TibiaWiki:Standards/Raid Articles

Raid Article Standards
Raid articles are pages informing of monster raids. The following are standards to be met as closely as possible.

Defining a Raid
The definition of a raid may vary from person to person. If the following criteria are met, it is a raid for the purpose of raid articles.


 * A raid must occur at random times, at least partially. You must be unable to determine the precise time it will begin.
 * A raid can be announced or unannounced by the server.
 * A raid need not be a crowd of monsters. It can be a dispersed group or even a single spawn.
 * A raid must not be defined by a world change (Kingsday and Warpath).
 * Its individual waves, must be predictable once it has begun (if not, they may be multiple different raids).

Headers
The header structure should be as follows:
 * Do not, ever, use a &lt;h1&gt; header. The wiki uses this for the article header. Start with &lt;h2&gt; and work your way down.
 * There should be 2 level-2 headers (h2).
 * The first should be descriptive of the article contents (Raids near Ab'Dendriel) and should contain subheadings for each raid.
 * The second should be a See also header containing a list of relevant articles.

Example:

Contents
The order of each element of a raid section is as follows:
 * 1) Raid description. This indicates where the raid occurs, how many, etc..
 * 2) Raid events (waves, when they occur, etc.). See  for more information.
 * 3) Creature list. See  for more information.
 * 4) Gallery. See  for more information.

Events
Events should indicate things that happen during the raid. This can be anything from a wave spawning to Zzaion gate opening.

Format is as follows:

Events:
 * 1) 00:00 Server message.
 * (description)
 * 1) 00:05 (unannounced raid)
 * 2) 00:15 Server message.

Or, in text:

List:
 * The list of events should be labeled with 'Events:' above it.
 * Use a numbered list (#) for raid events.

Events:
 * An event can be anything that occurs by the wave, announced or not.
 * Each event should have a timestamp. Timestamps should be given relative to the start of the raid.
 * If there is not an announced raid message for an event, the text (unannounced raid) should be written in its place, without italics.

Timestamps:
 * Event timestamps should be given relative to the start of the raid. The first event timestamp should thus be 00:00.
 * A colon (:) should be written after each timestamp, followed by a space.
 * If there is an announced raid message for an event, it should be written in italics next to the event's timestamp.

Creature List
Creature lists should use Template:Infobox Creature/CompactBox. This will produce an inline box with the bare minimum information most players care for (i.e., hp, exp).

Usage is as follows:

Pictures
Pictures can be used to illustrate the raid. They can be used if they depict something that text alone could not.

Pictures should be used inside a gallery after the event messages and creature list.