Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum talk:Help - Article structure

Article structure

• Some thought should be put into how an article should be structured so that the information is presented in a logical way.

Template positions

Regulate where in the text the template code should be inserted. --Inquisitor S., Großmeister des Ordo Lexicanum (talk) 08:22, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

The Beginning of Articles with Templates

In conversation with a respected adept KazilDarkeye, I had feeling that I need to ask the opinion of other adepts. At the moment, articles with Templates look something like this - Storm Ravens, so the first introductory sentence/paragraphs stands before the main Templates. Personally I like when there was an introdactory sentence before Templates, but... May be it is really 'having all of the text together looks nicer than having a couple of lines, then the template, then the rest'? See also for example this article Landunder where the introductory sentence moved to the main text of article ('Landunder is an Imperial Hive World.'). In any case, I am confident that we must develop a unified system regarding this issue and continue to adhere to it. So, the question: is moving the first (introduction) paragraph below the Templates: 1) Better; 2) Worse or 3)Doesn't matter at all/Depends on situation?--Darkelf77 (talk) 12:48, 3 July 2019 (MDT)

Note: And, of course, I agree with the point that if 'articles basically had all of their text above the template and nothing beneath it except for sources, which (...) looks quite bad'. In these cases the text better looking below the main Templates.--Darkelf77 (talk) 12:48, 3 July 2019 (MDT)

I will restate my opinion here (so my fellow adepts don't have to look for our conversation) - I personally don't think it matters a lot, but I prefer to have all of the text in an article together, after all of the Portals, Templates, e.t.c. (with the exception of particularly notable quotes, which I think look nice in a QuoteBox at the top, e.g. Silver Skulls). KazilDarkeye (talk) 13:35, 3 July 2019 (MDT)

Related Publications

I would like to highlight here a moment about Related Publications section. They can be included in the article in the See Also section in cases where these sources have information about the subject of the article, but this sources is not (yet) included in Sourses. So, adept can use this Related Publication as a source for editing the article. An example is here: Sslyth. The short story contains the information about breeding process of Sslyth. Some adept can use it as a inspiration for future work with this article.--Darkelf77 (talk) 17:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)