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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>This wiki has one rule that matters more than the rest: '''a statement without a source is a bug.''' Everything below serves that rule.<br />
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== Adding to an existing page ==<br />
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Write the sentence, then add its source marker. If it comes from a session conversation, cite the message: <code><nowiki>{{Src|last-winter#412}}</nowiki></code>. If it comes from you — the campaign owner deciding something at the keyboard — cite nothing and mark the section {{Canon|gm}} instead; your word is the source, and the page history records who wrote it.<br />
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Do not soften a contradiction by averaging it. If the page says one thing and you know another, replace it, and say what changed on the talk page.<br />
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== Starting a new page ==<br />
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# Pick the title the sources use: English, singular, no leading article. If two spellings exist, use the one the game master uses and make the other a redirect (<code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Title]]</nowiki></code>).<br />
# First line: the infobox for the kind of thing it is — {{tl|Infobox character}}, {{tl|Infobox place}}, {{tl|Infobox organization}}, {{tl|Infobox house}}, {{tl|Infobox faith}}, {{tl|Infobox event}}, {{tl|Infobox creature}}, {{tl|Infobox item}}, {{tl|Infobox people}}, {{tl|Infobox concept}}. Fill only the fields you can support.<br />
# One bold lead sentence that defines the subject.<br />
# Then the sections the material calls for — not a fixed template. Two paragraphs of real content beat six empty headings.<br />
# Categories at the bottom.<br />
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Infoboxes also feed the [[Places of Aenarch|index pages]] through Cargo, so a field you fill shows up in those tables automatically. A field you invent shows up there too — so don't.<br />
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== The four namespaces ==<br />
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* '''(main)''' — canon lore, readable by everyone at the table.<br />
* '''GM:''' — material players must not read: hidden identities, secret motives, dungeon solutions. Canon pages point at it with {{tl|Spoiler}} rather than spelling it out.<br />
* '''Idea:''' — and the <code>== Unconfirmed ideas ==</code> sections at the foot of pages: proposals from the source conversations that were never adopted, wrapped in {{tl|Idea}} so nobody mistakes them for canon. Promoting one is the campaign owner's call; when it happens, move the text up into the page body and re-tier it.<br />
* '''Mechanic:''' — house rules, statistics, character sheets. Kept off the lore pages on purpose.<br />
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== Open questions ==<br />
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When the sources disagree and you cannot settle it, do not guess: add {{tl|Unresolved}} with the question and the conflicting citations. The page lands in [[:Category:Needs a decision]], which is the campaign owner's to-do list.<br />
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== What not to do ==<br />
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* Do not translate proper nouns. ''Blackice'' stays ''Blackice''.<br />
* Do not add dates the sources do not give.<br />
* Do not delete a cited statement because it contradicts your memory — replace it and mark yours {{Canon|gm}}, or raise it on the talk page.<br />
* Do not put spoilers on a canon page "in a careful way". There is no careful way; that is what the GM namespace is for.<br />
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