Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25101089-20150611165033

Recently I and SamwiseFilmore and some others have been improving the navbox templates.

There are now two separate types to be aware of. Previously these were sort of muddled together but we have been working on making the distinction more clear. Because the Rohan Faction is not the same thing as the Rohan Biome.

Faction Templates (example: Template:Faction_Rohan)

These should go on the pages of NPCs, equipment, armour, and anything used by or directly related to that faction. They should not appear on biome pages. Structures can have them, if that structure is used directly by the faction (it's not just something that shares a biome with the faction) e.g. a Rohan Fortress can use the faction template, but a Gondor Obelisk probably shouldn't.

Biome Templates (example: Template:Rohan)

These should go on biome pages. They can go on structures that spawn in that biome. They can also go on things directly related to that biome, like a Mirk-oak tree, a Fangorn plant, Mordor Dirt,  (these things belong to the biome, not the faction).

We will be finishing off this template project, so you don't need to worry about changing or making templates, just be aware of this new distinction if you want to use a template in an article.

Thank you for reading!

(Notes to admins: we should remove the unused structures from the faction templates (like the ruins). Also, since there are so many biomes, we don't need a template for every biome, just the main regions. e.g. Rohan + uruk highlands can share a template, as can Gondor + Ithilien + Dor-en Ernil. Also, in the 'sub-biomes' on the biome templates, we need to make sure we only include actual sub-biomes like Ithilien and Lebennin and Núrn and Shire Moors, and not biome variants like 'Woodlands' or 'Hills', as those aren't actually biomes.) 