Terraria Wiki:Style guide


 * This page is currently a work in progress. Feel free to contribute to it if you are familiar enough with the wiki. Also see Terraria Wiki:Rules.

The following is a guide to creating or editing mainspace pages at Terraria Wiki in accordance with the established article style (these do not apply to Guide: pages). It describes accepted and established practices at Terraria Wiki, and should not be used to impose changes to the wiki. These guidelines are not set in stone, but they should generally be followed in order to maintain consistency across pages, unless there is a good reason to make an exception.

General guidelines

 * The first instance of the page title should be bold. This should usually be in the first sentence of the article. No other instance of the page title should be bold. To make a word or phrase bold, place three apostrophes (') on each side. For example:  . Bold can also be used for emphasis on other words in rare cases.
 * All item names should be capitalized (eg. Iron Broadsword).
 * The first instance of an item name on a page should be linked, via.

Standard sections
The lead (or intro) section of a page should describe the article topic. For items, describe the item first, then state how it is acquired (for crafted items, do not include details of how the item is acquired within the lead; use a separate Crafting section, as described below).

Any or all of the following additional sections can be included in an article. They should generally be in the order they are presented in below (Crafting section first, if applicable; then Notes below it; then Tips, etc.). Sections are added via. For example,  would add a "Notes" section.


 * Crafting: Only for crafted items and/or crafting materials. For crafted items, use the crafting recipe template. For crafting materials, use the crafts top, crafts row, and crafts bottom templates. These can be complicated for beginners, so feel free to ask for help from an active editor, or post a message at Terraria Wiki:Community portal.
 * Notes: Bulleted list of short facts about the article topic. Bugs and anomalies can also be listed here, but if the list of bugs becomes long, or if there are no other Note items (only bugs), a separate Bugs section may be better (see below).
 * Tips: Bulleted list of helpful hints regarding effective practices and what to avoid.
 * Trivia: Bulleted list of facts relating to the article topic, which may be interesting but have no bearing on the game. Explaining the etymology of an item name could be one example.
 * Bugs: List of bugs and anomalies, with each item using the bug or anomaly templates. If only a few bugs are present, they can go at the bottom of the Notes section.
 * History: List of changes to the article topic from various game updates, with each item using the history template. A history section should almost always be included, with at least one item stating which update introduced the game element.