Chronicles of Elyria Wiki:Association

Introduction
This is the home page of the unofficial namespace belonging to the Chronicles of Elyria Wiki: chroniclesofelyria.gamepedia.com/Association:.

This namespace is created to host all wiki pages on associations on the four servers for Chronicles of Elyria. As there are thousands of associations, and associations may grow, merge and dissolve as the game proceeds, the CoE Wiki team felt it would be too impractical to support pages for associations in the Official CoE Wiki itself. Hence this dedicated namespace was created to allow players to create and edit pages for associations. General Wiki rules are applicable for this namespace.

There are also separate namespaces for Counties, Settlements and Guilds.

Pages for Kingdoms and Duchies are included in the Official CoE Wiki domain. For those pages all rules apply as explained in the CoE Wiki Community portal.

Page creation
Association pages are to be created using this namespace as root. For example, a page for a association named Wikimann's Glory shall have the following url:

https://chroniclesofelyria.gamepedia.com/Association:Wikimann's Glory

Click here to show some illustrated instructions. Note that the examples used below all refer to creation of a new county page in the 'County:' namespace. The procedure is similar for creation of association pages.


 * A page can be created by entering "Association:Associationname" in the search field of this Wiki, as illustrated in the image below.


 * After entering a non-existent page name, the screen will look like the image below.


 * After clicking on the red, bold and underlined page name, the page editing screen opens, as illustrated in the image below.

Click here to collapse the illustrated instructions.
 * If desired, the author can decide to use the template for Association pages by copy-pasting the contents of the Association template page into the newly created page. Template contents is shown when the field "Edit Source" is used. Template and contents are shown in the images below.

Names used for multiple entities
Names for county/settlement/guild/association can be used on multiple occasions. So it can happen people who wish to create a page for their association, are confronted with the fact that there already is a page with the same name. An appropriate way to deal with this is to then use 'namespace:name (specifying statement)', with 'specifying statement' ensuring every user sees the page is meant to cover one very specific association. In most cases it will suffice to use the name of the duchy, county or settlement where the guild is headquartered or operational. For example, someone wishes to create a page for their association 'Beetlehuggers' in the kingdom of 'Woodlands' and when trying to create the page finds out there already is a page with that name, but that it refers to the guild 'Beetlehuggers' in the kingdom of 'Grasslands'. The way forward would then be to create a new page with name 'Association:Beetlehuggers (Woodlands)'. To finish it off properly the creator of the page 'Association:Beetlehuggers (Woodlands)', could then also move the existing page 'Association:Beetlehuggers' to 'Association:Beetlehuggers (Grasslands). Experienced users may even create proper disambiguation for the visitors of their page.

Example
This page offers an example of how an Association page can be filled in using the template: Wikimann's Glory Association

Links
By default, links to CoE forum threads are used on the official pages for Duchies. Links to association pages created in this namespace domain are not to be used on those Official pages, unless they refer to Kingdom-wide or Duchy-wide associations. There are no restrictions to have links to pages in this 'Association:' namespace for links on pages in the 'County:', and 'Settlement:' namespaces.

In the official CoE Wiki, users are held to only refer to official sources from SBS for any content, and only use links to SBS controlled pages, with the exception of Kingdom and Duchy Discord servers ran by CoE players. As this is an unofficial part of the CoE Wiki, users are not restricted to aforementioned sources and links.

Template
A template page is created for creation of new pages in this namespace: Template:Association