The New Order: Last Days of Europe Wiki:Content policy

The goal of The New Order: Last Days of Europe Wiki is to be a reliable, concise guide to all readers in its description of The New Order: Last Days of Europe (TNO). Toward this end, it is necessary for us to restrict to some extent the type of information we accept.

Content criteria

• All content should relate to TNO. In particular, unofficial inventions (including but not limited to headcanons and non-canon submods) are prohibited.
• All content needs to be accurate to the newest revealed lore, including but not limited to official leaks and team member statements. Outdated elements are to be removed from articles, or marked for deletion if they no longer qualify for an article (see Notability section below). Unauthorised leaks (without the relevant Team Lead's or Team Coordinator's permission) are completely prohibited; adding such content will result in an immediate revert and block.
• All content needs to be verifiable. Other editors need to be able to check and verify it.
• All content needs to be informative. Information which is only of interest to the writer or to other editors (as opposed to readers) should not be included in articles.
• All content needs to be objective. Opinions and "my favourite"-style passages should not be added to articles.
• All content needs to abide by copyright regulations. Generally, content from other sites should not be copied unless permission has been granted.

Redundancy and repetition

• Redundancy and repetition should be avoided. There should only be a single article (or section of an article) where a given topic is presented in full detail. Other pages should link to the page with the details instead of repeating them.
• Only information that is directly relevant to the subject of a given article should be included in that article.

Naming

• Article and category names should be as precise and at the same time as short as possible. For characters, titles and ranks should not be included in the article title.
  • For example, if a character is called "Major XYZ", the article should be named "XYZ". Full names are preferred if possible.
  • For countries, the article must be named as their official starting name (e.g. Republic of Finland and Iraqi Republic, not Finland or Iraq)
  • For Japanese people, the article must be named according to the East Asian naming order (family name before given name), instead of the Western naming order as is common in modern English.
• Article names should not be overcapitalised.
• Article names should be in English (e.g. Empire of Japan and National Socialist German Workers' Party, not Dai-Nippon Teikoku or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), unless an English name is not available.
• Names should generally be singular.
• Category names should generally be plural unless this is impossible or awkward to do.

Disambiguation

• If a given term can refer to multiple articles (i.e. if it is "ambiguous"), the articles should be moved to non-ambiguous (or "disambiguated") titles. A disambiguation page, i.e. a page which links to all possible articles this term may refer to, should then be placed at the ambiguous title.
• In absence of other possibilities to disambiguate the titles (like a surname for a common first name), a term in brackets should be appended to the end. The terms should be chosen from the following list; the first characteristic in which the subjects differ is to be used.
  • type of subject (e.g. "character" or "item")
  • other characteristics of the subjects

Categorization

• All content pages (articles and files, not redirects or disambiguations) should belong to at least one category which is not a maintenance category.
• A content page should be placed in all the categories to which it logically belongs.
• An article should always be categorized by characteristics of the topic, not characteristics of the article. A character article which contains descriptions of bugs, for example, does not belong in Category:Bugs.
• An article should never be left with a non-existent (redlinked) category on it. Either the category should be created (most easily by clicking on the red link), or else the link should be removed or changed to a category that does exist.

Images

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Images make an article memorable and pretty. They can speak where words fail. At the same time, misplaced or untidy images can detract from an article. When choosing images, keep in mind placement, size, and the appropriateness of the image to the section. Let images flow with the text instead of break it up.

Large images such as screenshots should use the "thumb" (example:[[File:CoolImage.png|thumb]]) option which displays large images as thumbnails. Images should generally be right aligned to enhance readability by allowing a smooth flow of text down the left margin - the "thumb" option does this by default. If an infobox is not being used in an article, a right aligned picture in the lead section is encouraged.

Generally, all images should be PNGs.

Images should be updated so their most recent forms are shown. For example, if a country flag, character portrait or subideology icon changes, the new image should be uploaded as a new version of the existing file (and not as a brand new file). All subideology icons must be named as <code>[[File:<Subideology> subideology.png]]</code> to ensure template compatibility.

Galleries

When an article has many images, or can be improved by having more, and having inline images be detract from the readability of an articles, the use of a <gallery> section is encouraged.

