Naming Conventions (FFXIV)  

This guide is to help anyone who would like to contribute to the Final Fantasy XIV wikibase and to aid in keeping page names consistent.

Creating a Page

Making a wikibase page is relatively easy, but there are a small number of occasions when it requires a little more thought so this article will serve to guide you through the decision making process for naming your page.

First of all, to make a page you click 'Edit' on an existing page and use [[two square brackets]] at the beginning and end of the name of your new page. If you want the page to link from the page you're editing hit save changes if you don't want it to link to that page hit preview. You should see the name of your new page appear as a red link like this: Blank Page. You can now click it and edit the page.

Basic Name Choice

Most of the time, when you're choosing a name for a page, it will be something from in the game that you are creating a page for. If this is the case, then the name of the page should be written as it is displayed in the game even if there are spelling and grammatical errors in the game. There are occasionally exceptions to this rule. (see naming exceptions) Please avoid using colons ':' in your page name as they are used to make namespaces, namespaces are used when binding the database to the wiki and should only be created when a template is in place for that type of article. When a template has a colon included in it like 'FFXIV Item:' you may use colons after the template as the wiki will make a namespace based on the first colon. Do not use question marks '?' in your page name at all as they cause problems for the wiki.

Categories

The next thing you need to consider is if the page should be belong to a category. If it does, you should look at the templates for the FFXIV wikibase. The templates tell you how everything that falls into a category should be written. For example, pages that fall into the FFXIV Item category are currently coded as [[FFXIV Item:Name]] and all pages that are part of a category should be coded as [[Category:Category Name]] and placed at the bottom of the page. All pages, including ones that are not in a category, should have include the code {{FFXIV}} at the bottom of the page. This places the page into the Final Fantasy XIV wikibase.

Naming Exceptions

Occasionally when creating a page, you will find that a page with the same name already exists in the FFXIV wikibase, it will appear as a blue link and you should check to see if that page is what you were about to create. If the page with the same name is not what you were about to create and you have done all of the above you can place a suffix with parentheses at the beginning and end after the name so that it appears as a single word without the suffix when linking the page.

An example of when to use this would be if you were to make a page with a name that is a term in the all games dictionary like Auction House. Let's say you wanted it to link to a page that tells people something unique about the auction houses for the game but it doesn't apply to all games and you wanted to layout the page in a way that wouldn't look right on a auction house category page.

By adding the (FFXIV) suffix, you wouldn't need to call it something like "FFXIV Auction House". Adding the FFXIV suffix would link it to a specific Auction House article for XIV without including the suffix text. You would call it something like "Auction House (FFXIV Facts)". This would allow you to link the page as Auction House without the (FFXIV facts) text, you do this by coding it like this [[Auction House (FFXIV Facts)|Auction House]].

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