk™ should not be defined or given articles/pages.

This is not Wikipedia, and all content should be specific information relating to Greyhawk.

For example, terms like bread, longsword, armor, king, monarchy, castle, or highway; or game-terms like initiative, alignment, roleplaying game, ability scores, or individual spells should never be wikilinked.

The only exception to this is class names which link to lists or groups of characters, like wizard, rogue, cleric, or fighter.