Nintendo Wiki:How to write a character article

This guide is focused on how to create a Character Article. Keep in mind that this guide is only there to help you organize character articles. Some articles cannot follow this model for various reasons. The scope of the article may be too small to have every sections shown in this guide or it may be too huge in its scope to be held to traditional article standards. The Mario article for example is forced to take shortcuts because listing every single ones of Mario's appearances in detail would make the article ridiculously long. These two instances are very specific and in most cases this guide should be what you want to follow to make character articles.

Templates
Every character articles should be started by two templates. These templates come before any kind of text and are mendatory to make your article clear to read. They must be placed in the order they are featured in this section.

Head
The Head template is a very handy template that inform you on the nature of the article before you even have to start reading. It should be at the top of every article, the only exeption being meta articles like this guide, the templates and pretty much every articles that are here to facilitate the navigation through the website. The bullet points bellow will go over what you should write next to each = signs seen above when you are writing a character article.

This is here to define what the nature of your article is. Since you probably want to write an article about characters if you are reading this guide, the only thing you should write next to this field is "Character"
 * type = Character

The quote field is for any quotes related to the character that are emblematic enough to be put at the start of the article. It must be written without quotation marks because the template will add them automatically. The quote will appear like that: "It's a me Mario!" in the actual article.
 * quote = It's a me Mario!

The speaker is simply the one who uttered the quote. In most case the speaker is the character feat
 * speaker = Mario

The origin of the quote. Usually a single game, it can be extended to the whole series when it is a character's catchphrase like in this case. It must be written like shown above. Adding a link will look like that: "[[Mario series]]".
 * quotesource = Mario series

The stub field is a switch. If the article is lackluster compared to what it could be then add an "x" in the field and it will automatically be marked as a stub, which means that people will know that the article is incomplete and can help make it better. If the article is in a state where it is not complete but is far from just a few lines, leave the field empty.
 * stub = x

This field is a switch. By adding a "x" in it you indicate that it is an article that was featured in the front page of the wiki in the past. In most instances, only admins and other high ranking members of the wiki add them because they are the ones who take care of anything related to the featured systems. If you are just trying to make a new article, this is irrelevant to you.
 * featured = x

Is a switch that is there to show the level of protection of the article. Usually reserved to the staff. Is irrelevant in the creation of new articles and should be left blank.
 * protected = x

The class field refers to level of quality of the article. It is rated from E to A (X also exist). For more details on the matter, check this guide.
 * class = A

This is a switch that add a special class called U to the article. This only concern game and product articles and as such the field should be left blank in a character article.
 * unreleased = x

Certain characters share names with other characters. This is why we have disambiguation pages when a lot of characters from different series share the same name. The "for" field is a switch that is used to enable a series of other fields that allow you to clear the confusion of a potential reader by redirecting him on the disambiguation page.
 * for = x

for 1 is there to indicate what the link you are adding to the Head is supposed to be. In most case, this should redirect to a disambig page so simply using "other uses" should be enough.
 * for1 = other uses

This is the link you are supposed to redirect the readers to. The link should be written like this: Kirby (disambiguation). Including a link will result in this: [[Kirby (disambiguation)]].
 * for2 = Kirby (disambiguation)

For3 is here to allow you to include a second link to explain the topic more in detail. This is rarely used but in the case of Kirby, you could have a link redirecting to the disambig page and the Kirby series page to give the readers more infos on what Kirby is. Like with for2, you should write it like above in the field unless you want to end up with that: [[Kirby series]].
 * for3 = Kirby series

Example
This is an example of what your template should look like. Like said above most fields are irrelevant for a character article or if you are not a member of the staff.