Naming standards

The RoPlay wiki has conventions when naming articles, every article created must respect these conventions and appropriately follow them else face renaming.

Category

Categories are pages that pages can link to, to create essentially a library of topics, example being the templates category that holds templates, that being said, categories should be named according to what they are posed to hold.

Example being the Towns category is for towns, templates category is for templates. However, if someone wanted, they could create categories for their own group. Naming standards for these usually follow this format:

Category:Topic_of_Organization Name

* please note, in this instance "Organization" refers to towns, countries, groups etc. So say there was a town with its own military, a category for that could be

• Military_of_TownName

and that category could have sub-categories such as:

• • Army_of_TownName

NOTE categories MUST NOT BE TREATED LIKE PAGES, they are there to act as a library for a specific topic.

Essentially, you just name the category around what is posed to be holding.

Templates

Templates need to be named according to exactly what they are, if they are an infobox they need to start with "Infobox" and end with what ever it is for, if it is a list it needs to start with "List" and end with what ever it's for.

Infoboxes

Infoboxes must be named starting with Infobox, for example

• Template:Infobox Country
• Template:Infobox Town
• Template:Infobox Player
• Template:Infobox Conflict

Flags

Flag category

All flag templates are to be put under the category of the nation it is based in, regardless of it being a town, city, organisation, group or faction. What ever country it is from/in, it goes into that country's flag category.

For example, the flag of the British coast guard would go in categories: [[Category: Flags]], [[Category: Flags of Great Britain]], all flags, regardless, must go under the [[Category: Flags]] category, regardless of whether it belongs to a country, alliance, group, entity or anything else.

Fictional towns and real life towns may have sub categories in other categories, for example:

• [[Category: Flags of Germany]]
  • [[Category: Flags of Berlin]]

or

• [[Category: Flags of Aurelia (fictional)]] IGNORE BRACKETS
  • [[Category: Flags of Aurelia City (fictional capital of Aurelia)]] IGNORE BRACKETS

Real life flags of towns and countries

For real life countries/towns you have to name it after their 3 letter iso code, for example, Germany would be {{GER}}, Poland would be {{POL}} and Canada would be {{CAN}}. All spellings must be done in the English characters only.

For real life towns, as there's if no official standard, you have to use the full town name, for example, New York City would be {{NewYorkCity}}, Berlin would be Berlin, Cork City would be {{CorkCity}}. All spaces must be removed and each character must be capitalised. All spelling must be done with English characters else required otherwise. For example Beijing would be {{Beijing}} and not {{北京}} Chinese simplified: Beijing.

Fictional in game flags of towns and countries

As we use the Towny Advanced plugin, it allows for features such as towns and nations also called countries which often use their own unique flags, naming standards is similar however instead of a three letter simplification, towny nations must use their entire name, that is a non-negotiable standard. For example, say there was a fictional nation called Aurelia, the flag template would be {{Aurelia}}, or if there was a fictional nation called Bosfura, its flag template would be {{Bosfura}}. The same goes for fictional towns.

If someone makes a nation/town based on a real life country or uses a real life countries flag, then they do not need to make their own template, they can use the template for that flag. If someone makes an in-game Ireland for example, they may use {{IRE}} instead of {{Ireland}}, or if they had their country be called Celtic Union and they used the Irish flag, then they can use {{IRE}}.

Flag templates of real life countries are NOT to change unless they change in real life, all edits/remakes/alternatives and fictional versions MUST be put under their own template.