Wikipedia:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

This project aims to improve the coverage and quality of articles on the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

This project is a descendant of WikiProject Role-playing games, and the parent Wikiproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Dragonlance, Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Greyhawk, though those Wikiprojects predate this one.

To join the project, just add yourself to this list in alphabetical order.

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Participants who want to show they're part of the project using a userbox are free to use {{User WPDND}} on their userpage.

If you don't want to or have the time to participate yourself, but think the project is worthwhile, show your support by adding your name to this list, in alphabetical order.

• AgentLewis
• Aikisenshi
• AKParker
• Big Mac
• BOZ
• CaptainQuery
• GJD
• Gothenem
• User:Interested2
• Kesh
• lifebaka
• silaslecake
• Torquebomb
• TrickyYoda
• Trixt
• Waza
• Bondgirl 2170
• JPWoodman636

Each Dungeons & Dragons article should begin with either:

"In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, subject is. . ."

OR

"Subject is . . . in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game."

Each article should strive to include some historical overview of the subject, where appropriate. At some point, it may be necessary for some articles to split off this section into a separate article (such as "History of the Nine Hells").

When known, the real-life inspiration or circumstances leading to the subject's creation should be listed in this section, which should appear before the "See also," "Notes," "References," and "External links" sections. The published source of the information should be listed in References.

For citing works, a "Notes" section may be necessary. This should be placed before the "References" section. This section should supplement, not replace, the References section, per [1].

Where practical, the new <ref>...</ref> format for notes should be used inline within the article. If the article has only new-style notes, this will look like:

Some text about a module.<ref>{{cite book |
  title=[[Module WP1]] |
  author=[[Jimbo Wales]] and [[Gary Gygax]] |
  year=1977 |
  publisher=[[TSR, Inc.]]}}</ref>

... 
==Notes==
<references/>

Items cited in the article will automatically be inserted into the notes section, and a footnote will point to them. Notes should not go under the "References" header, as those items should be alphabetical by author.

Here are some example citations:

• A module (see above)
• A magazine article (use "cite journal"):

<ref>{{cite journal |
  author=[[Erik Mona]], [[James Jacobs]] & [[Gary Gygax]] |
  title=The Orc and the Pie  |
  journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]] |
  issue = #400 |
  publisher=Paizo Publishing, LLC |
  year = 2008 }}</ref>

• A book (see module example, above)

Each article should have a section for references at the bottom, before the "External links" section. Most references listed in Greyhawk articles are in the following format, already adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing games:

• Books, modules, supplements, boxed sets, etc: Author or editor. Title of product. Publisher, year published. Available online:URL, if applicable
• Articles in periodicals, or works within an anthology: Author. "Title." Periodical or anthology title issue#. Publisher, year published. Available online:URL, if applicable
• Online sources: Author. "Title." Available online:URL

Please use the following to generate the needed References & footnotes:

<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> <references /> </div>}}

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates for a complete list of citation templates.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation and more information of how to generate footnotes using the <ref> and </ref> tags.

Articles on individual campaign settings should best be handled by related Wikiprojects, should any exist, as should characters, deities, monsters, places, etc exclusive to those campaign settings.

The text of deity articles should utilize the following sections, in order, after the introduction. See Heironeous for an example.

• Description
  • Aspects (other forms by which the god is known)
• Relationships
• Dogma
  • Scriptures
• Worshippers
  • Clergy (other subsections, like Paladins or Druids may also exist as subsections of Worshippers)
• Temples (perhaps Temples and rituals, or add a Rituals subsection, if lengthy enough)
• Holy days
• Artifacts
• History
• Myths and legends
• Creative origins
• Notes
• References
• External Links

The text of monster articles should generally follow the layout found in the Monster Manual IV, utilizing the following sections after the introduction:

• Publication history
• Ecology
  • Environment
  • Typical physical characteristics
  • Alignment

• Society

Additional sections may come after, such as:

• History
• Subspecies
• Monster X in campaign setting X
• Monster X in other media

Etc. Note that the "Creative origins," "See also," "Notes," "References," & "External links" sections should come at the end of the article, in that order.

Some articles on what might be termed minor topics, e,g. characters, classes, deities, monsters or places which only appear in a single product are often better placed in a list. Articles can be split off from the list if they grow very large. Some very minor characters are probably not worth writing about, and it would be better placed in the article for the product or product series in which they appear.

A basic list

• Find all the pages that are covered by this category
• Re-work the main D&D page completely.

• Split past editions into a new article, giving us both more room and more freedom to work with the primary.

- Decided against splitting by edition, see Talk:Dungeons_&_Dragons#Splitting_the_article

• Clean up (and trim) the less important sections.
• Cite everything

Feel free to add to thist list as you come up with things, or cross things off as they are finished.

The copy of the main D&D page can be found here. The inuse tag is for anyone working on it, so have at it. Piuro 21:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• I have suggested a plan to get Dungeons & Dragons fully to Featured Article standard - Waza 11:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dungeons & Dragons has now been nominated as a Featured Article. Please come and support the nomination. Check it is up to scratch, look at other critism, and either help address the concerns of those that oppose it or support the article if you believe those concerns are not legitimate. - Waza 02:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles that fall into this category:

• Dungeons & Dragons

• {{D&D}} add to talk page of articles
• {{D&D Books}} add to 3.0/3.5 D&D roleplaying book articles
• {{D&D creatures}} add to creature articles
• {{D&D deities}} add to deities articles

• {{Infobox D&D creature}}
• {{D&D Deity}}
• {{D&D character}}
• {{Dungeons & Dragons prestige class}}
• {{Dungeons & Dragons character class}}
• {{DnDmodule}}

• {{D&D-stub}}

Add to your user pages only, not to article or talk pages.

• User:Llama man/Userboxes/Dungeons & Dragons
• Template:User ad&d

• Category:Dungeons & Dragons
• Category:Wikipedians who play Dungeons & Dragons

Please feel free to list your new Dungeons & Dragons-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• Tome and Blood
• Sword and Fist
• Song and Silence
• Masters of the Wild
• Monster Mythology

This section should be used to list Dungeons & Dragons articles currently being considered for deletion, not only by project members, but by all Wikipedians. This will not only bring low-quality D&D articles to our attention, but will also enable the project to be aware of and defend articles targeted for deletion. Please post (newest at the top) both the article title and the article's entry on the Articles for deletion page.

• Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has been selected for merger into the main Forgotten Realms article. I don't think the person suggesting this merger understands that one article is (or should be) only about a 3e RPG book published by WotC and the other is about all Forgotten Realms products (including things like Al-Qadim or Maztica) that have nothing to do with the book. Please add your support to the Talk:Forgotten_Realms page. Big Mac 22:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Darkwood: proposed for deletion as it's entirely unsourced speculation on the in-game nature of darkwood and non-encyclopedic in-game stats. --Pak21 11:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• As mentioned above Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting has been selected for merger into the main Forgotten Realms article. It would help if the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting article could be edited ASAP to move the 3e information to the top, and leave only information about the 2e boxed set (also called Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting) underneath. If all other info was merged into the main FR article by this project it would support the case to retain a separate article. Big Mac 22:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Ravenloft (D&D module) - I have done a lot of work expanding and referencing this article over the past week. I would like to nominate it for Wikipedia:Good articles status soon, but would appreciate any feedback from members of this project before I do. This is a article specifically about the original module and it's various revisions, not primarily about the Ravenloft campaign setting which has it's own article. - Waza 11:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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• TSR Archive
• D20 SRD
• D&D Wiki

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