Media Coverage/Guidelines
If formatting the Diablo 3 Archive, please follow these guidelines.
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General Guidelines
The intention of this archive is to be a repository for Diablo 3 information, not to steal content from other sites. Therefore, never archive interviews if there is not a chance for the link to rot. Quotes from forums of different kinds should always be archived, as they are highly likely to be unavailable at some point.
Entries
When making entries in the archive, format them like this:
- YYYY-MM-DD [[Interview: Jay Wilson 2008-06-28|Name(s) of Interviewees]] on a subject of matter.
Do not make the link italic. First the type of link; an Interview, Preview, or the like. Second; use chronological date, 2008-07-22 for instance. Third; a link to the interview, use the name of the interviewee as link text, and use a wiki-link or an external link to the interview, depending on what is available (see General Guidelines above). Fourth; description on what the interview was about. Write it so that the name(s) and the description form a sentence.
Interviews
For interviews, use the standard:
- YYYY-MM-DD [[Interview: Jay Wilson 2008-06-28|Name(s) of Interviewees]] on a subject of matter.
Previews
For previews, use this format:
- YYYY-MM-DD [[Preview: IGN 2008-06-28|Name of Network]] on a subject of matter.
Reviews
While there won't be any reviews until the game is released, use this format:
- YYYY-MM-DD [[Review: IGN 2009-06-28|Name of Network]] on a subject of matter. Include grade.
Blues
For quotes that comes from forums, such as Battle.net, use this format:
- YYYY-MM-DD [[Blue: Bashiok 2008-06-28|Name of CM]] on a subject of matter.
Archiving
When there is a need (see General Guidelines above) to archive an article, interview or quote, use the following standard. If multiple articles were made a given date where the interviewee/network is the same, use "a", "b", "c" etc at the end of the date. In the unlikely case there would be more interviews than letters in the alphabet, use "aa", "ab", "ac" etc. Example:
If there are more than one, make sure to rename "2008-06-28" to "2008-06-28a" as well as continuing the alpha-numbering.
Interviews
In order to sort interviews so that it's easy to see who was interviewed and when it was done, please use the following format when creating the article:
[[Interview: Author Name YYYY-MM-DD]]
Remember that capitalisation, punctuation and spacing should be just like that. Only replace "YYYY" with the year, "MM" with the month and "DD" with the day. Example:
Previews
In order to sort previews so that it's easy to see who the author was and when it was done, please use the following format when creating the article:
[[Preview: Network Name YYYY-MM-DD]]
Remember that capitalisation, punctuation and spacing should be just like that. Only replace "YYYY" with the year, "MM" with the month and "DD" with the day. Example:
Reviews
In order to sort reviews so that it's easy to see who the author was and when it was done, please use the following format when creating the article:
[[Review: Network Name YYYY-MM-DD]]
Remember that capitalisation, punctuation and spacing should be just like that. Only replace "YYYY" with the year, "MM" with the month and "DD" with the day. Example:
Blues
In order to sort blue posts and quotes so that it's easy to see who the author was and when it was done, please use the following format when creating the article:
[[Review: CM/Representative Name YYYY-MM-DD]]
Remember that capitalisation, punctuation and spacing should be just like that. Only replace "YYYY" with the year, "MM" with the month and "DD" with the day. Example:
