Nookipedia:Project Villager

Welcome to the project page for Project Villager! For more information about the project and our objectives, please read on. If you would like to comment on our progress, please use the talk page. If you're interested in joining, simply add your name to the list of current members.

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

Page content
Project Villager is not currently focusing on improving written content quality or quantity at this time. Our main focus is updating and inserting relevant templates and checking the accuracy of existing information. Once this work has been done, subsequent campaigns will focus on standardizing a villager page's qualitative content. That said, if you have any information to add while making edits to a villager's page or wish to revise content, you are highly encouraged to do so. To that end, I have preserved the guidelines established by the previous leaders of Project Villager, which serve as a good starting point for organizing article content. Note that these guidelines are not endorsed by the current leadership and are included here only as a helpful resource.  Old style guidelines for villager page content 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.

Depreciated content
As new games were released and templates were updated to accommodate new information, some template parameters were changed or removed. Additionally, some article elements have lost value and should be edited or removed. This section will provide detailed instructions on how to identify, alter, or remove content that no longer belongs on a standard villager page.

Villager quotes
Some villager pages start with the  template. The use of quotes on ordinary villager pages is problematic because each individual villager does not have dialog that is specific to that character; dialog is shared among the personality types. Additionally, the use of quotes at the top of the page provides additional clutter especially when it appears alongside template. For these reasons, any quote(s) found at the top of a villager page should be removed.

Legacy template parameters
Legacy template parameters are also documented in the Notes section of the associated template within the Template Documentation below, however they are listed here together for convenience.

Template documentation
This section will provided detailed instruction on the various templates used on villager pages. Not every villager page will use each of these templates; optional templates will be noted as such. If you have any questions about any of the templates used, please post a question on the project's talk page.

Template:Villager Header
Template:Villager Header is required and 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 is required and 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.

Template:Villager Info
Template:Villager Info displays various villager preferences such as favorite color, genre, style etc. It also provides the reader with ideal gifts for the villager in question, based on that villager's favorite qualities. It is important that the information inputted into the template be from the same source, as different sources use different terminology. For our purposes we will make exclusive use Liquefy's guides for ACWW, ACCF, and ACNL. The template will need to be included once for each game (Wild World, City Folk, and New Leaf only) the villager appears in, each time within the appropriate subsection title (e.g. In ).

Syntax
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Template:E-card
Template:E-card should appear first, before Template:A-card, within the "Card Profiles" section. It is used to display a villager's Animal Crossing-e card information, if applicable, and also provides the reader with a navigation bar that directs them to e-card templates for the previous and following card in the series. A full list of e-cards can be found at the e-Reader Encyclopedia. Nookipedia does not currently have many (if any) images of card backs, so a back image will not be required for a villager's page to be considered complete. However, if you wish to upload a card back, please use the naming format Animal Crossing-e X-YYY_(ZZZ).??? where X is the series number, YYY is the card number, ZZZ is the card name, and ??? is the image file type (your choice).

Template:A-card
Template:A-card is Template:E-card's modern counterpart that documents the newly released amiibo cards. The template should appear within the "Card profiles" section just below Template:E-card. Once all existing E-card templates have been updated and most A-card templates have been added to existing pages, Template:E-card will be minimized by default to prioritize Template:A-card.

Members
If you wish to join Project Villager simply add your name to the list of current members below. No need to post a request anywhere! :)

Current

 * Sunmarshsignature.png  ( talk ) 

Previous

 * Leader- 'SecretaryShizue
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 * RodeoTheBull
 * Tommynook
 * Marcus