The Style Guide describes how the wiki is supposed to look and be formatted. All articles, categories, files and templates must follow the guidelines set forth here. User pages and talk pages do not adhere to it, and while pages in the Help and Diablo Wiki namespaces should follow it as much as possible, they can stray from it for explanatory or technical purposes.
Items, monsters, areas, quests etc. are all considered to be names. Abyss Knight should thus have a capital K, as should the Cold Plains, Breath of the Dying and Terror's End and so on.
Prepositions are usually not part of a name. Do not write The Dark Wood, but the Dark Wood
Article Names
All words in article names are capitalized except for prepositions, except for when the preposition is in fact part of the name.
Article headers are, just like article names, to be capitalized on each word.
Categories
Words in category names are capitalized except for prepositions, except for when the preposition is in fact part of the name.
Incorrect
(generic):
Category:Unique items
Correct
(generic):
Category:Unique Items
File Names
File names follow the same naming procedures as article names.
Flowing Text
Capitals are not to be used in flowing text for emphasis or similar purposes. Use italicized words instead. Bold words can be utilized as well, but should be kept to a minimum.
Incorrect
(generic):
Gloams are EXTREMELY dangerous
Incorrect
(generic):
Gloams are Extremely dangerous
Correct
(generic):
Gloams are extremely dangerous
Correct
(generic):
Gloams are extremely dangerous
Page Names
When naming any page that is about an item, monster, character, quest, location or other piece of data from the games, the same name used in the games should be used in the wiki. This includes keeping any eventually definitive articles.
Page names should be short yet adequately describe what the page contains. They should not be too long (unless necessary) and not contain useless words and prepositions. Do not include underscores, dashes or similar symbols in headers.
Incorrect
(generic):
List of All Unique Items in Diablo II
Incorrect
(generic):
List_of_Unique_Items_(Diablo_II)
Accepted
(generic):
List of Unique Items (Diablo II) (Only to be used if it is in fact a list)
Correct
(generic):
Unique Items (Diablo II) (The preferred way of naming pages with many different items on them)
Article Headers
Like articles, headers should express what the section contains.
Headers should not be phrased as questions, imperatives, sentences or other complex structures.
Category Names
Categories, unlike articles, must sometimes have quite long and descriptive names to adequately explain what they contain, much more so than article names. They should still avoid entirely unnecessary words however.
File Names
Files follow the same naming format that regular articles do.
Naming Conflicts
Sometimes there are several pages that could have the same name, only they can't because they articles belong to different games. An example of this is the Monk class.
There are three monks in total: one in Diablo III, one in Diablo: Hellfire, and one in Diablo: The Hell. Even though they share the same name, they are distinct classes from very different games, and so cannot be on the same page.
The solution is to add a "game suffix" after some of the articles to easily differentiate pages from the Diablo III equivalent.
All these pages have a small notice added at the top that shows a viewer where the other articles of the same name are located, or an infobox added to the top.
If one article subject is unlikely to be more popular than another, or if there are simply too many pages with similar names, a disambiguation page should be created that links to each of the articles in question.
Linking
If another article in the wiki is mentioned, it should be linked to. Links should be used sparingly however.
Other articles should only be linked to once per article, unless the article is very long. Multiple links to the same article are not to be used in quick succession.
Diablo traveled to Lut Gholein after putting Andariel to guard the monastery. Seeking his brother, Diablo went out into the desert in search of Tal Rasha's Tomb. When he came there though, Tyrael was waiting for him, and he almost managed to defeat Diablo had not Marius freed Baal during the fight.
Links in Headers
Do not put links in article headers. Both use the same color and the link will not be visible; the header will appear just like normal.
Acronyms should be kept to a minimum in the wiki, at least in flowing text. In a table or other area of compilation it might be a good idea to use them however due to repetition and/or size constraints. If an acronym is used, it should be a commonly used one, such as FCR for Faster Cast Rate.
References
Citations are important when it comes to lore topics or information of dubious nature. References are created by putting them inside <ref></ref> tags at the end of the sentence that you wish to cite.
Book citations from one of the Diablo books or Diablo manuals should use Template:Booksource.[1]
If a webpage is cited, a link will suffice. This is done by placing the web url inside <ref></ref> tags.[2]
You must manually specify where the reference list will appear in the article. This is done by adding <references /> to the article. This should be added at the very bottom right above any navboxes and categories with a header called References above it.
↑Knaak, Richard A., Scales of the Serpent, page 128.
Very many colors have been specified for specific purposes in the wiki, and the same color should always be used for the same purpose.
Template Colors
Color
Hex value
RGB Value
Description
#2F0600
047 006 000
Header color
#1F0400
031 004 000
Sub-header color
#D49E43
212 158 067
Header Text Color
#5E0C00
094 012 000
Border color #1
#333333
051 051 051
Border color #2
#0A0101
010 001 001
Background color
Text Colors
Color
Hex value
RGB Value
Description
#FFA500
255 165 000
Crafted items
#4169E1
065 105 225
Magic items
#FFFF00
255 255 000
Rare items
#00FF00
000 255 000
Set items
#A59263
165 146 099
Unique items
Wiki Colors
Color
Hex value
RGB Value
Description
#CC2200
204 034 000
Broken link
#E0B021
224 176 033
Link
#AF833B
175 131 059
Clicked Link
#A18E73
161 142 115
Text color
#100303
016 003 003
Background color
Usage of Colors
Colors are not to be used on flowing text, either for emphasis or other reasons.
In templates and tables colors can however be used. This can be to:
Show what quality, or kind, an item, monster or similar is of. Such usage of color should always closely represent how the object in question is displayed in-game.
Highlight specific parts of templates, such as headers.
Clearer structure or better design.
Incorrect
(generic):
The Paladin's Conviction aura does not reduce poison resistance.
