How to Edit Wheel of Time TV Series Articles

The main purpose of TarValon.Net's Library has been to be a source of information on The Wheel of Time Book Series. With the release of the television series in November 2021, the Library began housing articles about the plot, characters, and places in the television series too.

It is generally expected of Library editors to keep a consistent article structure, to edit the copy in a consistent manner, and include references when needed.

For the consistency of the copy, it is required to use the TarValon.Net Library Manual of Style. How to MediaWiki Code explains how to write wiki code for some of the most common elements.

Layout, Headings, and Hierarchy

The content on each page is usually split into different sections. The page structure varies between types of pages, since there are pages that have to do with characters, and some that have to do with locations; there are episode and season summaries, which also have their own structure.

Each section independent of what type of page it is on, is of a level two heading, and therefore should be written in title case. If a section has sub sections, they will be of level three heading, and will also be written in title case.

This hierarchy is needed to create a logical table of contents on the top of each page, but it also helps for better readability.

General Types of Layout

There are several types of layouts of an article's contents, which depend on the subject of the article. The most common layouts are included in the Manual of Style/Article Layout.

It is advised to follow the manual about layout, but there might be cases where not enough information is available for a certain subject, which would lead to some sections being unused, and therefore being redundant.

In cases where a character or location needs an additional section or subsection, not included in the manual about article layout, it would not be considered as going against the manual, therefore can be freely included.

Text Formatting

The first time the title of an article appears in the text, it should be bolded.

Templates

All Library templates can be found in the Category:Templates. And the current TV series related templates can be found here: Category:TV Series Templates.

There are several different types of templates that are used in the TarValon.Net Library when writing or editing Wheel of Time TV series articles.

General

The following template can be used on different types of pages whenever it is needed to input a warning of spoilers: {{TVspoilers}}

Other Templates

The following template is useful when the TV show character has a corresponding book character. This will render a navigation with two tabs at the top of the page, one tab leading to the book page, and the other to the television series page of the same character. The template needs to be filled as shown below

{{TVshownav|[[Character Name|Book]]|[[Character Name (TV Series)|TV show]]}}

The following template is not yet included in many character pages yet. To use it, follow the instructions below:

{{TVcharacterInfo
|CharacterImage=link to an image of the character from the tv series
|altText=text on what the image shows
|Name=Name of Character
|Nationality=Nationality of Character
|Affiliation=Aes Sedai, Warder, Children of the Light, etc.
|Ajah=If the affiliation is anything else than Aes Sedai, this field will not render
|SocialStatus=Noble
|Family=Characters that are related
|FirstAppearance=[[Season 1 Episode 1: Leavetaking|Episode 1]] the page leading to the episode where the character first appears
|Actor=[imdb-link-here Actor Name Here]
}}

Categories

Each article in the Library should have a category. The categories should be placed at the bottom of the article following the main text.

The main Wheel of Time TV series category is Category:The Wheel of Time TV Series. If it is uncertain where an article should be categorized, contact the Historians or the Director of Research and Records. More information can be found here How to Request Edits to an Article.

Writing a New Article

In case of submitting a new article to the Library, the category "New Article" should be included to all other categories, so that the article can be reviewed (if it has not been done before in case of submitting through email).

Submitting Changes

After finishing editing an existing article, or submitting a new article, a short summary of the changes should be written in the Summary field, where applicable. Some appropriate summaries of minor changes include "Fixing a typo", "Adding a category", or "Changing a template". If multiple changes of different sort that cannot be summarized are made, then the summary may be skipped.

Questions about this article or anything else in the Library Manual, may be emailed to the Director of Research and Records at library@tarvalon.net.