Forum:Updating policies, guidelines and the wiki/Layout

The Layout Guide is an official guide to laying out a typical basic article. Complicated articles may be best modeled on the layout of an existing article of appropriate structure. Feel free to discuss the Layout Guide on the talk page.

General
Sections listed below are for any type of article. They are optional sections; if they are applicable to the topic of the article, include it in the article. A few notes:
 * Some subtitles can sometimes appear in only one page, depending on the subject.
 * Sometimes a quote can be added at the start of a section when justified.
 * Sections can feature subsections and are obviously not all used all the time.
 * "Behind the scenes"/"Production notes" is reserved only for development information, such as design evolution, cut content, name change, etc.
 * "Trivia" is for trivial information, such as little details that does not add much to the subject, could even be disregarded, but are fun to know. Pointless and irrelevant trivia will be removed however. Subsections can be included under "Trivia", such as "Easter eggs", "Glitches", "References", and "Miscellaneous". If there is only one trivia entry, no bullet point is needed.
 * The section "List of appearances" must only contain official Halo titles in release date order. Secondary and tertiary sources (i.e. trailers, guides, reference materials) is excluded.

Eras tag
The Era template should be included in all articles at the top of the article. The Era tag inserts symbols at the right side of the title bar of the article, to indicate which era subject of the article exists in. They may be used to indicate if the article was a featured article in the past.

For usage instructions, see Template:Era.

Article introduction
Like on any wiki, the article must feature a short introduction, starting by the article name in in bold. A game title must be in italics. At least one relevant image should be added in the article (with the following parameters: ). An infobox should only be added to the article if there is sufficient information that could be use in the infobox.

Article end
After the main contents, the end of an article will include, in this order:


 * Trivia
 * Gallery
 * List of appearances
 * Sources

Gallery
A typical gallery section should include at least two images. To add the gallery feature, simply use, add in your images and close the feature with.


 * Example:

For more information about gallery and images, see Help:Images.