Help:Details

This page covers some of the details specific to the Lagoon is Fun Wiki's structure.

Templates

Templates are navigation boxes, notices or other things that may need to be used on many different wiki pages. To include a template in a page just enter the name of the template surrounded by curly brackets. Some templates allow you to enter custom information to display in the template.

Examples:

{{Notice|message=This is a notice that draws the reader's attention.}}

will produce:

This is a notice that draws the reader's attention.

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{{Removed|type=Giant Monster}}

will produce:

This Giant Monster has been removed and is no longer located at Lagoon.

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{{Rides}}

will produce:

Rides

Roller Coasters - Thrill Rides - Family Rides - Kiddie Rides - X-Venture Zone

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Details on how to use each template are included on the page for that template. Here is a link to all templates in the wiki.

Stubs

The stub template should be added to pages with almost no information so that they will be automatically added to the Lagoon is Fun Wiki:To Do List. This is done by adding {{stub}} to the page in question.

Writing Style

Layout

If a page is about a specific thing, the thing should be briefly introduced in the first sentence with no headline. The name of the thing should be in bold in this sentence. Other names commonly used for the thing can be mentioned in parenthesis and should also be in bold. After the first sentence, headlines and sub-headlines should be used to organize the information in the page.

If the page is a list of things, the first sentence say describe what the page is a list of. Headlines may or may not be used after the first sentence depending on the layout of the list.

Point of view

Since a wiki has more than one author things like opinions, recommendations and other first-person speaking are confusing. If an article reads "I recommend that you go to Lagoon on Sunday", it is even not clear who "I" is. In general, articles should be written from an objective third-person view.

But there is one big exception to this. This is the Lagoon is Fun Wiki. The Lagoon is Fun Community can come together to offer recommendations, guides, opinions, perspectives, or anything else they see fit. An example of this is the Ride_Ratings page which offers LiF's own set of thrill ratings for the rides.

All of this can be changed

The details mentioned in this page are not set in stone. Anybody could theoretically change they way these things are done on the wiki and/or change the instructions on this page.