Factbook Tutorial

Welcome to the Nations of NowhereLand Wiki! This wiki allows players in the Nations of NowhereLand world to share information about their nations with the rest of the playerbase, as well as archiving information for their own use. Fandom makes this particularly easy with their visual editor, but there's still a few hurdles to deal with, and that's where this article comes in.

This tutorial will go over the most common page types on the wiki and how to make them, as well as serving as a style guide so that the wiki remains fairly consistent across nations. This is not, however, a guide on editing wikis in general. For that, see Fandom Community Central.

Article Types
Each article on the wiki falls into one of the categories below. Examples of each type are included to show you what a complete article looks like. Note that these examples are fairly basic, rather than complete and detailed articles.

Aircraft
Aircraft articles cover any type of aircraft, military or civilian. The aircraft infobox is fairly sparse, as most of the aircraft's specifications will be listed within the article itself.

Examples:
 * Boeing AH-64 Apache (attack helicopter)
 * Lockheed C-130 Hercules (military transport aircraft)
 * Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (air superiority fighter)

Armored Vehicle
Armored vehicle articles cover military ground vehicles, such as tanks or armored personnel carriers.

Examples:
 * Humvee (light utility vehicle)
 * M1 Abrams (main battle tank)
 * M2 Bradley (infantry fighting vehicle)

Character
The character article category includes multiple subtypes, most of which have dedicated infoboxes. For instance, a nation's head of state would use the Character, politician infobox, whereas a famous general would use the Character, military infobox. There is also a catch-all Character infobox used for characters that do not fit into other categories.

Examples:
 * Barack Obama (head of state)
 * Mark A. Milley (military leader)
 * Stephen Hawking (scientist)

Firearm
Firearm articles cover all types of firearms, from pistols to naval guns, and all use the same infobox.

Examples:
 * AK-47 (assault rifle)
 * Colt M1911 (semi-automatic pistol)
 * Mark 45 5"/54 caliber gun (naval gun)

Nation
Nation articles serve as an overview of a particular nation, and often link to other pages with more specific information.

Example:
 * United States of America

Ship
Ship articles cover all watercraft, from small boats to aircraft carriers. There are two types of ship articles: class and specific. A ship class article details a particular class of ship, such as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, while a specific ship article deals with an individual ship, such as the USS Yorktown, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser.

Examples:

Mark V Special Operations Craft (patrol boat)

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (aircraft carrier class)

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) (Nimitz-class aircraft carrier)