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Notability

The main consideration for whether a subject needs an article should be the strength of said article: Every article should be "strong" enough to stand on its own. This means the subject provides enough content to write an article of decent length about it.

In detail, this means:

• When creating a new article, it should always be considered whether its subject is too weak to carry an own article and whether it would be more convenient for readers if it were merged with another article. If the answer to these questions are positive, the article should rather be merged (if possible).
• Accordingly, if the subject of an article is broad enough to supply enough content for multiple individual articles or if it would be more convenient for readers if the article was split, splitting the article should be considered.

For particular subjects:

• Each individual country tag should not have more than one article (for example, the Commonwealth of Britain should share the same article as Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance). Sub-pages within one article for gameplay (if the country has playable content) are allowed.
• Since military leaders (generals, field marshals and admirals) play little to no role in the narrative, they do not need their own articles by default and should be listed on their parent country. Individual generals can still have articles if they can play some other role (as including but not limited to heads of state or cabinet ministers).

Article layout

One of the most important parts of wiki editing is how to structure an article. The structure is a powerful thing: it dictates what information the reader reads and when he or she reads it. It can influence what people contribute, where it goes, and how it might be written. Structure has the power to inform or confuse the same way good or bad writing does. Keep a well structured article, and you're more likely to have a high quality one.

Organise sections in an article in a hierarchical structure like you would an outline. Keep it logical, but feel free to forsake strict logic for readability. Wherever possible, try to have an introduction for each section. Just like the article as a whole, the section should start with an introduction and then have its subsections below it. Try using a shallow structure rather than a deep one. Too many nested sections usually leads to a confusing or unreadable article.

Above all, keep your layout consistent. Don't throw your reader a curve ball too often.

Lead section

Unless an article is very short, it should start with an introductory lead section, before the first subheading. The lead should not be explicitly entitled == Introduction == or any equivalent header. The table of contents, if displayed, appears after the lead section and before the first subheading.

The lead should be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article, establishing context, and explaining why the subject is interesting or notable. It should be between one or two paragraphs long, and should be written in a clear and accessible style so that the reader is encouraged to read the rest of the article. Above all, the lead should define the subject of the article; for example:

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is a country in Central Asia...

The first time the article mentions the title, put it in bold using three apostrophes — '''article title''' produces article title. Avoid other uses of bold in the first sentence, except for alternative titles of an article; for example:

The Empire of Manchuria, also referred to as the Empire of Great Manchuria...

Specific articles

Characters

• Template:People: Infobox containing key information. Note that not every section needs to be filled.
• Background: The character's background lore prior to the game's start date of 1st January 1962.
• Involvement: The character's role within the game itself.
• Categories: See #Categorization section above and:
  • If a non-royalty character's name follows Western naming conventions, {{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Forename}} should be added to their article so that it will be sorted by surname.
  • Ideological categories should not take into account puppeted ideologies (e.g. Albert Speer's ideology changing to Transitioning Democracy after the Gang of Four coup), façades (e.g. Dmitry Yazov pretending to be a 'standard' Military Junta ), or when the in-game ideology reflects that of someone else other than the in-game head of state (e.g. post-regional unification Vyatka).
  • Category:Heads of state only takes into account those that are such by game start. Minister categories are not used.

Ideologies

• In general, the only characters that should be listed in the Adherents section are leaders and equivalents, which are usually, but not always, the in-game head of state. In case of such exceptions, list the person represented by the ideology, in place of the head of state.
• The flag should be one used by the appropriate character when in power.
• Adherents should be sorted by region: Reich (Einheitspakt members and observers in Europe), Triumvirate (Triumvirate members and observers in Europe and North Africa minus Egypt), MENA (Middle East and Egypt), Asia (Co-Prosperity members and the Republic of India), Russia (including Central Asia, further subdivided into West Russia, Southern Urals, West Siberia, Central Siberia, Far East, Central Asia, After Midnight; put unifiers before non-unifiers before deunified states), Africa (excluding North Africa and Italian East Africa), OFN (OFN members outside of continental Central and South America), Latin America (including Guyana and Suriname), Antarctica.
• Any Antarctic Administration subideology should be listed last in each table.