Nookipedia:Project Villager

Welcome to the Villager Project page. If you want to know more about the project, please read on. If you would like to comment on our progress or join, please use the talk page.

History
This project page was started by User:SuperAlpaca in December of 2010 and was dormant for several years until a proposed revision of Template:Infobox Villager by User:Sky in June of 2014 prompted an extensive discussion regarding villager pages. The discussion eventually led to the creation of Template:Villager Header and Template:Villager Info, as well as revisions to Template:Infobox Villager and Template:E-card. As a result of pending template changes the original round of villager page updates, started in June 2014 but never completed, was postponed. Having completed the necessary template updates in July-August of 2015, the project was revived by sunmarsh on August 10th, 2015.

Purpose
The initial goal of Project Villager is to update all villager pages to work with the most recent versions of our recently updated templates. As we go about making these corrections to villager pages we will also be adjusting text formatting in Infobox Villager as well as section & subsection titles. Future projects include a revamped House section, a Merchandise campaign, and completing our lists of names in other languages.

Villager page standards
Each villager page should have the same layout (special visitors are an exception and are not a priority at this time), each having the same number of sections and subsections in the same order. The following subsections will detail the standards that all villager pages should follow. User:Sky/Sandbox/Snow can be used as an example of the ideal article layout, however it is by no means a exemplary page in terms of content.

Section titles
All pages should contain the following sections & subsections, if applicable. Remember that main sections are created using double equals signs (==) and subsections are created using triple equals signs (===). In the diagram below main sections appear above their indented subsections.

Ideal Table of Contents (TOC) Diagram

 * Characteristics
 * Appearance
 * Personality


 * Preferences
 * In
 * In
 * In


 * House
 * Other appearances
 * In
 * In
 * In
 * In


 * Card profiles
 * Gallery
 * Merchandise
 * Names in other languages

Template:Villager Header
Template:Villager Header should sit at the very top of the wikitext edit box on a standard villager page. It is intended to provide readers easy access to villagers of a similar species or personality type, as well as the master villager list.

Template:Infobox Villager
Template:Infobox Villager should be listed just after Template:Villager Header. It provides the reader with most of the basic information they need to know about the villager. As the continues to grow and evolve it will be necessary to revisit the template to update it and add information to the pages that it appears on.

Quote (optional)
The quote is what appears in a quote template at the top of the page. It isn't necessary for the page, but if a suitable quote from in any of the games or film is found, it helps give the page a bit of character. Quotes can be anything, from how a villager welcomes you into their house (without using your name or other villager names). A good example would be:

"To buy or not to buy, that is the question!"

- Purrl

Which would appear in a template as:

To buy or not to buy, that is the question!

Purrl is a snooty villager, and the above quote reflects the snooty villagers' desire for shopping. The above quote can be seen when talking to any snooty villager, in the city in }.

It is also acceptable to use picture quotes, which are what comes with a picture received from a villager in. However, an in-game quote would be nicer.

First Paragraph
This section is written under no headings and appears under the infobox section (or quote template, if possible). This includes information on the villager, including (where possible) where the name comes from, where the quote comes from, what villager type they are (e.g. snooty), what species they are and what games they appear in - all in one paragraph.

Example
An example of a first paragraph is:

Purrl is snooty cat villager in the series. Her name is a combination of the sound a cat makes, 'purr' and the gestone prized for its elegance and shine, 'pearl', which relates to the materialistic and glamourous lifestyle of a snooty villager.

Appearance
This section involves a basic description involving skin/fur colour, hair colour, expression and initial clothing - try to keep opinion out of this section :) This sits under the heading ==Appearance==

Example
An example of the appearance section.

Stitches is a teddy bear, stitched together with a glowing purple forehead, a plushy orange face, and tiny blue and green ears. His eyes are stitched as an "x" and has different colored limbs. He has a small, white muzzle with a cute teddy bear smile and nose. In his first appearance, he wears a star shirt, a shirt that is patterned with red, blue, and green stars on top of a creamy white fabric. Stitches is probably one of the most colorful characters in the game.

Personality
This section does not need to be filled with alot of information. This section only needs to be a brief description of a villager's personality, which they share with other villagers so therefore a brief, relevant description of their personality type i.e. snooty, lazy, cranky, normal, peppy and jock. No quotes are needed, this is strictly a non-bias, unopinionated description of their personality traits. The personality section must: also have, directly underneath the heading, a sentence outlining that the section is a brief description of the personality.

Below has an example of this (including the sentence making it aware to the reader that the personality is shared amoung other villagers, and that further information can be found on the personality article) e.g. peppy and the peppy villager, Victoria.

Example
An example of a personality section.

''Below is a brief description of the peppy personality. For more information, look at the main article found here.

Victoria is a peppy villager in the series. As with other peppy villagers, she loves candy and sweet food, and will have a slight obsession with cleanliness when visiting her house. Peppy villagers take offense quite easily, and may walk away upset rather than angry when the wrong things are said in a conversation between her and the player, or another villager. She maybe the target for cranky villager jokes and pranks.

House
This section is a brief description of what their house has as initial furniture - including linked items of furniture e.g. a tall dingloid links to tall dingloid or furniture series e.g. modern chair link to modern chair. The furniture is what they have when they moved in, rather than what their rooms develop into during the time of their residence in a players town. Picture(s) are necessary to complete the page - they go in a gallery if they've appeared in more than one game :)

Example
Below is an example of a house section, including a gallery.

Purrl's house has a very sophisticated theme in the original. Her house has the Perfect Painting and various items from the Exotic Series. She also has two fizzoids, and a Bird Cage. Purrl has the Concrete Wall and the Checkered Tile in her home.

In, Purrl no longer has the Perfect Painting or the Caladium, but retains many furniture items first found in her original house. Purrl now has an Exotic Screen and a Cabana Bookcase, but does not have the Mini Fizzoid. She still has the Concrete Wall and the Checkered Tile.

In, she retains many of the new additions introduced in Wild World, but no longer has a Hi-Fi Stereo, replacing it instead with a Corn Plant. The wallpaper and floor are the same as they were in previous two games.

K.K. Swing plays in Purrl's house.

Film Appearance
This is their role in the film - including when they appeared and their relationship with other villagers, including their film name, Not all villagers were in the film!

Merchandise
This is done in a gallery, including text about what the merchandise is. If they appeared on the cover of magazines and game cases, it is merchandise :)


 * A page for every villager with relevant information and the villager template used on each page.
 * Check the Wanted Pages page often to see if there are any villagers who do not yet have a page.

Articles that need completing
All villagers - see Villagers Category and VillagerStub Category

Articles that are considered finished

 * Purrl

Members

 * Leader- 'SecretaryShizue
 * Co-leader- Open
 * Super  (duh... )Alpaca Doggie Mask.gif
 * RodeoTheBull
 * Tommynook
 * Marcus