Template:Location

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This template is for use in any article about a country, province, kingdom, area or settlement within the Forgotten Realms. Most of the parameters are left optional. If left undefined they will not appear. The recommended image size is a width of 250px so that it will completely fill the infobox without increasing its size.

Add wiki links to articles on capital city, ruler and races.

[edit] Usage

{{Location
| title         = 
| image         = 
| caption       = 
| name          = 
| aliases       = 
| size          = 
| capital       = 
| area          = 
| ruler         = 
| government    = 
| population    = 
| races         = 
| religions     = 
| imports       = 
| exports       = 
| alignment     = 
| usethe        = 
| useon         = 
| inhabitants   = 
| locations     = 
| organizations = 
| settlements   = 
| source        = 
| page          = 
}}

An example is shown to the right:

The seal of the City of Splendors
Waterdeep
Area	Western Heartlands
Government	Oligarchy
Ruler	The Lords of Waterdeep (Piergeiron the Paladinson)
Population	1.3 million
Races	Humans 64% Dwarves 10% Elves 10% Halflings 5% Half-elves 5% Gnomes 3% Half-orcs 2% Others 1% {{{17}}} {{{18}}}% {{{19}}} {{{20}}}%
Religions	All, especially Deneir, Mystra, and Oghma
Imports	Grain, livestock, leather, ore, timber, and exotic goods from other lands
Exports	Ale, arms, cloth, furnishings, leather goods, pottery, refined metals, and all other sorts of finished goods
Alignment	All
Inhabitants of Waterdeep Locations in Waterdeep Organizations in Waterdeep
Source: CoS:W

[edit] Notes

If inhabitants, locations, organizations or settlements is set to any value (yes is usually what is used) then the template will show the "Inhabitants of NAME", "Locations in NAME", "Organizations in NAME" and/or "Settlements in NAME" categories within the template to provide the reader with easy access to categories containing the inhabitants of and locations within the subject of the article.

If the article needs to be prefixed with the word "the" and this is not included in the article name, set the usethe parameter to "yes". For example, consider the article Pasocada Basin. "Inhabitants of Pasocada Basin" does not make sense, but "Inhabitants of the Pasocada Basin" does. Using the usethe parameter in this situation will solve this issue. In situations where the name of the location is not provided by the name parameter of the template, the article's name will be used instead.

Similarly, if the article is about an island or coastline then its categories might use "on" rather than "in". An example of this is the Sword Coast North, where the category for its locations would be Category:Locations on the Sword Coast North. In this situation, use both the usethe and the useon parameters to correct the category name.