Forum:SH:Adding infobox documentation

As a result of last month's Mofference, we agreed to the idea of making detailed documention for the many infoboxes we have, with the finer points being hashed out in the SH. Having spent the month since then procrastinating working out how we'll do this, I've created this thread in the hopes that we can get a concerted effort to have consistent and comprehensive documentation for the infoboxes. As there are some templates which we can ignore, I've made a note of these in the list. Below is an explanation of how we're going to do this.


 * For an example of the layout and level of detail see Ship, which is pretty much a perfect example of what we're aiming for.
 * Users who want to help out should pick an infobox and then write up the documentation for it, adding it to the Template page itself. Make sure that the new section is kept inside the   tags to stop it becoming part of the infobox in articles. When you're done, add a comment next to the infobox next to the entry on here saying that you've completed that one.
 * If you are unsure of what a field should contain or want a second opinion on one of your descriptions, then simply start a bulleted discussion next to the infobox's entry here. You might want to add the Wip tag to the top of the section on the Template page to prevent confusion for people viewing it.
 * You can also help out by looking over the documentation that other users have added. If there is a description for a specific field that you disagree with or think should be changed then, as above, start a discussion so that we can come to an agreement as to what the field is for. Feel free to make wording changes as you see fit; a discussion here is only really needed when the suggested contents of a field is disputed.
 * A week (maybe longer depending how many people look over the additions) after someone has added documention to an infobox without anyone raising concerns, we'll assume that people haven't found any problems with the documention and it can be struck from the list as completed.

 nayayen ★talk  22:59, March 19, 2012 (UTC)

A-I

 * Alphabet
 * Armor
 * Artifact
 * Band infobox
 * Battle &mdash; has full-protection, whoever wants to tackle this one should make a temporary request on WP:RFP
 * City infobox
 * Clothing
 * Company infobox
 * Device
 * Droid infobox
 * Duel
 * Era &mdash; already has descriptions ready-to-go
 * Event
 * Family infobox
 * Filming location infobox
 * Fleet infobox
 * Food infobox
 * Force power infobox
 * Galaxy infobox
 * Government infobox
 * Holiday infobox &mdash; already has descriptions ready-to-go
 * Holocron infobox
 * IU media infobox
 * Infobox disease
 * Information &mdash; this is the table added when uploading files and already has the guided upload form on Special:Upload

L-Z

 * Language infobox
 * Law infobox
 * Lightsaber form infobox
 * Lightsaber infobox
 * Location
 * Medal infobox
 * Infobox meeting time &mdash; already has very specific guidance and isn't used in articles
 * Mission
 * Moon
 * Nebula
 * OOU company infobox
 * Organization infobox
 * Person infobox &mdash; real-world people, that is
 * Planet &mdash; has full-protection, whoever wants to tackle this one should make a temporary request on WP:RFP
 * Religion infobox
 * Sector
 * Species &mdash; already has descriptions ready-to-go
 * Star
 * Structure infobox
 * System
 * Tactics infobox
 * Trade route
 * Treaty
 * User infobox &mdash; self-explanatory, but we may as well
 * WPinfobox &mdash; again, self-explanatory, but that just makes it easier to do
 * War &mdash; has full-protection, whoever wants to tackle this one should make a temporary request on WP:RFP
 * Weapon
 * Website infobox
 * Year &mdash; already has descriptions ready-to-go

Category:Campaign infobox templates

 * Campaign
 * All the other ones are specifically created ones and don't need documentation.

Category:Character infobox templates

 * A lot of these are pretty much the same, just with different colours. Some discussion in the "common fields" section below might be warranted before working on these.
 * Bounty hunter character infobox
 * Bureaucrat character infobox
 * CIS character infobox
 * Character infobox
 * Chiss Ascendancy character infobox
 * Corporate character infobox
 * Criminal character infobox
 * Dark Jedi character infobox
 * Dathomiri character infobox
 * Deity
 * GFFA character infobox
 * Galactic Empire character infobox
 * Galactic Republic character infobox
 * Jedi character infobox
 * Mandalorian character infobox
 * New Republic character infobox
 * Pet infobox
 * Rebel character infobox
 * Sith character infobox
 * Yuuzhan Vong character infobox

Category:Media infoboxes

 * Media infobox
 * Board game infobox
 * Infobox Book
 * Infobox Short story
 * Infobox Video &mdash; that source code needs correcting though
 * Infobox CVG
 * Card game infobox
 * Infobox Comic Book
 * Infobox Comic Story
 * Infobox Comic strip
 * Infobox Comic Series
 * Infobox Website &mdash; already done
 * Infobox Magazine
 * Infobox Movie
 * Infobox Reference Book
 * Infobox television
 * Infobox television episode
 * Music infobox
 * Infobox Webstrip

Category:Spacecraft infobox templates

 * Individual ship infobox &mdash; already done
 * Ship &mdash; already done
 * Ship module &mdash; already done
 * Space station

Category:Vehicle infobox templates

 * Aquatic vehicle infobox
 * Ground vehicle infobox
 * Repulsorlift vehicle infobox

Common fields
There are some fields that a lot of infoboxes share, such as the era, affiliation and homeworld ones, to list a few off the top of my head. We'll likely want to come to an agreement as to what should be used for all of these or otherwise we'd have a dozen different suggestions for the same thing, and that's confusing. Just start a new discussion on these below as you find them.  nayayen ★talk  22:59, March 19, 2012 (UTC)

Other discussion
If you have something to say about the effort as a whole, then this section is the place!  nayayen ★talk  22:59, March 19, 2012 (UTC)