Thread:ElessarTheOnly/@comment-10507735-20171216053316

I'll reply here since the forums here are not well structured atm.

I'll take "linebreaks" for 50Ru first.
 * Generally this is about aesthetics. If you get seriously triggered by linebreaks, then wade in and give them a good sorting out. But be careful, as some are used so that some degree of clarity is presented to Users when editing in Classic Editor so that this:

The Road Tunnel (Countryside) is a minor location appearing in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha standalone mod.

Sort of jumbled-up code is avoided. To be fair, a LOT of this has to do with Wankia's shitty Visual Editor, but by no means all. Any subsequent contributor that wanted to improve this^^ might have an uphill struggle..

If this had been copied from the Template:Infobox Location page as: Infobox Location ..And only the fields relevant at that time completed, then someone else could easily add to it later (if for some inexplicable reason that Dez0wave placed a Technician in the flaming tunnel, or implemented "Doctors" for some highly dubious other reason)
 * type      =
 * name      =
 * image     =
 * imagedesc =
 * level     =
 * factions  =
 * locations =
 * buildings =
 * leader    =
 * doctor    =
 * technicians=
 * merchants =
 * characters =
 * loot      =
 * quests    =
 * notes     =

Returning to the main subject "General article structure"

It's "horses for courses" - some articles need more info than others. I'm of the general opinion that a page is pretty much defined by:
 * 1) An infobox template
 * 2) (TOCs are hardwired, forcing 'no shows' is discouraged, if a user doesn't want to see a TOC there's a switch to minimize it)
 * 3) A brief line about the <nowiki and its appearances.
 * 4) A quote from somewhere or other (encyclopedia descr, mission brief, etc.)
 * 5) SOME BLURB
 * 6) A gallery
 * 7) A navbox if applicable or available so that comparisons are easier.

As far as "SOME BLURB" goes, there can be no hard and fast ruling other than to suggest that the most important info comes at the top and less relevant stuff to the bottom (the Trivia)

Similarly, an article about Bread doesn't need any Gameplay, Mission strategy, Upgrades, Locations, Acquisition, sections (but it MIGHT need the hunger relief value in the infobox)

Likewise, a location like the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant(Lost Alpha) will have a bigger writeup than the Bus Stop(Darkscape).

Or Kill the flesh needs less thought regarding layout than The expedition...

With all of the above stated, any LA page should be recognizable as an evolution of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wiki page.

HTH, you can find all of the templates here (some are obviously not used) 