StarCraft Wiki:Writing unit lore articles

Combining the lore and gameplay information for a unit may result in a large and unwieldy article. To prevent this it may be advantageous to create separate lore and gameplay articles. This page deals with writing lore unit articles. For gameplay, see .

The following are not all the possible sections that may or must be included. This must be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Article name
The name for a unit lore article is the name of the unit. For example, the name of the lore article for marines is Marine. Exceptions may be deemed appropriate on a case-by-case basis.

Link to gameplay articles
Users searching for gameplay information may first arrive at the lore article. To alleviate confusion a notice is placed at the top of every lore article with counterpart gameplay articles. The following code produces the notice: : ''This article concerns unit lore. For gameplay information see: ''.

  is a link to a disambiguation page for related unit gameplay articles, as determined by unit name. See Template:Game for further details.

Overview
After the notice is the in-universe exposition of describing the unit's history, general properties, and significance. This section need not have a header. This makes it easier to incorporate into featured content blurbs.

If size permits the historical and properties information may be separated into discreet level 2 sections.

Unit variations
A unit may have information unique to discreet portions of the StarCraft universe and not strictly relevant to a general description of the unit. This in-universe section is to record such information.

For example a ship type with numerous classes, like the battlecruiser, may have a level 2 section called Classes followed by level 3 sections for each class.

Another example may be a unit, such as marines, employed by multiple organizations. Differences in equipment, organization, and history would be noted here.

Appearances
This is an out-of-universe section dealing with the lore development of the unit in Blizzard or Blizzard-authorized products. Each product should have its own level 3 section. A Template:Game link to a product-specific gameplay article may be appropriate here. Links to the unit quotation repositories may also be appropriate here.

Images
Preference should be given to images taken from non-gameplay sources such as cinematics, story-mode scenes, rendered art, etc.. Additional images may be appended to a small gallery near the end of the article. A link to the unit's image category may accompany the gallery.

For general image usage guidelines, see Help:Images.

Templates
Lore articles should refrain from using gameplay templates. The most prevalent templates for lore articles are the lore navigation boxes.


 * Template:ProtossJobs, for protoss "infantry"
 * Template:ProtossVehicles
 * Template:Protoss Ships
 * Template:TerranJobs, for terran "infantry"
 * Template:Terran Vehicles, for terran ground vehicles
 * Template:Terran Ships, for terran aerocraft
 * Template:ZergGroundBreeds
 * Template:ZergAeroBreeds

Categories
Lore articles should not use gameplay article categories.